FROM AROUND THE WORLD TM FOR THE Carols FROM AROUND THE WORLD FOR THE Carols Carols FOR THE Carols FOR THE King Carols DATE: Saturday, 11.28.15 TIME: 6:30PM LOCATION: Camelback Seventh-day Adventist Church 5902 E Camelback Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85018 CONTACT: 480.947.3781 This first ever annual concert event is sure to become the family favorite to kickoff the holiday season! Enjoy the smooth sounds of recording artist, Lydia Calhoun along with strings, choir, steel drums and multimedia presentation. Free will donations will be collected at this performance, a portion of which will benefit the Mayo Clinic Center for Humanities in Medicine. This will assist in bringing musicians to the Atrium Music Series and to patients at the bedside. THE CAMELBACK CONCERT SERIES IS PROUD TO PRESENT: ...in premier concert Camelback Seventh-day Adventist Church FREE ADMISSION 3641 N. 56th Street, Phoenix • 480-945-9537 • www.popphoenix.org Northeast corner of 56th St. and Indian School Discover POP Preschool • Ages 2-5 • Well-qualified, loving and experienced Teachers • Christian curriculum and Chapel every Tuesday • Enrichment classes including Spanish,Taekwondo, Art & Music • A/C gymnasium that is used as our Summer Playground • Flexible scheduling options, with half and full-day programs •Excellent Pre-Kindergarten program using Creative Curriculum 8:30 a.m. - Traditional Worship with the Organ 10:00 a.m. - Contemporary Worship (Come as You Are) 10:00 a.m. - Children’s Sunday School “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” – St. Augustine Discover God’s love for you this fall at Prince of Peace CAMELBACK MARKETPLACE Top Quality Multi-Dealer Mall 835 E. Camelback * 602-274-0386 * M-Sat 10-5 * Sun 11-5 www.camelbackmarketplace.com * camelbackmarketplace@outlook.com PARKING LOT PANDEMONIUM SALE Sun., Nov. 15th 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. Page 4 November 2015 Take care of the grandparents By Amanda Goossen There are few regrets I have in life. But there is one I hold onto. I have a great admiration for my grandfather. He was a solid human being who always did what was right, worked hard, paid his debts and loved his family. He was a simple man but a good man . And although I adore my memory of him – the moments I had with him, the photo that sits on my bedside table of him holding me as a baby – there is something missing. I know very little about the man he was before he was Papa. The older I get, the more it haunts me. I know he was born to parents who died when he was young. He and his three siblings were taken to a Catholic orphanage, where nuns raised them for some time, before family members came and retrieved the children. I believe the siblings were separated, yet somehow remained close. I know at some point my grandparents met. My grandfather was in the Navy. Grandma waited for him. They were married 13 years before they had their first child. They had three children and lived in San Diego, in the same home for over 50 years. But that’s about it. There are bits and pieces. There are things we’ve discovered over the years: photos, slips of paper with memories written on them. My favorite was two sentences my mom and I found on the back of a hotel receipt. Turns out the receipt was for the hotel they stayed at on their wedding night, the night before my grandfather was shipped out to sea. Without her notes, we would have never known why she’d kept a sixty five year old receipt. I know my grandfather owned an intricately cared for record collection which consists of a variety of Japanese imports. I believe they came from his time in the Navy. But I’m really not sure. The problem is, my grandparents spoiled their grandchildren. Not with material items but with love and attention. We were the absolute center of their universe. Life was about us, not about them. And by the time I was old enough to ask important questions, to know that I wanted to write about their life and their memories…their memories were fading away. I sat one afternoon with Papa, on the stool at his feet. He was in his mid-80s and well into his battle with dementia. I was making frequent trips from my Los Angeles apartment to their San Diego home. I felt him slipping away from me and I now understand that I was grasping for anything I could get, trying to find out who he was when he wasn’t being the best man I’d ever know. I asked him questions. He stared at me, with love and defeat. “How’s Craig,” he asked about my husband, as if telling me my questions had to end. My heart broke because the reality was I’d never know where he’d been and all the things that led him here. And I had to accept that. He has been gone almost eight years now and I miss him every single day. This past September, Pope Francis visited the United States. Regardless of what you believe or what religion you follow, there was something he said that I find worth sharing. “Take care of the grandparents… Grandparents are the living memory of the family.” It is for this reason that I write. To honor the people. To tell the stories. To keep records of people doing big, small and remarkable things. To keep their lives, alive. Forever. Have a wonderful November, Arcadia. And thank you for reading Arcadia News. EDITOR’S NOTES

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