‘From Christ to Constantine’- A Tel Hai Life Enrichment Committee Class: Beginning Oct. 5

OLLIThe Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) of Widener University will offer a five-session course at Tel Hai exploring ‘From Christ to Constantine’ with Rich Calla.

The course will begin on Monday, October 5 at 1:00pm in the StoneCroft Center for Worship & Performing Arts on Tel Hai’s campus and continue on October 12, 19, 26 and conclude on November 2, 2015. The course fee of $40 is due and payable to Widener University at the first class session. To pre-register, please contact the Tel Hai Resident Business Office at 610-293-9333 ext. 2040.

Life at Tel Hai retirement community is enriching and rewarding. We welcome the greater community and public to attend this event! See you soon on the campus of Tel Hai!

Event is hosted in the StoneCroft Center for Worship & Performing Arts, on the campus at Tel Hai, located at 4000 Tree Line Drive, Honey Brook. We are only 3 short miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. Follow Beaver Dam Road to the campus of Tel Hai, then turn onto Tree Line Drive and follow signs to StoneCroft.  Parking is available adjacent to the StoneCroft commons main entrance.

For more information or directions, please visit www.telhai.org.

Inspirational Book Talk & Signing with Gayle Roper: Oct. 1, 2015

GayleRoper10.1.2015Tel Hai’s Office of Pastoral Care presents an ‘Inspirational Book Talk & Signing with Gayle Roper’ on Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 7:00 PM in the StoneCroft Center for Worship & Performing Arts.

Gayle Roper, a Chester County resident and an award winning author of more than 50 books, will speak on the topic of her recent book, A Widow’s Journey: Reflections on Walking Alone. Released in February 2015, A Widow’s Journey is a book of reflections about faith in the God of all comfort while experiencing the grief of the death of her beloved husband.

Gayle’s talk will be inspirational and practical. Her target audience is not only widows, but family and friends of widows but all persons who are in a marriage relationship. Her reflections will include advice on preparing to be successful after the death of a spouse. Following her talk, Gayle will be available to autograph A Widow’s Journey and several of her recently released novels.

Life at Tel Hai retirement community is enriching and rewarding. We welcome the greater community and public to attend this event for free! See you soon on the campus of Tel Hai!

Event is hosted in the StoneCroft Center for Worship & Performing Arts, on the campus at Tel Hai, located at 4000 Tree Line Drive, Honey Brook. We are only 3 short miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. Follow Beaver Dam Road to the campus of Tel Hai, then turn onto Tree Line Drive and follow signs to StoneCroft. Parking is available adjacent to the StoneCroft commons main entrance.

For more information or directions, please visit www.telhai.org.

 

Jeffrey Uhlig & The Three Tenors: A Tel Hai Concert Series Event- Sept. 26, 2015

Tenors 2015.9.26Tel Hai Retirement Community invites the public to a Tel Hai Concert Series evening of music by Jeffrey Uhlig (pianist) and the Three Tenors- Dominick Chenes (tenor); Mackenzie Whitney (tenor); and Galeano Salas (tenor) on Saturday, September 26 at 7:30 PM in the StoneCroft Center for Worship & Performing Arts! Don’t miss this entertaining and dynamic musical event! Admission to the event is free and open to the public.

Jeffrey Uhlig has appeared as collaborative pianist in many concerts in America and also has performed in Russia. Some of his notable performances have been at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC and at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York. He plays regularly with many members of The Philadelphia Orchestra including Concert Master David Kim, Principal Cellist, Hai-Ye Ni and Principal Trombonist, Nitzan Haroz.

Dominick Chenes, tenor, originally from Las Vegas, NV is a student of Mr. Bill Schuman at the Academy of Vocal Arts, in Philadelphia, PA. Dominick completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Music-Vocal Performance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2007, and his Master’s Degree in Music-Vocal Performance also from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2012. Dominick won second prize in the Gerda Lissner Foundation competition in March 2013, as well as a grant award from the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation competition in April 2013.

Mackenzie Whitney is a native of Janesville, Iowa. He received his Bachelor’s of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Northern Iowa. While studying there, he performed the roles of Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Tamino in The Magic Flute, and Alcino in Prima Donna. Mackenzie participated in the Emerging Artists program at Opera New Jersey and covered the role of the Magician in Menotti’s The Consul.

Galeano Salas is a Texas native who grew up in Mexico City. He holds a MM from Yale University and a BM from the University of Houston. He is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. Galeano most recently sang the roles of Alfredo in La traviata and German in Pique Dame. Recent performances include covering Stage Manager in Ned Rorem’s Our Town as a member of Central City Opera’s Bonfils-Stanton Apprentice Artist program. Also, Vaudémont in Iolanta and Tebaldo in I Capuleti e I Montecchi at the historic Shubert Theater with Yale Opera.

Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956. Concert is hosted in the StoneCroft Center for Worship & Performing Arts, on the campus at Tel Hai, located at 4000 Tree Line Drive, Honey Brook. We are only 3 short miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or directions, please visit www.telhai.org.

Tel Hai Hosts Oil Art Class with John Esworthy

Join John Esworthy, art instructor, for a five-week, oil art class session starting September 15 on the campus of Tel Hai! No experience necessary. A fee is charged for this class.

Life at Tel Hai retirement community is enriching and rewarding. We welcome the greater community and public to attend this class! See you soon on the campus of Tel Hai!

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 Hosts School Supply Drive: July 15-August 7

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.

July 17, 2015: Tel Hai Hosts Chiquita Paints Art Class

2015.6.22 Chiquita PaintsRegistration 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.

June 27, 2015: A Tel Hai Concert Series Performance-  Vocalists Kristine Fraelich & Jeffrey Coon in ‘Tel Hai Goes Pop!’

2015.5.20 Tel Hai Vocalist FraelichTel Hai Retirement Community invites the public to a ‘Tel Hai Concert Series’ performance by vocalists Kristine Fraelich and Jeffrey Coon in ‘Tel Hai Goes Pop!’ on Saturday, June 27 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.

A spectacular musical evening featuring light classics, ragtime, popular songs and hits from Broadway, Fraelich and Coon will be joined by Luigi Mazzochi on violin, Mark O’Kain on the marimba and xylophone, and Jeffrey Uhlig on the piano.

Fraelich, a soprano, was last seen as Emily Hobbs in the Walnut Street Theaters production of ELF.  She has been performing professionally throughout the Philadelphia area at most of Philly’s top theaters including the Arden Theater, Walnut Street Theater, the Kimmel Center and the Academy of Music.  She made her Broadway debut in “The Civil War,”  toured throughout the United States as the narrator in “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” and sang with the Broadway Gospel Choir at Carnegie Hall.

Coon, a baritone, has been a member of Philadelphia’s theatre community since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992.  He has performed in close to 100 professional productions and worked at most of the area’s theatre companies including Walnut Street Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Act 2 Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Prince Music Theatre and many others.

Mazzocchi, a native of Venezuela, is a founding member of the Serafin String Quartet, performing twice at Weill Recital Hall.  He is currently a member of the Orchestra of the Opera Company of Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Ballet, The Delaware Symphony, The Ocean City Pops, Gaudeamus Ensemble, and the Faculty of the Wilmington Music School.

O’Kain is principal percussionist with The Ocean City POPS Orchestra in Ocean City, New Jersey.  In addition, he is the orchestra’s Personnel Manager and Music Librarian.  In the 2013-2014 season, he was percussionist on the National Tour of “Porgy and Bess.” Recently, he toured all over North America for several seasons with “Mary Poppins.”

Uhlig has appeared as collaborative pianist with notable performances at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC and at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York.  He plays regularly with many members of The Philadelphia Orchestra including Concert Master David Kim, Principal Cellist, Hai-Ye Ni and Principal Trombonist, Nitzan Haroz.

PHOTO: Kristine Fraelich performs live at Tel Hai Retirement Community on Saturday, June 27 at 7:30 PM in  ‘Tel Hai Goes Pop!’  Admission to the event is free and open to the public.

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.

June 16: A Tel Hai Concert Series Performance-  Keystone Brass Quintent

2015.5.20 Tel Hai Hosts Keystone Brass QuintetTel 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.

June 4 & 5, 2015: Tel Hai Hosts Annual Public Bargain Book Sale

2015.5.20 BooksTel 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 Partners with Hearts & Hugs of Hope for May Pajama Drive

2015.4.30 Pajama DriveTel 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.