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Letter from your Editors November 2026 Dear Wonderful Residents! As the globe warms, Fall may be a bit delayed in arriving, but rest assured that cool weather is on its way. Remember that we write this one month before it finds its way to your doorstep, so the forecast for the first week in October is in the 100’s!! Forever hopeful, however, let’s put away those tank tops and pull out the sweaters. Among us lives a hometown hero. His name is Shane Knight. He may not wear a cape, at least as far as we know, but no matter the emergency, he shows up to save the day. He doesn’t wait for instructions or a call for volunteers. He sees what needs to be done and does it. He needs no accolades to inspire these benevolent acts of kindness. In a world where complaints seem to outshout compliments, people like Shane Knight demonstrate the power of genuine goodness. Thank you, Shane. We appreciate you for all you do for us. We have three big events greeting us in November. The first is the Craft Faire on the 7th. Thank you, Tamsen, for continuing to make this such a successful event! AND don’t forget the annual bake sale taking place during the Faire. Ginny Seminara is once again organizing this money-making event. Then, Kim and Judi will be serving us an outstanding Thanksgiving dinner on the 14th. And not to be missed, we head out once again to Apple Hill on Monday the 23rd. Doesn’t that sound like a fun month? We’ve lost some dear friends this year, so let’s find joy when and where we can. And let’s perform our own acts of kindness for one another.
In Service to You, Nancy Warrington warringtonn@gmail.com (541)892-8448 (541)539-7078
Tamsen Fox tamsenfox@gmail.com 808-345-0965
Featured Resident Joan Forbes Walking into Joanie's house is like walking into a museum! The message comes through loud and clear that she is proud of her heritage and her family. From her roots in Native American culture to her collection of Depression-era blue glass to growing up in an oyster-laden world, Joanie has a lot to say about those who came before her. Joanie calls Eureka home. It is where she grew up and raised her four children. She moved there from South Bend, Washington, at age 5, when her father was offered a job at Humboldt Bay Oyster Company. Joanie's grandmother was part of the Chinook tribe in Washington. She was an activist and advocate for the tribe, working at the University of Washington. At the university, she recorded her Native language so it wouldn't be lost. Joanie's cousin, Marvin Oliver, was head of the art department there. He worked in many media, including cedar, bronze, steel and glass. His artwork can be viewed all over the West Coast and Alaska. Marvin had such an impact on the university that a building is being named after him! Joanie is proud to own some of his original pieces. In addition to Native artifacts, Joanie collects cobalt blue Depressionera glass. Her mother, who collected cherry red glass from the same era, started Joanie's collection, giving her the first piece when Joanie announced her engagement. Joanie has four children. Three are married, and together they have given her six amazing grandchildren. Two live in the Eureka area, one is in Detroit, and the other lives in Rancho Murieta North. Her parents were married for 73 years, and her grandparents for 70! After Joanie lost a baby, she learned to survive her grief with the help of bereavement groups. Wanting to share what she had learned, she led groups of her own and ended up working for hospice for 14 years. Writing poetry runs in her family. Her grandmother, with only an eighth-grade education, wrote poetry. Her mother, who taught kindergarten in Eureka, wrote poetry, and now Joanie writes poetry. Joanie moved into the Village three years ago. Since then, she has done "a ton of work" on landscaping. Indeed, we have watched her transform her front yard into an inviting and prolific garden. Her pride and joy, however, is her backyard. Unable to find someone to help her design her oasis, she took on the project herself. Her dad was a gardener, and she tapped into those latent genes! When her canine "love bug," Daisy, isn't riding around with Joanie inside his crate in the golf cart, the two lounge in her lovely backyard.
The Actress Who Invented the First Wireless Communication: Hedy Lamarr In the 1940s, audiences knew Hedy Lamarr as one of Hollywood’s most glamorous leading ladies, often billed as “the most beautiful woman in film.” What almost none of them knew was that, off-screen, she was also a selftaught inventor whose work would eventually underpin the wireless technology used in every smartphone, laptop, and Bluetooth headset on Earth. A Mind for Engineering, A Face for the Screen Hedy Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Kiesler in 1914 in Vienna, Austria. From a young age, she displayed a sharp curiosity about how things worked, reportedly disassembling and reassembling a music box as a child just to understand its mechanism. Her father, a bank director, encouraged this curiosity, walking with her and explaining the inner workings of everyday machines and technologies. Despite her technical interests, Lamarr’s striking looks led her toward acting, and by her late teens she had already appeared in European films. After fleeing an unhappy marriage to an Austrian arms manufacturer — a marriage that exposed her to conversations about military technology and weapons systems — she moved to Hollywood in the late 1930s, where MGM rebranded her as Hedy Lamarr and cast her in a string of major films throughout the 1940s. A Wartime Idea As World War II escalated, Lamarr wanted to contribute to the Allied war effort beyond simply selling war bonds, which she did energetically. She turned her attention to a specific military problem: radio-controlled torpedoes were vulnerable to jamming, since an enemy could detect and disrupt the single radio frequency guiding the torpedo toward its target. Working with composer and inventor George Antheil, Lamarr developed a solution: a frequency-hopping system that would rapidly switch the torpedo’s guidance signal across many different frequencies in a synchronized, unpredictable pattern. Without knowing the exact sequence, an enemy couldn’t jam the signal effectively, since by the time they located one frequency, the system had already moved to another. The two patented the idea in 1942, inspired partly by the synchronized mechanism of player pianos, which Antheil understood well from his music career. The invention formed an
unbreakable code to prevent classified messages from being intercepted by enemy personnel. To think, this is where wireless first began.
Ignored, Then Rediscovered The U.S. Navy declined to implement the technology during the war, reportedly skeptical that an actress could have produced a legitimate engineering innovation. The patent quietly expired, and Lamarr returned to her acting career, receiving no compensation or credit for the idea for decades. It wasn’t until the 1950s and 1960s that frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology was independently developed and deployed by the military, notably during the Cuban Missile Crisis. By the time engineers later traced the technology’s conceptual roots, they discovered Lamarr and Antheil’s original patent — a foundational piece of the puzzle that had gone almost entirely unrecognized. The same underlying principle — spreading a signal across multiple frequencies to make it more secure and resistant to interference — eventually became essential to modern wireless communication, forming part of the technical foundation beneath Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth. Recognition Came Late Lamarr received little public acknowledgment for her contribution until very late in her life. In 1997, she and Antheil were finally honored with the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award, and Lamarr was later inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014, decades after the patent had expired and long after the technology she helped pioneer had transformed global communication. She died in 2000 at age 85, having spent most of her life known almost exclusively for her film career, with her scientific contributions treated as a footnote, if mentioned at all. A Reminder Not to Underestimate Hedy Lamarr’s story stands as a pointed example of how easily real contributions can be dismissed when they don’t fit a person’s public image. She was simultaneously one of the most photographed women of her era and one of its most overlooked inventors — proof that brilliance doesn’t always look the way people expect it to.
Is the key to better aging all in our mind? Scientific American Many seniors show significant improvements in their physical and cognitive health over time. The reason why seems to lie in how they think about aging. People who viewed getting older positively were more likely to show improvements in their cognitive skills and their walking speed. By contrast, folks in the study who held more negative ideas about aging tended to see a decline in these skills. That suggests people’s beliefs can have a dramatic effect on their biology, the researchers say. “Our findings suggest there is often a reserve capacity for improvement in later life,” said study co-author Becca Levy. “And because age beliefs are modifiable, this opens the door to interventions at both the individual and societal level.” The new study included more than 11,000 adults aged 65 and up. 45 percent of the participants saw a positive development in either their scores on a cognitive test or their walking speed—a critical measure of fitness. Notably, when the researchers averaged the participants ’scores, they saw an expected decline in ability as people aged. But on the individual level, that picture didn’t hold up for everyone. “ Many people equate aging with an inevitable and continuous loss of physical and cognitive abilities,” Levy said. “What we found is that improvement in later life is not rare, it’s common, and it should be included in our understanding of the aging process.”
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Clint Eastwood tells it like it is… At 96, Clint Eastwood shattered our comfortable illusions about growing old, refusing to sugarcoat the harsh truth. Instead, he painted a stark, unflinching picture of what happens when a human being approaches a century of existence. "The light hurts your eyes, and even breathing can feel like hard work," Eastwood shared, describing the constant friction of a fading physical frame. "Your body just doesn't cooperate the way it used to, and every step requires a strategy.” But as he pointed out, the structural decline of the skeleton and muscles is merely the surface of the issue. The real weight of extreme old age is emotional and psychological. Once you cross into your nineties, your social landscape undergoes a profound and often painful transformation. You look around and realize that the majority of the people who knew you when you were young, who shared your history, your inside jokes, and your life struggles, have vanished. The circle of familiar faces shrinks down to almost nothing, the phone stops ringing, and the pace of the days slows down to a crawl. The bitterest pill to swallow isn't the physical pain; it is the sudden absence of someone who genuinely wants to listen to you. When the present moment becomes quiet and isolated, the human mind naturally seeks refuge in the past. Eastwood explained that navigating through old memories isn't a sign of mental weakness, but a vital search for continuity. This is why older people frequently repeat the same anecdotes, adding minor details and revisiting old grounds over and over again. They aren't trying to
boast or dominate the conversation. They do it to anchor themselves to a reality where they were active, loved, and relevant. "You find yourself repeating stories, adding details, not to convince anyone, but just to feel like you’re still connected to something," Eastwood admitted. "You try to pass things down to the younger generation, even when you can see the boredom in their eyes." We live in a culture that treats longevity like a trophy, congratulating people simply for surviving, while totally ignoring the crushing loneliness that accompanies that survival. We praise the shiny, the fast, and the hyper-connected, leaving absolutely no space for the slow, repetitive rhythm of the very old.Clint Eastwood may be a cinematic giant, but his words speak for every anonymous 90-year-old living down the street or sitting at our family dinner tables. They are the living libraries of our history, carrying stories that shaped the world we walk in today. When we choose to slow down, put away our distractions, and truly listen to them, something magical happens. We bridge the gap between generations. Ultimately, the wrinkles on their faces aren't just signs of aging—they are a beautiful roadmap of a life fully lived, and it is a privilege to sit by their side and listen to the journey.
Age 96 And, what amazing stories we all have to tell…
This and That… That and This… Art in the Park Who is this lovely woman creating art in our Sleepy Hollow? Whether working with paper, gourds, or paint, there is no end to what our Tamsen can produce. She has recently torn herself away from paintings of bulls and dogs (NO, not bulldogs!) to create a mural on a telephone pole! Who said canvasses had to be white? Or smooth? Or flat? Nothing daunts Tamsen when it comes to creative genius. So, take a stroll through Sleepy Hollow to admire her work. It will certainly brighten your day!
A Gem Worth Reading Although we are no longer doing As the Page Turns, there are times when a shout out to a marvelous book is required. This is one of those times. This inspiring novel demands to be shared with a larger audience. Tamsen Fox turned me onto this book, and I have been listening to it on Audiobooks. It has been a long time since I read or listened to a book that I didn’t want to end. I most certainly did not want my time with Theo to end! Walk into a world where acts of kindness change people’s lives in wonderful ways. Indulge yourself in a community of characters from Golden who will warm your heart.
Clubs/Activities in the Village So much to do and so little time!!!
Aqua Aerobics: 3:00 Monday-Friday - Jackie F: 916-354-2852 (May – September)
Bingo: 6:00 2nd & last Wednesdays of the month - Jackie V: 916-365-5444 Book Club:
Needs Leader
Board Meetings: 6:00 Second Monday of the month Bunco: 10:00 Third Thursday of the month in the Library Jackie V: 916-354-1544
Canasta: 1:45 Tuesdays in the Library - Cindy Wegner: 916-335-1809 Donuts & Social: 9:00 Tuesdays in Clubhouse or on patio Friendship Club: 9:30 last Wednesday of the month right before the Social Committee Meeting - Jacqueline: 530-663-3439
Pinochle: Need an organizer Poker: 4:00 Mondays in Library, Tuesday 5:30 in Art Room, 5:30 Thursdays in Art Room - Mike: 916-202-8852 Need Players
Social Committee: 10:00 AM last Wednesday of the month Jackie V: 916-365-5444
Village Crafters: 10:00 Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays in the Craft/Art Room Sandy Weber: 408-507-4445.
Yoga: 1:00 Mon, Wed, Fri in the Clubhouse - Jackie Flannigan: 916-354-2852
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Theresa’s Dinner (Saturday, 5pm)
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