Palisade Post
Proud member of the Ward Enterprises Family
Issue 1
January 1, 2011
Happy New Years 2011
Again we welcome in a new year. It is hard to believe it was 11 years ago we were celebrating a new millennium, it seems like only yesterday. We havehad a very exciting and busy 2010 in activities.
January we started the year off with a New Years party. Lots of special music during the year with an Elvis Salute by Marlin Olson for "The Kings' Birthday".
February we had a super bowl party and then aValentine's Day party with love songs from Marlin.
Marchwe introduced a couple new activities, penny ante and spin the bottle (nokissing involved). Garretson Red Hatters came up and helped us make Easter Bonnets and the Salvation Army ladies came up and we decorated eggs.
Aprilwe invited day care kids up and had our annual Easter Egg Hunt. The weather cooperated so we could hold it outside. We had our first rummage sale. Weheld it during the city wide rummages. We madeenough money to rent a bus to take us fishing at Spellerberg Park. We went to the circus on the 22nd.
June was Garretson’s Jesse James Days with a parade and our very own king and queen riding the Palisade Manor Float.
July we had fireworks for the 4th of July.
August we had the annual Evening on the Lawn with special meal, music and many other activities.
September school started and Homecoming was a big hit. We had our very own homecoming king and queen, float. The school came to the Manor to do a pep rally.
October we had a Halloween party, and kids visited our Spook Alley for treats.
November kicked off the holidays, with special meals and visitors.
December finishes the year with holiday fun. We had an angel party with gifts for the residents and treats. Carolers visited us and we went to see the lights in Garretson and Sioux Falls.
Have a Happy, Safe and Blessed 2011!!
EVENTS
Resident Birthdays Special Days
Judith Martin 1/16 January 1 – New Years Day
Kathleen Bender 1/16 January 7 – Staff Christmas party
January 9 – Family/resident
dinner
January 17 – Martin Luther
King Jr. Day
Staff Birthdays
Coleen McKenna 1/12
Cathee Alsgaard 1/13
Sandra Pederson 1/14
Dorothy Sorenson 1/16
Special Events
National Activities Week
January 16-21:
Celebrate Life Every Day
Auld Lang Syne
It is often remarked that "Auld Lang Syne" is one of the most popular songs that nobody knows the lyrics to. "Auld Lang Syne" literally translates as "old long since" and means "times gone by." The song asks whether old friends and times will be forgotten and promises to remember people of the past with fondness, "For auld lang syne, we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet." It was once believed that if that song hadn’t been performed it wasn’t really the New Year.
The lesser known verses continue this theme, lamenting how friends who once used to "run about the braes,/ And pou'd the gowans fine" (run about the hills and pulled up the daisies) and "paidl'd in the burn/Frae morning sun till dine" (paddled in the stream from morning to dusk) have become divided by time and distance—"seas between us braid hae roar'd" (broad seas have roared between us). Yet there is always time for old friends to get together—if not in person then in memory—and "tak a right guid-willie waught" (a good-will drink)
Words to Auld Lang Syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne. CHORUS: For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup of kindness yet, For auld lang syne! And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp, And surely I'll be mine, And we'll tak a cup o kindness yet, For auld lang syne! We twa hae run about the braes, And pou'd the gowans fine, But we've wander'd monie a weary fit, Sin auld lang syne. We twa hae paidl'd in the burn, Frae morning sun till dine, But seas between us braid hae roar'd Sin auld lang syne. And there's a hand my trusty fiere, And gie's a hand o thine, And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught, For auld lang syne.