VILLAGE DEC. 2017 Christmas Lights Tour Wednesday, Dec. 13 Page 5 HONORING holiday VETERANS p. 21 "Massing of the Colors" Opening Dedication Favorites Mon., Dec. 6, 1:30 p.m. Servant Stage's Old Time Remember and honor those who have p. 18 Gospel Christmas served and are currently serving in the Fri., Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. U.S. Armed Forces. The “Massing of the Deike Auditorium Colors” honors each soldier who has See page 4 died since 9/11 and will be on display for one week. Joseph Murphy, CEO of the Grand Illumination of the Masonic Villages, will provide comments. The memorial was created in 2004 and Formal Gardens has been displayed at Masonic Village Mon., Dec. 4 at 6 p.m. since 2011. The ceremony’s alternate GLH Terrace rain location is Deike Auditorium. Location: Sycamore North Parking Lot See page 4 Veterans Day Program Holiday Tour of Governor's Mansion Tues., Dec. 5, noon pick up Sat., Dec. 11, 1:30 p.m. See page 20 Guest speaker will be Major General p. 16 p. 10 p. 16 (Ret.) Randall R. Marchi, who serves on Choo Choo Barn Christmas the Board of Directors for Pennsylvania Fri., Dec. 8, 8 a.m. pick up Wounded Warriors and is a member of Eureka-West Lodge No. 302 and See page 20 the National Sojourners - Harrisburg ON-CAMPUS EVENTS Chapter #76. The Masonic Village Men’s Entertainment ............................................................p. 4 Village Encore Band Holiday Concert Chorus and the March Masters will be Recreation Department: Fri., Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. performing. This program is brought to Note from Administration .......................................p. 7 Deike Auditorium you by the Masonic Village Residents Spiritual Gatherings ..................................................p. 8 14509 or 33277 Military Events Committee and the See page 5 Social and Games ......................................................p. 8 National Sojourners - Harrisburg Chapter Baird Wellness Center: #76. Location: Brossman Ballroom Meetings and Clubs ..................................................p. 9 Live Nativity at Woodcrest Retreat Crafts ............................................................................p. 11 33783 Sat., Dec. 9, 4 p.m. pick up Upcoming Events .......................................................p. 11 See page 21 Village Living is published monthly. If you Calendar .......................................................................p. 12 have any questions, comments or ideas on Christmas Lights Bus Tour current or upcoming trips, please call the Wellness .......................................................................p. 14 Wed., Dec. 13, 6 p.m. pick up Recreation Department. Offices are located Dining ............................................................................p. 16 in the Clubhouse and Grand Lodge Hall. Tues., Dec. 19, 6 p.m. pick up See page 20 OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS To view this publication electronically, please visit MasonicVillages.org/Elizabethtown. Standard Trips ........................................................... p. 19 Excursions .................................................................. p. 20 2 ENTERTAINMENT 33205 FRI MON Village Encore Band DEC. Servant Stage Presents Old DEC. Lecture on Events that Changed Holiday Concert 01 Time Gospel Christmas 04 History (1250 B.C. – 500 B.C.) Time: 7 p.m. Cost: Free Time: 1:30 p.m. Cost: Free FRI Time: 7 p.m. Cost: Free Kick off the holiday season with great music! Servant This set of lectures describes several major historical DEC. Listen to the talents of the Masonic Village Stage Company is a non-profit theater that exists to events and figures and the impact of each on the Encore Band as they bring the holiday spirit serve our community with exceptional theatrical and course of history. Learn about Hammurabi’s code 08 to you. Songs will include Silent Night, God musical experiences. Tune in for some foot-stompin’, of law, three great religious philosophers (Moses, Rest Ye Merry Gentleman, We Wish You a toe-tappin’ tidings of comfort and joy. Featuring Buddha, and Confucius) and two events in Ancient Merry Christmas and more. Band members classic favorites and inspiring new arrangements, Greece that defined democracy. The lectures will include residents and community members. this high-energy Christmas celebration is sure to be presented in three sessions, each with two Caroling is welcome and encouraged! be memorable and joyous from the First Noel to 30-minute DVD presentations. Each session will Location: Deike Auditorium the final curtain.Location: Deike Auditorium include time for group discussion. The facilitator is resident Bill Decker. Class will meet on Dec. 4, 11 and 18, from 1:30 - 3 p.m. Please call ext. 14509 to SUN register. Location: GLH Lifelong Learning Room DEC. Movie Showing: TUES SUN Christmas in Connecticut New Cumberland Town DEC. Tree Lighting DEC. 03 TUES Band Concert Time: 7:05 p.m. Cost: Free DEC. Presentation on Fractal Art 05 10 Enjoy laughs, romance and holiday cheer in this 05 Time: 7 p.m. Cost: Free Time: 3 p.m. Cost: Free 1945 hit, which has become a perennial seasonal Time: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Cost: Free Kick off the holiday season during the eighth The historic New Cumberland Town Band favorite. This movie is not rated and stars annual tree lighting program! The Village (established in 1946) will perform holiday favorites Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan and Sydney Fractal Art is a visual art form that uses Encore Band will entertain with favorite under the direction of John Bugosh for your Greenstreet. The film has a run time of one hour mathematical formulas to generate images of Christmas songs. Location: Keystone Room enjoyment. Location: Brossman Ballroom and 20 minutes. Location: Deike Auditorium surprising complexity and variety. This presentation touches briefly on fractal formulas; what they are and why they are particularly suited to create FRI TUES Presentation on People Who a variety of images. Resident Bill Decker will DEC. Angel Pin and Craft Sale DEC. present his own art. Please call ext. 14509 to Made Lancaster Great register. Location: GLH Lifelong Learning Room 08 12 Time: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Cost: Free Time: 10 a.m. Cost: Free Support the Bleiler Caring Cottage for adults Dr. Robert Frick will introduce three people who with intellectual developmental disabilities. had a significant impact on Lancaster County. Resident Elaine Bleiler will be selling various These men include James Hamilton, the founder of Grand Illumination crafts and her famous Angel pins just in time Lancaster; Gotthielf Henry Ernestus Muhlenberg, for the holidays. Location: Keystone Room minister and Renaissance man; and William Henry, inventor and Patriot. Please call ext. 14509 to Time: 6 p.m. Cost: Free MON register. Location: GLH Lifelong Learning Room DEC. Ring in the holidays and enjoy the FRI illumination of the Formal Gardens. Sing your DEC. Celebrate Safe: Alcohol 04 THURS favorite Christmas carols, sip hot chocolate 08 and Your Medications and celebrate with friends and family. DEC. Milton Hershey School Concert Enjoy the newly renovated spaces inside Time: 10 a.m. Cost: Free Grand Lodge Hall as the campus comes 14 Pharmacist Donald Brindisi, Masonic Village together during this annual event featuring Time: 1:30 p.m. Cost: Free pharmacy manager, will discuss the impact live entertainment. The illumination of the holiday libations can have on your medications. More than 80 students from Milton Hershey School’s gardens will happen after the signature Please register by calling ext. 14509. elementary choir and band will be presenting countdown! Location: GLH Terrace Location: GLH Lifelong Learning Center holiday music. Location: Deike Auditorium 4 5 ENTERTAINMENT 33205 FRI WED DEC. Glenn Miller Concert DEC. Pianist Jim Correnti Concert 15 20 Time: 7 p.m. Cost: Free Time: 1:30 p.m. Cost: Free Named after the famous big band leader, Glenn Jim Correnti studied at New York City’s Julliard Miller will entertain you with his unique style of School as a scholarship student. He has been a music and comedy. Location: Keystone Room soloist with the Garden State Philharmonic Orchestra and the Plainfield Symphony and performs 250 concerts annually. Location: Deike Auditorium SAT DEC. Treichler Lodge Holiday Breakfast 16 THURS NOTE FROM ADMINISTRATION DEC. Silver, Wood and Ivory Concert Time: 6 - 11 a.m. Cost: Tickets Available at Door 21 Employees and Our Mission of Love Enjoy all-you-can-eat eggs, potatoes and sausage Time: 7 p.m. Cost: Free Mark Pagano, director of human resources gravy and biscuits at Treichler Lodge’s annual holiday breakfast. Tickets can be purchased by Together, this two-person orchestra of calling the Lodge’s secretary at ext. 15135 or by classically trained artists have fashioned a At Masonic Village, we value the employees who live For example, take home meals are provided free of paying at the door. Location: Brossman Ballroom tapestry of music that stirs the soul. Enjoy out our Mission of Love every day. What makes our charge through Food Services to retirees, employees the sounds of flutes, piano, Celtic harp and a employees special? How do we maintain a low turnover and their families who are in need of assistance. recorder. Location: Brossman Ballroom rate? What benefits do we provide employees? The Monetary assistance is also provided to employees SAT answers to these questions demonstrate our employees’ through the Sell Chapel Employee Assistance DEC. Westminster Ringers Concert dedication and recognize the efforts we make as an Fund, a fund which many of you provide charitable 16 SAT organization to support them and their families. dollars to. This fund is designed to assist employees DEC. Movie Showing: The Christmas Note and their families with necessities like rent, auto Time: 3 p.m. Cost: Free The average long-term care community has a repairs, food, utilities, medical bills and more. 23 turnover rate of 30 percent. Meaning, if there are The Westminster Ringers play 85 Malmark Time: 7:05 p.m. Cost: Free 1,000 employees, 300 employees would leave Employee wellness is also important, because Handbells, seven octaves of Malmark Choirchimes, every year, and 300 new employees would replace healthiness leads to happiness.