We certainly welcomed the sunny spring weather

March brought. It made our scenic rides and shopping trips so much more pleasant, and we certainly could not have asked for a better day for our scenic ride to The Squire Shoppes bakery for coffee and apple fritters. Pictured at right are Marge, Helen, Roy & his daughter-in-law he sunshine was even cheery inside as we participated in our indoor activities. This month we learned more about the famous political family with our viewing of the Ken Burns PBS series, The Roosevelts, and learned more about each other as we combined our themes of biographies and best days with “Our Best Days Show & Tell.” I en-joyed learning more about and viewing photos of Kay and Mary’s families, discovering Donna was an award-winning ballroom dancer, and getting to see photos of Joanie’s performances and amateur roller skating days so much that I forgot to take photos of everyone with their mementos! And when it came to our worst days theme, Alexander certainly made us laugh about bad days with his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

We also enjoyed a day of math festivities with our celebration of pi day and the making of our own piz-za “pi.” We certainly can’t forget all the delicious foods we had the opportunity to taste-test at the Gordon Foods Mini Food Show and our wonderful St. Patrick’s Day party with a performance of Irish-themed music by pianist, Jim Fuller, and Irish fiddler, Carol Linsenmeier. Pictured at left, Joanie shows her Irish spirit at our party.

Unfortunately, I won’t get to tell you about Esther’s 101st birthday, our Easter egg coloring, our annual Easter Egg Hunt on Good Friday, or our virtual Carls-bad Caverns adventures because they haven’t hap-pened yet at the time of this writing. That’s why you

should be certain to tune in next month for a recount and photos! There’s also much more worth tuning into next month as we explore themes of math games, fairytales, heroes, and Crater Lake. We will be playing Rummikub, enjoying tea and fairytales with Kathy of Con-neaut Public Library, collabo-rating with the Conneaut Public Library youth depart-ment for fairytale reading with children, learning about the heroes who helped pro-tect the lands that have be-come our national parks for Earth Day, and uncovering the history of the heroic WWII smokejumpers who saved our forests from fire for Arbor Day. As always, there will also be more cook-ing opportunities as we make Darlene’s homemade bread and Mary’s cream puffs and chances to enjoy the spring weather with scenic rides, shopping trips, and another coffee outing.

See you next month!

April Birthdays

The Villa Welcomes:

Quotes:

01 Lucille

02 Roy

05 Sylvia L.

09 Janet P.

10 Audrey C.

12 Dagmar

21 Donna

29 Barbara

30 Angela

Dick R.

Barbara P.

Gloria S

About Fairytales, Heroes & Crater Lake

“I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quali-ty to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.”

~ Erin Morgenstern

“I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.” ~ Alice Hoffman

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

~ Christopher Reeve

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than one-self.” ~ Joseph Campbell

“About 60 miles north of Klamath Falls lies one of the most glamorous and mysti-cal ornaments in the Cascade diadem. Crater Lake ... still defies the limited power of words to convey the full range of its magic.” ~ Paul M. Lewis

Resident Spotlight: Betty Our resident spotlight this month focuses on Betty.

You might remember her best for her days working

at Perkoski’s Pharmacy that was located on Broad Street just

across from the post office and was owned by Betty’s brother.

She worked there 10 years up until she married her husband who

was transferred to Erie shortly after they married due to his work

in the offices at Norfolk-Southern Railroad. Betty lived in Erie

for 30 years where she enjoyed attending numerous performanc-

es at the Erie Playhouse with her husband. She moved back to

Conneaut to come to the Villa to be closer to her sister, Sophie,

who resides just across the hall from her.

Darlene helps celebrate Dr Seuss’ birthday.

Kay, Mary F., Sylvia P., Doris M., Marge G. & Opal work as a team to make gingerbread.

Dagmar and Gaylord celebrate 73 years together!