{"id":9026,"date":"2020-05-01T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/?p=9026"},"modified":"2021-06-25T21:37:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T21:37:14","slug":"may-2020-newsletters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/?p=9026","title":{"rendered":"May 2020 Newsletters"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"galileo-ap-layout-editor\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"logo editor-col OneColumnMobile\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"100%\">\n<div class=\"gl-contains-image\">\n<table class=\"editor-image logo-container\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<div class=\"publish-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/57c46b83501\/f27684c0-2e96-4cf1-a358-c604dfbda1c7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"256\" 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valign=\"top\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-container galileo-ap-content-editor\">\n<div>\n<p>The latest in our series\u2026<\/p>\n<div>The People of the Park:<\/div>\n<h1 align=\"center\">A Visit with Jill Belcher<\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\">By Dale Dauten<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"galileo-ap-layout-editor\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\" editor-col OneColumnMobile\" align=\"\" valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"FFFFFF\" width=\"100%\">\n<div class=\"gl-contains-text\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"editor-text editor-text \" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-container galileo-ap-content-editor\">\n<div>\n<p>If you set out to design the perfect background to get along with all types of people and handle all types of situations, you couldn\u2019t do much better than Jill Belcher\u2019s career, highlighted by 15 years managing McDonald\u2019s restaurants.\u00a0In the photo below, that\u2019s Jill modelling one of the shirts from the days those days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"galileo-ap-layout-editor\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\" editor-col OneColumnMobile\" align=\"\" valign=\"top\" width=\"100%\">\n<div class=\"gl-contains-image\">\n<table class=\"editor-image editor-image\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<p class=\"publish-container\"><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/57c46b83501\/870da508-93dc-4962-8f47-0df23aae907c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"galileo-ap-layout-editor\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\" editor-col OneColumnMobile\" align=\"\" valign=\"top\" width=\"100%\">\n<div class=\"gl-contains-text\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"editor-text editor-text \" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-container galileo-ap-content-editor\">\n<div>\n<p>Jill said of those McDonald\u2019s years, \u201cThey offer a lot of management courses, and by the time you get to the highest level,\u00a0it\u2019s all psychology &#8212;\u00a0it\u2019s about how to deal with anything, with every type of employee and every type of customer.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>No wonder that when Jill came to Silveridge the Activities team was quick to get her involved, and when Sue Arneson was named Activities Director, she immediately recruited Jill to be Assistant AD. Jill did six years in that post, but stepped down when her back problems began to interfere with putting in long hours.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>But let\u2019s back up, and fill in the rest of Jill\u2019s story. She was born the day before Easter, leading her mother to tell her, \u201cMost kids are brought by the stork but you were brought by the Easter Bunny.\u201d That was in Chicago, where she grew up and went to Carl Schurz High, located near what was then the Riverview Amusement Park.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>(We found some photos of that great old park, including the Aladdin\u2019s Castle fun house and some well-dressed riders of the Water Bug attraction. As for the poster, the May 20<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>date refers to its opening in 1904. It lasted till the late 1960s.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"galileo-ap-layout-editor\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\" editor-col OneColumnMobile\" align=\"\" valign=\"top\" width=\"100%\">\n<div class=\"gl-contains-image\">\n<table class=\"editor-image editor-image  editor-image-vspace-on\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<p class=\"publish-container\"><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/57c46b83501\/b9e6712f-30ab-4841-aa5b-ff91ee6c9623.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"galileo-ap-layout-editor\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\" editor-col OneColumnMobile\" align=\"\" valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"column-resize-bar\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gl-contains-image\">\n<table class=\"editor-image  editor-image-vspace-on\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<p class=\"publish-container\"><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/57c46b83501\/f45149a5-e069-4111-908a-0e840bc49174.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\" editor-col OneColumnMobile\" align=\"\" valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\">\n<div class=\"gl-contains-image\">\n<table class=\"editor-image editor-image  editor-image-vspace-on\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<p class=\"publish-container\"><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/57c46b83501\/8eb4a3ea-b75f-4524-9e7f-3d1f110ff5ed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"galileo-ap-layout-editor\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\" editor-col OneColumnMobile\" align=\"\" valign=\"top\" width=\"100%\">\n<div class=\"gl-contains-text\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"editor-text editor-text \" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-container galileo-ap-content-editor\">\n<div>\n<p>After her time in college, Jill ended up running \u201ca one-girl office\u201d for the Ambrosia Chocolates Company, headquartered in Milwaukee. The man who ran the office was named Jack and he\u2019d take her to meet customers and she recalls with a laugh, \u201che loved to announce that Jack and Jill had come to visit.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>It was during that time that a friend who owned three McDonald\u2019s persuaded her to come and work for him. \u201cSo,\u201d she said, \u201cat the tender age of 40, I moved to Garden City, Kansas. At that time, it had 17,000 people; given that I was coming from Chicago, it was a culture shock.\u201d But she loved the job, and she found herself fitting in there in Garden City. After 15 years with McDonald\u2019s she was persuaded to take a job running the office of a credit bureau, but it was during her fast food years that Jill found the path that took her to Silveridge.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>It was at one of the McDonald\u2019s coffee groups that Jill met Gladys Boyd. The two became friends &#8212; such good friends that Gladys invited Jill to drive with her to Arizona and stay with her at her winter place at Silveridge. That first trip, Jill spent two weeks with Gladys, then flew home to Kansas, returning in the Spring for the drive together back to Kansas.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Of that first visit, Jill said, \u201cI loved Arizona. I loved the heat. It can never get too warm for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"galileo-ap-layout-editor\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\" editor-col OneColumnMobile\" align=\"\" valign=\"top\" width=\"100%\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"editor-text editor-text \" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<div>\n<table class=\"editor-image OneColumnMobile\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mobile-hidden\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"15\" height=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"image-cell \" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<div class=\"publish-container\"><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/57c46b83501\/3c8b0617-81e7-4046-87b6-eda525d13913.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mobile-hidden\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"5\" height=\"5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"5\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"mobile-hidden\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" height=\"5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"5\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-container galileo-ap-content-editor\">\n<div>(That&#8217;s Jill and Gladys touring Silveridge on Gladys\u2019s bike.)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>And on a subsequent visit, Jill began daydreaming of her own place at Silveridge. \u201cI was out walking around the park and I stopped to get fliers from the units for sale. One was By Owner and it had a huge Arizona room and a big storage area and I thought, \u2018If I\u2019m going to move all my worldly possession out here I\u2019m going to need a big storage area.\u2019 So I prayed about it.\u00a0\u00a0Then, when I talked to the owners, they said it was for sale but I couldn\u2019t have it till April, which was perfect. And then I went home and called a friend who always said that if I was going to sell my house to let her know, and she bought it without it ever going on the market. And while in Kansas packing, I got a call from Sue Arneson, who\u2019d just been promoted to Activities Director, asking me, how would you like to be the Assistant Activities Director?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Shortly thereafter I moved. It was on June 21<sup>st\u00a0<\/sup>of 2011 and it was 110 degrees, which wasn\u2019t easy on the movers from Kansas, but was fine with me, and in October I started work in Activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Even though her back problems caused her to step down from her fulltime role, she remains active, especially during the off-season. She points out, \u201cIt\u2019s over the summer that we are truly a family.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0So she took over the leadership of summer activities, including putting out a monthly calendar. That\u2019s going to be on hold for a while, but she\u2019s ready to jump back into action as soon as activities can resume.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>* * *<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h3>NOTE FROM THE EDITOR:<\/h3>\n<p>We plan to profile other residents in our upcoming issues. If you\u2019d like to volunteer to be the subject of an article, or have someone you\u2019d like to suggest, please let me know.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Or, if you have photos you\u2019ll like to share in upcoming newsletters, please send them.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Dale Dauten,\u00a0Editor<\/p>\n<p>Email:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ddauten@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ddauten@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Text: 480-297-6244<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest in our series\u2026 The People of the Park: A Visit with Jill Belcher By Dale Dauten If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9027,"href":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9026\/revisions\/9027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}