Day Trip - June 17, 2010 - Church Basement Ladies

We had a fun day at La Comedia eating and seeing the new comedy musical, "Church Basement Ladies". This was a hilarious comedy program that I believe everyone enjoyed. If you missed it, you may want to consider taking someone special to see it before it closes.

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One of the highlights of any event at LaComedia is the food! I think everyone enjoyed the meal before the big show!

 








We were pleased to have some special guests with us.  Sherm and Pat Bowers (our former leaders) were with us and Clara brought her grand-daughters.

This is the only set needed for the musical and is the Church Basement where everything happens.  Preparing for a fundraiser and also a wedding are high priorities.

We weren't able to take photos during the performance but the performers lined up after the musical.  Here is the pastor and 3 of the 4 church basement ladies.  They all did a fantastic job and two of the ladies (one not shown) were qualified to be members of our Young at Heart group.

We all enjoyed this Day Trip!

YAH Luncheon - June 8, 2010

We had a full program today with good music and a nice medical presentation that probably worked for me. John Porter talked about diabetes and avoiding it through diet, exercise, etc. I need to work on my BMI.
John is a Physical Therapist with his own practice - Porter Physical Therapy. He also publishes an Internet newsletter that you can request by sending an email to the address that will be published in our July Young at Heart Newsletter.
Today, we also featured Josh Hales with a patriotic music program that he did in the Sunday morning services for Memorial Day. Here is a link to that music, if you wish to hear it again. We took the opportunity to honor our veterans and other service people after Josh's music.

EnterTrainment Junction - May 25, 2010

Our May Day Trip was a fun adventure for anyone! Many thought this would be a guys only thing but I received many great comments from the gals, too. The EnterTrainment Junction is a fun place for old and young kids, whether you like trains or not.

We started with a nice breakfast at iHop over by the old Voice of America property.
There were trains of all vintages, these are old ones. The trestles were built in the same design as the originals.
Yup, this is not a train. The layouts included water (real) and boats.
This old mine brought back memories of the days that I lived in Denver, Colorado and Rapid City, SD.
Everything wasn't just model trains; they also had many nice exhibits of train facts and history.
Our group even got an extra special tour of the "underground"! This is the area under the train layout and where all that water comes from. Yes, there are train tracks and trains running under the main exhibits. They have to go somewhere after they enter a tunnel. The controllers and computers for running much of the set up is also down here!
Our guide did a great job of explaining how everything works.
As our behind the scenes tour ended, we were fortunate to find a volunteer manufacturing and painting a new scenery set-up. Now, we must return to see the new stuff!
I heard many of our group telling others they would return with their friends and especially the grandchildren.

DCS Jr. High Choir - Young at Heart Luncheon - May 11, 2010

This month we had a great program by the Dayton Christian Junior High Choir. We always get great programs from Dayton Christian. This is our second program with them this year. We also sent our three daughters to DCS and we highly recommend them for a good education with Christ as the center.

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The girls had several ensemble pieces and also a couple of solos.
The boys ensemble also had a number of their own.
This group is led by Sarah Britton.
... and accompanied by Tracy Miller.
Their music included:

• Sun in the Morning
• Charlottetown - Boys Ensemble
• Annie Medley - Girls Ensemble
• Seek Ye First - 8th Grade Girls Ensemble
• Amazing Grace - Carly Wheeler
• Eagles Wings - 7th Grade Girls Ensemble
• Safe Within Your Arms - Libby Hennen
• Hineh Ma Tov
• Love the Lord

You can hear the music and the testimonies of several of the students HERE!

Of course, we also started with a very nice prelude by Fred Scheffler. This is not his complete prelude (I was slow starting the recording). I also told a few stories/jokes.

If you missed our most recent Newsletters, they are available via the link to upper the right on this page.

Don't forget the two extra opportunities that we announced at this luncheon. One is an opportunity to meet with a nurse and have her evaluate your medications for possible conflicts and answer questions you may have about your medications. The nurses will be here to meet with you (on an appointment basis) on Tuesday, June 1st from 1PM to 4PM. We also have a senior exercise program every Wednesday at 11AM. This meets in our dining room next to the gym. If you are interested in either of these opportunities, give either Lisa or me a call at the church. Both are totally free! What a deal!!!

Next month, we will have a health theme with a special guest speaker, Physical Therapist, John Porter. Our newsletter will also feature more health related articles. This will be a special 4 page printed edition, 5 pages here on the blog (bonus page for Internet savvy YAHers! You will not want to miss next month's YAH Luncheon program.

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.