KitchenAid Tour

Tuesday, April 27, we took our Young at Heart group on a Day Trip to visit the KitchenAid factory and outlet store in Greenville, Ohio. After the tour we had a very nice lunch at the Montage in Downtown Greenville, OH. Unfortunately, we could not take photos inside the factory because of intellectual properties concerns. I fully understand this requirement because of the many years I spent working in development and around the factories of NCR. However, I was able to take photos in the lobby area where they had a very nice display of the KitchenAid products made in this factory.


This display below is a mixer they made to provide to each Fire House that had a part in the 9/11 attack in memory of those who were impacted by this terrorist act.
I goofed and was too wrapped up in making my Apple Dumpling to get a photo of the process! However, everyone enjoyed the experience of making these at the outlet store. After lunch, we returned to eat the finished product with ice cream. I can’t vouch for every apple dumpling made that morning but mine was excellent!

The Montage provided an excellent lunch in a very unique setting. I would highly recommend this version of a family run sandwich, soup and salad place. Their cookies were good, too; but I took mine home for later, rather than spoil my appetite for the apple dumpling to follow.

Dayton Christian Jazz Band

Today, April 13, 2010, we had an awesome group of high school students from the Dayton Christian High School present a great Jazz Band concert! Thank you students and Dr. Brian Stiffler for this entertainment. You are all a testimony to the fine job DCS is doing in our community.
Rachel Herman played piano for our prelude period before the program.
Members of the band included:
Trumpet: Alex Marcum, Andrew Hendricks, Chris Tubb, Jason Carnegis, Justin Brady, Malik Perkins, Michael Gord, Nick Reis and Tony Grubb
Trombone: Ethan Schimmels, Jason Roos, Mike Hurtado and Nick Roberts
Alto: Curtis Booker, Kevin Garber and Matt Morris
Tenor: Alex Roach, Bethany Kindle and Zach Roth
Bari: Chris Townsend
Piano: Rachel Herman
Percussion: John Czyzewski, Keith Green and Nick Townsend
Guitar: Brandon Apol
Peanettes: Katie Sommers, Rachel Ruth and Siera Stuart
I know, some of you are asking, “What are Peanettes”? These are the three girls who played percussion with The Peanut Vendor piece.

The Jazz Band played:

• Birdland
• Eli’s Comin’
• Here, There, and Everywhere
• How High the Moon
• The Peanut Vendor
• Stompin’ at the Savoy
• Summertime

You can listen to the concert by clicking on each of the links above. Or you can hear it straight through HERE.

American Sign Museum - March 23, 2010

In March, we toured something very different. Maybe many people didn’t even realize there is such a thing as an American Sign Museum. Well there is and it is in Cincinnati. So, we took a good group of our YAH group down for a visit. The current home of the American Sign Museum is small and a new one is in development in the Fort Washington area of Cincinnati. However, it was fun to tour the museum and see the many different signs. Most of the signs were lighted signs but they also had others including many from Las Vegas shows. We did a scavenger hunt to find certain signs and features. For example, we had to find the sign with a bullet hole in it. Actually, I found two but they had one specific one they wanted. The prize for the winning team was a nice coffee table book for each team member.

These are examples of the lighted signs. But I think Sharon was trying to push start this little car.

They even had old neon signs where you could change the letters and numbers much like you do with the small plastic letter mobile store front signs today.

I had fun making this one! How did I do?

They even had something that looked like a Sputnik satellite!

After visiting the museum, we enjoyed a nice meal at the Parkside Café.

It is difficult to believe that we had our first Young at Heart Luncheon of 2010 this month, MARCH! I sure missed seeing and talking with everyone but it would not have been a good idea to have the luncheons when there was so much snow, so January and February were canceled.

Chris Thompson and Scott Vaughn provided a very nice concert with some good multimedia for our March 9th Young at Heart Luncheon. Many of you came up to me later to let me know how much you enjoyed the concert. I agree, it was excellent. Thank you Chris and Scott. You can listen to the entire concert HERE.

Scott Vaughn & Chris Thompson

I've also updated this blog to include the Newsletters for 2010. So, look in the column at the right and notice that you can click on the Newsletters Link to read the 2010 Newsletters in a .pdf format. Check it out. If you missed a Newsletter or perhaps you want to tell someone else about it and have them read an article, just click on this link and have fun!

Thursday, February 4, 2010 our Young at Heart group went to the Cedarville University theater to see the Shakespeare play, "Much Ado About Nothing". This was a fun play (probably the most fun one that he did). It is interesting that this was written over 400 years ago in 1598. The setting of this play has been modernized to take place in the mid 1940s (post WWII) in Charleston, South Carolina. Interestingly, only the location, costumes and characters were changed. The old English was still spoken. One other significant change to go with the location theme was the addition of Swing music and dancing. All in all, this was a fun experience.
The play was done in the theater in the Stevens Student Center next to Cedar Lake. I even took time to make a quick tour of the book store and cafe in the lower level.
After the play, we went to the Student Cafeteria for lunch. I was impressed with our meals and thought they were very good. Great value for the price!

I believe everyone in our group enjoyed this trip and will be sure to include Cedarville activities in our Day Trips for the future.

December Luncheon with the DCS Choir

December 8th we had a special Christmas program with a fantastic performance by the Dayton Christian High School Choir. They sang a number of favorite Christmas songs and also did some nice readings.
In addition to the choir there was a men's quintet that did a very nice acapella piece.
Tracy Miller led the choir.A number of the students also gave scripture readings and solos.The entire presentation by the Dayton Christian High School group can be heard on-line HERE.

This month we again met in the new gymnasium and ate a very good meal prepared by our volunteers in the new kitchen.

November 10th Luncheon

Our program this month started with Fred Scheffler playing prelude music at the piano. Thank you Fred!

Nanette Hieb, our new Director of Recreational Ministries at Washington Heights Baptist, sang a solo; "The Touch of the Master's Hand". This was a fantastic solo for a number of reasons; but most important is the way it applies to the lives of babies. Click the music title to hear Nan sing.
Next, the Miami Valley Women’s Center provided an interesting presentation about the women's center and their services for young men and women. Nancy, who is the Clinical Director and Cindy Goode, the Executive Director, did the speaking and used an interesting video. I thought I knew all there was to know, but I did learn something new. Click the names to hear their talks.
Nancy also showed a short video of an Ultrasound for a baby about 12 weeks old still in it's mommy. Who could abort after seeing this? Click HERE to see the video on YouTube.

Nancy and Cindy did an excellent job of presenting the work of the Miami Valley Women's Center but there is more to learn and see on their website. Click HERE visit their website. Also, if you are interested in volunteering, please contact the center to see what jobs/positions are available. Some of our YAHers do already volunteer.
This is the first time we’ve used the new facilities, including the first ever use of the new kitchen. These facilities are going to work out very well for our group. Join us in December and you won't be disappointed!