Join Tel Hai Retirement Community- now through August 7- for a school supply drive benefiting the children of Indian Run Summer Camp. Your help is needed as we prepare the children for their big return to school in the fall!

Supplies needed include pens (black and blue), No.2 pencils, crayons, colored pencils, markers, rulers, lined paper, spiral notebooks, three-ring binders, safety scissors, pencil boxes, and highlighters. Items can be dropped off at the donation centers on the campus of Tel Hai at the Garrett Community Center lobby, the Chapel lobby, and the Lakeview Personal Care lobby by Friday, August 7, 2015.

The supplies will be distributed in August to the children who participated in the Indian Run Summer Camp, a local community in Honey Brook. Tel Hai provided swimming lessons and programming to children attending the camp in June.

For more information, please contact Amy Whary, Director of Volunteer Services at Tel Hai by calling 610-273-9333, ext. 2010 or via email at awhary@telhai.org.

Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956. The campus is located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, PA., three miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or directions, please visit www.telhai.org.

Registration is now open for the ‘Chiquita Paints’ art class hosted by Tel Hai Retirement Community on Friday, July 17 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM.  Instructor Jaclyn Schneider provides all supplies for the two-hour class.  The fee for the class is $25 per person.

‘Chiquita Paints’ reinvents the traditional art class for people of any age.  Whether you are an avid painter, a dabbler or a doodler, this class will provide the attendees with both the materials and instructions needed to complete your own piece of art.  As a local artist and painter, Schneider provides detailed instructions for all skill levels.

The class will be held in The Art of Everything room in the StoneCroft Commons on the campus of Tel Hai.  Register today by contacting Judy Schweitzer at 610-273-9333 ext. 2154 or jschweitzer@telhai.org

Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956.  The campus is located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, PA., three miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or directions, please visit www.telhai.org.

Tel Hai Retirement Community invites the public to a ‘Tel Hai Concert Series’ performance by the Keystone Brass Quintet on Tuesday, June 16 at 7:30 PM in the community’s chapel located off Beaver Dam Road in Honey Brook Township.  Admission to the event is free and open to the public.

The Keystone Brass Quintet was founded in the fall of 1976 and presented its first public concert in the spring of 1977 on the campus of York College. More than 300 performances and 35 years later, three of the five founding members remain with the ensemble. The cohesive nature of the ensemble’s playing and richness of their sound is due in large part to the high level of musicianship of the unchanging personnel.

Several members of the group arrange and compose for the quintet’s extensive repertoire. This talented group of musicians includes: Doug Winemiller and Peter Johnston on trumpet, Stephen Burg on French horn, Michael Dietz on trombone, and James Biddle on the tuba.

The group consists of trained musicians who have been music educators and free-lance performers throughout the region. Winemiller, a graduate of Lebanon Valley College, taught music in the South Eastern School District. Johnston graduated from Millersville University and is a music instructor for the Gettysburg School District. Biddle, a graduate of Westminster College, is a school band director at York Suburban. Burg is principal horn with the York Symphony Orchestra and performs with other free-lance groups throughout Central Pennsylvania. Dietz, a graduate of the Eastman School of Music had been principal trombone with York and Harrisburg Symphonies and is an active recitalist in the region.

Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956.  The campus is located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, PA., three miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or directions, please visitwww.telhai.org.

Tel Hai Retirement Community welcomes the public to participate in their annual bargain book sale scheduled for Thursday, June 4 and Friday, June 5 from 9:00 AM until 8:00 PM in the community’s auditorium/chapel located on Tel Hai’s campus at 1200 Tel Hai Circle in Honey Brook, Pa.

Volunteers and members of the Tel Hai Library Committee have collected book donations from residents, staff and community neighbors that will be offered to the general public at discounted rates.  Prices range from fifty cents to $3.00.

Gently used hardcover and paperback books in good condition will be available sorted by topic. Items for sale include popular fiction, nonfiction, biographies, mysteries, travel, gardening, children’s books, cook books, VHS tapes, CD’s, DVD’s and much more!

Past sales have made it possible for the Tel Hai Library Committee to expand the stacks, enhance the library’s variety of materials offered, and added a magnification center for residents with visual impairments.

Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956.  The campus is located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, PA., three miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or directions, please visitwww.telhai.org.

Tel Hai Retirement Community has partnered with Hearts & Hugs of Hope to collect adult pajamas during the month of May! Tel Hai invites the greater community, staff , residents and family members to donate pajamas from May 1 to May 31 in the designated containers throughout the community.

As a local nonprofit organization of nurses and nurse’s aides from Tel Hai, the group’s goal is to help adult cancer patients. The Hearts & Hugs of Hope group includes Jan Creitz, Ethel Brinson, Jenn Schlimme, Ashlee Glauner, Becky and Joe Conger, and Andy and Emily Etman.

The group requests new and clean women’s two-piece pajamas (preferred) and men’s pajama bottoms Hearts & Hugs of Hope distributes pajamas and their Cancer Comfort Bags to local cancer patients in need and to the Lancaster General Health Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute.

For more information and questions about Hearts & Hugs of Hope visit https://www.facebook.com/HeartsHugsHope or email: HeartsHugsHope@gmail.com.

Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956.  The campus is located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, PA., three miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or directions, please visit www.telhai.org.

Tel Hai Retirement Community celebrated their valued and honored volunteers at their annual Volunteer Appreciation Banquet held Tuesday, April 14 at Shady Maple Banquet Facility in East Earl, PA.  During the calendar year, more than 39,000 hours of service were amassed by 375 volunteers, including Tel Hai residents and local community members.

The Volunteeer of the Year award recognized Louise Wenger for her extraordinary efforts in contributing to the betterment of community life at Tel Hai.  Since her volunteering efforts began in 2004, Wenger’s responsibilities have included assisting in the gift shop, working the front desk, special event coordination and resident transportation assistance.

The Volunteer of the Quarter program, which recognizes individuals who offered distinguished service throughout the year, honored Betty Dowd, Dick Sauder, Skip and Judy Emery, Pat Richey, Al and Janice Fagerland, Joy Settles, Bill Rigg, Joyce Rock, Frank Baer, and the Tel Hai Quilters.

The Tel Hai OWLS program, standing for outstanding, warmhearted, limitless and serving, honored 80 standout volunteers.  The newly launched recognition effort honors individuals who have been a registered volunteer with more than 10 years of service and individuals who qualify for the President’s Volunteer Service Award. The President’s Volunteer Service Award recognizes volunteers who have contributed 250 or more hours per calendar year, or the equivalent of approximately 20 hours per month.

Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956.  The campus is located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, PA., three miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or directions, please visit www.telhai.org.

PHOTO CAPTION: Amy Whary, Director of Volunteering, thanks Tel Hai Retirement Community’s valued volunteers at the Volunteer Appreciation Banquet at Shady Maple Banquet Facility on April 14.

Tel Hai Retirement Community will host Ken Leister of the Bluebird Association of Pennsylvania on Friday, May 8 at 11:00 AM in the community’s chapel at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, Pa.  Admission to this event is free and open to the public.

Leister’s educational lecture will focus on the thrill of attracting and watching bluebirds in your own backyard.  Leister will share his knowledge on bluebird habitats, population patterns, bluebird behavior and how to build a proper bluebird nesting box.

Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956.  The campus is located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, PA., three miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or directions, please visit www.telhai.org.

Tel Hai Retirement Community President & CEO, Joseph J. Swartz, was awarded the Alumni Recognition Award by the Cairn University Alumni Association on Thursday, April 16.

Earning his bachelor of science in social work from Philadelphia College of Bible—now Cairn University— Swartz was honored for his fulfillment of the university’s mission for students to serve Christ in the church, society and the world as biblically minded, well-educated and professionally competent persons of character.

“I feel honored and humbled to receive the award. Cairn helped me prepare for both life and my life work in senior living through their social work program, biblically integrated education and leadership opportunities,” commented Swartz.  “I look back with gratitude for the impact Cairn made in helping me to learn and grown as a person and prepare me for service within society and the church.”

Swartz has a storied career of more than 40 years of experience and service in the senior living industry including executive roles held in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida. His broad experience includes directing corporate long-range planning, program and financial management, capital expansion projects and fund development.

Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956.  The campus is located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, PA., three miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or directions, please visit www.telhai.org.

CAPTION: Tel Hai Retirement Community President & CEO Joseph J. Swartz, center, receives the Alumni Recognition Award from Russ Nixon, Senior Vice President of University Advancement (left) and Nate Wambold, Director of Alumni Relations (right) from Cairn University.

Tel Hai Retirement community invites the public to attend a performance by The Garden Spot All-Elementary Jazz Band on Friday, May 1 at 1:30 PM.  Admission to the event is free, open to the public and includes an ice cream treat at the conclusion of the performance.

The Eastern Lancaster County School District’s elementary band will present a music-filled afternoon of old favorites and sing-a-long’s!  More than 50 fifth & sixth graders will delight the crowd.

Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956.  The campus is located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, PA., three miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or directions, please visit www.telhai.org.