July 2016
Cell Phone Courtesy
Month
Parks and
Recreation Month
Canada Day
July 1
Independence Day
July 4
Ventriloquism
Week
July 13–16
Nelson Mandela
International Day
July 18
Tell an Old Joke
Day
July 24
Paperback Book
Day
July 30
This month we celebrate Independence Day and this year marks 240 years
since our Founding Fathers gave us our National Birth Certificate. We continue
to be the longest on-going Constitutional Republic in the history of the world.
We are so blessed to live here in America.
On July 4th come join us in the Carriage Club at 2:30pm for our Independence
Day social with music performed by entertainer Palmer Allen.
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not
with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a
show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw
Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You
may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~Erma Bombeck
Ruth Boyd
Director of Activities
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Gold Rush
July
Visitors strike gold every third week of July in
Fairbanks,Alaska,duringthecity’s
Golden Days
festival. The five-day affair honors Felix Pedro, the
young Italian immigrant who, on July 22, 1902,
discovered gold in Tanana Hills just northeast of
Fairbanks. It was Felix Pedro who famously
declared,“T here’sgoldinthemtherehills,”
triggering the Gold Rush. By 1908, so many
prospectors, outfitters, and business people had
ventured to Fairbanks that it became the largest
city in Alaska. Today visitors can find a monument
to Felix Pedro, donated by the Italian government,
along the Steese Highway, which runs through the
Tanana Hills by Pedro Creek.
Flower:
Larkspur
Birthstone:
Ruby
Felix Pedro is such a hometown hero that during
the festival you might even catch a glimpse of him
with his dark moustache, flannel shirt, and widebrimmed hat—though it ’s m o r e l i k e l y y o u ’v e f o u n dRichard Petty (race-car driver) – July 2,
1937
the Felix Pedro look-alikecontest.Fairbanks’
Ringo Starr (Beatle) – July 7, 1940
Golden Days offer authentic Alaskan charm worth
Tom
Hanks (actor) – July 9, 1956
its weight in gold.
Arlo Guthrie (folk singer) – July 10, 1947
Woody Guthrie (folk singer) – July 14,
1912
Ginger Rogers (dancer) – July 16, 1911
Natalie Wood (actress) – July 20, 1938
Lynda Carter (actress) – July 24, 1951
Gracie Allen (comedian) – July 26, 1906
Famous Birthdays
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4 Anne Hodges
6th Linnette Hawkins
6th William Klaus
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8 Ella Tignor
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10 Hattie Hughes
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10 Ernestine Spindle
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15 Jasper Hogan
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19 Stokley Brooks
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24 Michael Bissell
Staff
1st Jacquelyn Story
1st Alyssa Spencer
2nd Charlene Williams
8th Lynne Johnson
10th Bernetta Smith-Pollard
15th Patricia Tuffour
18th Jessica Hansberry
18th Uwanda French
19th Christina Bates
19th Marilyn Robinson
20th Sandra Willis
20th Catherine Jones
22nd Jim Montgomery
27th Veronica Lamb
28th Susan Stup
28th Stormy Doby
The Story of the Fourth of July
constitutionfacts.com
The Declaration of Independence
We celebrate American Independence Day on the Fourth of July every year. We think of July 4,
1776, as a day that represents the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States
of America as an independent nation.
But July 4, 1776 wasn't the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare independence
(they did that on July 2, 1776).
I t w a s n ’t t h e d a y w e s t a r t e d t h e A m e r i c a n R e v o l u t i o n e i t h e r ( t h a t h a d h a
And it wasn't the day Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence (that
was in June 1776). Or the date on which the Declaration was delivered to Great Britain (that didn't
happen until November 1776). Or the date it was signed (that was August 2, 1776).
So what did happen on July 4, 1776?
The Continental Congress approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence on July 4,
1776. They'd been working on it for a couple of days after the draft was submitted on July 2nd and
finally agreed on all of the edits and changes.
July 4, 1776, became the date that was included on the Declaration of Independence, and the fancy
handwritten copy that was signed in August (the copy now displayed at the National Archives in
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the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 was the date they remembered.
In contrast, we celebrate Constitution Day on September 17th of each year, the anniversary of the
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How did the Fourth of July become a national holiday?
Forthefirst15or20yearsaftertheDeclarationwaswritten,peopledidn’tcelebrateitmuchonany
date. It was too new and too much else was happening in the young nation. By the 1790s, a time of
bitter partisan conflicts, the Declaration had become controversial. One party, the DemocraticRepublicans, admired Jefferson and the Declaration. But the other party, the Federalists, thought the
Declaration was too French and too anti-British, which went against their current policies.
By 1817, John Adams complained in a letter that America seemed uninterested in its past. But that
would soon change.
After the War of 1812, the Federalist party began to come apart and the new parties of the 1820s
and 1830s all considered themselves inheritors of Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans.
Printed copies of the Declaration began to circulate again, all with the date July 4, 1776, listed at the
top. The deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams on July 4, 1826, may even have helped to
promote the idea of July 4 as an important date to be celebrated.
Happy Birthday America
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Carriage Hill staff celebrates a few of many successful discharges home.
Administration
Admissions
Administrator, John Sevier
Administrator in Training, Brooke Kiser
Human Resources Manager, Tami Betts
Director of Admissions & Marketing, Colleen Steffey
Referral Development Coordinator, Amanda Flowers
Business Office
Rehab
Rehab Coordinator, Amanda George
Business Office Manager, Wanda Jenkins
Dining Services
Facilities
Dietitian, Linda Timm
Director of Dietary Services, Deborah Freeman
Environmental Services Director, Robert Saar
Maintenance Manager, Jim Montgomery
Medical Services
Nursing
Medical Director, Dr. Chris Harrington
Physician, Drs. Ayele & Joseph
Director of Nursing, Jewel Myers, RN
Assistant Director of Nursing, Evanthe Rockwood, RN
Unit Manager Old Dominion/Centennial Way,
Jacquelyn Story, LPN
Unit Manager Commonwealth Lane/Victory Court,
Rachel Ambrose, RN
Unit Manager Memory Lane, Christina Bates, LPN
6106 Health Center Lane
Fredericksburg, VA 22407
Social Services
Director of Social Services, Rachel Leonard
Social Services Assistant, Trish Stenger
Activities
Director of Activities, Ruth Boyd
Activities Assistants, Alice Boston & Alyssa Spencer