LONGVIEW NEWSAugust 2021 Edition

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Welcome home new residents & tenants:

THUR 8/5 Famous Lighthouses – Trivia and DiscussionMON 8/9 First of Muharram begins at Sundown Cornell Companions Pet Therapy visits!!TUE 8/10 TIE DYE PARTY!THUR 8/12 Picture This! Story Telling FRI 8/13 Summer Sing-AlongMON 8/16 Recreation Committee MeetingTUE 8/17 Sand Paper Art Music with the Fortnight SingersWED 8/18 Ashura Begins at SundownTHUR 8/19 Reminiscing with Songs Inspired by the SeaWED 8/25 Social Gathering of Veterans – all are welcome!THUR 8/26 Gardens & Grounds Committee Meeting FRI 8/27 Library Book Review GroupSAT 8/28 Cornell Companions Pet Therapy visits!!MON 8/30 Building Committee MeetingTUE 8/31 Food Committee Meeting

Special Days in August

Karen Cariddi 300, Louise “Lou” Glawe 315, & Evelyn Platek 110.

The Recreation Department is so excited to be able to have larger group gatherings, programs, special events and more! With recent changes in regulations, we’ll be planning some special programs for the month of August. Please make sure you read your Recreation Schedule that’s delivered to your door every Friday to stay up-to-date and in the know!

During this period of time where we’re hiring for the spiritual care coordinator, we’ll be con-tinuing with the Cultural Literary for Religion Lecture as well as playing a pre-recorded wor-ship service 2-3 times a month. Please reach out to Bree Nash if you have any questions.

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Recreation News By Bree Nash

8/6 Lora Elkins 8/7 Tatiana Svetlanova 8/9 Virginia Twomey 8/10 Lorraine L’Heureux 8/14 June Morse 8/19 Connie Scott 8/21 James Murphy 8/22 Alberta Hunter 8/24 Beth Evans 8/25 Connie Lebida 8/29 Marilyn Aigen Milo Richmond

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Recreation Updates:• Longview’s Store is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

• Recreation will still be shopping for the Longview Shopper Service. Extra shopping lists are available in the folder across from Bree Nash’s office. 10 item max.

• Weekly Brain Game packets will be available in the Craft Room. • If you would like to have a staff member visit with you in your apt, please call Recreation.

• Aqua Aerobics is now happening Fridays at 9 a.m.– Sign up in the Craft Room Friday afternoons.

You can reach the Recreation Department by calling 375-6335.ls!

Video Chat! FaceTime, Zoom, Skype and more:These are all ways to stay virtually connected with your friends and family members outside of Longview! On a weekly basis the Recreation Department staff can schedule a video chat between Residents, Tenants and their family and friends! This program is available to all Residents and Tenants at Longview. Family members and friends: If you’d like to connect with someone at Longview, please call the Recreation Department at 375-6335 to make arrangements You can also email bnash@longviewithaca.org and we can schedule a time.

Best,Bree, Sarah, Laurie, Soni, Vera, Laura, Pamela, Cora, and Hannah

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Open for tours!Tours are now permitted to be given to those who are interested in Independent Living and limited tours may be conducted for those who are considering Assisted Living. If you know anyone who may be interested in joining the Longview community, please have them call 607-375-6360 to schedule an in-person tour or to learn more about life at Longview. Tours may also be given virtually.

Longview’s Guest Apartments Are Available!

Longview is pleased to announce it is once again able to offer the guest apartments! Family members, potential residents or those looking for month-to-month stays have access to a fully furnished one-bedroom. Longview also offers respite beds in assisted and en-

hanced assisted living levels for eligible seniors, with payment by the day.

For more info, please contact Kim Owen at 607-375-6360 or kowen@longviewithaca.org.

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Longview Dining -What’s Cooking By Mary Monteleone

The main dining room is now fully opened! It’s so great to see everyone’s smiles! Hot Fudge Sundae’s were served to celebrate.

July specials included National Chicken Tender Day, National Peach Ice Cream Day, and of course the Special July 4th picnic menu.

We continue to revise the menu based on Resident and Tenant Feedback. Please continue to share your ideas with us!

I am looking for some people to join me 1-2 times a week for a friendly and fun, small-stake game (nickel & dime) of poker. Days and time TBD. Who’s in? Please call Al at 375-6665.

Do You Have a Good Poker Face?

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Cassandra Taber, better known as Cassie, has been a Longview resident for the past year. In celebration of Cassie’s first year anniversary at Longview, her moth-er, Pamela Nardi, who works at Longview, asked her to make a list of what she liked best about living here. Her reply was “everything!”

The rest of the list goes like this, “the friends I’ve made, my apartment, the caring staff, the delicious meals, the trolley rides, having freedom to maneuver, doing programs, being the vice president of the ACF resident council, weekly housekeeping, scheduling my own appointments and being able to spend time with my mom!”

Many of you know Pamela; she’s been with Longview for nearly 20-years in the Adult Day Program and most recently assisting with coverage for the front

desk.

Pamela states, “as a parent and caregiver, I applaud all the hard work and wonderful care all the departments give to our tenants and residents, especially with the chal-lenges of COVID-19.”

Cassie loves her life at Longview and Pamela loves her job!

Anniversary Reflections – with Cassie Taber

L-R: Cassie & Pamela

Need something from Dining? Call us at

607-280-7743

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Ithaca College Partnership Events By Jessica Valdez Taves

Ithaca College continues to plan for in-person/on campus learning for all students. The IC-LV partnership will continue to follow both campus’ guidelines for the health and safety of all, while bringing students and residents “together.” IC will continue to update the “Return to Campus” plan for 21-22. For the most up-to-date information and schedule, please go to https://www.ithaca.edu/return-to-campus.

We are excited for students to return to our classes & labs and are in the process of planning some wonderful ways for Longview to interact with IC students. We want your input for Fall 2021 Programming with Students!

Ithaca College will be planning ways students can interact at Longview… in- person and virtually. Please take a moment to share your ideas, thoughts and opinions for possible pro-grams. There will be an “IC-LV Partnership Suggestion Box” located on the bulletin board across from the Recreation offices for you to comment. We are especially interested in topics for weekly student-tenant group interactions.

Course Audits for Fall of 2021— IN-PERSON Learning returns!

Longview residents interested in taking classes at IC may audit up to six credit hours of courses during the spring semester. Course audits are approved after students have regis-tered and require permission of the instructor.

Classes are typically offered MWF for 50 minutes, starting on the hour and Tuesdays & Thursdays for 75 minutes.

Courses will only be offered IN-PERSON On IC Campus for the Fall 2021

Classes for the FALL semester will begin on MONDAY, August 23. Classes end WEDNESDAY, December 8.

Click here for Fall 2021 Academic Calendar

Information on the courses offered in the Fall 2021 semester can be found online at:https://www.ithaca.edu/academics/registrar/registrar-services/course-registration-and-tutorials

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Scroll to bottom on page until you see the TUTORIALS box. Go to Other Helpful Links and click on Class Schedule.

The partnership between IC and LV will be meeting throughout the summer to best pre-pare for a safe and active return to course audits on IC Campus. We are currently address-ing transportation with the LV shuttle and Covid safety guidelines and requirements and will post updates in future newsletters and on the IC bulletin board across from the audito-rium.

Office Hours with Jessica Taves for course advising available:

Wednesday, August 4; 1-3:30Thursday, August 5; 9:30-11:30

Monday, August 9; 10-12

In the Adult Day room of the main building.

Please email Jtaves@ithaca.edu or call (607) 274-1051 to schedule a 30-minute advising session. I will post a schedule on the day of advising and others are welcome for drop-in advising during the open times.

Please bring your choice of classes with course names, numbers, meeting days/times, and professor’s name.

See IC-LV Partnership bulletin board (across from auditorium) for meeting locations.

Ithaca College Partnership Events By Jessica Valdez Taves

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Ithaca College Partnership Events By Jessica Valdez Taves

Student Physical Therapy Clinic Returns to Longview

The students of Dr. Sam Browns Clinical rotation return to offer services in the Longview Clinic. 30-minute PT sessions available:

Block 1 (8/23/2021-10/8/2021):Thursdays 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.; 1-3 p.m. Block 2 (10/18/2021-12/8/2021):Mondays 10 a.m.- 12 p.m.Thursdays 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.; 1-3 p.m.

Please email otptclinic@ithaca.edu. Be sure to leave your full name, indicate LONGVIEW CLINIC with Dr. Brown and days/times available within the time frames above. Someone will get back to you with an appointment day/time.

IC Research Opportunity: Physical Therapy Research Study for People with Parkinson Disease

Physical therapists at Ithaca College are investigating the impact of exercise instruction us-ing telehealth for people with idiopathic Parkinson disease. Eligible participants will be provided exercise instruction over “Zoom” either individually or in a group with other people with Parkinson disease. The exercise sessions will last 1 hour and will be held 2 times per week for 8 weeks. Participants will receive small exercise equipment and a wrist worn heart rate monitor to use while participating in the program. Each participant will be able to keep this equipment at the end of the study. Before the beginning of the 8-week program and at the end of the 8-week program all participants will come to Ithaca College for a testing session to examine coordination, walking, balance, and endurance. To be eligible to participate, individuals must have a diagnosis of Parkinson dis-ease, be able to walk safely without help, be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, and have access to a device that can be used with the Zoom platform. Those with medical conditions limit-ing the ability to exercise or significant cognitive impairment will not be eligible to partici-pate in this study. If you would like more information about this program, please contact our research team at pdresearch@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-5824.

For any questions about the LV Partnership, course browsing / registration or to sign up, please contact the LV-IC Partnership Coordinators: Bree Nash at Longview (bnash@longviewithaca.org / (607) 375-6335) or Jessica Valdez Taves at Ithaca College (jtaves@ithaca.edu / (607) 274-1051).

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Social Gathering of Veterans – All are welcome!

On Wednesday, August 25 at 10:45 a.m. Longview is holding a social gathering for Veterans in the Craft Room. All residents and tenants are invited to come and talk and share stories!

Are you a Veteran? Please let us know! Fill out the form below and turn it in to Kathleen by August 15!

Name ________________________________________________

Address_______________________________________________

Phone_________________________________________________

Military Branch__________________________________________

Need a Longview ID Badge? Please contact Kathleen Burke, communications director at 607-375-6315, kburke@longviewithaca.org or stop by her office.

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After reading an article in the Ithaca Times about Milo, AKA Mike Richmond, playing softball I decided to meet with him. I wanted to learn more about Milo, what softball means to him and to share his story with the Longview community. I ended up getting insight into Milo, who he is, his good sense of humor, how he sees the world and how he sees his fellow residents at Longview. Below are shared pieces of our conversation and I antici-pate you will enjoy getting to know Milo as I have. Perhaps you’ll even get a sense of appre-ciation and feel inspired.

We discussed his many years of playing ball, his career which is all mentioned below but the take away was more significant than what I had intended this piece to be, keep reading and you’ll see what I mean.

Milo: “It can be argued that each and every one of us living here at Longview has retired from a significant and important profession, job or role in life that has contributed to making either the world a better place, a community better organized, or a family better connected. As such, we are all professionals at many different skills and are blessed by a rather lengthy life. Along life’s path, many of us have discovered or developed hobbies.”

Such is the life of Milo Richmond who grew up in a small town in Southern IL with the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team only 50 miles away. As a young boy, Milo, like many other boys thought he should become a professional baseball player. ‘What a DREAM-ER!!’ Nevertheless, we all have to start somewhere and his first choice was playing ball.

After High School and town team sports he soon discovered that his knowledge, skills & ability in Biology, Physics, Chemistry and related subjects far outstripped his talent for Major League Baseball. It was a sad day when Cardinal Tryout Manager, Bill Vir-don, who had just completed his own professional career with Pittsburgh, informed Milo that he no longer needed to attend tryouts because he was too slow, too small, and couldn’t hit a curve ball! Now it was back to the books at Southern Illinois University, on to the University of Missouri for graduate degrees, then to East Tennessee State and finally to 42 years of teaching and research at Cornell University followed by retirement in 2008. (Continued on page 13)

Never Stop Dreaming By Kathleen Burke

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Pictured: Milo & his championship rings.

For Milo the dream never faded. In 2005 at the age of 65, he joined an amateur team of senior softball players from Syracuse, NY and helped them win the USA National Title for players age 65-70. He has continued with this hobby and has since won National Tourney Titles in 2007, 2012, (age 70) and 2014 (age 75). This year at age class 80, Milo and the Syracuse Cyclones are working to win another championship at the age of 80+ as I type this! He’s currently pitching in the East-ern National Championships in Loudoun County, VA. His wife Bonnie is with him and the two have been able to travel all over together for Championship games.

When you see Milo, the ‘amateur sports enthusiast’, congratulate him on once again making it to the championships and we hope – another win!

As I wrap this up, I would like to add that Milo wasn’t as interested in me writing about him as he was in making this piece about the Longview community. He reit-erated the importance that each individual has and continues to contribute to the world.

Milo’s final comment is “do what you can still do, don’t ever give up and keep on keeping on! The worst thing that can happen is that your grandchildren and per-haps a few others may worry about your sanity. At this point we should worry more about caring for each other than being concerned about our sanity.”

Syracuse Cyclones, Milo far left. Photo credit: Tompkins Weekly

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Never Stop Dreaming By Kathleen Burke

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You may have noticed that there have been a few changes going on at Longview. From this end, Kim and Nicole have been transitioning out of Case Management and full-time into Longview’s Marketing & Sales Department. The offices previously held by case man-agement have now been relocated. Kim and Nicole’s offices can be found in the Market-ing & Sales Information Center in #228. No, we didn’t actually take up residency here but we are starting to utilize this new space to show off some of the new ideas that might be coming this way in terms of updates to Longview.

You may have also noticed that Taylor has moved her of-fice to the 4th floor where she will now be serving as the lead case manager. She and a newly hired case manager will be occupying offices on the 4th floor and in the garden level and putting their expertise to work primarily with Longview’s assisted living and enhanced assisted living residents. And with that said, we’d like to introduce our newest case manager, Danielle Iverson, who will be starting in her new position on July 26. Danielle has many years of experience as a social worker working in long-term care fa-cilities and programs serving adults and she is looking very forward to joining our family. It’s a bonus that she is also a dog person and enjoyed being entertained by Kim’s “Geor-gia” during her interview.

With all of the changes and movements happening in our

world at Longview it might feel like something will get missed

or forgotten along the way. We want to assure you that al-though that is quite possible, we are also very aware of it and are striving to make sure that nothing falls through the cracks. Please don’t hesitate to visit Kim and Nicole in #228 (C wing/2nd floor) with any concerns or just to say hello (if the door is unlocked, you are welcome to come on in).

Tours and inquiries into Longview’s community have picked up immensely since restrictions due to COVID-19 have been lifting. We are quite busy meeting the needs of the com-munity and looking forward to that continuing. You will be seeing many new faces over the next few months with new resident’s moving into the assisted living residences as well as the independent living residences. It is an exciting time and we are looking forward to sharing it with all of you!

Kim & Nicole

Marketing & Sales By Kim Owen

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Danielle

Danielle’s puppy, Max

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Longview Happenings

Do you have a photo you’d like fea-tured? Email Kathleen Burke your high resolution photo at kburke@

longviewithaca.org for consideration or contact her with

suggestions at 607-375-6315.

Dining opened! Mazell serving Wayne.

Gene enjoying being in the dining room!

Mary & Birdie happy to be back in the dining room!

Judy at the Ice Cream Social.

Ralph glad dining’s open!

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Good Neighbor Award

We’re lucky to have so many good neighbors here at Longview. You might know someone who waters your plants for you when you’re away, or delivers packages to your door, or checks in on you when you’re not feeling well. Our Good Neighbor award aims to shine a light on those residents or tenants who go above and beyond.

No deed is too small! Nominate someone who has done something to make someone else’s life a little easier or brighter. Fill out the form below and return it to the box outside the Business office on the 3rd floor by 5 p.m. on August 20. Staff will determine this month’s Good Neighbor from the submitted nominations. The Good Neighbor will be notified in advance of the story that will appear in the Longview News. Questions? Call Kathleen in the Communications office at 375-6315, email kburke@longviewthaca.org or submit nominations outside the 3rd floor Business office.

Nominate a Good Neighbor

I nominate ________________________________________ (resident/tenant name) for the Good Neighbor award for the following reasons/actions:

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(Please use specific examples if possible. Attach an additional sheet of paper if necessary.)My name: ___________________________________________________

____ I wish to remain anonymous. ____ You may print my name.

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