Aladdin Villas

News & ViewsAladdin Villas**is a 55 and over community

November 2011 Vol. 23 No. 2 Email: avnewsviews@hotmail.com

Webpage: http://avnewsviews.pbworks.com

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Thanks giving Day DinnerAll are invited to the Thanks-giving dinner. For new residentsor ones that have not participat-ed before here is how it is nor-mally done. There are sign upsheets on the West Hall bulletinboard. There are spaces for 12at each table. One person orcouple decides to be tablehose/host and they will be re-sponsible for getting those peo-ple together and deciding whoshould bring what and also col-lecting the money. The turkey,gravy and coffee are furnished.The cost is the same as in thepast years at $3.00 per person.The tables will be set up byWednesday noon on the 23rd todecorate if you so desire. Wewill open the doors at 11:00amand dinner will be at 12:00.Once again, our thanks to theIves and Peers for volunteeringto cook the turkeys and makingthe gravy and coffee. Anyquestions call me @ 585-5102Mary Cunningham

Christmas Decorating Recognition Aladdin Villas will hold it’s recogni-tion of the beautiful home ChristmasDecorations once again this ChristmasSeason. This has been a tremendoussuccess in the past and the ActivitiesCommittee looks forward to anotherrecognition of our residents and theirbeautiful homes.

How it works:1. Once again, judges will come fromoutside Aladdin Villas. They will notbe familiar with the neighborhoods.2. The judges will have no knowledgeof who resides in the homes, or if theyhad help in putting up decorations.3. Recognition for this event will onceagain be gift certificates from our localrestaurants.4. Judging for this event will take placeduring the week prior to the AladdinVillas Christmas Party.5. Prizes will be awarded at the Christ-mas Party.So when the snow starts to fly up north,and the sun shines in the Villas, letslight up the season again this year.Alan & Trudy Johnston

ATTENTION**ATTENTION**ATTENTION Aladdin Villas residents, MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Why: Because Aladdin Villas is having the 1st “NEWCOMERS WELCOME” When: Saturday, January 14, 2012 / 2:00 - 5:00 PM Where: West Ballroom, Aladdin Villas Those who have moved to Aladdin Villas in 2010 and 2011 will be our honorees. Don’t miss this! Food**Fellowhip**Fun See You There! Vaada Ellisor

Office HoursResidents’ Information Office

May-SeptemberMonday Only

9:00 am - 11:00 am

October - AprilMonday, Wednesday, Friday

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Corporate Treasurer’s OfficeYear Round

Monday Only9:00 am - 11:00 am

Activities Treasurer’s OfficeWednesday Only

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Residents MeetingThursday

December 1, 2011West Hall9:00 am

Coffee & Donuts8:30 am

November Holidays11th Veterans Day24th Thanksgiving

New Resident Information/Contact Changes/InformationNew ResidentsNelson, Lars & Jeane416 Jupiter

O’Neil, Ronald & Elaine414 Jupiter 2243 Cornerstone Dr(989)773-3586 Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858

Contact Information ChangesRemsing, Darrell & Joanne1419 LeoNew (956)585-1156

Beyer, Richard501 PiscesOnly(608)642-2468

Krattenmaker, Robert PO Box 358 & Vicky New London, MN408 Sagittarius 56273-0358

Rost, Keith &Sharon519 Sagittarius 17809 38th Ave N(956)342-5834 Plymouth, MN 55446

Forest, Arthur & Lucille412 TaurusNew(956)600-7191

Carlson, Dorothy514 Venus

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Peter Piper Pizza Monday November 14thAladdin Villas residents are invited to a pizza and saladbar lunch at Peter Piper Pizza on North Conway at TwoMile Road held on the second Monday of every month.Those having birthdays or anniversaries during themonth will be recognized. Cake and ice cream will alsobe served and if you bring your Peter Piper mug yourbeverage is free. If you are new to Aladdin this is a goodway to meet your neighbors. No sign up is necessary-just show up. The next Peter Piper dates are: (all Mondays at 11:30am) November 14th, December 12th and January 9th.Mark your calendars now and come join us.Gloria & Ray Cekalla

Garage Sale It’s time to check our closets, cabinets and garages tofind those clean, gently used items for our semi-annualgarage sale. Remember those having sales from theirhomes must have a permit from the City of Mission.Permits are available at the City of Mission offices.Tailgaters do not need a permit. Please bring your clean gently used items to the ball-room on Wednesday and Thursday, December 7th and8th. On Friday, December 9th, we will have a presale forAladdin Villas residents only. Please wear your nametags if you plan to make purchases. The time will befrom 2 pm until 4 pm. No early sales. Saturday, December 10th, we will have our open tothe public sale. The time is 7 am until noon. Biscuits &Gravy breakfast will be available from 8:00 to 9:30 am.

All profits from our garage sales go to the activitiesfund. Unsold items will be donated to worthy charities.Thank YouMaria Velasco

ZZ NEWSFor the newcomers that have a computer, I run anewsletter called ZZNEWS. It contains a calendar ofevents and also things of interest or for sale or wanteditems, etc. If you will send me a note including yourname, address and your email address to:zznews@sbcglobal.net, I will return to you web ad-dress and how to easily access it. For those who havebeen here and are not checking it or for some reasonare not able to get it for things going on; please sendme a note to the above address and I will do the samefor you.Zigzag (alias Hal Case)

Blood DriveThe Blood Drive will be Saturday, November 26th

from 8am to noon in the Library. I will post the signup sheet on the 16th in the Ballroom.

Anita Buckland

Activities Notices and InformationThank You!I want to thank all those who helped collate theNews & Views for October. We had two guysjoin us for the first time and they were HalCase and Jerry Weidner. The ladies were Do-ris Bagaus, Betty Dahl, Dorothy Unger andDorothy Case.Sandy Schultz

LOUISIANA COUSHATTA CASINO TRIP NOVEMBER 28-30,2011 $95 DOUBLE - $130 SINGLE $30 CASH BACK CONTACT DONNA SCHEUNEMANN 584-9658

News & Views Collator Aladdin needs a volunteer to be in charge of col-lating the News and Views. This is normally doneon a Friday afternoon 8 days after the monthly Res-idents Meeting during the months of October thruApril. If interested please contact Sandy Schultz at956-581-9381.

55 Alive Class The first 55 Alive class of the season will beTuesday, December 6th from 8:00 AM to noonin the Hacienda Room. Insuance companies insome states only recognize a 4 hour course andothers only an 8 hour course. Texas recognizesonly the 4 hour course and this is a 4 hourcourse. The cost is $12 for AARP members and $14 fornon-AARP members. You must have yourdrivers license and AARP membership numberto get the discounted rate.Please be on time (or maybe a little early) so wecan get the registration complete as we have alot of material to cover in just 4 hours. Thesign up sheet is on the south wall of theballroomFrank Unger (583-9356)

A married couple, both 60 years old, were celebrating their35th anniversary. During their party, a fairy appeared tocongratulate them and grant them each one wish. The wifewanted to travel around the world. The fairy waved her wandand poof--the wife had tickets in her hand for a world cruise.Next, the fairy asked the husband what he wanted. He said, “Iwish I had a wife 30 years younger than me.” So the fairypicked up her wand and poof--the husband was 90.

Veteran’s Day Luncheon We have approximately 30 tickets remaining for

the Veteran’s Day Luncheon. This is going to be thebiggest and best one yet! If you haven’t got yourtickets, Contact Louise Pfahl, 5065 Virgo, 858-6124.The Sharyland JR ROTC Honor Guard will bethere, so will our Aladdin Villa Choir, and guestspeakers from the Texas Veterans Land Commis-sion. We will be doing something special to honorour Aladdin Villas WWII Vets. And, a special songwritten for our WWII Vets will be sung by our ownJudy Alexander. There will be some great door priz-es handcrafted and donated by our own Ray Pals.There will be a lot of “other stuff” from some of ourveterans that you will want to hear. . Baked ham,potato casserole, green beans. .on the menu. It startswith a great and beautiful opening ceremony withthe 11th hour traditional ceremony. This is by, forand with Aladdin Villas residents....come to paytribute to our veterans especially our WWII Vets andenjoy yourself with us! Be seated by 10:45.John Stranges, 413 Pisces, 424-9961

Minnesota Potluck AssistantWe are looking for a Minnesotan to be our assistantfor the upcoming Minnesota Potluck in January and totake over as chairman the following year. If interestedplease contact Ray or Gloria Cekalla at 956-581-6118

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Picture DirectoryAnyone who has not received their picture directorycan call Susie Schieber at 956-583-6784 or stop by502 Mercury to get them.

The Killer Bees are proud to announce a specialseason ticket opportunity for Winter Texans only:

Includes all 12 Winter Texan Nights for $84.00. That’s only$7.00 per game. Regular Winter Texan Night rates are$10.00 per game. You get the same great seats for everygame!Get popcorn and sodas for only $1.00, Hot Dogs for $1.50.

Americans - Weds., November 9th vs AllenAmericans - Tues., November 15th vs AllenAmericans - Weds., November 16th vs AllenAmericans - Tues., December 6th vs AllenBrahmas - Weds., December 7th vs TexasRush - Tues., December 13th vs Rapid CityAmericans - Weds.., December 21st vs AllenBucks - Tues., January 17th vs LaredoIcemen - Tues., February 14th vs EvansvilleIcemen - Weds., February 15th vs EvansvilleBucks - Tues., February 28th vs Laredo.Bucks Game starts at 6:00 PM

Contact Allen Lester at 956-802-2904 to reserve your seats.

Activites, Scores and Notices

October Triple Deck Pinochle Scores 10/23

Anita Buckland 1009, 1175, 1071Jim Borders 1023Opal Gragg 1083,1066,1074Jim Hanson 1023, 1038, 1082Marty Hanson 1266, 1151Linda Hollenbeck 1019, 1043Joe Jackson 1100, 1101Julia Jackson 1025Dorothy Unger 1108, 1023, 1069, 1122, 1013Frank Unger 1048, 1011, 1057Vi Wiersig 1013Fran Williams 1008, 1003, 1053, 1109, 1133Ron Williams 1227, 1078, 1033, 1075

Pinochle ClassesI will be happy to teach Aladdin Villas residents how to playTexas Triple Deck Pinochle or Double Deck Pinochle. CallMarty at 580-8132 (after 1st ring: press 2 to stop long spiel totelemarketers) to reserve your seat in the next class. As soonas I have 4 or 5 people interested in learning how to play thisfun game, I will begin classes. ThanksMarty Hanson 580-8132

Wednesday BridgeOctober 12 Dorothy Lutkemeier 6380 Cindy Michael 4510

October 19 Bonnie Bucy 4770 Pat Nay 4380

October 26 Ethel Benner 4070 Millie Krolls 3870

November 2 Pat Nay 4340 Mary O’Connell 4160

Thursday, December 1, 2011 Rowe High’s Razz Ma Tazz7:00 pm $6 and $8.Thursday, January 12, 2012 Auntie Kreamsaugen 7:00 pm$5 and $7.Sunday, January 15, 2012 Men of a Chord 7:00pm $4 allseats.Sunday, January 22, 2012 Rio Grande Valley Band 3pm. $3

all seats.Thursday, January 26, 2012 Pelletier Family 7:00pm $6 and$8.Saturday, February 4, 2012 Red Head Express 7:00pm $8and $10Sunday, February 12, 2012 Jennifer Show 7:00pm $5 and$7.March 2, 2012 John Sager 7:00pm $5 and $7.March, 12, 2012 Laughing Bird 7:00pm $6 and $8.Tickets: Wednesday before the event from 9am to 4pm at

the Stranges residence, 413 Pisces 424-9961.

KILN for SALEPottery Kiln model Crest LT3K

Contact Judi Elliott for informationSubmit Sealed Bids to

VP Finance at the Residents OfficeNo later than December 6, 2011

Saturday Nite Bridge ScoresOct 8 J Kuchenbecker 4410 Oct 15 J Kuchenbecker 3680

G Kuchenbecker 3310 B Epperson 3540Oct 22 R Hom 4260 Oct 29 G Kuchenbecker 4220

C Michael 3800 CJ Washburn 3800Nov 5 B Epperson 4010

B Bucy 3730

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