DOG PARK, PLAY, RUN AREA ENJOYED BY MANY!

History : Dog Run and play area was finished by June 15, 2021 and built with money raised by the Dog Run committee from dog lovers and owners on the Easthampton campus. .. Builders were Doris Atkinson, Bill and Jane Hollow, Sherrod and Bill Keane. A few family members joined in.

The Dog Play area is at the end of Bassett Brook Drive and has a double gate entrance, benches and a poop bag dispenser. It was built with cattle panels and standard farm fence posts…..the area is kept up by Jane Hol-loway who mows the area with and electric mower .

All campus dogs that were able have visited the area. The area is for resi-dents and their dogs only but residents who have family members with dogs

that visit the campus are welcome to use the area as long as they stay with their pet and pick up after them.

If you need more information abut the park call Sherrod at 203-1252 or Jane at 203 5000

Sept. 19, 2021 — Sept. 25, 2021

COMMUNITY LIFE

Rachel, Josephs daughter and George from Huckleberry play with Misty (Sherrod’s) Maggie (Jane’s) and

Marco (Amelia’s)

Sunday, September 19th Soup: Cream of Broccoli (V)

Salad: Marinated Tomato Salad

Entrée 1: Roast Tenderloin of Beef Bordelaise

Entrée 2: Grilled Salmon w/ Honey Orange Ginger glaze

Side Dishes: Wild Rice, Peas & Pearl Onions, and Broiled Roma Tomatoes

Dessert: Boston Crème Pie

Monday, September 20th Soup: Potato & Leek Soup (V)

Salad: Cherry Jell-O with Pineapples & Celery

Entrée 1: Sweet & Sour Chicken

Entrée 2: Baked Ham w/ Pineapple Glaze

Side Dishes: White Rice, Baby Carrots, Snow Peas

Dessert: Apple Pie

Tuesday, September 21st Soup: Beef Barley

Salad: Mustard Potato Salad

Entrée 1: Pork Tenderloin w/ Portobello Mushrooms

Entrée 2: Baked Scrod on leek Compote

Side Dishes: Parmesan Mashed Potatoes, Mushroom & Roasted Red Peppers, and Sautéed Zucchini

Dessert: Lemon Pound Cake

Wednesday, September 22nd Soup: Curried Carrot (V)

Salad: Fennel, Orange & Shaved Red Onions over Romaine

Entrée 1: Meatloaf

Entrée 2: Salmon & Shrimp Cake served on warm Mustard

Side Dishes: Rosemary roasted Red Bliss potatoes, Wilted Spinach, and Maple Glazed Rutabaga

Dessert: Cherry Cobbler

Thursday, September 23rd Soup: Chicken Mushroom Wild Rice

Salad: Broccoli Salad

Entrée 1: Lemon Caesar marinated Grilled Swordfish

Entrée 2: Grilled NY Strip Steak w/ Gorgonzola But-ter

Side Dishes: Penne Pasta, Julienne vegetables, and Buttered Cauliflower

Dessert: Tiramisu

Friday, September 24th Soup: Southwest Vegetable kidney Bean

Salad: Cole Slaw

Entrée 1: Fish Fry (Beer battered Haddock)

Entrée 2: Turkey Scaloppini Marsala

Side Dishes: French fries, Broccoli Florets, Basil Corn

Dessert: Butterscotch Pudding

Saturday, September 25th Soup: New England Clam Chowder

Salad: Spinach with Apples, Walnuts, and Craisins

Entrée 1: Chicken Parmesan

Entrée 2: Beef Bolognese

Side Dishes: Spaghetti, Wax Beans, and Zucchini

Dessert: Pecan pie

Townhome Residents can make reservations for dinner in the Dining Room. 24 hour notice

is required. Those with a meal plan are still receiving delivery unless otherwise specified.

Vegetarian Option Available (V) / Protein: Tofu or Tempeh

DINING DELIGHTS

ONLINE LEARNING AT THE INN ~ ONE DAY UNIVERSITY

Don’t miss out on these fascinating talks scheduled weekly. Here's this week's selection:

Tuesday, Sept 21 @ 10:15: George Gershwin and his Remarkable Musical Masterpiece Thursday, Sept. 23 @ 10:15: Modern Art: Edouard Monet, Father of Modern Painting Friday, Sept. 24 @ 10:15: A (Very) Short History of Photography Friday, Sept. 24 @ 1:00: Rating the Presidents 1-45 (Repeat Showing) Saturday, Sept. 25 @ 1:45: Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists: Why the Battle over the

Constitution Still Matters Special Note: Fridays at 1:00pm have been added to the schedule for repeats of the “greatest hits”. Open to all residents. Shown in the Life Enrichment Center.

EAST COMMUNITY CHANNEL 901 PROGRAM LINE-UP (Changes Weekly on Tuesday)

7:30am – Documentary, NYC’s High Line

8:30am - Concert: VH1 Divas Live

10:00am – Healthy Bones and Balance

11:00am – Chair Yoga with Matt

11:30am – Jeanne Robertson: Live from the Back Porch

12:40pm – Concert: VH1 Divas live

2:00pm – Documentary, NYC’s High Line

3:00pm – History: The Tragic Life of Edgar Allen Poe

4:00pm – Travel Programming (coinciding with Julie’s weekly program)

5:00pm – Concert: BBC Proms: NYO-USA

7:00pm – Movie of the Week: Something for the Boys (1944)

MT. TOM MOVIES

Saturday, 9/18: Field of Dreams—When Iowa farmer Ray (Kevin Costner) hears a mysterious voice one night in his cornfield saying "If you build it, he will come," he feels the need to act. Despite taunts of lunacy, Ray builds a baseball diamond on his land, supported by his wife, Annie (Amy Madigan). Afterward, the ghosts of great players start emerging from the crops to play ball, led by "Shoeless" Joe Jackson. But, as Ray learns, this field of

dreams is about much more than bringing former baseball greats out to play. Wednesday, 9/22: The Goodbye Girl—Former Broadway hoofer Paula McFadden (Marsha Mason) and her young daughter, Lucy (Quinn Cummings), are outraged to find that Paula's former lover has fled to Europe and subleased their apartment to hyper Chicago actor Elliot Garfield (Richard Dreyfuss). Neither Marsha nor Elliot is prepared to acknowledge the other's right to the apartment, but they reluctantly agree to share it. Despite their opposite natures and constant bickering, when Elliot's play fails, Marsha is surprisingly affected.

COMMUNITY LIFE

WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR THE PLANET

By Daphne Stevens

Following opposing viewpoints in this publication on climate destabilization, I thought I might add s short list of what you CAN do. Shen Pauley said to embrace it but as a 40 year climate activist who is still fighting, I can’t embrace the loss of the planet I cherish. I applaud Marny Smith for her article about the discussion about what we eat. Raising livestock for consumption is the single most destructive act we do to the Earth.

From Green America, my favorite climate magazine, I am going to list a few of the Ten Ways You Can Fight Climate Change.

1. Eliminate Food Waste: Project Drawdown, an important climate book states that we waste 70.5 gigatons of CO2, a bigger impact than restoring 435 million acres of tropical for-ests. What does the Inn do with the leftovers on your plates?

2. Divest: “ so far the fossil fuel divestment movement has removed $9.94 trillion from fossil fuel companies.” Go to GreenPages.org a list of financial products and service. If Harvard can do it, though it took 10 years, you can do it too.

3. Use LED lighting: Project Drawdown says universal adoption of LED bulbs could prevent 7.89 gigatons of carbon emissions. In our town house bathrooms, there is space for 4 bulbs over the sink. From the beginning we have only used the two outside sockets which give plenty of light.

4. Buy less: especially plastic which also includes clothes. 90% of our clothes are second hand or inherited.

I know many of us here feel we are in a safe bubble but as the planet heats up, we are as likely to suffer as the rest of the planet with high winds, hurricanes, tornadoes, tropical rains dropping 10 inches or more, blizzards. I have never seen so many tornado warnings as I have on weather maps with summer thunderstorms, including today, as I have this summer. We are all in this together.

HELPING HANDS During the recent food drive to recognize National Food Bank Day, Lathrop donated

over 180 pounds of food to the Northampton Survival Center.

The North Campus completed another 2031 piece Habitat for Humanity mailing this week. Thirty-seven residents helped to complete what turned out to be the most challenging mailing ever. The challenge was caused by little round stickers that had minds of their own. Thank you to all who per-

severed!

SAVE THE DATE: TRIP TO ARCADIA WILDLIFE SANCTUARY! Wednesday October 6, 2:00 pm

For those of you who would like to take a walk in the woods, Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary will be sponsoring a program and walk on their trails on Wednesday October 6th @ 2:00 accompanied by an Arcadia

naturalist. There is a boardwalk trail which is easily accessible for people with walkers and another longer trail through the woods. The van will be available. More information and sign up sheets

coming soon!

COMMUNITY LIFE

MEDICARE OPEN ENROLLMENT AND SHINE

COUNSELORS EVENT

For those who might be considering making changes to your Medicare or Advantage plan, the an-nual open enrollment periods runs Oct 15 through Dec 7. The SHINE program (Serving the Health Insurance Needs of Everyone) provides free counselors to help you navigate this often complex decision. Lathrop will host a zoom event with the regional director of the program on October 5 at 3pm to learn more. Look for that link in the next two weeks, or email Rob to have it sent directly.

Meanwhile, this counselors can get busy so you may want to get scheduled. Contact either the Northampton or Easthampton seniors center where volunteers are active. Cooley Dickinson also hosts a SHINE counselor. You can call the Case Mgmt. Dept. there at 582-2248

VACCINES AND BOOSTERS A reminder that our Flu vaccine clinics are scheduled for Oct 13 (East) and Oct 20 (North) We expect the pharmacy team to arrive by 8:30. Please call the Main desk at 586-0006 to schedule for either clinic. We’ve all learned from our successful clinics

of the last year and hope to schedule them tightly. We will provide a written slip with your time as a reminder prior to the day. The vaccine administration record forms (VAR) will be available in the

mailrooms for you to have ready and ease the flow at the clinics.

There remains no new information about the availability of COVID booster vaccinations. The administration policy group is schedule to meet on 9/17 to weigh in and then we would expect an announcement from the CDC. Our Walgreens partners could offer nothing about the possibility of on-campus clinics. The CDC has approved the concurrent administration with the flu vaccine but it seems clear that they will not overlap for us. We can be assured that it they are approved, then they will be

easily enough obtained in the community. Stay tuned.

WELLNESS MATTERS

FAREWELL DENNIS! Wednesday, September 22 at 2:00pm there will be an ice cream social in front of the Inn. Residents and staff can come and bid Dennis a Fond farewell. There will be a special presenta-tion at 2:30. Transportation from the Meeting House is available—

residents must sign up.

HEY NORTH CAMPUS—SAVE THIS DATE!!!!

Welcome Coffee for our Interim Executive Director, Liz Weissbach, and our North Campus Coordinator, Donna King. Thursday, September 30, 10:00 to 11:30 Outside the Meeting House, on the porch, and under the canopy, with bagels, pastries, and fruit. Mimosas will be available.

STAFF SPOTLIGHT

NEXT MUSIC COMMITTEE CONCERT

The Green Street Brew September 19, 2pm, outside the Inn A fun-loving Northampton a capella group that has been de-lighting Pioneer Valley audiences since the late 1990s, the Green Street Brew offers a contemporary repertoire mixing jazz, swing, pop, folk, and blues. Its singers’ diverse vocal and instrumental backgrounds lend vibrancy and versatility to its sound. The “Brew” has enlivened such events as First Night

Northampton, The Really Big Show, the Look Park Transperformance, and the Local Vocal Chord Bowl. Like Novi Cantori, our splendid performers last Sunday, the Green Street Brew is led by Todd Fruth. Northampton Residents can sign up in the mailroom for the van from the Meeting House at 1:30.

HURRAY! HURRAH! HUZZAH! In whatever way you express delight or excitement, the Music Committee has news that will make you cheer: Lathrop management has given us the go ahead—unless a further tightening of COVID restrictions becomes necessary—to hold weekly Sunday concerts indoors at the Mt. Tom Room or the Meeting House. Long wintery Sunday afternoons will be lightened by music! However, to make that happen as safely as possible for everyone who chooses to attend, the fol-lowing special procedures must be observed:

1. All attendees must be Lathrop residents. No visitors will be permitted. 2. All audience members must be fully vaccinated and wear masks. Chairs will be placed 3 feet

apart before the concert, with the front row at least 10 feet back from the performers. Chairs should not be moved. More cautious attendees will have priority for seats near the back of the performance space.

3. To accommodate the approximately 60 people who usually attend Music Committee con-certs, the musicians will perform twice, once at 1:30pm and again at 3:00pm. (Those times have been carefully chosen: [a] to leave a half hour between performances for airing out the room and sanitizing the chairs and [b] to allow attendees to get home in winter before dark.

4. The audience at each performance will be limited to 30 people. Sign-up sheets limiting the number of attendees at each performance will be available in advance on both campuses. Van service will be provided between the concert location and the other campus only for the 1:30 performance. Easthampton residents will be encouraged to attend 1:30 concerts in Northampton, and vice versa. So watch out for further news about concerts, and be sure to sign up for those that you’re particularly eager to attend. To have the concerts at all, the audience at each performance must be limited to 30 people.

5. To enhance the safety of all occupants of the concert space, all performers will be fully vac-cinated. Instrumental musical groups will be favored over vocal ones, although no groups with wind instruments will be considered because of potential contagion from aerosols. All string, keyboard, and percussion instrumentalists will perform masked. Concerts with vocalists will be limited to a maximum of four singers.

As Confucius so wisely told us, “Music produces a kind of pleasure that human nature cannot do with-out.” We now have the opportunity to enjoy live music together in the dark of winter and the per-sistent uncertainty in which we’re all living--but only if we heed the safety measures outlined above.

MUSIC MATTERS

Baskets, weavings, paintings, jewelry, gift bags cookies, and more! Northampton residents

shared their creative side at their Creativity

Fair on Wednesday, September 15.

NORTH HAPPENINGS

MEETING HOUSE SCHEDULE:

SEPT.18 — SEPT. 25

Sat. Sept. 18 10:00 Guided Meditation—Gathering Room 2:00 Walk Around. Go Right!

Sun., Sept. 19 1:30 Van to the Inn for the Green Street Brew Concert

Mon. Sept. 20 Trash pick up 2:00 Healthy Bones and Balance Zoom

Tues. Sept. 21 1:00 Chris Hague Office Hours 10:00—2:00 Fitness with Jen—Call her at 437-5893 to schedule a session. 4:30 Bereavement Group on Zoom

Wed. Sept. 22 1:00 Rob Olmsted Office Hours 1:30 Handicraft group in the Gathering Room

3:30 Walk Around. Go Left! 5:30 Mayoral Candidate Forum on Zoom

Thurs. Sept. 23 10:30 Men’s Group— Zoom 10:00-2:00 Fitness with Jen—Call her at 437-5893 to schedule a session. 1:00 Holly Smith-Bove office hours 2:00 Healthy Bones and Balance on ZOOM

Sat. Sept. 24 10:00 Guided Meditation—Gathering Room 2:00 Walk Around. Go Right!

GET READY TO VOTE The Program Committee has arranged a candidate forum for the Mayoral candidates on Wednesday, September 22 from 5:30 to 6:30 on Zoom. Shelley Schieffelin will moderate the forum. Send questions for these candidates for Mayor to Shelley. There will also be time for questions that arise during the forum. If you do not have a mail-in ballot, request forms are avail-able in the mail room; they need to be to the City Clerk by September 22.

Join Zoom Meeting: Candidates forum for Lathrop North 5:30-6:30 pm on Sept 22. https://kendal-org.zoom.us/j/92049539560?pwd=ZmZvYnVsQXFKL3M4ZndLeTFFQS9Sdz09 Meeting ID: 920 4953 9560 Passcode: 222068 Dial in +1 646 558 8656 One tap mobile +16465588656,,92049539560# *********** We have not arranged a Zoom forum for the Candidates for Councilor at Large; however, Arlene Jennings has provided useful link to information about these candidates on NorthNeighbors. You can also register for a Councilor at Large Forum on September 21, 2021 from 7:00-8:30 ar-ranged by Climate Action Now. Follow this link to register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAudOyvqDkoG9HjQ3UeNGunD0aw1Oe5Vquq After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing your personal link for joining the meeting. The preliminary election to identify the top candidates for these two position will be held on Tuesday, September 28. Be sure your vote is counted!

NORTH HAPPENINGS