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Many birthday celebrations took place in the Town Center this week to the delight of everyone with a sweet tooth. Jean Frazer made homemade doughnuts to share with others on her Friday, June 7 birthday. A large crowd of family, friends and neighbors helped Herb Yoder celebrate his 90th birthday on Monday morning and share birthday cake made by his wife Dorothy. Claudine Erwin treated folks to coffeecake on Wednesday morning and Kathy Knutson was able to squeeze in treats to share with friendly coffee drinkers Friday, June 14. It was a delicious calorie-loaded week.

School is out and with that the Up with Kids Summer Program began this week with kids visiting the Washington Public Library on Monday morning and planting a sensory garden near the Health Center in the afternoon. Using plants that appeal to the senses the kids designed and planted Coleus, mint, Salvia, strawberry plants, Sedum and their favorite, Lambs Ears. They traveled to Marr Park with a sack lunch on Thursday for some outdoor exploring and Friday they exercised under the direction of the Wellness staff in the morning and visited a Wayland dairy farm in the afternoon. They have a busy summer filled with activities and field trips.

Residents gathered in the Campbell Room for the Saturday night movie, Beaches, starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey. This is a 1988 comedy-drama about an accidental friendship between a former New York child actor and a San Francisco rich kid lasting for decades.

Plenty of golf carts and bicycles were parked outside the main dining room Thursday morning signifying that a breakfast buffet was happening. Bacon, hash browns, scrambled eggs, cinnamon rolls and fresh fruit lined the buffet table. This monthly breakfast gathering is a favorite among residents.

Classics Et Cetera for June 13, 2019 included the overture to 'Tip-Toe” by George Gershwin; 'Radieuse” by Louis Moreau Gottschalk; Highlights from 'Boccaccio” by Franz von Suppé; 'Una furtiva lagrima” from 'The Elixir of Love” by Gaetano Donizetti; 'Baby Face” played by the Polish-American String Band of Philadelphia's Mummers; 1st Movement of Cello Concerto No. 2 by Franz Joseph Haydn; 'On the Campus March” by Edwin Franko Goldman.

The five cello concertos attributed to Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) have a troubled history. Cello Concerto No. 1 (1761-65) was known to have been written, but it was lost for two centuries until 1961 when it was found in a Prague museum. Concerto No. 2 (1783) was thought to possibly be spurious until Haydn's autographed manuscript was discovered in 1951. Concerto No. 3 is lost. Concerto No. 4 is thought to be spurious and written instead by cellist Giovanni Battista Constanzi (1704-1778), possibly in 1772. Concerto No. 5 is also thought to be spurious and written instead by cellist David Popper (1843-1913) in 1899. If this information seems spurious, see Wikipedia.