{"id":10778,"date":"2025-12-01T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/?p=10778"},"modified":"2025-12-01T03:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T03:16:46","slug":"december-2025-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/?p=10778","title":{"rendered":"December 2025 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Double Down:<\/h1>\n

Cards at Silveridge<\/h2>\n

By Dale Dauten<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cLuck is just probability smiling for the camera.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We recently had the chance to visit with Jeanette Laitner, a familiar face in the park\u2019s Card Room. That\u2019s her on the right in the photo below, setting up with Irene Renn. We know how popular card games are at Silveridge, so we were eager to hear more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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First, let\u2019s start with a list of the games currently on a weekly schedule: Dominoes, Cribbage, Euchre, Hand & Foot, Mah Jongg, National Mah Jongg, Samba, Texas Hold \u2018Em, and Triple Play. (Bunco will start up again in January. Check for updates on Cribbage, Pinochle and others.)<\/p>\n

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Jeanette informed us that if you\u2019re new to the park, the games are always open and new players always welcome. As she put it, \u201cjust show up.\u201d However, she pointed out the signup sheets on a bulletin board in the hallway alongside the Activities Office. These, she explained, help with planning and set-up, and gave the example that sometimes one of the games she leads, Triple Play, requires adding tables; and, as part of her planning, she organizes the game so that each player gets a different partner each time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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If you haven\u2019t been a card player and think you might want to take it up, Jeanette tells us that they have folks happy to do some training. (She suggested that the easiest games for a beginner to pick up would probably be Bunco or Hand & Foot.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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We also like to learn a little about the people who help keep the park\u2019s activities humming along, so we asked Jeanette to tell us about herself\u2026<\/p>\n

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The People of the Park<\/h2>\n

A VISIT WITH JEANETTE LAITNER<\/h2>\n

By Dale Dauten<\/h4>\n

\u201cLife is like a game of cards.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t control the hand you\u2019re dealt, only how you play it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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You could say that Jeanette Laitner is on her fourth life. The first was as a farm kid, growing up beside two brothers and two sisters on the family\u2019s wheat farm near Grant, Nebraska. Then she was off to college in Kearney at what is now part of the University of Nebraska. However, one summer, coming home to Grant and taking a waitressing job in a local caf\u00e9, she met the cook, James Dugger, and they fell in love. And that led to her second life: the young couple married and moved to Omaha and opened Dugger\u2019s Caf\u00e9. He was Cook; she was Manager\/Bookkeeper, and for 20 years they served up homestyle meals, becoming best known for their French dip sandwiches, finger steaks and sourdough pancakes. Along the way, they had four sons. Those times ended only when James fell ill and passed, and Jeanette decided to go in search of something new.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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That eventually led to her third, and most surprising life: as a hypnotist. That transformation transpired when Jeanette was leading a singles group in Omaha and met her second husband, George Laitner. He was a retired teacher\/administrator who took up hypnotism and it led him to a second career as a hypnotherapist. Jeanette joined in, and together they had a thriving practice. Jeanette told us that she had all types of requests from people, which she summed up as \u201cdo better or stop doing.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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George and Jeanette Laitner<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Mostly they helped people quit smoking or to lose weight, but they also had athletes at all levels who wanted to improve. Jeanette said of those clients, \u201cThe sportspeople all came back and said they did better, even the wrestlers, but especially the golfers.\u201d (Some of you reading this might be thinking that you need to book an appointment, but Jeanette has retired from that life and now only does self-hypnosis.)<\/p>\n

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That brings us to Jeanette\u2019s fourth life, her current one. Sadly, she lost her second husband, George, to cancer and that meant she was open to something new. The impetus for the next change came when her son Lorin announced that he needed to move to Arizona. The two were so close that Jeanette\u2019s reaction was, \u201cIf you\u2019re moving, so am I.\u201d Jeanette also had two snowbird friends who were regular visitors to the Valley and had urged her to try it, so the idea of moving held extra appeal.<\/p>\n

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She went online and came up with five options for parks and told Lorin to check them out when he was in Arizona. He narrowed her list of five down to two, but told her, \u201cI think you\u2019d like Silveridge better.\u201d She booked a place and soon became a fulltime resident. And that\u2019s how it happened that you are now likely to spot her in the Card Room five days a week.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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