March 8, 2011 YAH Luncheon–Trumpet and Piano Concert

I told everyone that this month we would have a fantastic musical treat, and what a treat it was. We had a wonderful duo of Charlie Pagnard with his trumpets and Dr. Charles Clevenger at the piano.  Both are music professors at Cedarville University.  Charlie is also our music pastor here at Washington Heights Baptist.  That apparently is not enough to keep him busy because he is also First Chair Trumpet for the Dayton Philharmonic Symphony, has his own brass group “The Carillon Brass” and is part of another International group “EuroBrass” who travel the world doing concerts.  We count it a real blessing to have him leading our worship music here at Washington Heights and were very pleased to feature him along with Dr. Clevenger, this month.

You can hear the program HERE!

Charlie is a wonderful trumpet musician and can play a wide variety of music, as he demonstrated.  He plays Jazz, Classical, Spiritual, etc.

Dr. Clevenger is also very talented at the piano and plays concerts all over the country. I would like to also invite him to do a concert for us; perhaps next year.

 

They both also proved that they can speak very well. Charlie always has some entertaining stories to tell. He seemed to play some of his crazy stories down this time.  Perhaps that is because his mother, Betty Pagnard, was in our audience.  Betty is a regular part of our church and Young at Heart. Dr. Clevenger didn’t bring his mom but also spoke very well. I really enjoy hearing about music and some of their tales of happenings on tour, etc.

 

After the concert, we enjoyed a delicious meal of a chicken casserole, carrot salad, spinach salad and Grasshopper Pie. I insisted that the kitchen staff remove the legs before squishing the grasshoppers!  Hey!  I’m teasing and I suspect this is called what it is because of the green bits in the pie. However, we had plenty of rave reviews on the food! There was enough for leftovers and many people took some home.

Our theme in the dining room this month was St. Patties Day.  So there was plenty of green stuff and pots of gold spread around. As you can see here, Ted really got into the season with the green hat from his table!

DON’T FORGET NEXT MONTH WE MEET A WEEK EARLIER THAN NORMAL. OUR LUNCHEON WILL BE APRIL 5, 2011.
We will feature a couple of our missionary families, including some children! Of course, we will also have another fantastic meal!

February 8, 2011 – Luncheon with Dave Harney

The weather outside was cold with snow on the ground. However, the spirit of our people inside was definitely warm. The weather kept some people away but we still had nice turnout of 100 people.

Prior to our scheduled program, Fred Scheffler and David Brandt provided great prelude music for this Valentine season of LOVE. The music included, Popular, Classical, and Religious. Fred and David always do a very nice job and provide good entertainment that prepares us for the program.

You can hear a bit of their music HERE.

Later I introduced our coming Day Trip in March to La Comedia to see the play, “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”. This will be a fun program, and we all know the food is very good!!

Of course, you all didn’t come to hear the piano or even me! Everyone came to hear David Harney. Last May, Dave had a very serious heart attack and was close to singing for a new audience in Heaven. But, his life was spared and he is able to continue his ministry across the country once again. Dave’s music style is mostly Country Gospel. He intertwines his music with stories and jokes. Listen to Dave’s program HERE.

After David’s performance I introduced our program for March. We will have one of our own, Charlie Pagnard, provide another great Trumpet Concert. Charlie does a great variety of music and also tells fun stories. I have never figured out how so much weird stuff could happen to one guy! You will not want to miss our March 8th Luncheon with Charlie.

How could we have a luncheon without something delicious to eat. This meal was very fitting for the day. We started with a nice Cottage Cheese Salad followed by piping hot Chili and Corn Bread followed by desert of a Cherry Crumble Cobbler.

January 2011

Happy New Year everyone!

Normally, I would be posting something about our January Luncheon and Day Trips. However, this year we decided to avoid the possibility of canceling winter day trips, so we did not schedule trips for January or February.

However, we did plan a very nice Luncheon program with the Miami Valley Women's Center. God had other plans for us and we had a big winter storm the day before our luncheon. So, we canceled to avoid having people attempt driving in the snow. I don't think anyone would have come, anyway. We will try to reschedule the Miami Valley Women's Center for another time.

You can check out their programs at the MVWC website. We would have emphasized some of the programs you don't normally think of when you think of a Crisis Pregnancy Center, such as the Men's programs and support programs for families who loose babies, etc.

Our February Luncheon will feature an old favorite of our Young at Heart luncheons. David Harney will return. Last year Dave had a serious heart attack and was not doing his programs for many months. We are very pleased to have him return. We will also feature a couple of our men, Fred Scheffler and David Brandt at the piano with some great love songs. I think you will be pleasantly surprised by some of these pieces. NOW, Pray that we will be able to have our February program on February 8. It certainly seems that there is a lot of snow and very cold.

Even though we did not have our January luncheon, remember to read our Newsletters. If you missed the printed one, you will find it as a file in the column to the right. Today, I posted the February Newsletter, so as a bonus you can even read it early!

Christmas Program–December 14, 2010

Even though it was an extremely cold day for our luncheon, we were still plenty warm in the church. We had a great program and very good luncheon. This was our lowest attendance in a long time but I was happy to have as many as we had, 108. We had a great time of warm fellowship.

Our time together was started with piano and organ duets and solos by Nancy Jensen (organ) and Grace Averitt (piano). They each do a great job alone but having them together is a real treat. You can listen to the music again at the link above. Note, the recording did not get enough volume for the organ but you can still hear it, and the piano is enough reason to listen again.

Following our normal opening and acknowledgments, Marlene Williams sang a very nice Christmas Medley solo. Marlene came in from her post in the kitchen to do her music and then returned to serve us later. Click the link above to hear her.

Grace and Nancy did another duet as a special. This one you can hear the organ a little better; however, there was a audio glitch in the middle, so I won’t be making any CDs! You can listen to this music HERE.

Later, Josh Hales sang a solo about the wonder of Christ’s birth, called “Strange Way to Save the World”. Josh is our Youth Pastor, leading the teen programs and he is also involved in our recreational ministries. He is a regular with our church special music and sometimes leads the music. Click the link above to hear him.

David and Pat Warren led a time of sharing and devotions with us. I really enjoyed the way Pat used past Christmas experiences of our YAH people and Dave tied it into his speech very well. Click the link above to hear Pat and some of our people discuss their Christmas traditions with David providing a nice devotional following this time of sharing. Listen at the link above.

After our program in the auditorium we had a very nice Christmas meal in the Community Life Center. The food was very good. I had people asking me for the recipes, so I will need to have Lisa do a column in the Newsletter again, with some of her recipes.

Here is a short video clip of the meal time together in the Community Life Center. Check it out to see if you can find yourself.

Christmas Luncheon, December 14, 2010

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November 9, 2010–YAH Luncheon with Gary Lare

We had a fantastic time with our Young at Heart Luncheon program, November 9. Our program was a full one with plenty going one. We started with Piano Music from Fred Scheffler and David Brandt. Our prelude material is so good that many people come as early as 10:30 AM just to listen to that entire program.

Following the prelude we did our normal opening material including, jokes, acknowledge visitors, Birthdays and Anniversaries. Then, we review the future Day Trips. Finally, we brought on our program for the month. This month, we featured a ventriloquist, Gary Lare. This is the second year that we’ve used Gary. He comes to us from the Cincinnati area and has a very busy schedule. We are fortunate to be able to have him on our schedule with his FRIENDS.

You can view any photo in a larger size my clicking on it! Click on the backspace in your browser to return to this page.

Hmm, I thought this guy looked a lot like our former president Richard Nixon.

I also took a video of this guy and Gary to share here. Click this link to see it! After viewing this YouTube video, you can return to this page by clicking the backspace on your browser.

Of course, a highlight of Gray’s program is when he brings up a number of our people to help with the performance. Gary’s Dummies, so to speak! Gary had the group do “Old McDonald had a Farm” Of course our group performed like animals!

Following Gary’s entertainment, we had a short time of devotions led by John Coons a former pastor from Kansas. John did tremendous job in the five minutes that I allowed him. It worked well enough that I will certainly be including him again. You can listen to what John had to say, HERE!

Of course, this was a LUNCHEON program and what a luncheon it was! Lisa and the staff in the kitchen prepared an awesome meal. Turkey pot-pie in shells, sweet potato casserole, cranberry sauce, green beans and pumpkin pie. I thought the sweet potato casserole was even better than what we get at La Comedia, but Lisa tells me it is the same recipe. Speaking of recipes, Lisa will have a section of our December Newsletter dedicated to some of your favorites! Look for the newsletter late this month.

Next month, we will have a special Christmas Luncheon program with Christmas music and a special friend of our church, Dr. David Warren. I believe the meal will be another special one, too! Be sure to join us.

Day Trip–October 26, 2010 - Hawthorne Hill and Carillon Park

This trip was another new one and I thought it was a great one. We visited Carillon Park and Hawthorne Hill. I would highly recommend it for anyone who missed this. It is a good mix of history and architecture. Our guide did a fantastic job of telling interesting stories about Hawthorne Hill the home of the Wright Brothers and interesting stories about the family, too.

When we arrived, we split our group in two because they limit home many people can tour the home. One group, mine, went through the park, while Lisa took the other group to tour the home.

I recommended that in Carillon Park we focus on the buildings with material on the Wright Brothers but the groups could do this anyway they wanted.

Orville Wright actually helped with the rebuilding of this Wright Flyer for the park. I had a work friend who actually knew him during that time.

These are a couple of the new additions to the park. On the left is a kitchen, and the right is the Newcome Home.

The building on the left is one of my favorites in the park. This is the Deeds Barn replica and houses some great technology displays relevant to Daytonians. The other is the original barn, and I remember this when it was located by what is now the Glengary Recreation Center in Kettering. Later it was moved to the Moraine Museum. Now it is physically inside the Carillon Park museum. This and other new buildings should be open in the spring of 2011.

Around noon, we had lunch in Culps Café in the park. They had prepared a nice meal for us with soup and a sandwich.

After lunch the groups were to switch with my group going to Hawthorne Hill and Lisa’s group touring the park, with an emphasis on the Wright Brothers. However, while we were loading the bus for the home, a tornado warning alarm sounded. The group touring the park would be drenched, if not blown away to Kansas. So, they decided to return to the church. I continued on to Hawthorne Hill since we would be in out of the rain and this place is as good as any to hide out during a tornado. It is a very sturdy structure. As it turned out, the threat was pretty much over in less than 1/2 hour. There were trees down but no damage other than wind damage and we all survived.

The tour took about an hour and a half and was very well worth the visit. Our guide pointed out many unique features of the home and told interesting stories about the Wright family.

This is a trophy given to the brothers in France for achieving a flight in excess of 60 feet (or was it meters) anyway, they beat the goal handily by flying 90 feet above the ground in controlled flight. The trophy illustrates the brothers under the wings.

I think everyone would agree that this is a trip to recommend to friends and family.