LONGVIEW NEWS

January Events:

January 2020 Edition

All Administrative Offices Closed for the HolidayFun with Food: MyPlate - Fruits • 2:30 p.m.Bethany’s last day at Longview! (Farewell Tea to come)Ring in the New Year w/Johnny Russo & The East Hill Classic Jazz Trio • 3 p.m.Cornell Companions Pet Therapy Visits • 10 a.m.Tenant Council Meeting • 1:30 p.m.Music with the Fortnight Singers • 6:30 p.m.Protestant Communion with Rev. Kirianne Weaver • 2 p.m.Book Club (A) Discussion: A Spark of Light • 3:30 p.m.January Birthday Party with George Mann • 7 p.m.Book Club (B) Discussion: Boys in the Boat •10:30 a.m.Fun with Food: MyPlate – Vegetables • 2:30 p.m.Holiday Bazaar Meeting • 2 p.m.Door Decorating Contest voting at Afternoon Tea! • 3 p.m.E/ALR Council Meeting • 1 p.m.Spiritual Life Meeting • 1 p.m.Sing-Along with Bev • 3 p.m.Trumansburg Community Chorus • 6:30 p.m.Fun with Food: MyPlate – Grains • 2:30 p.m.Cornell Companions Pet Therapy visits • 10 a.m.Martin Luther King Jr. Day Coffee Talk with Mark • 10:30 a.m.Recreation Committee Meeting • 1:30 p.m.First Day of Classes at Ithaca College Music with the Fortnight Singers • 6:30 p.m.Stretch Your Spirit: Movie • 2 p.m.Fun with Food: MyPlate – Dairy • 2:30 p.m.Chinese New YearBuilding Committee Meeting • 1:30 p.m.Food Committee Meeting • 1:30 p.m. Celebration of Life • 2 p.m.Be Sharp! Stay Sharp! • 3 p.m.

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Longview’s January Birthday party is:

Wednesday, January 8 with George Mann• Auditorium

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LaBerta McGruder Doris Baylor David Lesser Susan ByrEllen StotzClara CamilliElliot Schrank Lury Wallenbeck Jean Gortzig Connie VonBorstelBonita Wilhelm Bernita Whiting

IC Speaker: Exploring the Origins of French Tourism thru Travelogues • 7 p.m.Gardens & Grounds Committee Meeting • 1:30 p.m.Fun with Food: MyPlate – Protein • 2:30 p.m.Jazz Club Performance at Afternoon Tea • 3 p.m.

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Recreation NewsBy Bree Nash

Happy New Year, Longview!

For the past three years our department has thoroughly enjoyed working alongside Bethany Calkins, Assistant Recreation Coordinator. After returning from maternity leave, she’s made the decision to stay home with her sweet baby boy, Bradford. Bethany has added so much to our department and we will miss her greatly. Luckily for us, she will be back (with Bradford) to volunteer from time to time! Bethany’s last day will be January 2, but we’ll invite her back to have a proper farewell tea mid-January!

Students currently are enjoying time away from school and studying, but come January 21 they’ll be back in town! If you’re interested in having a friendly visitor, please speak to the Recreation staff.

In January we’ll be putting together a Who’s Who? program. Start looking through your photos of when you were younger and pass them along to the Recreation Department. We’ll copy your photo and promptly return the original to you. We’ll have a great time guessing who’s who during an afternoon tea in early February. Also, please write on a piece of paper clues about yourself that we can use if we’re stumped!

Requests and notifications: • As it’s been happening more and more in recent months, I’d like to request that all cell phones be muted or turned on vibrate mode during concerts, movies, meetings and programs alike. It’s disruptive to other residents and to the guest presenters. If you’re unsure on how to mute or switch your phone to vibrate, please don’t hesitate reaching out to our department and we’ll walk you through the steps!

• Did you know there are personal amplification devices available in the auditorium? If you’re having trouble hearing the movie or speaker, the devices are kept in the media cabinet on the wall near the door leading into the Game Room. Directions are attached to the top. You’re always welcome to ask a staff member if any assistance is needed! When you’re done, simply give it back to the staff member present so we can clean the device and make sure the battery is turned off completely.

Best,Bree, Bethany, Sarah, Laurie, Soni, Vera and Cora

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Ithaca College Partnership Events By Jessica Valdez TavesHappy New Year from Ithaca College!

The Ithaca College Community would like to wish everyone at Longview the very best in the New Year!

Following the winter holiday break, the campus will reopen on Thursday, January 2. If you are planning to come to campus during January before classes resume, please be aware that some facilities may be closed, or only open for limited hours. The spring semester begins on Tuesday, January 22.

Be Sharp! Stay Sharp! Exercise your brain!

Be Sharp! Stay Sharp!, Chris Pogorzala’s ‘brain aerobics’ group, will resume in the new year on Wednesday, January 29 at 3 p.m. in the Ithaca College Classroom on the second floor of Longview.

Come join the group for puzzles, trivia, questions and laughs that will be sure to get your brain and body in shape for the new year! All are welcome!

Shuttle Service between IC and LV EXTENDED

The shuttle that runs between Ithaca College and Longview will have extended hours starting in January of 2020!

Monday-Wednesday-Friday: 8:45 a.m.-3:15 p.m. (times are approximate)Tuesday & Thursdays: 8:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The shuttle stops at Center for Health Sciences and Textor Hall.

The shuttle runs when IC Classes are in session and will begin on Tuesday, January 21 for the spring semester. If you anticipate using the shuttle on a regular basis in the spring and need alternate pick-up/drop off locations, contact Jessica Taves by January 10.

Information on the Ithaca College Course Schedule for Spring 2020

Longview residents interested in taking classes at IC may audit up to six credit hours of courses during the spring semester, for free! Registration is on a space available basis, requiring per-mission of the instructor. The Longview/IC Shuttle provides transportation to courses offered on Mon/Wed/Fri at 9, 10, 11,12, 1 & 2 p.m. (these are 50 minute class sessions) and on Tues/Thurs at 9:25 and 10:50 (these are 75 minute class sessions).

Classes for the spring semester will begin on Tuesday, January 21.

Information on the courses offered in the Spring 2020 semester can be found online. A hand-out with instructions for looking up classes online can be found on the IC Information rack

located at the end of the short hallway on the left, just inside the main Longview entry doors.

There are also four notebooks with print copies of the course schedule available to be signed out from the Recreation staff. These books show only the courses that occur during the LV/IC shuttle schedule.

Jessica Taves will offer advising sessions for those interested in auditing courses. These ses-sions will run on a first come, first served basis with 20 minute appointments. Jessica will assist people in looking up course possibilities, requesting permissions and filling out regis-tration forms. The dates and times for these sessions are listed below.

Advising Sessions in the Ithaca College Classroom at Longview• Monday, January 6 from 1-3 p.m.• Tuesday, January 7 from 9-10:30 a.m.

If there are questions about taking courses or using the online course schedule, contact Bree Nash at Longview, or Jessica Taves at Ithaca College (274-1051 or jtaves@ithaca.edu).

Spring Semester Opportunities to Interact with IC Students at Longview

Mindfulness and Aging course will be offered in the spring semester, by Mary Ann Erick-son from the Gerontology Institute. This course will take place at Longview in the IC Class-room on the 2nd Level, on Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:25-10:40 a.m. She invites all Longview tenants with an interest in learning about mindfulness to consider participating in this course.

Tenants may officially audit the class for the entire semester (must register through Jessica Taves) or choose to sit in occasionally. In particular, tenants may attend on five Thursdays (2/6, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, and 3/5) to cover the material in Sharon Salzberg’s book Real Hap-piness. Tenants who are interested in working with Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer’s Mindful Self Compassion Workbook can attend on 3/19, 3/26, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23, and 4/30.

Please contact Jessica Taves (jtaves@ithaca.edu)/(607) 274-1051 or Bree Nash in recreation with any questions or your intention on participation.

IC Lecture Series for January: Exploring the origins of French Tourism through Historic Travel Logs and Adventures!

On Wednesday, January 29, from 7 – 8 p.m. in the Longview auditorium, Assistant Professor of French, Rachel Paparone, will give an overview of the origins of ecotourism and green marketing through the lens of early French explorers Giovanni da Verrazzano, Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain.

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Neighbors’ Corner By B.J. Goetz

Rachel Kaufmann and Her Hand-Sewn QuiltsRachel began quilting circa 1980’s when she retired as a Kinder-garten Teacher in Spring Valley, NY. She continues to stitch in the weekly Longview Quilting Class. Rachel shares, when she was a child, her mother quilted and braided rag rugs as part of daily activities using all sorts of scrap fabric available in those days. This display is only a small amount of Rachel’s wall quilts. Large bed quilts, Christmas decorations, small beverage mats, and numerous creative items, keep Rachel’s fingers sewing thread through materials. Each hand-sewn wall quilt in this display has a story behind it. Ask Rachel about them.

HISTORY OF QUILTS A quilt is a cloth sandwich. The term “quilt” comes from the Latin culcito, mean-ing a stuffed sack, meaning the act of stitch-ing 3 layers of material together. In America, the hand-sewn quilt was originally a strictly utilitarian article of providing warm covers for beds. Quilts were also used as hangings for doors and windows that were not sealed well enough to keep out the cold. The earliest American quilts were made by English and Dutch settlers in the 1670’s and no record of them exists. During the early years of American Colonization, most Colo-nial women were busy spinning, weaving and sewing the clothes for their family, so had little time for artistic quilting. Early 1800’s Only the wealthy created the Appliqué quilts as they could afford the prices of fine imported fabric, and they had the leisure time to create fine needlework. A custom in these early years, young girls made a baker’s dozen quilt tops before she was engaged, plus one masterpiece quilt for her bridal bed. After her engagement, she would take the final steps into finishing all twelve quilts. In the mid-1800’s, Henry Davis of Chicago invented a separate quilting attachment to the sewing machine that was powered with a foot treadle or hand crank. This altered the depen-dence on hand-sewing.

Today’s Quilters 2000’s: Settlements in Pennsylvania and the Midwest finally did begin the early artistic quilting which now is known as American Folk-art. Now quilt making is practiced with more relaxation than out of necessity. Presently quilters enjoy more as leisure-time activities. It also represents a tradition of artistic expression and achievement by passing on the quilts to children and grandchildren as family legacies. This rich heritage of quilt making is left by thrifty, self-sufficient women whose history is sewn together, one patch at a time. Quilt making has become the Fabric Artist’s Medium with new styles and techniques.

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Longview Door Decorating Contest!

All residents, tenants and staff are welcome to enter. Please submit the entry form below to the Recreation department by

Wednesday, January 8.

Possible theme ideas include: holiday, winter, Hanukkah, Christmas, Solstice, New Year’s, etc. Have fun and good luck!

Details: Door decoration must be completed by Wednesday, January 8, 2019. All are welcome to vote for your favorite door at

Afternoon Tea on Friday, January 10 at 3:00PM. There will be a prize for both the resident/tenant category along with staff cate-

gory. Submit your entry form to the Recreation Department when your door decoration is complete and a photo will be taken.

Contest restrictions: Please refrain from using an extension cord out-side your door. Nothing may obstruct the hallway. Do not use items

that may be a fire hazard. No adhesives are allowed on the door itself. Painting the door or physically altering the door is not allowed.

I want to participate in the door decorating contest!

Name: __________________________

Apt number/office: ________________

Happy New Year to All! The wheel of the year has turned round once again, and brings with it a new decade! Welcome to the third decade of the 21st century! In these early days of the year, we are exhorted and encouraged to envision ourselves anew, to make those changes we’ve always intended to make. Resolutions abound. Pronouncements are made. Gym memberships are bought. Un-fortunately, though, studies show that as good as our intentions are, we have a hard time on the discipline and the follow-through. One such infamous study revealed that only 8% of people keep their New Year’s Resolutions!

We aspire to be healthier, kinder, more disciplined, more skilled, thinner, stronger, bet-ter at making good choices, more decisive, less prone to our addictions and governed by our habits – but it seems like our actual selves, and not our aspirational selves, rule the day. We often fall short of who we hope to be. How we accept the actuality of our pres-ent while holding the intention of something different in the future is a spiritual conun-drum that besets people of all faith traditions! The default is to stay who we are, where we are, and keep going where we’re going, rather than change, or change course. Many spiritual traditions acknowledge the difficulty of real, substantive, transformative change, and many also speak to the ingenious, if devious, ways we devise to resist having to change. The Christian tradition speaks of the need for repentance, for metanoia -- “go-ing beyond the mind,” or “change of mind” -- in the Greek. The Jewish tradition affirms the need for atonement or repentance in order to accomplish ethical self-transformation. Many strains of Buddhism offer practices for being present to and mindful of both the constancy of change, and the inner states of mind that make us susceptible to addiction and to resisting the self-refinements that life gives us the opportunity to make. The in-clusive spiritual path of the 12 Steps provides deep practical applications for both accept-ing the reality of our current state, and for spiritually grounding a path of inward trans-formation that leads to outward change.

Within all of these traditions, we find recognition both for the idea that change is built into the nature of life, and that change is hard. Frequently change is necessary. Often it is inevitable. We humans get stuck in our habits and patterns. We even get very attached to them and feel entitled for them to always stay the same, regardless of the consequenc-es to ourselves or others, which we may prefer to ignore or deny. In cultivating spiritual practices and presence in the New Year, and in seeking to live mindfully and faithfully into change, whether that is change that is thrust upon us unwillingly, or change that we seek to make, I am reminded of the verse from the New Testament Gospel of Luke: “the one who is faithful in little, is faithful in much.” Sometimes the only commitment we may be able to keep is to try again, to begin again, to take one small step, falter, go back-ward, take another step, and another. Yoda may have said, “Do or do not. There is no try,” but he was a Jedi and I am not. For me it is more like Do and do not. Just try.”

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So it is at the New Year, and at the middle of the year, and at the end of the year. Begin. And begin again. Blessings to all of us in our efforts and endeavors! RebeccaSeeking spiritual nourishment in the New Year? There are numerous ways to feed your soul at Longview! Our regular weekly offerings include Psalm Study with Rabbi Eli on Mondays at 3:30 p.m. in the Adult Day Room, Praying the Rosary at 4:10 p.m. in the Chapel on Wednesdays, Ecumenical Christian Hymn Sing on Thursdays at 4 p.m. in the Chapel, Shabbat on Fridays at 4 p.m. in the Chapel, and Worship on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. for Catholic Communion, and 2 p.m. for an Ecumenical Protestant service. In addition to these regular offerings, don’t forget that Protestant Communion happens every first Wednesday of the month at 2 p.m. in the chapel. Also, this month, we’ll have a Spiritual Life Committee meeting at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, January 15. The Spiritual Life Committee is open to anyone with an interest in the Spiritual Life of Longview! The meeting offers you a chance to voice concerns, raise issues, suggest programs, and bring forward whatever is on your heart and mind! January 22 we will be showing the movie “Arranged,” an award-winning film about interfaith friendship between a Muslim woman and a Jewish woman, with an opportunity to discuss the film at its conclusion. Lastly, at the end of the month we will gather to celebrate the lives of those beloved Longview friends and family who have passed away in the last few months, on Wednes-day January 29 at 2 p.m. in the Auditorium.

Finally, we’ve got two volunteer opportunities in Spiritual Life if you are looking for a way to get involved! If you play the piano, we need you! We have several friends who are faithful in music ministry, but we could use a deeper bench! If you are interested in occasionally or regularly playing the piano for a Sunday worship service, a Thursday hymn sing, or a special service, please reach out to Rebecca! We also are looking for USHERS for Protestant Worship, once a month, at 2 p.m. on Sunday! No experience necessary!

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Spiritual Life Calendar By Rebecca Schillenback

HAPPY NEW YEAR!Hymn Sing • 4 p.m. Welcoming Shabbat • 4 p.m. Catholic Communion • 10:30 a.m.Protestant Worship with Ms. Karen Kaufmann • 2 p.m.Exploring the Psalms with Rabbi Eli • 3 :30 p.m.Protestant Communion with Rev. Kirianne Riehl • 2 p.m.Praying the Rosary • 4:10 p.m.Hymn Sing • 4 p.m. Welcoming Shabbat • 4 p.m. Catholic Communion • 10:30 a.m. Protestant Worship with Pastor Richard Lloyd • 2 p.m.Exploring the Psalms with Rabbi Eli, Adult Day Room • 3 :30 p.m.Spiritual Life Committee meeting • 1 p.m.Hymn Sing • 4 p.m. Welcoming Shabbat • 4 p.m. Catholic Communion • 10 a.m. Protestant Worship with Rev. Rob Foote • 2 p.m.Exploring the Psalms with Rabbi Eli, Adult Day Room • 3 :30 p.m.Stretch Your Spirit: Movie • 2 p.m.Hymn Sing • 4 p.m. Welcoming Shabbat • 4 p.m. Catholic Communion • 10:30 a.m. Protestant Worship with Mr. JW Betts • 2 p.m.Exploring the Psalms with Rabbi Eli, Adult Day Room • 3 :30 p.m.CELEBRATION OF LIFE SERVICE, Auditorium • 2 p.m.Hymn Sing • 4 p.m. Welcoming Shabbat • 4 p.m.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!Hymn Sing • 4 p.m. Welcoming Shabbat • 4 p.m. Catholic Communion • 10:30 a.m.Protestant Worship with Ms. Karen Kaufmann • 2 p.m.Exploring the Psalms with Rabbi Eli • 3 :30 p.m.Protestant Communion with Rev. Kirianne Riehl • 2 p.m.Praying the Rosary • 4:10 p.m.Hymn Sing • 4 p.m. Welcoming Shabbat • 4 p.m. Catholic Communion • 10:30 a.m. Protestant Worship with Pastor Richard Lloyd • 2 p.m.Exploring the Psalms with Rabbi Eli, Adult Day Room • 3 :30 p.m.Spiritual Life Committee meeting • 1 p.m.Hymn Sing • 4 p.m. Welcoming Shabbat • 4 p.m. Catholic Communion • 10 a.m. Protestant Worship with Rev. Rob Foote • 2 p.m.Exploring the Psalms with Rabbi Eli, Adult Day Room • 3 :30 p.m.Stretch Your Spirit: Movie • 2 p.m.Hymn Sing • 4 p.m. Welcoming Shabbat • 4 p.m. Catholic Communion • 10:30 a.m. Protestant Worship with Mr. JW Betts • 2 p.m.Exploring the Psalms with Rabbi Eli, Adult Day Room • 3 :30 p.m.CELEBRATION OF LIFE SERVICE, Auditorium • 2 p.m.Hymn Sing • 4 p.m. Welcoming Shabbat • 4 p.m.

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Protestant Worship Services Longview Chapel • Sundays at 2 p.m.

Ms. Karen Kaufmann • St. Paul’s United MethodistPastor Richard Lloyd • Formerly B’dale Baptist Rev. Robert Foote • Trinity LutheranMr. J.W. Betts • CRU Cornell

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A Special Thank You...Longview would like to thank True Insurance for their donation of calendar clocks for all the residents who live in the Garden. We hope these clocks help our residents better track time, day, and date. We know how important it is for residents to stay oriented so they can take advantage of our activitycalendar.

Independent Tenant Council Committees

I would like to remind all tenants and residents at Longview that the Independent Tenant Council has four committees which are part of the Council. These committees are the Building Committee, the Food Committee, the Garden and Grounds Committee and the Recreation Committee. They generally meet every month where they discuss issues under their area that affect those at Longview. Even though these committees are under the Independent Tenant Council, everyone is invited to contribute. All of the committee meetings are listed in the weekly Recreation Schedule. I hope that we will see many of you attending and contributing your ideas at the committee meetings. Thank you.

Allen Minsky, President Independent Tenant Council

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Longview Happenings

Do you have a photo you’d like featured in the newsletter? Email

your high resolution photo to, Kathleen Burke at

kburke@longviewithaca.org for consideration or contact her

with suggestions at 607-375-6315.

Visit www.longviewithaca.org to view current recreation schedules, menus, newsletters, etc. www.longviewithaca.org/mylongview

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My gift is: in memory of in honor of_________________________________Please send notification of this tribute to:Name: ______________________________ Address: ____________________________

Thank you for supporting us!

My check made payable to Longview is enclosed. (notate “Vehicle Fund” in memo)

Please charge my VISA/Mastercard as follows:

Credit Card #_____________________________ 3 Digit Security Code on back of Card ____________ Expiration Date ______________ Signature _______________________________

Please use my gift for the Vehicle Fund:

Ithacare is a 501c(3) nonprofit, charitable organization. In accordance with IRS regulations,

your contribution is fully tax deductible.

Please submit to Sue Howe, in Administrative Office M-F from 8:30-5 p.m.

As many of you know, Longview’s transporta-tion services are in jeopardy. After 15 years of vigorous use, Longview’s bus is repeatedly in need of repairs, is often out of service and needs to be replaced. A new bus is estimated to cost $56,000.

Longview is grateful for the many generous gifts it has received so far. If you have not made a gift already, Longview hopes you will consider doing so as many at Longview are not able to drive themselves or do not feel safe do-ing so given the often inclement weather and hilly terrain of our community.

“I feel blessed to have [Longview] transportation to take us places. I’m not sure how I would get what I need without it – I might not go anywhere at all if it weren’t for Longview,” said R.P. Longview tenant.

Below outlines various gift-giving levels and corresponding naming features. A plaque in recognition of the generosity of all those who have kindly given to Longview’s vehicle donation fund will be displayed in the interview room in their honor.

Longview is a registered 501(C)(3) nonprofit organization. Your donation is deductible to the full extent of the current tax law. Gifts may also be made in honor or in memorial of a loved one! Thank you kindly in advance for your consideration. If you have already given a gift to the vehicle fund, you will be contacted to see if you would like to be part of the donor listing. Thanks again to all who have already climbed aboard!

Diamond Donor: $10,000 & up Gold Donor $1,500-$4,999 Platinum Donor: $5,000-$9,999 Silver Donor $500-$1,499

Bronze Donor: $100-$499

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How I wish that when I was a young adult some-one had told me to take a long view of life. I wish I knew then what I know now — that I would change profoundly and yet stay the same, that I would overcome challenges that would fundamentally alter the course of my life and that life would grace me with the opportunity to reinvent myself many times over.

I wish someone had told me not to fear aging. That aging brings with it not just aches, wrinkles and discrimination. That it also brings freedom — freedom from the anguish of worrying about what others think of me, from imposter syndrome and from the expectation that my life plays out exactly according to plan. Freedom to live in the moment, to revel in the accomplishments of others and embrace interdependence.

It can be difficult to imagine ourselves at age 90, but the odds are that many of us will live this long, perhaps even to age 100 or beyond. The set of demographic changes that leads to this longer life expectancy also means that our social institutions will need to un-dergo major changes. Our health care, pension and family systems cannot maintain the status quo in the face of our nation’s changing demographics.

So, too, will the course of our individual lives need to change. The age-segregated struc-ture of our lives — transitioning through life in three distinct stages from education, to work, to retirement — may no longer be sustainable or even desirable. Longer lives bring with them the opportunity to reimagine their structure. It can be liberating to think of our lives as having many opportunities to reinvent ourselves and change course. To in-vest our energies in our relationships, our communities and ourselves in fulfilling and creative new ways.

As young adults, we often feel pressure to “figure out what we want to do with our lives,” as though somehow in our late teens or early 20s it is possible to anticipate our interests, motivations and circumstances for decades into the future. Adopting a long view of life relieves us of some of that pressure. Yes, the decisions we make today are important, but there is time to make new decisions, to change course and to retool. When we are 100 and look back on our lives, we will likely marvel at all that we did not know, all that we could not have possibly predicted when we were starting out in adulthood. A long view of life encourages us to embrace possibility and keep an open mind to the future.

One great way to broaden our views of life — to take the long view — is to learn about ag-ing. The Ithaca College gerontology department offers students the opportunity to do just that through a range of interdisciplinary social science courses examining many different

Commentary: Aging is an opportunity for freedom By Elizabeth Bergman

Dr. Elizabeth Bergman

Published in The Ithacan, 11-6-19

Love living at Longview? Tell your friends or family! Refer them and get rewarded!

• Provide Longview with the name and number to call of your friend or family member!

• The new resident/tenant must mention the current resident/tenant’s name during admission process in order to be eligible for referral incentive (note- it MUST come from the new resident/tenant ONLY.)

• New resident/tenant must sign lease/residency agreement for referring resident/tenant to be eligible for incentive. (New resident/tenant does not physically have to be here.) Incentive does not apply for individuals just joining the wait list.

If you refer someone, you may get a $1,000 referral credit towards next month’s rent bill!

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Your Name: _____________________________ Apt #___________

Name of Person You’re Referring: _______________________________

Referral’s Phone Number: _____________________________________(please provide form to case management)

Did you know Longview Has A Referral Program?

aspects of the aging experience. Another great way to learn to take the long view of life is to spend time with elders. Longview is a senior housing community up the road from our campus with which the college has had a formal partnership for 20 years. This inter-nationally recognized intergenerational partnership offers students the unique opportu-nity to glimpse into their futures. Students learn from those who have come before them through curricular and extracurricular programs, field placements, volunteerism and work-study opportunities. In learning about aging, we are guaranteed at the very least to gain knowledge that will be of direct benefit to us and our loved ones in very real ways.

However, we are very likely to gain a transformative new long view of life and gain trea-sured new friends in the process. To learn more about how you can gain a long view of life, contact the Ithaca College Gerontology Institute or visit us in Job Hall.

Commentary: Aging is an opportunity for freedom By Elizabeth Bergman

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Good Neighbor

We’re lucky to have so many good neighbors here at Longview. You might know someone who waters your plants for you when you’re away, or delivers packages to your door, or checks in on you when you’re not feeling well. Our Good Neighbor award aims to shine a light on those residents or tenants who go above and beyond.

No deed is too small! Nominate someone who has done something to make someone else’s life a little easier or brighter. Fill out the form below and return it to the box outside the Business office on the 3rd floor by 5 p.m. on January 22. Staff will determine this month’s Good Neighbor from the submitted nominations. The Good Neighbor will be notified in advance of the story that will appear in the Longview News. Questions? Call Kathleen in the DCR office at 375-6315, email kburke@longviewithaca.org or submit nominations outside the 3rd floor Business office.

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Editor:Kathleen Burke

Contributors:B.J. Goetz

Allen MinskyBree Nash

Rebecca Schillenback Jessica Valdez Taves

Liz Yale