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October 2014 Newsletter Newsletter O C T O B E R , 2 0 1 4 The North Carolina Blowing Rock: Fall Leaves Trip & “State Fair” * Parkway Craft Center @ Moses Cone Manor Raleigh, NC Wednesday, October 15, 2014 Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Depart at 9:00 am Depart at 8:30 am Bring money for lunch Bring money for lunch Return home by 6 pm Free Admission to the Fair As we travel to Blowing Rock the leaves should be in full color Return home by 7:00 pm and The Parkway Craft Center at Moses Cone Manor has The North Carolina *15 spectacular views from their grounds as well. The Craft Center sells State Fair is a first-class, high quality handmade crafts made by members of the Southern Highland *21 family oriented Craft Guild. Items include pottery, woodworks, quilting and textiles, jewelry, entertainment and glass, toys, photography, painting, and more. We will enjoy a visit to the educational event occurring each center and have free time in Blowing Rock to October in Raleigh. Our Fair is the have lunch. largest event in the state On our return we will travel The Linn Cove of N.C. and we are the Viaduct, a 1243-foot concrete segmental bridge largest 11-day on the Blue Ridge Parkway that snakes around agriculture event in the the slopes of Grandfather Mountain in North nation, surpassing 1 Carolina. It was completed in 1987 at a cost of million visitors to the $10 million and was the last section of the Blue Ridge Parkway to be 2010 State Fair. finished. It is quite fascinating and a wonderful way to view the gorgeous Join fellow Cypress friends for a landscape. day of adventure in our capital city. *Sign up under #15 in the Activities Book. *Sign up under #21 in the Activities Book. Pianist Halloween Party Frederick Moyer with Neal Davenport Trio Thursday, October 2, 2014 Start planning your costume 7:30 pm Thursday, October 30, 2014 Community Hall NOTE THE DATE Pianist Frederick Moyer 7:00 - 10:00 pm Community Hall *2 will perform works by Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Our party will begin with a scary Halloween buffet beginning Liszt, CPE Bach (to celebrate the *30 at 5:00 pm. Everyone is invited to wear his or her costume to 300th anniversary of his birth,) and dinner and join in the fun along with our creative servers and staff! others. During over thirty years as a Costumes are not required to have a good time and if you would rather be on full-time concert pianist, Frederick the costume judging end of things just let us know! Halloween, with its Moyer has established a vital musical closely judged Costume Contest, has become a regular tradition at The career that has taken him to forty-three Cypress. countries and to such far-flung venues The Neal Davenport Trio will start up at 7:00 pm. This is a party you as Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Sydney won’t want to miss! Come see all the decorations, the original costumes and Opera House, Windsor Castle, and visit and dance with friends. It will surely be a night to remember! Carnegie Recital Hall. *Sign up under #30 in the Activities Book. *Sign up under #2 in the Act. Book. Metropolitan Opera LIVE in HD THE GA tHERING “Le Nozze Di Figaro” Weekly Ecumenical Saturday, October 18, 2014 Depart @ 12:15 pm Worship Tickets: $22.00 Every Tuesday at 7:15 pm Stonecrest Theater Community Hall Everyone is welcome for fellowship. Met Music Director James Levine conducts a spirited new production of Mozart’s masterpiece, directed by Richard Eyre, who *18 sets the action of this classic domestic comedy in an 18th-century manor house in Seville during the 1930s. Dashing bass-baritone Dance Lessons by Ildar Abdrazakov leads the cast in the title role of the clever servant, opposite Marlis Petersen as his bride, Susanna, Peter Mattei as the philandering Count Nickolai Keanov they work for, Amanda Majeski as the long-suffering Countess, and Isabel Saturdays, October 11 & 25 Leonard as the libidinous pageboy Cherubino. 3:00 pm Community Hall *Sign up under #18 in the Activities Book. Minimum of 10 required. Come and try *11, 25 some of the most “Scientific Secrets for a Powerful Memory” exciting ballroom and Latin dances around, the Waltz, Cypress Video Lecture Tango, Cha Cha and Rumba, just to Friday, October 3, 10 & 17 name a few. Dancing is an excellent 11:00 am form of exercise and a fun way to Art Room make new friends. You will increase What was the name of your first pet? Where did you put your your mobility, strength, house keys? How do you get to work every morning? Most likely, improve your balance and 3... you didn't need to look up the answers to these questions. You coordination and have a remembered them. Memory is, without a blast all at the same time. doubt, the most powerful (and practical) tool of Dancing reduces stress and everyday life. By linking both your past and your future, tension, gives you energy and keeps memory gives you the power to plan, to reason, to you looking young. So come dance perceive, and to understand. As long as thinking and with Nickolai and have the time of insight are important in how we live our lives, memory your life!!! will be critical as well. And the better your memory, the *Sign up in the Activities Book more information you'll have at your immediate disposal under #11 & #25 for both classes. and the better your thinking will be. Yet while all of us have an amazing capacity for memory, there are plenty of times when it seems to fail us. Why does this happen? And how can you fix Evening Social it? Join us Friday, October 3rd, 10th and 17th for this amazing series. Bridge Monday, October 20, 2014 “Stampin’ It Up” Cypress Annual Meeting 7:30 pm Community Hall Craft Class Wednesday, October 29, 2014 *20 *Sign up under #20. Friday, October 17 , 2014 10:00 am 2:00 pm Community Hall Art Room All members are invited to Let’s Play Class Led by 29 attend. Board Members will be Dominoes Helen Patterson announced and budget reviewed. Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:30 pm *17 No morning exercise classes Community Hall in Community Hall *23 *Sign up under #23. Olde Mecklenberg Brewery Tour October Private tour with tasting and lunch at Birthdays The Brauhaus Joan Feathers 4 Wednesday, October 22, 2014 Helen Herndon 4 Depart at 11:00 am Frank Gentry 5 Tour and Tasting: $10.00 ~ Bring money for lunch Don Marple 5 Angus Lander 6 The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery (OMB), Charlotte's oldest Mary Frances Menzies 6 *22 microbrewery, produces premium, all natural beer right here in the heart of Betsy Griffin 10 south Charlotte's warehouse district and delivers it fresh weekly to bars, Tonsie Lee 10 restaurants and retailers in the region. OMB uses only the finest ingredients Lucille Jones 12 available worldwide and employs traditional, intensive brewing methods to transform Gene McCoy 12 those raw materials into world class beer that’s full-flavored yet amazingly refreshing. Tommie Barber 13 OMB's Brauhaus Restaurant and Tap Room will make you feel like you've been Peggy Nottinghan 14 transported to a German Bierhall when you walk through the front doors. J.D. Higgins 15 *Sign up under #22 in the Activities Book. Eva Hanes 16 Elizabeth McPhail 16 Jenneane Buchanan 17 Croquet Practice Sessions Cypress Singers William Geuss 17 Fridays in October except Every Friday in October Joan Jay 19 Friday, October 24 due to Trivia 1:00 - 2:15 pm George Page 19 1:00 - 5:00 pm - Drop in anytime Villa B Sara Spencer 19 Community Hall Rob Ridgell, Director of Music at Bill McElwain 20 Christ Church is our new choir Jim Elder 21 Croquet Play director here at The Cypress. We Stacy Koehler 21 Saturdays at 9:00 am welcome all members interested in Eleanor Nichols 21 in Community Hall singing to join us on Fridays. Louise Cooke 24 Viola Todd 25 Entertainer Mamie Willard 25 “Lunch & Learn” with Leo Horvath 26 Kathy Weidner Jerry Herbert Eileen Cooley 27 From Bettianne Harris 27 Cypress Registered Dietitian Paul Monroe 27 The Gold Standard Monday, October 27 , 2014 Blanche Sherrill 27 11:45 am - 1:00 pm Chorus Bev Blythe 28 Cypress Main Dinning Room: Garden Room Wednesday, October 8 Rose Naiman 30 Topic: Understanding the Risk of Food, 7:30 pm Florence Smart 31 Drug and Supplement Interactions Community Hall Erika Steiner 31 The very People 70 and older are especially vulnerable talented Jerry to the effects of food and medication interactions *8 Herbert from Bible Study 27 due to the fact that many are on numerous The Gold Every Monday in October medications for multiple ailments. Add vitamins Standard 3:15 pm and other supplements and you have a recipe for food and Chorus will Community Hall drug interactions that can negatively affect your health. entertain us Chip Furr leads us Medications can be less potent or more potent depending on with song and in a biblical discussion the food you eat and the resulting drug interaction. show. Join us for a every Monday in Grapefruit and many other foods can interact with delightful evening of Community Hall. medications. Please come to the Lunch and Learn and find live music featuring all Please join us for out how to eat healthy and minimize potential food and drug your favorite songs wonderful fellowship and a interactions .
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