National Nursing lome Week
Staff and residents celebrated National Nursing Home Week May
12-18 with many activities. The “Crowning" glory was our Del's
Biggest Ever Banana Split, where staff and residents built a 3 foot
banana split with all the toppings - and then enjoyed eating it.
Above: Leah Kreiter with staff.
Top Left: Mary Robinson, Claude Sumpter, and Jane Chiodo with
staff.
Bottom Left: Residents and staff o f Del's Care Center prepare for
National Nursing Home Week Sock-EE Game. (Back Row L-R)
Claude Sumpter, Jane Chiodo, Anna Kernery, Della Greenhaw.
Margaret Rich, Gertrude Kneiger. Lillian Williams, Leah Kreiter.
(Front Row L-R) Eva Gette with staff and Jewerl Waller with staff.
Special Seating For
Grand Floral Parade
Commissioner Gretchen Miller
Kafoury announced special seat
ing will be available for senior
citizens and individuals with spe
cial disabilities who want to view
the Rose Festival Grande Floral
Parade, Saturday, June 8.
Seating is available on a first
come, first serve basis at two loca
tions. The east side location is on
N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Bou
levard in front o f the Convention
Center and offers park bench seat
ing and an open area. Five portable
toilets will be at this location, with
two accessible to the handicapped.
On the west side, park bench seat
ing only will be on both sides of
S. W. Stark, between Broadway and
Park in downtown Portland.
Parking for vehicles with dis
abled parking permits has been
reserved for both areas. The east
side location is in The Convention
Center Parking Lot for a $5.00
charge for passenger cars. (This
parking lot is not limited to hand
icapped access only) The west side
location is on S.W. Ninth between
Park and Oak, and can accommo
date about 30 vehicles on a first-
come, first-serve basis.
Monitors from the Police Ex
plorer Pos will be on duty to assist.
Oregon National Guard volunteers
assist with the procurement and
placement of the benches for these
two areas. Commissioner Kafoury
urges people to come early for the
best viewing points.
lis ‘ Phobias’ Saved Him
Comedian Maintains His Former Reputation as
a ‘Brash, Young Womanizer’ Was Exaggerated
Y our T icket O ut
"My home life is normal-not funny," says Murphy. At left: with his
wife, Nicole, and children (l-r): Myles Mitchell, Shayne Audra, and
Bria Lianna.
M aintaining that his reputa
tion as a brash young w om anizer,
with a huge ego and a large en
tourage was grossly exaggerat
ed, Eddie Murphy asserted, “ My
phobias saved m e.”
In an interview to be published
this Sunday in Parade m agazine,
Murphy explained, “ I lived at
home. Id id n ’td r in k o r d o heavy-
duty drugs. I’m a clean freak, so
I was always afraid o f catching
things in a sex scene. I’m not a
saint or anything, but 1 wash my
hands 100 times a day."
“ I was never buck-w ild,” he
added. “ I like normal girls. I got
to meet a lot f people, but I met
them like a regular guy, not like
a movie star. I’d read that 1 was a
ladies’ man. Well, I did love the
ladies. You’re supposed to.”
Recalling one story that was dam
aging to his reputation, which he
calls “The Elevator Story," Murphy
said, “It never happened.” He ex
plained, “There’s a story I was on an
elevator with 10 bodyguards. An old
lady was there. One bodyguard said,
Hit the floor, ’ as in press the button.'
The old lady got scared and dropped
to the floor. And we were so embar
rassed, and we helped her up, and I
sent her flowers and paid her hotel
bill, and it never happened! Here’s
the clincher: Whenever I go, No, it
never happened,’ they always say,
Yes, it did, my cousin was there.’”
As for the so-called entourage
that contributed to his air o f “self-
im p o rta n c e ,” M urphy in sists
those accusations were unfair.
“ When people say entourage’ —
that was the people I was friends
with in high school.” All he did,
Murphy said, was offer jobs to
his out-of-w ork pals.
“The only way you can stay in
touch with real emotions is to have a
real life,” commented Murphy, who
described his home life as “normal.”
“We’re just a boring couple,” he said
ofhimselfand wife Nicole, who spend
time together between 4 p.m. and
midnight every day.
Murphy, who will be seen later
this month in a remake of the 1963
classic, “The Nutty Professor," said,
“I haven’t felt this proud of a movie
for a long time.”
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