SAINT LUKE’S BISHOP SPENCER PLACE April 2021 A few words from the CEO Spring is springing! And change is upon Stay us. Not just in nature but in our day to day ACTIVE Concerts Tim Whitmer lives as well. Wednesday, April 14 GardenTIME 4 p.m. | Bishop’s Garden As the impact of the COVID-19 Tim Whitmer will be here to AARP Virtual vaccinations takes hold, we feel our lives entertain us, but also to honor Community Center beginning to have a little bit of normalcy Happy days are here again! But resident Bert Bates on his bit.ly/2Nqs1ng returning. All around our community, were we not really lucky with little visits with loved ones and friends are birthday! Come to the Garden AARP offers a wide variety of more than a picturesque snow this looking different. Normal activities like card games are to celebrate. If the weather free interactive online events and past year? Let’s hope just the right resuming, and hugs are welcome once again. It’s too early to doesn’t cooperate, we will try classes designed for learning, showers will arrive this month to take our eye off the ball entirely, but we’re all so happy to begin again on April 17th. self-improvement, and fun. prove that our garden will have to see that the light at the end of this tunnel keeps getting wonderful May flowers. Upcoming virtual events brighter as the weeks go on. Betse and Clarke Hope you have Getting Started with Your Friday, April 30 We appreciate your support and understanding as we navigate begun to enjoy Family History 3 p.m. | Bishop’s Garden through these uncharted waters together, safely and with our Memorial Wednesday, March 31 Betse and Clarke return to an abundance of precautions. Please continue to follow our Garden again, 12 p.m. Eastern | 11 a.m. Central BSP—weather permitting! guidance and we’ll get through this together. admiring Betse Ellis, daughter of BSP Menopause and Women’s the different resident Bobbie Ellis, plays the Health: The Bigger Picture Yours in health, beauties of fiddle and sings. Clarke Wyatt Wednesday, March 31 Mother Nature plays banjo and guitar. 7 p.m. Eastern | 6 p.m. Central now arising as promised. They each whisper forth with silent cries of Ten Technology Treasures “Look at me, too!” Please remember for Individuals with to save these early bloomers and Vision Concerns budding glories for others to admire Thursday, April 1 in the garden. Our showplace will 12 p.m. Eastern | 11 a.m. Central In Loving Memory last longer that way. Many thanks Virtual Hatha Yoga “from me, too.” Thursday, April 1 —Bobbie Ellis 6 p.m. Eastern | 5 p.m. Central HAPPY BIRTHDAY Virtual Chair-Based Yoga Margie Orr Monday, April 5 Clark Achelpohl, April 1 9 a.m. Eastern | 8 a.m. Central Just Walk—A Walk with A Doc Vicki Johnson, April 10 Wednesday, April 7 Bert Bates, April 14 10 a.m. Eastern | 9 a.m. Central Maya Coopersmith, April 19 Virtual Line Dancing Wednesday, April 7 Jerry McKeehan, April 19 11:45 a.m. Eastern Henry Tharp, April 23 Recently, Robbie and Phill Levi 10:45 a.m. Central made us aware of a party of Lisa Tostevin, April 27 cedar waxwings in our cypress More events will be posted on their tree! site as the weeks progress. 3 AC Activity Center (above Bistro) WR Westport Room CDR Canterbury Dining Room Ch 1851 Channel 1851 on your Spectrum TV CH Chapel BG Bishop’s Garden April 2021 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Maundy Thursday Royals Opening Day 1 Good Friday 2 3 April Fools’ Day 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10 a.m. Friday Morning 11 a.m. Rosary—CH 2:30 p.m. Dining Comm—CDR Fitness—Ch 1851 3 p.m. Good Friday 3 p.m. Maundy Services—CH Services—CH Easter 4 5 6 World Health Day 7 8 9 10 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist—CH 10 a.m. Stretch & Strengthen—AC 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10 a.m. Stretch & Strengthen—AC 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10 a.m. Friday Morning 11 a.m. Rosary—CH Fitness—Ch 1851 11 a.m. Easter Brunch for 2 p.m. Monday Movie—Ch 1851 12:30 p.m. Resident Council—TBD 3 p.m. Great Courses: 2 p.m. Life Enrichment Residents 1 p.m. All Creatures Great & Masterworks of Comm—TBD 2 p.m. Rick Steves: Scottish Small—Ch 1851 American Art—Ch 1851 Highlands & Scottish Islands—Ch 1851 National Wear Your 11 12 13 No Mass today 14 15 Pajamas to Work Day & 16 17 Resident-Sponsored 10 a.m. Stretch & Strengthen—AC 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist—CH 10 a.m. Stretch & Strengthen—AC 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC Lunch for Employees! 11 a.m. Rosary—CH 3 p.m. Great Courses: Masterworks 2 p.m. Monday Movie—Ch 1851 1 p.m. All Creatures Great & of American Art—Ch 1851 10 a.m. Friday Morning Small—Ch 1851 4 p.m. Tim Whitmer Concert Fitness—Ch 1851 LIFE ENRICHMENT | INDEPENDENT LIVING for Bert Bates’s Birthday! . (Rain date 4.17)—BG 18 19 20 21 Earth Day 22 23 24 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist—CH 10 a.m. Stretch & Strengthen—AC 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10 a.m. Stretch & Strengthen—AC 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10 a.m. Friday Morning 11 a.m. Rosary—CH 2 p.m. Monday Movie—Ch 1851 1 p.m. All Creatures Great & 3 p.m. Great Courses: Fitness—Ch 1851 Small—Ch 1851 Masterworks of American Art—Ch 1851 25 26 27 National Superhero Day 28 29 30 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist—CH 10 a.m. Stretch & Strengthen—AC 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 9:30 a.m. Catholic Mass—CH 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10 a.m. Friday Morning 2 p.m. Monday Movie—Ch 1851 1 p.m. All Creatures Great & 10 a.m. Stretch & Strengthen—AC Fitness—Ch 1851 Small—Ch 1851 3 p.m. Great Courses: 3 p.m. Betse and Clarke Masterworks of (weather permitting)— American Art—Ch 1851 BG Group activities subject to community status 4 5 In the News Rick Steves’ Tours: Scottish Highlands and Scottish Islands Resident Mary Abbott was All Creatures Great recently interviewed by news and Small anchor Haley Harrison for the Tuesdays, 1 p.m. | Ch 1851 KMBC 9 news and podcast. We will continue to show Hear how Mary’s career took the original PBS series of All her from the CIA to the New York Creatures Great and Small. We’re Times to a position as one of the watching Season 3 and will begin first employees of the Peace Season 4 later in the month. Corps, working in an office next door to the White House. Friday, April 9 | 2 p.m. | Channel 1851 Play along with a new Bingo card this month. Filled with more natural and historical bit.ly/3tqTPHh mystique than people, the rocky Highlands apple.co/30P3dZ3 are where legends of Bonnie Prince Charlie swirl around lonely castles. You’ll visit the Weeping Glen of Glencoe, bustling Inverness, and the battlefield at Culloden. Then enjoy a pilgrimage to the spiritual capital of a major clan and go prehistoric at Stone Age burial grounds and Iron Age BINGOPLAY ALONG WHILE WATCHING RICK STEVES’ EUROPE island forts. Venturing along the Caledonian Canal and watching Celebrates The Great Courses series Silent bearded “Biggest” pedestrian- for Nessie at Loch Ness, you’ll man appears Rick changes “Oldest” “Oh, baby!” friendly zones Masterworks of American Art (Producer, Also on KMBC 9, reporter experience modern Scottish or green his shirt “Tallest” Simon) Wednesdays, 3 p.m. | Ch 1851 Alan Shope interviewed BSP cuisine and enjoy traditional spaces “First” residents Una Creditor and folk music. 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