Seniors Section
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Friends Care Community looks to the future
“How can Friends Care survive and thrive into the future, and what role will the community play in that effort?”
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Executive Director Montgomery to retire from Friends Care Community
This week, after more than eight years leading the nonprofit Friends Care Community, Executive Director Mike Montgomery is stepping out from behind the desk one last time, officially retiring from the position Friday, Jan. 9.
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Yellow Springs Senior Center eyes former lumber yard
Yellow Springs Senior Center leaders are eyeing the former lumber yard at 108 Cliff St. as a potential site for the organization’s long-planned new building — a possible shift away from a Livermore Street parcel the Senior Center purchased two years ago.
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Coverage gains, Medicaid strains at Friends Care Community
Though the new contract is cause to celebrate with regard to expanded access for patients, Executive Director Mike Montgomery said that, as an independent, nonprofit facility, Friends Care is always challenged by financial needs.
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Elder Stories | Bruce Grimes’ 64 years of ‘Clayworks’
In the brightly lit 220 Gallery in Cedarville’s Student Center, a small fraction of work representing villager Bruce Grimes’ 64 years as a pottery artist are currently on display as part of a retrospective show, entitled “Clayworks.”
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Elder Stories | Sue Parker, always the good neighbor
At 84 years old, Yellow Springs resident Sue Parker can recall with pristine clarity who owned what home from years ago, what flowers grew around their porches and what the children playing in the backyards grew up to be.
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New Senior Center van to expand programming access
When the Rev. Dr. Wesley Matthews founded the Senior Center in 1959, it was with a view to enhancing the quality of life for local senior residents. A major part of that view, Executive Director Caroline Mullin told the News this week, was transportation.
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‘Still Life’ a play for the ears
The YS Senior Center will present a live performance of “Still Life,” a radio play adapted from the Louise Penny mystery novel of the same name, on Sunday, Nov. 24.
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Seniors say ‘yes, and…’ to life
Through exercises that build confidence, foster humility and sharpen wit, village resident and lifelong improv actor Justin Howard is teaching local seniors how to say “yes, and …” to life.
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Senior Center buys land from Antioch College, new building planned
On Monday, Dec. 11, the last of the paperwork was signed to purchase a half-acre parcel of land from Antioch College, where the center aims to build and open a new facility.
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