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The Breakwater Buzz April 2021
Issue 4
“Life
Life begins again - in April!
Begins
How this dead earth comes to flower!
How the dry boughs wake and quicken
Again
In this blooming, springtime hour! In April”
Life begins again - in April!
And the bird is on the wing. Yesterday may lie in ruins,
Brooks are flowing, breezes tender All the past be dead and drear.
In a rhapsody of spring. Just forget that! Skies are bright blue!
It is the springtime of the year.
Where is the heart that can be
downcast? It is April! Nature’s own month!
Where is the eye that does not brighten? It is April! Heaven’s own season!
Behold the world so fresh and new
April - flowering - stirring - blooming!
As the dark skies part and lighten!
Quite beyond man’s meager reason.
Those who sorrow shall take comfort,
Life begins again - in April!
Those who droop shall smile again,
Hill and valley reel with living.
April brings a message clearly
To the weariest of men. To all things new life she brings
With joyous fervor in her giving.
A Poem By…
Lenore Hetrick
Normandy Logistics
Westwood Lane Riverwood Lane
“A Building Rooms” “B Building Rooms”
WTR: Theater Room RKA: Riverwood Kitchen & Arts
WP: Westwood Pub RWS: Riverwood Studio
WGR: Game Room RS: Riverwood Salon
Avalon Other
“New Atrium Section”
LC: Lakeview Cafe
ADR: Avalon Dining Room
FC: River Fitness Center
APD: Avalon Private Dining
L: Lobby
AVH: Avalon Hall
CMC: Cove Media Center
AH: Avalon Hearth (in Atrium)
TL: Thurber Library
Daily Dining Schedule
Lakeview Cafe Avalon Dining Room
Breakfast (LC) Dinner (ADR)
7 days a week
7:30am to 10:30am First Seating
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Lunch (LC) Second Seating
7 days a week 6:00pm to 7:00pm
11:30am to 1:30pm
Kenny’s corner
Scary Scams Targeting Seniors!
Medicare & Health Insurance Fraud
Since every U.S. citizen over the age of 65 qualifies for Medicare benefits,
seniors are an easy target for medical scams, because criminals do not have to
do any research around their insurance provider. Some ways to spot a medical
or insurance scam:
Being told you need a new Medicare card and have to divulge your Social Security
number.
Being told you need supplemental policies.
Being asked to pay a $100 fee for help navigating the new Obamacare landscape.
Phone Scams
Scammers use several types of phone scams to prey on seniors. Here are a few
to watch out for:
IRS phone scam - the IRS will never call you over the phone to contact you.
Caller ID Spoofing - Criminals make the name of your bank pop up on your caller ID.
A call from an unknown number - never call back an unknown number!
Investment & Timeshare Schemes
Timeshare scams have been gaining popularity among the scammers. Crooks
will typically ask for money upfront for advertising, title searches, and other
administrative fees. You may even be told that you will be refunded if your
timeshare isn’t sold in 90 days. That is a lie! You will not receive a “refund”.
Lottery Scams
Seniors get a call saying they have won the lottery of some kind, but they are
asked to either pay money or give some kind of sensitive account information
to claim the winnings. Be warned, you should NEVER hand over money for a
“prize” or to anyone that you do not know.
If you have any questions regarding scams or think you have fallen victim of a
scam please contact Ken Penny.
Mini Crafts of the Month
Easter egg coloring w/ Jasmina
Join Jasmina on Friday, April 2nd at 1:00 PM in the
Riverwood Kitchen & Arts Studio to color our very own
Easter Eggs!
If you would like to join in this craft please wear an old shirt
that you won’t miss if it gets messy. We hope to see you there!
This craft will cost $3.00 per person.
Please sign up in the Activities Book!
Egg carton Flower wall hanging
Join Jasmina on Thursday, April 22nd at 11:00 AM in the
Riverwood Kitchen & Arts Studio to make a fun Earth Day
craft!
What’s better than reusing old egg cartons
and celebrating our wonderful Earth!!
This craft will cost $5.00 per person.
Please sign up in the Activities Book!
Socials at Breakwater
Tuesday Tea Social
Tuesday Tea will be held on Tuesday, April 13th
at 2:00pm in the Westwood Pub.
Sign Up is NOT necessary!
Coffee & Cookies Social
What is better than a delicious cookie and nice cup of hot
coffee?!
Join Jasmina for a fun social on Tuesday. April 27th at
2:00 PM in the Westwood Pub.
Sign Up is NOT necessary!
Cleveland Indians Watch Parties
It’s that time of year! Time to cheer on our favorite Cleveland Indians baseball team!
Cleveland Indians Home Opener
Monday, April 5th @ 4:00 PM in the Westwood Pub
Cleveland Indians vs. Minnesota
Wednesday, April 28th @ 1:00 PM in the Westwood Pub
*There will be an all you can eat buffet and one (1)
soft drink for $6 per person. Please sign up at the Front Desk!*
music around the globe
Radio Philharmonic Orchestra - Mozart: Great Mass in C Minor
Friday, April 16th | 11:00 AM | Avalon Hall
On Easter Sunday in 2018, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Orchestra and the Netherlands Radio Choir performed Mozart's
'Great Mass', the first Mass in which Mozart fully let go. The
music is lush, great, ambitious and worldly!
We hope you can attend this wonderful virtual concert!
*No Sign Up is necessary
Frederic Chopin - Piano Concerto No.1
Friday, April 23rd | 11:00 AM | Avalon Hall
In January 2014.. Olga Scheps performing live at Tonhalle Dusseldorf
with the Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio, conductor Agnieszka
Duczmal.
We hope you can attend this wonderful virtual concert!
*No Sign Up is necessary
Weekly Grocery Shopping
Every Wednesday Every Friday
Giant Eagle Heinens
Departure Times:
Departure Times:
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
Friday, April 2nd
Wednesday, April 7th
Friday, April 9th
Wednesday, April 14th
Friday, April 16th
Wednesday, April 21st
Friday, April 23rd
*Wednesday, April 28th
Friday, April 30th
*11:00 AM Departure ONLY
Please sign up in the Shopping Book
Please sign up in the Shopping Book located in the Cove Media Center.
located in the Cove Media Center.
Marcs Grocery Store
Departure Time: 1:30 PM
Wednesday, April 28th
*Please sign up in the Shopping Book located in the
Cove Media Center.
Dr. Kane Podiatrist Pub Spring Specials of
the Month!
Dr. Kane will be here on
Wednesday, April 28th
starting at 1:00PM.
Raspberry Lime
We will have the residents meet
$2.00 Vodka Spritzer
Dr. Kane in the Riverwood
Kitchen & Arts Studio at a
designated time.
Jim Beam $3.00
If you would like to sign up with
Dr. Kane please call down to the
Iced Tea
Front Desk to select your time
slot. All white &
$1.00 OFF red wine
Chef’s Corner
We hope that you all are
enjoying the new menu items Post Office on Wheels
that we’ve added! Food Service
Glenn from the Post Office
Meetings have started again so
will be here on Monday,
that we can inform you of the
April 19th from
food preparation and menu 11:35am-11:55am AM in
selections. front of the Lobby doors.
Be sure to join us for our Easter You will be able to send
Brunch on Sunday, April 4th! packages, buy stamps and
save yourself a trip to the
post office!
- Kitchen Staff
Breakwater Resident Spotlight
Betty Maynard 112A
Born & raised in Connecticut
Graduated from Case Western
Was a Librarian prior to retirement
Has one child that resides in Florida
Has lived in Rocky River & Fairview Park
for over 60 years!
Marvalee Brown 501B
Born in Pratt, Kansas & raised in Denver, CO
Graduated from University of New Mexico
Was a Client Manager prior to retirement
Has one child, 3 grand-children and 1 great
grand-child
Enjoys photography, reading, travel & going to
educational classes!
Pat Schulz 310A
Born in Clarksburg, WV & raised in
Morgantown, NC
Was a OR Registered Nurse prior to retirement
Has 5 children & 9 grand-children
Enjoys crafts: counted cross stitch, needlepoint
and beads
Enjoys traveling, especially to Florida and
volunteering
Happy Birthday!
We feel that birthdays are special days! If your birthday is
this month, a member of our management staff will
personally deliver a birthday surprise!
April Flower & Birthstone
Residents Daisy & Diamond
415A Stan Doenecke 4/01 Daisy’s have several meanings which
215B LaVerne Waddell 4/05 include cheerfulness, innocence, purity
305A Dick Donaldson 4/08 and beauty. It is also Queen Victoria’s
503B Bill Palley 4/12
favorite flower.
209B Donna Batts 4/16
Diamonds, the birthstone of April are
407B Kathy Walsh 4/17
commonly associated with love which
103A Janet Cipriani 4/18
make them the perfect gift for a loved
414A Helen Wright 4/24 one.
402B Cliff Crabs 4/25 While white diamonds are most
207A Joan Wenzel 4/25 common, fancy colors including yellow,
blue, and pink and a variety of others as
well.
Aries
Staff
March 21st -
O Patti Sack 4/10 April 19th
Admin. Kelly Coury 4/27
Taurus
April 20th - May
20thLibrary News
April 2021
Spring is officially here and, hopefully, April will offer us some warm sunny afternoons
to sit on our balconies or one of our famous Normandy swings to enjoy a few chapters
before the lake wind swings by. We continue to add new Current Published donations to
our Feature Table. Although few are LARGE PRINT, many have larger print than
others. Check them out. We want to thank Eileen Kanda, Bob & Gail Reid’s daughter,
and others for their donations of NEWLY PUBLISHED books. We love all the current
books that you continue to donate. You also might want to look for the “new to us”
paperbacks, which we put right on the shelf.
We are still looking for many of the books that started on the Feature Table months
ago and have not been returned. PLEASE check your shelves, coffee tables, bedside
tables, & personal piles of books for any Normandy Books. They have Normandy
stickers on the inside and on the spine of the book that identifies where they go on
our shelves.
We are also looking for all the Rocky River Library books that you may be holing on to
that are from 2020 & 2019. You can identify those by the dates on the spine of the
book. We are excited to announce that Carol from the RR Library has
started to bring us new books, now that we are open for visitors. She took
away 50 books and left us 50 new ones, 30 of which are LARGE PRINT & 20 regular
print. She will bring 30 more this month; bring us up to 80 new books, assuming all
the books are back!!! Keep checking the RR shelves for new additions. The Rocky River
Library books are the only ones that need to be signed out in the “Brown Sign Out
Book”. Thank you all so much for your continued support & patience.
If you are not able to find any books that interest you in the choices RR has sent us,
there is another option the Rocky River Library Outreach Service offers. It provides
free delivery and pick up of books to your apartment for residents who are not able to
get to the RR Main Library. You can request specific titles and authors or preferences
for general categories. Many of our residents use this service. We have information in
our library or you can call RR Outreach Service, Carol O’Keefe at 440-895-3755
Happy Spring !!
Librarians
Barb Palumbo, Laurie Soc & Marvalee BrownPictures with the Resident Easter egg hunt
Join Jasmina for a mini Easter
egg hunt held for our residents!
The Easter Bunny is “hopping" by for
a visit to see our residents!
We will gather in front of the
Avalon Dining Room
Pictures with the Easter Bunny
at 11:45 AM on
will be held on
Saturday, April 3rd
at 11:00am in front of the Avalon Saturday, April 3rd.
Dining Room! There will be 6 (six) eggs with a
prize inside!
Pictures with the Easter Bunny are
for residents ONLY. Thank you for We hope to see you there and
your understanding! join in on the fun!
Easter Sunday Brunch
Sunday, April 4th | Avalon Dining Room
Join us a for a lovely Easter Brunch. Enjoy a variety of delicious
menu options to choose from and a refreshing mimosa!
First Seating:
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Second Seating:
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
We hope to see you there!April Crafts Craft
starts at
1:00PM!
Monday, April 5th Monday, April
1:00 PM | RKA 12th
Paper Dahlia Wall Flowers 1:00 PM | RKA
($5.00 Charge) Rustic Rock
Welcome Sign
($5.00 Charge)
Monday, April 19th
1:00 PM | RKA
Earth Day Earth Collage
($3.00 Charge)
Monday, April
26th
1:00 PM | RKA
Watercolor Painting
Hour
(No Charge)
*Craft Sign Up Sheets are in the Cove Media Center*Cleveland Museum of Art - Desktop Dialogue: An Art Anthology
Wednesday, April 21st at 12:00 PM in the Avalon Hall
How many stories can a work of art tell?
The Desktop Dialogue series, An Art Anthology, accompanies the
CMA exhibition Stories from Storage. Developed in collaboration
with the creative writing organization Literary Cleveland, the
series invites four local storytellers to offer artful interpretations of
select objects on view in the show.
*No Sign Up Necessary*
Smithsonian Virtual Talk: Marine Science in the Morning -
Mangrove Research in Northern Florida
Wednesday, April 7th @ 11:00 AM in the Avalon Hall
Global climate change is driving the expansion of mangroves into saltmarsh
habitat in Florida, which may alter ecosystem processes through changes in
ecosystem structure. With their unique structure and migration to higher
latitudes caused by climate change, mangroves may help coasts keep pace with
sea level rise, increase carbon dioxide sequestration from our atmosphere and
combat severe weather events like hurricanes. Expansion of these natural
barriers along the Atlantic coast may enhance the sustainability of coastal
communities as they face impending changes in a warmer future.
Cleveland Museum of Art Virtual Art Class (6-Week Series)
Reinterpretation & Abstract Drawing *Continuation*
STARTING Wednesday, March 10th from 6-8 PM in the Avalon Hall
Join Jasmina as we learn through a virtual zoom class with the Cleveland Museum of Art
about reinterpretation and abstract drawing. In a collaborative virtual environment,
participants will compare notes, sketches, and observation and then use those elements to
create a personal reinterpretation that could have figurative elements or could be purely
abstract.
This 6-week series will take place every Wednesday in the Avalon Hall starting Wednesday,
March 10th through April 14th from 6-8 PM.
Supplies will be provided for you. No charge.
*NOTE: This series is a weekly continuation from the first class*Tap time Fitness
Tuesday, April 6th at 3:00 PM in the Riverwood Studio
Come on a musical journey with us as we tap through the ages.. where the young at heart With
come out to play! This unique class features a gentle and fun way of seated tap dancing to
classic oldies hits, using custom made taps that are manually attached to the participants
shoes. This class is not only fun, but a fantastic brain and body exercise! No dance Melissa
experience is necessary.
Seated Rhythm
Tuesday, April 20th at 3:00 PM in the Riverwood Studio
This Ballroom Dancing inspired seated fitness class when attended regularly can help
with muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, mental awareness and functioning,
and even mood. From spicy Caribbean and Cuban-beats to Colombian-style and
rhythmic ballroom dancing music - this upbeat workout is fun for everyone! Exercise
brain and body and get fit while you sit!
Modified Line dancing
Tuesday, April 27th at 3:00 PM in the Riverwood Studio
Dancing is one of the best forms of exercise for brain and body. This class is not only an
excellent form of exercise for the aforementioned, but for balance and your
cardiovascular system. This class ranges from different line dances, but if modified to
eliminate the turns and other moves that may have prevented individuals from
participating in line dance classes.
Silver Strength
Tuesday, April 13th at 3:00 PM in the Riverwood Studio
Have fun and move to the music through a variety of exercises designed to increase
muscle strength, range of movement, activities for daily living and balance. Hand-held
weights or elastic tubing with handles. A chair is used for seated exercises and standing
support. This class can be adapted by the participant depending on their fitness level
and abilities.VIRTUAL TALKS
at From The
Smithsonian
BREAKWATER!
Saturday, April 10th | 11:00 AM | Avalon Hall
Smithsonian Talk: Astronomy Hour
Have you ever wondered how black holes are formed? Where to look in the sky for a
planet? How do we know that there are more galaxies than our own? Join educators and
experts from the National Air and Space Museum to explore all of your astronomy
questions in this live, casual conversation. We will share some of our favorite topics in
astronomy at the Smithsonian, including space-based telescopes that humans have
helped to launch like the Hubble Space Telescope.
No sign up is necessary!
Thursday, April 15th | 11:30 AM | Avalon Hall
HOT Topic: How Dogs Became Our Best Friends - The Genetics of Dog Domestication
The bond between you and your pandemic puppy might be new, but the bond between
humans and dogs goes way back! Dogs were the first animals to be domesticated - yet the
where, when, how, and why are hotly debated. Dr. Audrey Lin, a paleogeneticist and Peter
Buck Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, will
share her research on this topic and answer your questions as you learn about the
prehistory of human’s best friends.
No sign up is necessary!Documentaries
Saturdays in the WTR at 4:00 pm
April 3rd -
“Nadeli: A Baby Elephants Baby” Wednesday Movies
Telling the true story of a baby Wednesdays in the WTR at 2:00pm
elephant born into a rescue camp in
the Botswana wilderness, who
became orphaned after a month. The April 7th - “Two Weeks’ Notice”
keepers of the camp work hard to A do-gooder lawyer working for a
become surrogate mothers for the little charming but selfish real estate mogul
one. finally gets fed up and gives notice, only
(1h 30m) for their real feelings to emerge.
Sandra Bullock & Hugh Grant
(1h 41m)
April 10th - “Farmland”
Filmmaker James Moll profiles young
farmers and ranchers who have taken April 14th - “Safe Haven”
over their family businesses. When a mysterious woman arrives in a
(1h 17m) small North Carolina town, she begins a
new life but remains tainted by a terrifying
April 17th - “My Octopus Teacher” secret.
A filmmaker forges an unusual Josh Duhamel & Julianne Hough
friendship with an octopus living in a (1h 55m)
South African kelp forest, learning as
the animal shares the mysteries of her April 21st - “Dance with Wolves”
world. On the frontier, a Civil War soldier bonds
(1h 25m) with a Sioux tribe and adapts to their way
of life, becoming their ally amid growing
April 24th - threats.
Kevin Costner & May McDonnell
“Audrey”
(3h 1m)
An intimate portrait of the legendary
Hollywood actress, fashion icon and
humanitarian Audrey Hepburn, who April 28th - “Faith, Hope & Love”
stood for love above all else. After shattering losses, a recent divorcee
(1h 40m) and a heartbroken widower restore their
lives when they partner for a dance
competition to save her studio.
Robert Krantz & Peta Murgatroyd
(1h 46m)Weekend Movies
Saturday Nights at 7:00pm in WTR
April 3rd- “Love Happens” (2009)Weekend Movies
Sunday Nights at 7:00pm in WTR
April 4th - “Hop” (2017)Q: Why is the
letter “A” like a Q: What did the
flower?
big flower say
A: A bee comes after it! to the little one?
A: You’re really growing, bud!
Q: What falls but
never gets hurt?
A: The rain!
Q: What did the
mother worm
Q: What’s the best day say to the little
worm who was
of the year to monkey
late?
around with your
friends? A: “Where in earth have you
been?”
A: Ape-ril Fool’s Day.You can also read
