The SheridanJune 2021

Up Coming Events6/3 - Live Piano Performanceby Danny Miesel6/14 - Flag Day6/14 - Live Piano Performance by PatCronley6/16 - Book Club6/19 - Juneteenth6/20 - Father's Day6/20 - Live Performance by VanesaCarr6/24 - The Sheridan BBQ CookoutFundraiser for Alzheimer'sAssociation6/24 - Live Performance by TomBirchler6/29 - Resident Council Meeting6/30 - Live Performance by JohnTenorio

Ruth G. 6/1Joanne D. 6/5Marcia C. 6/6Kathryn W. 6/9Mary Jane M. 6/16John V. 6/19

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ContentBirthdays..................…...................1Up Coming Events...…………….....1Church Service...............................1Alzheimr's Association CommunityEvent............…...........………...…...2BookClub...............….....................3June Movies..........…......................4

Starting Sunday, June 6th PastorSuzanne Walls from BirminghamFirst United Methodist Church willbe holding a service for residents.This service will be every Sundayat 1:30 PM in the Creative Studio.

Scan the QR code with your phone to helpraise funds and awareness in finding a cure toAlzheimer's! If you donate, you will beentered to win a raffle basket. Thank you forfighting with us!

June is Brain Health Month which will focus on guiding residents in managing their ownbrain health and increasing cognitive function through physical activity, nutrition, stressmanagement, sleep, mental stimulation and social interaction.

The Longest Day is the day with the most light — the summer solstice. And it's the daythe Alzheimer's Association calls on everyone to fight Alzheimer's disease by raisingfunds and awareness for care, support and research.On Thursday, June 24th 2021, The Sheridan at Birmingham is participating in TheLongest Day and will be holding a BBQ Cookout where we will raise funds and standup to the darkness of Alzheimer's.

Will you join my team and fundraise with me?

Scan the QR code above or visit our page: http://act.alz.org/goto/TheSheridanAtBirmingham

Book Club

June 16th, 2021

Calling all readers, The SheridanBook Club will be meeting the 3rdWednesday of every month at 3:30PM in the Creative Studio. For ourMay meeting, we will be discussingThe Handmaid's Tale by MargaretAtwood. If you are interested injoining book club, please sign upwith Rachael, Programming Director,to receive the coming month'sbook. Contact Rachael Johnston,Director of Programming, with anyquestions.

July 2021Strength In What Remains, TracyKidder

August 2021Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng

September 2021Braving The Wilderness, BreneBrown

October 2021Love and Other Consolation Prizes,Jamie Ford

The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood's popular dystopiannovel The Handmaid's Tale explores abroad range of issues relating to power,gender, and religious politics. MultipleEmmy and Golden Globe award-winnerClaire Danes (TempleGrandin, Homeland) gives a stirringperformance of this classic inspeculative fiction, one of the mostpowerful and widely read novels of ourtime.After a staged terrorist attack kills thePresident and most of Congress, thegovernment is deposed and taken overby the oppressive and all controllingRepublic of Gilead. Offred, now aHandmaid serving in the household ofthe enigmatic Commander and his bitterwife, can remember a time when shelived with her husband and daughterand had a job, before she lost even herown name. Despite the danger, Offredlearns to navigate the intimate secrets ofthose who control her every move,risking her life in breaking the rules inhopes of ending this oppression.

June Movies

Good Morning VietnamSaturday, June 5th @ 2:00 PM

Radio funny man Adrian Cronauer is sent toVietnam to bring a little comedy back into thelives of the soldiers. After setting up shop,Cronauer delights the G.I.s but shocks hissuperior officer, Sergeant Major Dickerson,with his irreverent take on the war. WhileDickerson attempts to censor Cronauer'sbroadcasts, Cronauer pursues a relationshipwith a Vietnamese girl named Trinh, whoshows him the horrors of war first-hand.

American SniperSaturday, June 12th @ 2:00 PM

Chris Kyle's (Bradley Cooper) mission is toprotect his brothers in arms while being aprime target of insurgents. Despite the danger,as well as the toll on his family at home, Chrisserves through four harrowing tours of duty inIraq, personifying the spirit of the SEAL creedto 'leave no one behind.' But upon returning tohis wife, Taya (Sienna Miller), and kids, Chrisfinds that it is the war he can't leave behind.

Saving Mr. BanksSaturday, June 19th @ 2:00 PM

Spurred on by a promise he made to hisdaughters, Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) embarkson what would become a 20-year quest toobtain the movie rights to "Mary Poppins." Theauthor, P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson), provesto be an uncompromising curmudgeon whohas no intention of letting her belovedcharacters become mangled in the Hollywoodmachine. However, when the books stop sellingand she finds herself in need of money, Traversreluctantly agrees to consider Disney'sproposition.

Ladies in LavenderSaturday, June 26th @ 2:00 PM

Aging spinster sisters Ursula andJanet discover a young man near death on thebeach by their home in a small Cornish fishingvillage. Taking him in, they discover that he isAndrea, a violinist from Krakow, Poland, whohad been swept off an ocean liner on which hewas sailing to a fresh start in America.Although Ursula feels an unfamiliar spark ofinfatuation for the handsome young musician,propriety suggests the attraction must remainunspoken.