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KENDAi!. - on - HODSON SPOTLIGHT SEPliEMBER 10, 2018

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MON DOCTORS -Shop if Possible.Check with front desk by 9:00 A.M Sept 10 NO PROGRAM NO MOVIE - - -- TUES 9:45 -11:30 SHOPPING: Trader Joes Sept 11 1:30 CLASS: Alfred Hitchcock and the Mid-20th Century; GR instructor, Walter Srebnick (subscription) 2:00 - 3:30 SHOPPING: Ossining 7:30 MEET THE RESIDENTS COUNCIL CANDIDATES GR NO MOVIE - WED 10: 00-1 :45 TRIP: Pepsico Sculpture Garden, Purchase Sept 12 7:30 MOVIE: The Departed(2006)(151min) Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt GR Damon, Jack Nicholson. Crime drama. ' THURS DOCTORS -Shop if possible. Check with front desk by 9:00 a.m Sept 13 7:30 MOVIE: Guys and Dolls (1955)(1 S0min) Marlon Brando, Jean GR Simmons, Frank Sinatra. Musical, comedy, crime.

FRI 9:30 -11:30 TRIP: Irvington Church Flea Market -- Sept 14 1:30 - 3:30 SHOPPING: Ossining 7:30 MOVIE: Cradle Will Rock (1999)(132min) Hank Azaria, Joan GR Cusak. Drama. Written & Directed by Tim Robbins.

SAT Sept 15 7:30 MOVIE: Notorious (1946)(101min) Gary Grant, , GR Claude Rains. Alfred Hitchcock Spy Film Noir,,,

SUN 3:00 MOVIE: (1962)(106min) , GR Sept 16 PattyDuke. Bio, drama

KOH TV CHANNEL 1970 Round the Clock: Rue des Artistes "Kendal Creates" 3:00 p.m. Homelessness in Westchester County. How Are We Doing? 4:30 p.m. Concert: Rogers & Hammerstein:The Golden Age of Musicals 8 p.m. Movies Mon: Young Frankenstein (1974)(106min) Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn. Comedy directed by Mel Brooks Tues:The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1965)(112min) Richard Burton, Claire Bloom. From John le Carre novel Wed: The Kite Runner(2007)(127min) Drama about 2 young friends, based on a novel. Thurs: The Departed(See 9/12) Fri: Guys and Dolls (see 9/13) Sat: Cradle Will Rock (See 9/14) Sun: Notorious (See 9/15)

Reminder: Deadline for the September 17 issue of Spotlight is Wednesday, September 12 at 5 P.M. Type or print submissions and email to [email protected] or place in Spotlight cubby. Include name with all copy. Editors: Peter Bermas, Doris Eder, Ursula Hahn, Sally Kellock, Claire Limmer, Peggy Pennell. Committee Meetings LOCATIONS AA- Activities Alcove (across from Computer Health & Wellness, Fri Sept 14, RAO Room) ACK- Adirondack Country Kitchen I Regular Weekly Meetings ACR- Admin. Cont. Rm. (on C level, near Robert Fulton Bridge) ART - Art Room ArtActivity (Beginners+)nd Sat 10:00-12 ART BIS - Bistro rd Art Critiques 2 Tues, 4:00 ART CL3 - Clermont, 3 floor lobby (resumes 9/11) CLW - Clearwater Bell Ringers Wed 11 - 12 GR CRA - CraftRoom West (resumes 9/26) FDR- Formal Dining Room Chorus Thurs, 1:30 - 3:00 GR FIT - Fitness Studio (T level, near Pool) (resumes 9/13) GR- Gathering Room Faith Discussion nd th Thurs 10:00 PDR HUD - Hudson Room (T level) Fiber Arts Group 2 & 4 Fri, 2:00-4:00 CRA PDR - Private Dining Room French Conversation Mon 3:30 ART RAO- Res. Assoc. Off. (on C level, near (no class 9/17 & 9/24) Clermont Bridge) Italian Conversation Thurs 11:15 PDR RCC- Resident Care Center Meditation th Tues 9:30 RAO RL - Residents Lounge Poetry Reading 4 Wed, 2:00 CL3 RUE- Rue des Artistes (resumes 9/26)nd TER - Terrace Poetry Writing 2 Thurs 3:30 ART Shakespeare Tues 4:00 RAO KENDAL HOURS Tuesday Morning Club 10:00-12 PDR Regular Dining: Monday - Saturday Breakfast 8:00-9:30 Fitness Activities Lunch 12:00-1:30 Dinner (Bistro) 5:30-7:30 Dinner (FDR) 5:30-6:30 ALL CLASSES ARE IN FITNESS STUDIO (These are entering hours for dinner) ON T LEVEL & ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE FDR closes at 8:00 (All fitness classes are for residents only; please, no guests) Dining on Sunday Stretch and Balance Mon - Fri 9:00 Continental Breakfast 8:00-9:30 Pilates (chair) Mon 11:00, Fri 11:15 Brunch 11:30-2:30 Pilates (mat) Wed 11:15, Fri 10:00 Stretch/Strength Sat 10:00 ( No class 9/15) Library: Librarian on duty Mon-Fri 10:00- Tai-Chi Tues 10:00, Thurs 11 :15 12:00 and 2:00 -4:00. Browse/borrow 24/7 Tai Chi (chair) Wed 10:15 here and from carousels here and there. Yoga Mix Thurs 9:45 Resident Care Center: Open Mon-Fri 8:00- Zumba Gold Mon 3:00 4:00 (Sat 9:00- 1 :00, for Nurse Practitioner, POOL call ext. 1000). Call ext 1030 for appointment, Water Aerobics - Mon 10:15, Wed 10:15 as usual. Lap Swimming - Mon - Sat 9:00 - 10 (Please no other swimming during class.) REUGIOUS SERVICES Pool hours: Mon - Fri 9:00 - 3:30 Catholic Mass: (Closed for lunch 12:15 -1:00) Sundays 8 A.M. & 12 Noon, TV channel 285 Saturday pools hours 9:00 - 12:15 (Temporary} Thursdays, 10:15 CLW stActivities rd Room Please wipe down your machines after use. Episcopal Eve. Prayer:1nd & 3 Tues, 1 :30 PDR Use of the Fitness Center by anyone other than Kabbalat Shabbat: 2 Fri 4:30-5:30 PDR staffor residents is not permitted. Quaker Meeting: Sundays, 11:00 CRA NEW SHOW NEW COURSE KENDAL ART W.E.B. DuBOIS October 9, 2018 -April 5, 2019 W.E.B. DuBOIS is the author of The Souls of The curators ask for submission of artwork, Black Folk, a 1903 "classic" more often made by residents and staff. Paintings, saluted than read. We will explore the collages, assemblages, wearable art, fiber essays and the history at 10:30 on four arts and whatever can hang on the wall or fit Fridays, September 28, October 5, 12, and in a case. Please bring your work to the Art 19, place to be announced. Limited to Room on Saturday, September 15 between fifteen members. We will use the Dover 1:00 and 4:00 or Sunday, September 16 edition ($5) so we will be on the same page. between 10:00 a.m. and 12 noon. Maximum three submissions. The work will be curated Books are ordered and will be distributed to over the weekend, and we will let you know members before the first class. A course if your work has been chosen. The work is description will be placed in the Activities to be picked up Monday, September 17 Alcove (opposite the Computer Room) on between 10:00 a.m. and !2 noon. Sept 17 with a sign-up sheet on Sept 20. Bill McFeely If you are unable to bring your work to the Art Room, give us a call and we will arrange GREAT BOOKS DISCUSSIONS for the work to be either picked up or to be October & December 2018 curated in your apartment. Please remember Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726) to put your name, the title, medium (oil, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m., Oct 17 (in RAO) or Oct 18 collage, etc.) and your phone and apartment ( in ACR) numbers on the back of the work submitted. and The work does not have to be framed at this Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry time. Many thanks! Finn(1884) Dec. 12 or 13 (in RAO) We look forward to seeing your work and showing others the many talents present at Two adventure tales from the 18th and 19th Kendal. It should be an interesting show. centuries: Gulliver's Travels, writtenby a skilled satirist, is both a rip-roaring fantasy Curators: Mariet Van der Heide or as well as a searing attack on the nature of Lynn Brady society, while Huck Finn is one of the great - if not the greatest - American novel. ALZHEIMER'S FUND RAISING Please stop by our Alzheimer's Fund Fall, 2018 sign-up and order your books. Raising Table outside of the Bistro at dinner Wed., Oct. 7, 3:00-4:30 (discussion in the time on Wednesday, 9/12. Checks to be RAO, C level) or Thurs. Oct. 8, 3:00 -4:30 made out to the Alzheimer's Association. (ACR, C level). Wed. Or Thurs., Dec. 12 or 13, 3:00 - 4:30 GO TEAM KENDAL!!!!! (RAO, C level.

DOMESTIC ISSUES PROGRAM REMINDER A full description and registration formwill The sign-up sheet for this program will be be distributed in cubbies on Mon, Sept. 10. available in the Activities Alcove on Monday, Sept. 10. Attendance will be limited to 25 participants. All 4 sessions will be held in the PDR from 10:00 a.m. until noon starting Oct. 15 and continuing on. 3. FIBER ARTS GROUP :J"RIPS

The Fiber Arts Group will resume meeting on Space Available Friday, September 14 from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. in Wed, Oct 3, Walkway Over the Hudson, be­ the CraftRoom. Meetings regularly are on tween Highland and Poughkeepsie: Stroll at the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month. If you are your own pace over the world's longest a devotee of anything related to Fiber Arts, elevated pedestrian bridge at 1.28 miles, a come and join us. We are always looking for former railway bridge and now a New York knitters to make the infant hats we donate to State Park at 212 feet above the river with the Open Door Clinic. Instructions, yarns and 360 degree panoramic views; join the mix of needles can be provided, and these can be individuals who stroll, cycle, walk, jog, done in your spare time if you can't attend roller blade, walk dogs and push baby the meetings. carriages or strollers. Kendal participants must be able to walk the entire one-way PRIMARY DAY iTRANSPORTATION distance; wheelchair accessible and benches on bridge. This is a reminder to vote in the important Democratic Party primary on Thursday, Short Wait List September 13. The schedule for van trips to Wed, Sept 26, Ever Rest, home of the the polling place at Phillipsburg Manor will Hudson River landscape artist, Jasper be at the front desk by Tuesday. There will Cropsey (1823 - 1900) and the Gallery of Art, also be sign-up sheets for resident volunteer Hastings on Hudson: Tour the charming drivers at the front desk. This primary is wooden Gothic-style house where Cropsey particularly important because the lived his last 15 years with his art, furniture candidates for governor, state senator and he designed and his studio; and the nearby attorney general will be on the ballot and are gallery which displays paintings from in contention. A sample ballot will be posted throughout his career in 19th century salon on the bulletin board. style.

ANNUAL ATTIC SALE Please do not sign up for a trip unless you IRVINGTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH are willing to avoid making conflicting Friday, Saturday, September 14 and 15 plans. If you do need to cancel, please cross your name offthe list or wait list. The Kendal Van will be going on Friday morning, Trips Book is in the Activities Alcove across September 14, 2018. Sign-up sheet at front from the Computer Room. desk. IMPORTANT REMINDER

NEEDED This is to remind all residents that the third Does anyone have an upright piano they installment of estimated 2018 income taxes would like to donate to Kendal's Clearwater (both Federal and New York State) are due residents? I would be happy to come to you on or before September 17, 2018. and play it to see if it fits the Clearwater need. I go there every 2 weeks and play old MERLIN TRIO CONCERT CANCELLED songs for them, which they all remember and Due to circumstances beyond our control, respond to, as they can, even the ones who this concert scheduled forSaturday eve­ no longer talk. ning Sept. 22 has been cancelled. Lila d'Adolf The Music Committee Beginning Thursday, September 13th - 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Gathering Room

Do you like to sing? Do you enjoy the camaraderie of friends? Why not give the KOH Chorus a try? We meet every Thursday from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Gathering Room. We perform two concerts a year - January and May. The repertoire is extremely varied and geared to the level of participants. (Some choral experience is helpful but not required). There are no auditions, just a willingness to learn and be committed to the music!

We will have two open rehearsals for you to try us out - Thursday, September

th 13th and Thursday, September 20 • If you decide to stay with us, there is a $10 fee for music but other than that, there is no obligation other than singing your heart out!! Of course, as with all performance groups, attendance at rehearsal is important.

Any questions? Contact Bob Singleton or Doris Appleby.

"Thelife that I could stilllive, I should live, and the thoughtsthat I couldstill think, I should think." C. G. Jung

"Anythingworth thinking about is worthsinging about". Bob Dylan

From "Who Am I" in last week's Spotlight about the Council's purpose to ways the Association helps us. How do I help thee? "Let me count the ways."* By: Providing a resident immediately accessible 24/7 to accompany you to the hospital,, Funding numerous trips, Funding the chorus and its professional director, Having an entire committee devoted to your concerns, Arranging two yearly entertaining community events for the Fourth of July and New Years Eve, Publishing an informative weekly newsletter and a professional level bi-monthly journal, Arranging and funding exhibits with refreshments for the community in Rue des Artistes of works by the residents and staff, Consistently having current firstrun movie releases, paying for licensing rites, and rental charges as well as arranging for the nightly movie to be shown on channel 1970, Managing the arts and craftsrooms, Organizing, staffing, equipping, and maintaining the Tuesday and Friday Clubs, Funding, housing, equipping, organizing, and maintaining Kendal's archive and a major library with mini libraries throughout Kendal, Underwriting weekly wine and cheese receptions, Providing funds to committees necessary for them to function, Providing and maintaining industrial quality photocopying equipment and supplies for committees, Representing you at the Kendal Corporation Board. Raising donations for the staff appreciation fund without violating IRS fundraising laws, Guiding mourning relatives and friends of deceased residents and helping with memorial services, Welcoming aI1 new residents and giving them guided tours, Having dinner in the Formal Dining Room with all new residents, Funding and maintaining our website and directories, Arranging, organizing, and advertising our concerts, speakers, and courses that includes arranging and funding the dinners and catered receptions for guest speakers, lecturers, and performers with funding, volunteers, and adequate facilities, Funding and maintaining a website, Funding and producing a digital photographic residents' directory for the library and website, Creating an index and directory of every issue and article published in the Kendal Viewsince its founding in September 2005.

And that's only a partial recounting! Win an ice cream cone if you are the first to let me know more ways the Residents Association he1ps us. Please email me. Thank you. Amelia Augustus *E.B. Browning

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