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Date Events Time & Place Random Acts of Christmas Kindness (RACK) Hot 9 am– 11 am, Meredith Chapel Tues., Dec 3 Chocolate & Coffee Bar Narthex Chapel Talk: “A Smidgen of Mystery and a Sprinkle Wed., Dec 4 of Delight” 2 pm, Meredith Chapel Thurs., Dec 5 Boxwood Christmas Tree Workshop * 10:30 am, Sunnyside Room, $10 Thurs., Dec 5 Remembrance Christmas Ornament Workshop * 1 pm, Meredith Chapel Thurs., Dec 5 Christmas Tree Trimming Party 2 pm, Highlands Lobby Fri., Dec 6 Holiday Handbell Concert 10:30 am, Bethesda Theatre Sat., Dec 7 Sunnyside Singers Concert 2 pm, Meredith Chapel Mon., Dec 9 TED talks 11 am, Blue Ridge Room, HL Tues., Dec 10 James Madison University Chorale Concert 2 pm, Meredith Chapel Tues., Dec 10 Christmas Carols with Brent Douglass 7 pm, Allegheny Room, HL Wed., Dec 11 Town Meeting 2:30 pm, Bethesda Theatre Wed., Dec 11 EMU Preparatory Music Program 6:30 pm, Meredith Chapel Thurs., Dec 12 Annual Holiday Gala * 5 pm– 8 pm, Highlands Mon., Dec 16 Project Linus– No-sew Blanket Making Workshop * 1 pm, Sunnyside Room, $15 Tues., Dec 17 Massanutten Brass Quintet 7 pm, Meredith Chapel Wed., Dec 18 Holiday Spa Open House 9:30 am– 11:30 am & 2 pm – 3 pm Massage Therapy Room, EC Thurs., Dec 19 Emergency Preparedness Presentation 2:30 pm, Allegheny Room, HL Fri., Dec 20 Christmas Movie Matinee: Holiday Inn 1:45 pm, Bethesda Theatre Fri., Dec 20 Holiday Harp Music 5 pm, Allegheny Room, HL Tues., Dec 31 New Year’s Eve Gathering & Game Night 6 pm– 10 pm, Sunnyside Room

Date Trips Time & Cost Sun., Dec 8 Holidayfest: The Gift * 1 pm, $18/ticket Fri., Dec 13 Heifetz Holiday Homecoming * 6:10 pm, $30/ticket Sat., Dec 14 Vienna Boys Choir– Christmas in Vienna * 3:30 pm, $45/ticket + dinner Sun., Dec 15 Shenandoah Valley Choral Society: Magnificat * 2 pm, $12/ticket Riverside Dinner Theater: Christmas Spectacular Sun., Dec 22 2019 * 10:35 am, $60/ticket Mon., Dec 30 Gardenfest of Lights: Magic in the Air * 1:50 pm, $11/ticket + dinner

Date Specialty Exercise Classes for December Time Wed., Dec 4-18 Cardio Boxing 2 pm, Wellness Center See back of Funside Calendar for a complete list of Wellness Land & Pool Classes being offered this month. * Sign up required. Call 8200/8201 or 8241 Registration for December Events & Trips will open at 10 am on Tues., November 26. Early registrations will not be accepted. Resident Led Monthly Meetings & Clubs 10:30 am (2nd) Meredith Mon., Dec 2 & Fri., Dec 6 Sunnyside Singers Rehearsal 10:15 am (6th) Chapel Mon., Dec 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 1 pm (Mon.) Skyline Room, HL Tues., Dec 3, 10 & 17 Mah Jongg 7 pm (Th.) 1454 Glenside Dr. Mon., Dec 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 Bowling 1 pm, Valley Lanes Harrisonburg Show up when you can– no sign-up required! Cost is $2/game +$2 for shoes. No experience necessary! Mon., Dec 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 Thurs., Dec 5, 19 & 26 Bridge 7 pm, Shenandoah Room, HL Mon., Dec 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 Scrabble 7 pm, Skyline Room, HL Tues., Dec 3 & 17 Adult Coloring Group 1-3 pm, Massanetta Room, HL Wed., Dec 4 1st Wednesday Bridge 1 pm, Allegheny Room, HL Wed., Dec 4, 11 & 18 Write Your Own Story 1:30 pm, Massanetta Room, HL Wed., Dec 4, 11 & 18 Bingo 7 pm, Massanetta Room, HL Thurs., Dec 5 Veterans Lunch 12 noon, Tartan Grill Mon., Dec 9 & 23 Technology Club 1 pm, Allegheny Room, HL Monday, Dec 9: “Browsers 101” Jim Kellett will clarify some of the confusing language to help understand just what internet browsers (e.g., Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc.) are and how to use them.

Monday, Dec 23: Assistance Day, one-on-one help Wed., Dec 11 Woodworkers & Friends 8 am, Marketplace, HL Sat., Dec 14 Stitch & Chat Group 2 pm, Jefferson Room Mon., Dec 16 Bunco 6:30 pm, Allegheny Room, HL Wed., Dec 18 Buzzards (Aviation Group) 12 noon, Tartan Grill

Travel Club will not meet in December but mark your 2020 calendars for the 2nd Thursday of each month!

News from Sunny Treasures LAST FURNITURE SALE Workshops are held every OF THE YEAR! Thursday in the Sunnyside Room Saturday, December 7, 9 am– 12 noon Weigh In: 1:45 pm  Meeting Time: 2 pm Bistro Basement. Will include some appliances. Now’s a great time to join! And, as always, residents and staff can call 17-week session begins Thurs., Dec 5: $186/person Ennis (8470) or Kay (8833) for a “private showing.” Price includes weekly workshop and the app.

It’s the most For more details contact Debbie Bower at [email protected] of the year. Please note the shop will be closed on Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25. It will be open on Monday, December 23 and Friday, December 6, 2 pm - 4 pm, Bethesda Theatre Friday, December 27. Please wear your name tag. If you have not already done so, please bring your $5 annual dues. Come to enjoy Christmas Music and annual Christmas Social. Friday, December 20, 7 pm Sunnyside Pharmacy Meredith Chapel Holiday Schedule Students of Sunnyside Resident Mary Rouse will The Sunnyside Pharmacy will be closed be presenting a short program of Holiday music. Tues., December 24, Wed., December 25 & All are welcome to attend and support these Wed., January 1. Sorry for any inconvenience. young musicians! page 2 December 3 – December 8 Random Acts of Christmas Kindness Remembrance Christmas Ornament (RACK) Hot Chocolate & Coffee Bar Workshop * Tuesday, December 3, 9 am– 11 am Thursday, December 5, 1 pm Meredith Chapel Narthex Meredith Chapel Spreading joy to others is one of the best ways to get in During this workshop participants will fill clear plastic the Christmas spirit and performing Random Acts of ornaments to personalize them as a way to honor the Christmas Kindness (RACKs) is a great way to start. memory of a loved one. No artistic skills are necessary. This year the Wellness Center is encouraging the whole Clear ornaments, ribbon, paper, markers and other campus to spread cheer with the use of Random Acts of supplies will be provided. Participants can write down a Kindness cards or stickers that you can anonymously fond memory or memories of their loved one to place in pass along with special treats or favors. Wellness is the ornament or fill the ornament with a small photo, a kicking off this month-long initiative with our own piece of fabric or material, or any small item that personal RACK- a free hot chocolate and coffee bar. reminds them of those who have died. Following the Stop by for a warm beverage served with a RACK card workshop these ornaments will be hung on the Chapel’s to pass along to a neighbor or friend. Each RACK card Christmas tree during the Christmas season. Please sign includes a list of suggestions to get you started. Stop by up by Fri., Nov. 29. (If you are unable to attend the the Wellness Center and HL Fitness Room to pick up workshop, ornaments will be made available for you to additional RACK cards and/or stickers. make on your own.) No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ~Aesop Christmas Tree Trimming Party Thursday, December 5, 2 pm Chapel Talk: “A Smidgen of Mystery Highlands Lobby and a Sprinkle of Delight” Come kick off the Christmas season while hanging an Wednesday, December 4, 2 pm ornament (or two) on the Highlands Christmas tree and Meredith Chapel listening to holiday music. Enjoy some Christmas Come hear three original Christmas Stories written and cookies, fruit cake, punch and time for fellowship. All residents are welcome! read by Chaplain Will Lowrance and intended to ignite childlike delight inside our hearts that our anticipation Holiday Handbell Concert of this special season will be guided by the light of Friday, December 6, 10:30 am imagination to touch the untold mystery of this season Bethesda Theatre of darkness. Join us for a lively concert of Holiday handbell music! First Story- “A Smidgen of Mystery and Delight” Redeemer Classical School’s 7th graders are pleased to Second Story- “Rudolf’s Magical Looking Glass” share a semester's worth of music with you!! Third Story- “The Wondrous Money Tree” Sunnyside Singers Annual Cardio Boxing Christmas Concert Wednesday, December 4, 11 & 18, 2 pm Saturday, December 7, 2 pm Wellness Center Fitness Studio Meredith Chapel This fun cardio boxing class features a mix of punch The Sunnyside Singers will present their sequences and lower body movements designed to build annual Christmas concert “There’s a stamina and improve coordination and balance! Song in the Air.” Call 8241 to sign up for Shuttle Research shows that boxing may reduce tremors and is Service by Noon, Thurs., December 5. beneficial to individuals suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Beginners welcome! Trip: Holidayfest: The Gift * Sunday, December 8, 2 pm Boxwood Christmas Tree Workshop * JMU Forbes Center for Performing Arts Thursday, December 5, 10:30 am– Noon Cost: $18/ticket Sunnyside Room Depart: EC 1 pm / HL 1:10 pm Cost: $10/tree The JMU Symphony Orchestra joins the combined Make your own Boxwood Christmas Tree to adorn a Madison Singers and JMU Chorale for an inspired tabletop in your home. With a little watering, this Christmas collage of holiday works for choirs and Christmas tree should last you through the holiday orchestra, featuring Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia season. Cost includes all supplies. This workshop was on Christmas Carols and the finale (Ring Out, Ye listed in the November Funside. Limited spaces are still Crystal Spheres) from the Christmas cantata Hodi. Also available. featured is a holiday reading of O’Henry’s The Gift of the Magi. This trip was listed in the November Funside and is full. Please call to be placed on the wait list. page 3 * Sign up required. Call 8200/8201 or 8241

December 9 – December 16 TED Talks Trip: Heifetz Holiday Homecoming * Monday, December 9, 11 am Friday, December 13, 7:30 pm– 9:30 pm Blue Ridge Room, Highlands Francis Auditorium, Mary Baldwin Univ., Staunton, VA December Ted Talks will offer a pot-pourri of stunning Cost: $30/ticket photography, traditional Virginia folk music, and Depart: EC 6:10 pm / HL 6:20 pm humorous directions for using the internet. Please join This concert includes an all-star cast of prize-winning us for this entertaining program. Also, please note that Heifetz alumni and friends on violin, viola, cello, and our TED program will be presented only once during piano. Hear season favorites, solo works, chamber December. music masterworks, and some special Yuletide delights, including Vivaldi’s sublime Christmas” Violin Concerto, JMU Chorale Concert Tchaikovsky’s captivating Rococo Variations, the Tuesday, December 10, 2 pm– 2:45 pm Sinfonia from J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, and the Meredith Chapel magnificent Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major by Antonín The JMU Chorale is an auditioned mixed ensemble Dvořák. Approximate return: 10:30 pm directed by Dr. Jo-Anne van der Vat-Chromy. This talented group is a featured ensemble at JMU Forbes Trip: Vienna Boys Choir– Christmas in Center’s annual Holidayfest Concert every December. Vienna * Saturday, December 14, 7 pm Christmas Carols with Brent Douglass Paramount Theater, Charlottesville, VA Tuesday, December 10, 7 pm Cost: $45/ticket + dinner Allegheny Room, HL Depart: EC 3:30 pm / HL 3:40 pm Back by popular demand! Brent Douglass, son of Christmas in Vienna showcases the gifted Vienna Boys Highlands Resident RuthGray Lightner, will be here to Choir with voices of unforgettable beauty in an play Christmas music and lead the group in singing extraordinary program featuring Austrian folk songs, familiar Christmas carols. All are welcome to attend. classical masterpieces, popular songs and, of course,

Town Meeting holiday favorites. Dinner will be at your choice of Wednesday, December 11, 2:30 pm restaurant along the Charlottesville Downtown Mall prior to the performance. Approximate return: 10:30 pm Bethesda Theatre Join Executive Director Josh Lyons for campus Trip: SVCS: Magnificat * updates. The recipient of the annual “Spirit of Sunday, December 15, 3 pm Sunnyside” award will be announced. Light Bridgewater Church of the Brethren refreshments will be served. Call Transportation Cost: $12/ticket (8213) to sign up for the 2 pm shuttle. Depart: EC 2 pm / HL 2:10 pm

EMU Preparatory Music Program Directed by Curtis Nolley, the Shenandoah Valley Wednesday, December 11, 6:30 pm Choral Society will present Magnificat by John Rutter with carols and songs for Christmas. Meredith Chapel Join students from EMU's Preparatory Music Program Project Linus- No-sew Blanket Making as they present a short concert of a variety of classical Workshop * and holiday music. Students range in age from 5 to 17 Monday, December 16, 1 pm– 3 pm and play violin and piano. There will be a mix of solo Sunnyside Room and group performances. Cost: $15/blanket donation SUNNYSIDE’S ANNUAL During this workshop, participants will be led through making a no-sew fleece blanket to be donated to Project Linus. (No special blanket making skills are necessary.) Project Linus is a non-profit organization, whose Thursday, December 12 mission is to “Provide love, a sense of security, warmth 5 pm– 8 pm, Highlands and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need through the gifts of Join us for an evening of hors d’oeuvres, new, handmade blankets and afghans, lovingly created festive beverages, holiday music & dancing. by volunteer ‘blanketeers.’ ” Our blankets will be * Sign up requested. When registering, please indicate donated and distributed to children in need in whether shuttle service is needed. Rockingham, Augusta and Rockbridge Counties. Please sign up by Tues., Dec. 3. Donation cost includes all blanket making supplies.

Due to the popularity of this event we ask that no Please sign up by 4:30 pm, Mon., Dec 9. outside guests attend our Holiday Gala. Sorry for any inconvenience. page 4 * Sign up required. Call 8200/8201 or 8241 December 17 – December 31 Massanutten Brass Quintet Trip: Riverside Dinner Theater: Tuesday, December 17, 7 pm Christmas Spectacular 2019 * Meredith Chapel Sunday, December 22, 1 pm– 5 pm The Massanutten Brass Quintet returns to Sunnyside to Fredericksburg, VA share with you the wonderful sounds of the Christmas Cost: $60/ticket (includes taxes & gratuities) Season. Call 8241 to sign up for Shuttle Service by Depart: EC 10:35 am / HL 10:45 am Noon, Fri., December 13. Experience the excitement, memories, and joy of Christmas as a spectacular cast of singers and dancers Holiday Spa Open House present the heart and essence of the holiday season in Wednesday, December 18, 9:30 am– 11:30 am & this pageant of your favorite songs and music. Escape 2 pm - 3 pm (live Facial demonstration) the hustle and stress and rekindle your Christmas spirit Massage Therapy Room, 1st Floor Eiland Center at Riverside Center with this glittering celebration of Come and enjoy holiday cookies, complimentary seated everything that makes this “the most wonderful time of massages (9:30 am to 11:30 am), and a chance to win a the year”! Cost includes dinner, show, and Riverside complimentary spa facial! From 2 pm to 3 pm, Angel Theater service charge. Approximate return: 7:15 pm Williams, Licensed Master Esthetician, will demonstrate This trip was advertised in the November Funside and is a one hour spa facial in our Sunnyside Wellness massage full. Please call to be placed on the wait list. room! Come see how a facial is performed and learn about the luxurious facial products being used. Gift Trip: GardenFest of Lights: Magic in certificates for the holiday season will also be available the Air * for purchase. For a complete list of massage and spa Monday, December 30, 4:30 pm-6:30 pm treatments available, please see the Sunnyside Massage Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens, Richmond, VA Brochure available in the Wellness Center and HL Cost: $11/GardenFest ticket + $ for dinner Fitness Room. Gift Certificates can also be ordered by Depart: EC 1:50 pm / HL 2 pm calling Angel (540) 830-0393 or Shannon Lundy, who Dominion Energy GardenFest of Lights is a holiday specializes in deep tissue massage, at (240) 602-5695. tradition featuring more than one million lights,

Emergency Preparedness Presentation botanical decorations, trains, holiday activities & Thursday, December 19, 2:30 pm more. This year’s theme, Magic in the Air, is inspired Allegheny Room, HL by things that fly. Fireflies and flying pigs, spaceships Join Josh Lyons and other members the Sunnyside and unicorns will take flight across the Garden, Emergency Planning Committee as we discuss important suspended on radiant wings of light. During Magic in measures to take to prepare for the rapidly approaching the Air, guests will enjoy all manner of items that move winter weather and possible power outages. Come learn through the air, from natural wonders (birds and more about what each IL resident is encouraged to do in butterflies), to man-made inventions (kites and advance and what on-campus resources are available to airplanes) to fanciful creatures (dragons, unicorns and help ensure your comfort and safety during times of flying pigs!). In this year commemorating the first inclement weather. manned mission to land on the Moon, there will even be rocket ships and an astronaut. We’ll arrive early enough Christmas Movie Matinee: Holiday Inn to have dinner at the Garden’s indoor Garden Café a Friday, December 20, 1:45 pm casual setting with soups, salad bar & sandwiches. Bethesda Theatre Please note while indoor activities and displays are Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire sing and dance their way available, this trip will mostly include walking outdoors into your heart in in this timeless holiday classic. throughout the garden. Attendees will need to dress for Featuring the Academy Award-winning song, "White evening temperatures. Approximate return: 9 pm Christmas," Crosby plays a song-and-dance man who Please sign up by Noon, Fri., Dec. 20 leaves showbiz to run an inn that is open only on holidays. Astaire plays his former partner and rival in New Year’s Eve Gathering & Game love. Follow the two talented pals as compete for the Night affections of the same lovely lady (Marjorie Reynolds). Tuesday, December 31, 6 pm-10 pm (1942, Not Rated, 100 minutes) Sunnyside Room Come celebrate the New Year with friends and Holiday Harp Music neighbors! Games, puzzles, good conversation and Friday, December 20, 5 pm– 6 pm plenty of good cheer will be available for all. Bring a Allegheny Room, HL game of your own, or just plan to stop by and watch or Sunnyside Resident Virginia Bethune will play join in the fun. You’re encouraged to bring along your Christmas favorites on the harp! All are welcome to favorite food dish to share. Come and go as you wish… attend this holiday musical evening.

* Sign up required. Call 8200/8201 or 8241 page 5 Sign Up Now! Trip: Regal Cinemas: Little Women * Monday, January 6, Time TBD Regal Cinemas, Harrisonburg, VA Cost: $9/movie ticket Depart: TIME TBD DINNER * Starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 5:30 PM Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet and BLUE RIDGE ROOM, HIGHLANDS Meryl Streep, Little Women follows the lives of the four March sisters, Amy, Jo, Beth and Meg, as they come of PER PERSON age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War. Though all very different from each other, the March sisters stand Each course will be paired with a wine from Brix & by each other through difficult and changing times. At Columns Vineyards. A representative from Brix & the time of press, movie times have not been released. Columns will be present to discuss each paired wine. Please sign up if interested. Once movie times are

4 COURSE MENU: available, you will be contacted with exact time of our Bourbon Peppercorn Glazed Pork Belly trip. Our goal will be to select an early afternoon movie time (start time between 1 pm and 2:30 pm). Arugula, Roasted Beets, Goat Cheese, Bacon dressing

Seared Coffee Rubbed Duck Breast with Vanilla Cherry Maître d’ Butter

White Chocolate and Raspberry Bavarois

* Sign up required. Please sign up by Mon., Dec 30 Call Debbie at ext. 8219 Spaces are limited.

Meredith Chapel Programs Transitions Greeting the Morning! Monday, December 2 & 16, 1:45 pm-3:15 pm Contemplative Meditation Massanetta Room, HL Fridays in December, 8 am– 8:30 am, 1912 Bistro This group offers an atmosphere of confidentiality and Morning meditation with Chaplain Pat Spears followed by care as we find meaning and purpose amid our recent life a breakfast gathering in the Marketplace changes. The support of other adults and the shared knowledge and wisdom of lessons learned can be a boon Chapel Talk: “A Smidgen of Mystery and a for the journey that still lies ahead. Facilitator: Chaplain Will Lowrance (568-8229) Sprinkle of Delight” Wednesday, December 4, 2 pm, Meredith Chapel Mourning to Dancing Come hear three original Christmas stories written and Friday, December 13 & 27, 9:45 am - 11:15 am read by Chaplain Will Lowrance. See page 3 of Funside Shenandoah Room (2nd Floor, HL) for more details. Grief is an emotion rarely talked about, but is felt by all of us. We cannot get to the other side of grief until we go Blue Christmas Worship Service Friday, December 20, 10 am through it. I invite you to gather with us in a Meredith Chapel confidential, supportive atmosphere of care where we are For those who have lost a significant loved one in their working together towards healing. life, Christmas can be a difficult time. This worship Facilitator, Chaplain Pat Spears (568-8401) service provides a sacred space to remember and honor Campus Bible Study our feelings of sorrow and loss. Wednesdays in December, 10:30 am– 11:30 am Shenandoah Room (2nd Floor, HL) Christmas Eve Candlelight Service Join Chaplain Pat Spears as we move into an in-depth Tuesday, December 24, 2 pm Meredith Chapel study of a lesser known section of the Bible, the Apocrypha with The Book of Susanna. (Please note the Christmas Morning Sing-Along group will not meet on Christmas Day, Wed., Dec. 25) Wednesday, December 25, 10 am

. Meredith Chapel Sing sacred hymns and traditional Christmas Carols

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News for December What a busy time of the year—family, friends, food,

Our gifts to you are in the form of and—oh yes!—books! What could be better than Large Print New Arrivals curling up under a warm blanket and reading a book as the cold weather settles in? This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger is a novel about four orphans on a For December, we are continuing our recruitment of life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression. Highlands Library Book Reviewers. Some have These four orphans will journey into the unknown and taken on the challenge and we would like to get a few cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling more who are willing to read a book on the top shelf or farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families from the book table. You can tell us if you think it is a and lost souls of all kinds. heading for the mighty “good read”. If you want more information, please contact Barbara Boothe at 8629. Mississippi and a place to call their own. It is a story as big-hearted as they come. Check out Anna of Cleve by Allison Weir in large-print fiction and Murder at Marble House by Alyson Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes is another look, told Maxwell in regular print fiction! Both of them are from a different perspective, at the Packhorse “good reads” according to our reviewers! Librarians of Kentucky, the team of women who delivered books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new Book Clubs: Our survey results indicated that we have traveling library. It’s the extraordinary story of five several residents (assisted living and independent women and their journey to deliver books to people living) who are interested in a book club. Since our who have never had any, expanding horizons and survey was anonymous, we don’t know who those changing their lives. residents are. As a first step in this project, these are the first questions we would like to have answered: Night Fire by Michael Connelly combines two of his 1. Are you interested in attending a book club favorite characters Harry Bosch and LAPD (reading the same book as a group)? Detective Renée Ballard on the murder case that 2. Would you be willing to host a book club in obsessed Bosch's mentor, the man who trained him. your home or apartment? When Harry is given a book by the widow of his 3. Is there a particular kind of book that you mentor about an unsolved case, troubling facts are would like to focus on (ex. biography, history, unearthed, and he begins to wonder if the case was historical fiction, inspirational, etc.)? ever meant to be solved. If you are interested, please drop a note in Barbara

The Grammarians by Kathleen Schine is a love letter Boothe’s mailbox, email at [email protected], call 8629, or leave a note at the Highlands Library. to sibling rivalry and the English language. This novel celebrates the beauty, mischief, and occasional Magazines: There still seems to be some confusion treachery of language. The main characters are about the circulation of the magazines. YES, you may identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an take the magazines from the Highlands Library and obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” return them when you are finished reading them. tongue as toddlers; as adults their verbal infatuation continues. But this love begins instead to push them 2019 Life Enrichment Opportunities (LEO) Committee apart. Betsy Eggleston  Judie Hutton  Linda Ingham

Ric Leobold  Barbara Mancini  Barbara Stickley The Undertaker’s Assistant by Amanda Skenandore Please contact any LEO Committee member with is set during Reconstruction-era New Orleans and tells ideas for special events and trips. the story of a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child and was taken in by an army surgeon Life Enrichment Opportunities (LEO) Committee and his wife during the War. There she learned to read Are you interested in providing monthly suggestions and write and tolerate the sight of blood and broken for trips, events, workshops and lectures? If so, here’s bodies. Now a young freedwoman, she has returned your chance to join a committee dedicated to providing south to New Orleans and earns her living as an programming ideas that contribute to life enrichment embalmer, her steady hand and skillful incisions opportunities for all independent living residents. compensating for her white employer’s shortcomings. As we enter the new year we are looking to fill a few committee openings. Meetings are held once a month Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! and a commitment of a one year term is required. Pat Harkins If you would like to join this committee, please contact Layna Erney, IL Events Coordinator, by Mon., December 16. page 7 Highlands Dining 1 Mrs. Polly Wysor 2 Mrs. Jane Campbell 2 Mr. Frank Barch 2 Mr. Len Young 3 Mrs. Mary Scott Wednesday, December 25 3 Mrs. Betty C. Downing 11:15 am—2 pm 4 Mrs. Karen Allen $14.50 per person

4 Mrs. Mary Lou Sites Reservations requested. Please call 8478. 6 Mrs. Jane H. Barrick 6 Mr. Frank Zeller 6 Mr. Baard Grindal 7 Mrs. Janet S. Einstein 7 The Reverend John Garrison 8 Mrs. Ruth Stanley 10 Mrs. Edna Armstrong 10 Mrs. Dorothy Gray 10 Mrs. Edyth "Jo" Southard Wednesday, January 1, 2020 10 Mrs. Carol Lee 11:15 am - 1:30 pm 11 Mrs. Kathryn "Kitty" Leggett $10.00 per person 11 Mrs. Geraldine (Gerry) Earman 11 Mrs. Ann Speer Reservations requested. Please call 8478. 11 Mrs. Mary Henderson 11 Mrs. Priscilla Repass The 1912 Bistro will be 12 Mrs. Sally B. Meeth closed Christmas Day & 12 Dr. Martha B. Caldwell New Year’s Day. 12 Mrs. Elizabeth "Betty" B. Chalfant 13 Mr. David White We wish you a safe & happy holiday season! 14 Mrs. Peggy Nagel White 14 Mrs. Ann Wilkinson The Market Place & 1912 Bistro Notice: 15 Mr. Charles "Fred" Shafer 16 Mrs. Mary Cocker Please note that The Market Place & the 18 Dr. Charles Henderson, III 1912 Bistro will be closing at 1 pm on 20 Mrs. Loretta King th 20 Ms. Nancy Gilbert Thursday, December 12 to prepare for 21 Miss Nancy Norman that evening’s Holiday Gala. 21 Mr. James Arrington 21 Mrs. Margaret Thompson 21 Mrs. Mary "Susan" Whitehurst SUNNYSIDE’S ANNUAL 22 Mr. Richard Deadrick 23 Mrs. Roxana M. Atwood 24 Mrs. Tommie Sue Richardson 24 Mr. Ronald "Ron" Senderling 25 Mr. Edward "Ted" Cline 26 Mrs. Mary S. Lipscomb Thursday, December 12 26 Mrs. Anne A. Bishop 5 pm– 8 pm, Highlands 28 Mr. James "Jim" Hogan Please note that Sunnyside will be hosting the 28 Ms. Susan "Sue" Johnson Holiday Gala in the Tartan Grill & 1912 Bistro on 28 Mr. Donald Wait Thursday, December 12, so normal dinner hours 30 Mrs. Betty Ann Harvey 30 Mrs. Kathleen Liberace will not be offered this evening. 30 Ms. Alice Goodyear If you typically dine in the Tartan Grill or 31 Mrs. Donna Murphey Bistro we encourage you to sign up and attend 31 Mrs. Barbara Thompson the Holiday Gala. * Call ext. 8241 to sign up. The Funside is a monthly publication serving Independent Living Sunnyside Residents. Due to the Christmas Season, please submit announcements for the January 2020 issue of the Funside to [email protected] by Tuesday, December 17.