Volume 281 July 2021 Hey, that’s Taylor Community 2021 Music Series our Kyle! Welcome New Hampshire Music Festival Artists! The Facebook post by Julieann Pagliarulo: New Hampshire Music Festival Good morning everyone! String Ensemble Many years ago while Saturday, July 10 at 3pm, gardening I had found something special belonging to a Woodside person named Kyle from Laconia. I’d put it away for safe keeping. This was before we had the internet. I’d and just happened to find the item in my drawer while New Hampshire Music Festival cleaning it out. I called the Laconia High School and did Wind Ensemble some research myself and we both came up with the same answer- Kyle Smith. Kyle or anyone who knows Saturday, July 24 at 3pm, him I’d very much like to have a chat with him. He’ll be Woodside very surprised! Thank you for reading this long post and The Taylor Community 2021 Concert Series, sponsored have a very blessed weekend! by Bank of New Hampshire, is back on track after a Kyle is our head cook at Ledgeview, a valuable part of long 15-month hiatus. The first event open to the Team Taylor for sixteen years now! He hadn’t had his public will be Saturday, July 10 at 3pm at Woodside. It class ring for very long will feature the New Hampshire Music Festival String when he’d lost it riding Ensemble performing Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet in his mountain bike, a E-flat Major, Op. 20, led by Concertmaster Charles hobby he still enjoys. Dimmick. The concert is generously being sponsored He remembers being by Taylor Residents Steve and Judy Siegel. upset to lose it, having The Series will host its next event on Saturday, July 24 saved his money for a at 3pm at Woodside. The event will feature the New long time to acquire it. Hampshire Music Festival Wind Ensemble performing Julianne was pleased Johannes Brahms’ Serenade No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11, to meet Kyle and return conducted by Maestro Paul Polivnick, Music Director his ring, describing him and Conductor Laureate of the NHMF. This concert is as “a special guy,” and generously being sponsored by Taylor Residents Kit a “wonderful and kind Peterson and Saundra Bicknell. man.” Both events are free and open to the public. We agree, and also want Space is limited and social distancing guidelines are in to thank Julianne for place, with reservations required via Touchtown App HER kindness! or to Brenda Kean at [email protected] or 603-366-1226. Welcome Back to Taylor Community! Nominees for Resident Trustee It is time to nominate qualified persons to serve as And those Monday Blues! Resident Trustees beginning this fall. Nomination Forms are available at Woodside, at Ledgeview, at Taylor Home, Michael Vincent Band and from Gina Colantuono at Sugar Hill. Monday, July 12 • 6:30pm Please confirm that your choice for nominee is agreeable to run before his/her name is submitted. Complete the Nomination Form with your candidate’s name and address, five signatures, and a short bio (less than 200 words) indicating background and experience The Love Dogs which would qualify him/her to be a Trustee. Monday, July 19 • 6:30pm Return Nomination Forms no later than July 7 to: See Page 10! Paula Glaude 435 Union Avenue, Laconia, NH 03246 Page 2 Updated Visiting Woodside Bistro Guidelines for Taylor 603-366-1481 Home and Ledgeview Effective immediately, visitors New Summer Hours: coming to our licensed care Monday — Friday • 11:30am—1:30pm buildings do not need to make Open for Dine-In and Delivery appointments for weekday, or weekend visits. Visiting Please Note: With COVID-19 restrictions eased, hours are now 7 days a week with visits beginning at the $5 lunch delivery fee has been reinstated. 9am; visitors must arrive before 4pm to be checked in at Delivery is not available for Bistro Dinners. the Ledgeview symptoms station. For residents living on the 2nd floor of Ledgeview, week- Join Us! end outings will need to be scheduled in advance by the Tuesday and Thursday Evenings for end of day Thursday. Please reach out to Dori Cote at [email protected] to schedule those outings. Bistro Dinners at The Pavilion Again, the rides and outings for residents on the second Opening Night: Tuesday, June 29 floor of Ledgeview need to be scheduled in advance with RSVP via Touchtown App or at 603-366-1481 Dori Cote if they are occurring on a weekend day. As a reminder, visits must occur within the resident’s Pavilion Concert apartment; visiting in resident common areas will not be Snack Boxes permitted. are available for the July 12 and July 19 ALL VISITORS, INCLUDING THOSE VISITING RESIDENTS Concerts AT TAYLOR HOME, MUST CHECK IN AT THE LEDGEVIEW Under the Pavilion: BUILDING SYMPTOMS STATION UPON ARRIVAL. The symptom station is located at the first-floor entrance of Assorted the Ledgeview building. Cheese/Fruit/Crackers & Chocolate-Dipped Visitors will be given a visitor’s pass which they will need Strawberry to wear throughout duration of their visit. Preorder when you RSVP on Touchtown! Care Management Shopping Services New Residents: With the easing of COVID-19 restrictions at Taylor Community, Residents may now go out shopping to Judy Kessel make their own purchases, or families are able to bring 6/8 Sugar Hill purchases to them with much greater flexibility. Care Larry Ahern (Welcome to Laconia!) Management continues to offer shopping services for 6/23 Ledges Residents, however the service fee has been reinstated as of June 7. A $10 fee is again incurred for all grocery We’re Happy You’re Here! shopping, liquor store and prescription pick-up requests. Laconia Resident Town Hall Neighbor-to-Neighbor Monday, July 12 Rep Meeting 11am at Woodside Friday, July 16 at 11am, RSVP via Touchtown Community App in Birch Room at Woodside Events or with Brenda at 603-366-1226 or N2N reps will meet and review the year gone by. We [email protected]. will discuss any problems folks had and how we’ll be Feel free to submit questions in advance via email to moving forward. It is hoped all reps can attend. See Alana Persson at [email protected] you soon. ~ Barb Madden In Memoriam Important Message Ruth Krulish from Facilities October 18, 1924 — June 4, 2021 Effective Thursday, July 1 you will Taylor Resident Since 2016 need your key card to access the Clarissa “Chris” Achorn elevators and stairways in the June 4, 1925 — June 11, 2021 Woodside building. Please carry your key card with Sugar Hill Resident Since 2012 you whenever you leave your home. Thank you. Page 3 Updated Guidelines for Woodside Independence Day Closures We’ve been looking These offices will be closed on Monday, forward to welcoming July 5 in observance of the holiday: friends back to share Administrative and Business offices, our public spaces Facilities office, Dial-A-Ride, Sales & again. Marketing, Care Management, Resident Life, and Fitness. Beginning on July 1, The Bistro is closed on July 4, but will be open July 5. outside the hours of Trash collection in the Ledges will be delayed one day. 6am—8pm weekdays Please Note: Transportation will be running July 2—9, and 7am—6pm on however reservations will not be taken during this time weekends, Residents will need their key cards to enter period. Please RSVP at 366-1234 by July 1 at Noon if you Woodside and to open all doors. Residents expecting have transportation needs during this time. visitors after doors have been locked will be responsible for greeting their guests at the door and letting them in the building. Laconia Public Library — Additionally, as of July 1, Residents will be required to use their key cards for access to elevators and stairwells. Need a Library Card? Please remember to bring your key cards with you when Give Brenda Kean a call and she’d be you leave your home. happy to coordinate this for you. As always, the back entrance to Woodside (second floor) She will provide the Library with your name, address, will remain locked at all times with a key card required for telephone and email, and a day or so later they will send entry. you your card number and access information. 2021 Lakes Region Taylor Playreaders Return! Household Hazardous Waste Now that things are opening up, we Collections should be able to meet together Do you have household hazardous waste to dispose of? without masks. This year we are Laconia is a participating community. Do your part to planning to use scripts from radio keep our Lakes Region clean and beautiful! programs. Our actors need to be able to read and have an animated Saturday, July 31 (8:30am—Noon) voice that carries. We will be sitting Belmont Fire Station (14 Gilmanton Rd.) at tables, as in a radio studio, so wheel chairs, walkers, Franklin DPW Garage (43 W. Bow St.) or mobility problems don’t matter. Sound effects will Gilford DPW Garage (55 Cherry Valley Rd.) be used also. Meredith DPW Garage (17 Jenness Hill Rd.) We will start with Father Knows Best (1950), with other Saturday, August 7 (8:30am—Noon) surprises to follow. Practice may start in late August or Bristol Newfound Regional School (150 Newfound Rd.) early September. If you think you would like to help us Laconia DPW Garage (27 Bisson Ave.) return to the days of radio, please call Barbara Madden Moultonborough Hwy. Garage (68 Highway Garage Rd.) at 603-556-9984 or email her at [email protected].