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Observer Volume 27, Number 3 Forward, March! March 2020 Cultural Attractions Lead Wish List We Want More Trips to the Theater Te Kimbal Farms Observer Volume 27, Number 3 Forward, March! March 2020 Cultural Attractions Lead Wish List We want more trips to the theater. We want regular In response to requests for adding hours to the OLLI courses. We want a successor to Professor Pinnacle Store operation, a trial will begin March 2 Ferraro. with the store remaining open on Monday, We want less congestion in the dining room. Wednesday and Friday afternoons until 3 p.m. Freshly brewed coffee will be available and We want the Pinnacle open longer hours. A new purchases may be made during this time. “We will seamstress would be welcome, too. evaluate the usage over a 4- to 6-week period to see These are a few of the items on Michelle Rosier’s if the additional hours are being used by residents. looking-into list as a result of the seven focus groups Store hours on Saturday will be taken into she held in late January. Each attracted a full house consideration for a future possibility.” of 10 to 12 residents and left her with cultural and In-house music was an issue. The consensus was for practical needs to consider. more popular and a little less classical. “I tried to pick everybody’s brain And some concerts will be scheduled about why there seems to be a drop- on Sunday afternoons before dinner off in attendance for trips,” Michelle instead of evenings. told The Observer. One woman told Book and poetry discussion groups her, “We’re just too old.” But many were on some residents’ minds. Others others “were interested in doing wanted more movie outings to a theater type trips as opposed to the theater, a return of the 92nd Street Y types of trips we’re offering. So we’ll showings, a list of Berkshire look at that.” volunteering opportunities, and a list It could mean more trips to Jacob’s of car services to places like airports. Pillow and to Barrington Stage All will receive scrutiny. matinees. “Everybody” was pleased with “OLLI was a big thing. People were existing exercise opportunities, but a very disappointed that we didn’t have return of the mindfulness meditation class and an additional tai chi class are OLLI here last fall.” The fall semester 2016 trip to the was missed because of a scheduling Pittsfield Carousel wants. conflict. But, Michelle reported, the And a group of new residents, mostly classes are returning in April, and single women, felt “intimidated” by things like going going forward, “we anticipate that we should be able to dinner alone. It’s like starting a new school and to do spring, summer and fall barring any unforeseen trying to fit in, Michelle said. Social worker Jackie conflicts.” Winter has to be skipped because of Tripicco is starting a group so newbies can meet to snow-season parking problems. discuss experiences and support one another. Not so easily solved is finding a current-affairs Michelle is preparing a fuller report on the lecturer like Vinnie. Michelle will soon begin a suggestions made. It might be in your hands by now. search for a speaker. Andy Pincus 2 The Kimball Farms Observer March 2020 Good Luck Strikes Again On Track to $23,300 for Raffle Winner Charlotte The co-chairs of the Residents’ Association 2020 spring fund drive (Marilyn Rossier and Susan Dana) Resident Charlotte Finn isn’t shy about her good hope that the goal of $23,300 will have been reached luck: “I often win things,” she proclaimed after her by March 15. At this writing, we’re on track for name was announced as the winner of the Knitters success, with donations of $8,030, and we are very Group afghan raffle at the Valentine’s Day party on grateful for your support. February 14 in the Kimball Farms auditorium. About 25% of the Association budget supports The afghan was knitted by 12 members of the resident activities: Art in The Halls, supplies for art Knitters Group of 100% Merino Superwash wool. classes, bridge games, the residents’ computer, the It’s made up of 20 different 12-inch squares, with a Kimball Farms Library, Music Committee programs, cabled border. A mathematically inclined knitter has and the Potting Room. estimated that the The remaining 75% goes to help others, with a f g h a n donations to the Staff Education Grants; the Town of contains Lenox Library and police, fire and ambulance about departments; the Lenox Memorial High School 9 7 , 0 0 0 Scholarship Fund, the holiday Adopt a Family stitches. program organized by the Lenox Community Center; and the Kimball Farms “Kimball Gives” committee. Proceeds from the Residents who volunteer to serve on the Kimball raffle Gives committee explore, evaluate and then choose tickets among many Berkshire County charitable agencies t o t a l e d which work on behalf of children and adults. In more than $460 and will be donated to the Elizabeth 2019, donations went to Central Berkshire Habitat Freeman Center, which provides emergency shelter for Humanity, the Food Bank of Western New and services to abused women and families England, Volunteers in Medicine (VIM), Berkshire throughout Berkshire County. Many thanks to Immigrant Center, Tapestry Health, 18 Degrees everyone who bought tickets, and especially to (formerly Berkshire Children and Families), and the receptionists at the main desk and in the Pinnacle Elizabeth Freeman Center. Store who took charge of the ticket sales. It’s not too late to make your contribution. Any and The party was festive and fun. Bonnie’s Bells, the all donations are gratefully received. Your check, bell ringers group, opened the program of love songs made out to the Kimball Farms Residents’ with “Bicycle Built for Two,” followed by a sing- Association, can be put in treasurer Mike Brown’s along led by the Kimball singers directed by John mailbox, #266. Many, many thanks for your support. Cheney. The program of love songs ranged from the Susan Dana old (“Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree”) through Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender.” Book Club Forming The raffle was held just before the last song, and Notice to all interested readers: John was chosen to draw the winning ticket from the There will be a sign-up sheet in the hall starting “elegant” container ( a plastic bucket). A beautifully Monday, Feb 24, for those interested in a Kimball arranged display of Valentine sweets and treats was Farms Book Club, scheduled to meet in the soon reduced to crumbs. Many thanks to Michelle conference room once monthly beginning on Rosier for her thoughtful and delicious arrangements Wednesday, March 18, at 2:30. for the Valentine’s Day celebration. Marilyn Hunter Susan Dana March 2020 The Kimball Farms Observer 3 From Teenagers to Seniors: Meet Fay Newly appointed Marketing Outreach Coordinator and through town on Cliffwood Street and Fay Parker has worked with adolescent girls for the Undermountain Road. I’m outside as much as last 13 years, but now it’s time for a change, with a possible,” she reports. new demographic at Kimball Farms. The goal of her When she has to be indoors, Fay is an enthusiastic position is to increase the awareness of community reader. She’s recently finished West with the Night,” business leaders and professionals of the advantages the memoir by Beryl Markham, which she highly of a continuing care community for people over 65, recommends. generating referrals to Kimball Farms. Fay will also be spending a few hours a week assisting Activities At Miss Hall’s, a boarding and day high school for Director Nene Asilijoe in the Pine Hill and Life girls in Pittsfield, Fay was primarily involved with Enrichment Horizons, a unique program for 11th-grade students, Program connecting them with off-campus, volunteer activities. community service opportunities. Combined with an innovative classroom component, Fay recounts, the “Most of my students at Miss Hall’s, who come from all over the career has been world, are exposed through Horizons to the wider working with world: “Prospective parents are impressed with the teenagers,” Fay opportunities for their daughters to be exposed to s a i d , “ e v e n arts and human service programs through Horizons’ acting in loco network of community organizations.” p a r e n t i s , a t Miss Hall’s “I think there are many similarities between my role School, but it’s with the Horizons program and Kimball Farms’ t i m e f o r a goals in creating relationships in the community,” different she continued, “and I’m looking forward to this experience. I’m opportunity.” l o o k i n g Susan Dana f o r w a r d t o meeting many residents.” Fay’s family (she has two brothers) moved to Lenox Trips from Pittsfield when she was in fifth grade. She went Sunday March 1,, Bus at 1pm to Lenox schools and then attended Bethany College Clark Art Museum “Free Day” in West Virginia where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Wednesday March 11, Time TBD degree in English. Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY And she still lives in Lenox, now with her husband, Thursday March 12, Bus at 5:45pm Terry Moore, owner of the Old Mill restaurant in “Let’s Eat Out” Café Adam, Great Barrington South Egremont. “Tanglewood is my love,” Fay said Friday March 13, Bus at 6:15pm when asked about favorite Berkshire places. She has Berkshire Symphony Concert, Williams College been a volunteer for many years, and last summer Saturday March 14, Bus at 12:15p worked in the Glass House shops.
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