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Residents were recognized at last week?s Campus Council meeting for participating in exercise class or visiting the fitness center 150 plus times over the course of one year. Those receiving T-shirts for their active lifestyle are Connie Bauer, Betty Beenblossom, Jim Bennett, Esther Bordwell, Jackie Bower, Pat Dusenbery, Esther Fickel, Betty Flynn, Julia Gamon, Dean Garrett, Walt Gowan, Del Henningfield, Richard Henningfield, Birchard Holden, Joyce Huff, Pat Jenkins, Kathy Knutson, Dorothy Knutson, Dorothy Koehler, Lucy Landon, Mary Meeker, Dorothy Miller, Myron Shields, Wanda Skubal, Ted Stewart, Mary Temple, Betty Thompson, Charlie Thompson, Hank Tompkins, Dorothy White, Gwen Ying and Herb Yoder. Three people are first-time award winners, proof that it is never too late to begin exercising.

Girl Scout Troup 5712 delivered valentines and chocolates to residents on Saturday.

Many residents took advantage of the 50-degree weather on Monday to get outside and view the construction progress up close and personal. Health Center residents checked out the view from the gazebo.

United Presbyterian Women?s Circle 4 held a hymn sing in the Health Center on Wednesday afternoon. Dorothy Koehler Yoder played the piano while Pat Johnson led residents in singing familiar hymns.

Jim Bennett has packed up the model train for another year. We thank Jim and his assistant Herb Yoder for the countless hours and dedication that they gave to this project, the smiles that they put on the faces of the children who visited and the fond memories which were brought forward for the older visitors. Thanks, guys.

Classics Et Cetera for Feb. 9, included the overture to ?The Temple of Glory? by Jean-Philippe Rameau; Waltzes 1-6 from ?16 Waltzes? for piano, 4 hands by Johannes Brahms; ?Musetta?s Waltz? from ?La Bohème? by Giacomo Puccini, performed by the Canadian Brass; ?Peter and the Wolf? by Sergei Prokofiev, Basil Rathbone, narrator; ?Grande Vitesse,? Galop, by Émile Waldteufel

In 1936, Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was commissioned by Moscow?s Children?s Theatre to compose a musical symphony to introduce children to the instruments of the orchestra. Within a few months ?Peter and the Wolf? was ready. It was a musical story promoting Soviet virtues to children such as vigilance, bravery and resourcefulness, and illustrated Soviet themes such as the stubbornness of the un-Bolshevik older generation (the grandfather) and the triumph of Man (Peter) over Nature (the wolf). For us in the ?West? it merely tells a delightful tale for children and adults alike.