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April Newsletter

Easter is April the 24th this year. Thursday the 21^st at 3pm Mr. Harrison’s nieces have planned an Easter Party for everyone.

We will be decorating eggs Friday the 22cnd at 2:30 in the dining room.. be sure to bring your imaginations!

April Showers bring May flowers

Famous Birthdays in April:

4/2/1805  Hans Christian Anderson 4/3/1922 Doris Day

 4/13/1743 Thomas Jefferson 4/17/1937 Daffy Duck                                 

4/16/1889 Charlie Chaplin 4/20/1889 Adolph Hitler

4/21/1816 Charlotte Bronte  4/21/1926 Elizabeth the Second

4/23/1928 Shirley Temple 4/23/1564 William Shakespeare

4/26/1785 John James Audobon  4/28/1908 Oscar Schindler

April 13^th ~Willie Mae Brown

April 30^th ~ Martha Prescott

April is National Kite Flying Month!

Come watch and give a hand as we try to put a kite or two up up and away… the 20^th at 2 pm.

April is National Poetry Month!

In honor of which we will be holding a poetry reading on the 28^th at two thirty. Please find your favorite poems, or lyrics that have meant something to you, and bring them to share.

I found April in my arms.
April golden, April cloudy,
Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;
April soft in flowered languor,
April cold with sudden anger,
Ever changing, ever true --
I love April, I love you.

-Ogden Nash

March Newsletter

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       March Newsletter

  

   Find a Pot of Gold Day

  In honor of Saint Patties Day, we will be hiding FOUR pots of gold around the

building, find one and bring it to the office to claim your prize!  This will take place

on Friday, the eleventh.  

“March comes in like a lion but goes out like a lamb.”

    First Day of Spring

Spring is all but sprung. The official date is March the twentieth. As winter goes it’s way, hibernation ends.  Time to stretch those muscles and move!  Don’t forget to join us Monday, Wednsday, and Fridays for Chair Aerobics! We will be meeting at Ten am. Don’t worry if you can’t do the entire program, working out at your own speed is wonderful, it’s the working out that counts!   

Weather permitting, it’s also time for Group Walk again!  Tuesdays and Thursdays at two pm we will be meeting out front to stretch those legs and enjoy the sunshine!

March’s flower is the violet

Famous birthdates in March

Glen Miller    3/1/1904        Jerry Lewis   3/16/1926                         

Dr.Suess   3/2/1904          Nat King Cole   3/17/1919

Desi Arnaz   3/3/1917        Grover Cleveland   3/18/1837

Alexander Bell   3/3/1847  Wyatt Earp   3/19/1848

Lou Costell   3/6/1906       Fred’mr’Rogers   3/20/1922

Lawrence Welk   3/11/1903 Louis L’Amour   3/22/1908

Albert Einstein   3/14/1879  Harry Houdini   3/24/1874

 Andrew Jackson   3/15/1767 Robert Frost   3/26/1874

James Madison   3/16/1751Cy Young   3/29/1867

Don’t forget our very own BESSIE TAYLOR

March 13!

Check out the books in the library, we have received more donations this past month and have something for everyone!   Also Puzzles of every difficulty level!

Bingo Bucks

We are going to institute new prize rules for our weekly bingo games.

Beano is moving to Saturday at two thirty!  Five Greenwood sponsored games will be played.  Choice of prize will be either an item from the grab bag, or one Greenwood coin.  Greenwood coins are redeemable as follows:

10= one lunch trip to Nana’s kitchen with Miranda

10= one lunch trip to Papa’s Pizza with Miranda

20=one pedicure at Passion nails

20=one 20$ gift card for Shepherd’s Florist

Prizes may change over time.

The Year’s at the spring

And day’s at the morn;

God’s in the heaven-

All’s right with the world.

~Robert Browning

The purpose of this blog is to help others keep in touch and feel a part of what is going on here with us at Greenwood Place Retirement Community.  I expect many of our readers to have friends or family residing here already, or who are considering it for the future.  Ours is a long term care home with a small family feel; as I write this I hear a conversation taking place in the living room as two of our residents anticipate our upcoming snack time and activity for  this afternoon. We try our hardest to keep up steady and varied activities; today the plan is to press flowers in books, step one in an ongoing art project we are working on.   I can also hear as one resident is trying to help another wind and set her watch; we enjoy watching and foster the forming of bonds between our residents as many can better understand what the other is going thru than those of us who have not yet attained such an advanced spot on the road of life.