A+ Active Adults 2015 Winter/Spring Newsletter (January, February and March)

Programs

Book Discussion Group The A+ Active Adults Book Discussion Group meets the first Monday of each month at 10:00 a.m. in the A+ room at The Community House. This is a small and friendly group that welcomes newcomers and reads some great selections! Please come by and join us for some interesting discussion. No book group in January. February 2, 2015 – The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. A young boy abandoned by his father after his mother’s death is taken by a friend’s family and struggles to make sense of his new life. This is a story of loss, obsession, survival and self-invention. March 2, 2015 – David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell. A challenge to us about how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against or cope with a disability.

Exercise Classes

Ageless Yoga Join this popular class, designed for those with limited mobility. Modified classic yoga exercises with easy standing poses and low impact work in a chair allow students the chance to improve strength and flexibility in an approachable and fun way. Fridays 10:30 – 11:30am, Session 1 – January 9 – February 27. Session 2 – March 6 – April 24. Members $64; Guests $74, per session.

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Sit and Get Fit Our instructor Gail will lead the class as we work on increasing range of motion, circulation, flexibility, balance and strength with easy to follow moves. We sometimes use light weights or toning bands to improve strength. Mondays and Wednesdays 1 – 2pm. Ongoing; purchase a 10-class punch card for $60 (Members) $75 (Guests).

Prime Time This is an easy-to-follow class where you will enjoy a low-impact workout designed to improve your cardiovascular fitness, strength, balance and flexibility. Sessions are on-going so you may register at any time during the class. Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:45-9:45 am. and Wednesdays 8:00 – 9:00 am. Ongoing; purchase a 10-class punch card for $50 (Members) $70 (Guests).

Walking Track Don’t forget as members of the Active Adult program you have FREE use of The Community House walking track on the upper level of the Field House (whenever the building is open, usually 8 am. to 7 pm.). Rubber soled shoes are required. Non-members can use the walking track for a small fee. All track users must check in at the front desk. Be sure to check out our other exercise classes too!! For more information call Kate Vogts (630) 323-7500 ext. 225

Beginning Bridge Lessons Come and learn the exciting game of Bridge! This course is appropriate for both new players wishing to learn to play bridge and players with some experience who want to improve their bidding and play skills. Mondays, 9 – 11am, January 12 – March 2. Cost $79, (plus $20 for textbook payable to instructor) Bob Meixner, Instructor. Sign up at the front desk or register on line at https://apm.activecommunities.com/thecommunityhouse

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Card Groups

Fee: $1.00 per person for each group. We are always looking for new players! Please come and join us. You don’t need a partner and these are fun groups!!

Game Day Time Description Bridge Tuesdays 9:00 am Intermediate Level

Relaxed Bridge Fridays 12:00 pm Soliciting advice is permitted

Men’s Bridge Tuesdays 12:00 pm Call Wes Whittington 708- 246-9279 for more info.

Women’s Canasta

Wednesdays 1:00 pm Fun and lively group

Mah Jongg 1st and 3rd (and 5th) Tuesdays

12:30 pm Enjoy American Mah Jongg with friends – call Shirley Gambill 630-323-3392 for more

information.

Indian Prairie Computer Club Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 9:30 am. This group offers periodic informational presentations by guest speakers or club members, as well as general question and answer sessions.

AARP Driver Safety Program January 26, 2015 (Monday) and January 27, 2015 (Tuesday) and March 17, 2015 (Tuesday) and March 18, 2015 (Wednesday) from 11:30 am – 3:30 pm at The Community House. Fee: $15.00 for AARP members (you will need your AARP number) and $20 for nonmembers. Payment is due the first day of class (Please make check payable to AARP.) These classes are offered at The Community House for drivers who are over the age of 50 and wish to update their driving skills. It is a classroom-only session. Many insurance companies offer a discount to drivers who have taken this program. Pre-registration is required, and you must attend both days. Call the Front Desk to Register. 630-323-7500 ext. 0.

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Retired Men’s Roundtable

The roundtable is a group of retired business and professional men from Hinsdale and the surrounding communities. They meet monthly on the 4th Wednesday, starting at 9:30 a.m. for coffee and donuts and to hear a stimulating speaker on a subject of current or local interest. Fee: $3.00 at the door.

Date Speaker Topic January 28, 2015 Mr. Jim Nibeck The History of the Founding of Chicago –

Why Chicago is? And other questions.

February 25, 2015

To Be Announced Score is a nationwide, non-profit organization dedicated to helping the owners of existing and start-up businesses assure that their businesses grow and prosper.

March 25, 2015 Mr. E.Q. Sylvester, Chairman, Freedom Golf Association

A triple amputee, Mr. Sylvester will discuss his work with this charitable organization, dedicated to bringing joy and a sense of freedom to the special needs community through inclusion in the game of golf.

Roundtable Interest Group on Investments meets the 1st Wednesday of every month at 9:30 am. Finance Interest group meets the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 9:30 am. Computer Interest group meets the 3rd Friday of every month at 9:30 am. For more information, please call Kate Vogts at 630- 323-7500 ext. 225.

“Senior Jam Session”

Want to play the musical instrument you haven’t picked up in ages? Join us at The Community House once a month, at no cost, to make music with others who enjoy

playing. We’ll meet on the third Thursday of each month, January 15, February 19, March

19, 2015 from 2 – 4pm. All instruments, including voice, are welcome! Music will be from the 1930 – 1950 era, “The Great American Songbook”. If you are of retirement age, can read lead sheets then bring your instrument and come play with us. For more information or to register, please contact Don Moritz (630-240-4453, donmoritz14@att.net ) or Kate Vogts (630-323-7500

ext. 225, kvogts@thecommunityhouse.org )

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The Wonderful World of Watercolors

Learn how to paint with watercolors by following an easy, step-by-step method requiring

no special skills, experience or abilities. This course will dispel many myths you have about the difficulty of using watercolors. Discover how to fix mistakes and create

paintings that will delight you! You will leave each session with a completed painting. Fee includes painting supplies. Thursdays, January 22 through February12, 9:30 – 11:30am, and Wednesdays, January 21 through February 11, 5:30 – 7:30pm. Each

session: Members $90; Guests $105.

Painting with Oils

This class welcomes everyone interested in oil paints, charcoal or pastels. Painting from life will be emphasized. Students may choose to work from still life, floral, costume

model, landscape or casts. Through brief demonstrations and personal attention, instructor Susan Hong-Sammons, will explain the time tested art principles including

concept, drawing, value, edges, color interpreting light shadow and composition. Supply list will be provided at registration. Thursdays, February 19 through March 26, 9:30am –

12:30pm. Members $240; Guests $260 Landscape Painting and Drawing

This class welcomes anyone interested in creating landscapes with oil paints or pastels. Bring your reference materials such as plein air sketches, field studies and photographs or

use one of Susan’s. Suggested supply list is provided. Thursdays, April 2 through May 21, (No class 4/16 and 4/23) 9:30am – 12:30pm. Members $240; Guests $260

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Movies NOW SHOWING MOVIES TWICE A MONTH!! We show videos of current films on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month at 12:30 pm. in the “movie friendly” Active Adults Program Room. Come check out our wall-mounted HDTV!! Coffee and popcorn too. All movies are $1.00 per person.

Date Movie Actors Description

January 8, 2015

The Hundred Foot Journey

Helen Mirren, Om Puri (PG)

Put young Hassan Kadam in a kitchen, and he's bound to emerge with a dish that will dazzle. When Hassan's family relocates to the south of France, from their native India, they open an Indian restaurant named Maison Mumbai. Across the street at the traditional French restaurant, the proprietor Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren) is not pleased. When she ignites a bitter feud that quickly escalates, the only hope for a peaceful resolution lies in Hassan's talent for French haute cuisine, and his growing affections for Mme. Mallory's young sous chef Marguerite. Subsequently impressed by Hassan's undeniable culinary talents, Mme. Mallory agrees to become Hassan's mentor, in the process providing the perfect creative environment where his unique fusion cuisine can thrive.

January 22, 2015

Belle Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson,Matthew Goode, Sarah Gadon (PG)

Set in 18th century England and based on the real story of Dido Elizabeth Belle. She is the illegitimate daughter of British Admiral Sir John Lindsay and a black woman with whom he had an affair. Lindsay brings her to his uncle Lord Mansfield and his wife Lady Mansfield who are already raising another niece the same age as Dido. The two girls quickly become best friends and when they come of age each begins courting suitors. Dido's deepest

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affections are for an idealistic young lawyer who is trying to sway Lord Mansfield on a crucial case before the high court that will have profound implications for Britain's slave trade.

February 12, 2015

Million Dollar Arm

Jon Hamm, Aasif Mandvi, Bill Paxton (PG)

JB Bernstein, a one-time successful sports agent, leaves the company he works for to start his own agency. The company is in serious financial straits, and they lose the big client they've been grooming. In a fit of inspiration, JB believes they can go to India, find a cricket bowler, and teach him to be a baseball pitcher. They eventually find a pair of eager and promising prospects. The duo travel back to the States with JB where they are then tutored by a USC baseball coach whose approach to the game is as much mental as physical. The two young men are finally given a highly publicized tryout in front of scouts from numerous pro teams, as well as media from around the world.

February 26, 2015

Magic in the Moonlight

Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Marcia Gay Harden, Hamish Linklater (PG-13)

Directed by Woody Allen, the story is set in the 1920s and magician Stanley Crawford (Colin Firth) enjoys widespread acclaim as Chinese conjurer Wei Ling Soo, his stage persona. As arrogant as he is talented, Stanley despises claims by phony spiritualists that they can perform real magic. At the behest of his friend, Stanley travels to the Côte d'Azur mansion of the Catledge family to expose a young medium named Sophie (Emma Stone). However, Stanley is left surprised and shaken by evidence that Sophie's gifts may be real.

March 12, 2015

Boyhood Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Lorelei Linklater,Steven Prince, Libby Villari (R)

Richard Linklater's Boyhood is a coming-of-age drama that the director spent twelve years making. He cast a young boy, Ellar Coltrane, and shot the film a few days at a time for over a decade so that he could capture how his

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leading actor, and the rest of his cast, aged. The film's story follows a boy named Mason as he progresses from age 6 to 18 and deals with the typical travails of childhood such as his parents' divorce, bad stepparents, falling in love, finding his artistic voice, and fighting with his older sister.

March 26, 2015

Life Itself Roger Ebert, Ava DuDernay, Ramin Bahrani, (R)

Officially an adaptation of Ebert's bestselling memoir of the same name, the documentary uses Ebert's valiant struggle with cancer as a structural device to examine his many career accomplishments. As a series of flashbacks take us through Ebert's colorful life and times, there are periodic returns to Ebert’s traumatic last days in the hospital, where his wife Chaz and other loved ones prepare to say their last goodbyes. The result is a reverent meditation on the life and death of the writer whose passion for film was evident in every review he penned, but whose love of life taught his loyal readers to treasure every moment.

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Upcoming Trips/Events

LADY ALMINA AND THE REAL DOWNTON ABBEY

Join us to hear Lynn Rymarz present Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey, by The Countess of Carnarvon. In this book review learn about the lost legacy of Highclere Castle in Britain and hear about the real historical characters who lived there, including Almina

Carnarvon, her husband, the 5th Earl of Carnarvon and her family. Learn about the people who worked there, the transformation of the Castle when it became a hospital for wounded soldiers during the first World War, and how Almina became a nurse to take care of them.

Find out about the gala parties she hosted and attended, and how her husband helped to discover the tomb of Tutankhamun. Brunch will be served before the performance.

Day Tuesday Date February 17, 2015 Time 10:30am – 12:30 pm Fee Members $20; Guests $23

Where The Community House Code 3049604-3

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA – MUTI CONDUCTS TCHAIKOVSKY 6

Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony is among the greatest landmarks in the symphonic repertoire. We’ll enjoy excellent main floor seats for the masterpiece program.

Day Friday Date February 27, 2015 Time

Depart/Return (approx.) 12:00 – 5:30pm

The Community House Fee Members $95; Guests $105

Code 3049208-6 Includes Main floor symphony ticket, coach

transportation

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KYM FRANKOVELGIA – SINGING THE STANDARDS WITH STYLE AND PERSONALITY

Join us to hear the talented Kym Frankovelgia as she sings the music of a bygone era with updated arrangements of the great songs of the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. Her

renditions of your favorites are brand new as well as classic! Kym has performed with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Maxene Andrews of the Andrews Sisters and many others.

We’ll enjoy a delicious lunch before Kym’s performance. Day Monday Date March 2, 2015 Time 12:00 – 2:00pm Fee Members $20; Guests $23

Where The Community House Code 3049604-4

LES MISERABLES AT THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE IN AURORA This monumental novel comes to life in one of the greatest musical of all time. It’s the

story of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his journey for redemption. On that road, he encounters the unwavering love of a mother, the innocence of a child, the steely

determination of a hunter and the passion of youthful freedom fighters. Nominated for 12 Tony Awards, taking home 8 including Best Score and Best Musical, Les Miserables is a

truly enthralling spectacle with brilliant imagery, magnificent orchestrations, stirring lyrics and a story of heroic human commitment that you will not soon forget. Lunch before the

show at Two Brothers Roundhouse is included. Day Wednesday Date March 25, 2015 Time

Depart/Return (approx.) 10:30am – 5:00pm

The Community House Fee Members $87; Guests $97

Code 3049208-7 Includes Lunch, main floor theatre ticket, coach

transportation.

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5TH ANNUAL PANCAKE BREAKFAST

This enjoyable morning is brought to you by The Community House and Willowbrook Corner Spring Break Campers. Join us for a delicious breakfast of pancakes, sausages,

orange juice and coffee all prepared and served by our enthusiastic group of middle school student volunteers. Call the front desk to reserve your spot.

Day Tuesday Date March 31, 2015 Time 10:00am -- noon Fee $5 payable at the door

Where The Community House

REMEMBERING MARSHALL FIELD’S – AN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE BY

LESLIE GODDARD For more than 150 years, Marshall Field and Co. reigned as Chicago’s leading department

store. This lavishly illustrated talk traces the store’s history from its beginnings as a dry good store in 1852 into a world-class fashion and service trendsetter and international

tourist destination. Memorabilia will trace the store’s cherished traditions – from chicken pot pie and the Walnut Room Christmas tree to the State Street store’s legendary window

displays. We’ll enjoy a catered lunch before the presentation. Day Tuesday Date April 14, 2015 Time 12:00 – 2:00pm Fee Members $20; Guests $23

Where The Community House Code 3049604-5

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CAROUSEL – CHICAGO’S LYRIC OPERA

Swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the naive millworker, Julie Jordan. But all too soon, they fall on hard times and unbearable loss. Yet

the power of love perseveres, as do the tuneful hits, in this masterpiece of American musical theater. You’ll hear “If I Loved You,” “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over,” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone” in an original new production from Lyric Opera, accompanied by the

Lyric Chorus and Orchestra. These are excellent main floor seats. Day Thursday Date April 30, 2015 Time

Depart/Return (approx.) 12:30 – 5:30pm

The Community House Fee Members $85; Guests $95

Code 3049208-8 Includes Main floor seat for opera, coach

transportation

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY – CHICAGO’S SHAKESPEARE THEATRE

Jane Austen’s deliciously charming romance is full of wit, passion and now, glorious song. This world premiere musical from Tony Award®-nominated composer Paul Gordon was specially commissioned by CST for the 2014/15 Season. Under the masterful hand of Artistic Director Barbara Gaines, beautiful melodies trace the lives of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood—two sisters whose fortunes change following their father's untimely death. One cool and deliberate, the other consumed by youthful passion, their quest for suitable husbands unfolds in a period-perfect production that will set your spirits soaring.

Day Saturday Date May 16, 2015 Time

Depart/Return (approx.) 1:45 – 6:00pm

The Community House Fee Members $93; Guests $98

Code 3049208-5 Includes Theatre ticket and coach transportation

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LITTLE FOXES AT THE GOODMAN THEATRE

An electrifying revival of Lillian Hellman’s classic turn-of-the century study of family greed. Praised as one of the most enjoyably chilling chapters in the history of

melodrama. Ben and Oscar Hubbard stand to earn millions funding an industrialized cotton mill and seek help with the initial investment from their sister Regina. The refusal of Regina’s dying husband to finance the scheme sets off an explosive series of betrayals,

shattering the Hubbard clan’s genteel façade and exposing their ruthless pursuit of wealth. We’ll have lunch at Petterino’s before the show.

Day Thursday Date May 21, 2015 Time

Depart/Return (approx.) 11:00am – 5:30pm

The Community House Fee Members $100; Guests $115

Code 3049208-9 Includes Lunch, theatre ticket and coach

transportation

A+ ACTIVE ADULTS MEMBERSHIP We do ask regular participants in our programs to become members, and we also welcome the support of anyone who values the existence of programs such as ours in the community. Members receive newsletters and update flyers by mail. Prices for trips and events are discounted for members. In addition, you have FREE use of The Community House walking track. Membership is $45 for individuals, or $65 for couples. To join, please come to The Community House and fill out a registration form or mail a slip of paper with your name, full address and phone number and send it with your check, indicating that it is for the A+ Active Adults membership. If you plan on using our walking track, please indicate that as well.

Refund Policy • All refund requests will be charged a $10 processing fee. In House credits and program transfers

will be charged a $5 administration fee. • Refunds will not be given once a ticket to a performance or event has been purchased. • Refunds will not be granted for withdrawals made three business days prior to the event/trip. • Individuals who withdraw from a class, program, and event/trip less than five business days prior

to the scheduled start date will be charged 75% of the total program fee. • Refund requests must be approved by the Program Director.

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