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Gazette Sunday, April 22, 2018 4800 Fillmore Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22311
PRIMARY ELECTIONS TUESDAY JUNE 12: Register to Vote or Request an
Absentee Ballot
You need to re-register if you have
moved or even just permanently
changed apartments within
Goodwin House since you last
voted.
In November, we will elect a U.S.
Senator, U.S. Representative, and
Alexandria Mayor, City Council,
and School Board.
Democratic and Republican parties
have primary elections on Tuesday,
June 12 to select candidates for
November’s General Election.
Democratic primaries are for
Alexandria Mayor and City
Council.
Republican primary is for U.S.
House of Representatives.
Deadline for registering to vote in a
primary is Monday, May 21.
Deadline to request an absentee
ballot is Tuesday, June 5.
Deadline for the Registrar to receive
an absentee ballot is 5:00 p.m.
Tuesday, June 12.
Two ways to vote absentee: (1) by
mail and (2) at the Registrar’s
office, 132 N. Royal Street,
Alexandria.
You need a valid photo I.D. to vote
in person. You do not need an I.D.
to vote by mail, if you have voted
before in Virginia.
In Auditorium A on Tuesday May 1,
1:00-4:00pm, GHA Voting Aides,
Robin Barbee, Becky Davies, Laura
Lawson, Mary Jane Nugent, Jane
Ring, and Natalie Rooney will:
Register residents and staff,
Help with requests for absentee
ballots,
Answer questions about voting,
and
Give out nonpartisan election
information.
The Voting Aides also will be in the
Lobby of the Small Houses 7:30-8:30
am Wednesday May 2 and 10:30-11:30
pm Thursday May 3.
(to be continued on page 2.)
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The deadline for the weekly
Gazette is every Tuesday at 4:00 p.m.
Please submit articles of 150 words
or fewer via email to Jenny Wu:
cwu@goodwinhouse.org
If you need a transcriber to type
and submit the articles for you, please
contact Jenny, 703-824-1004.
REHABILITATION SERVICE Have you heard about our in-house
rehabilitation therapy department? Are
you having any difficulty walking?
Problems performing daily tasks such
as getting dressed or showering? Are
you having trouble communicating or
formulating thoughts? Coughing while
taking a drink?
Here at Goodwin House Alexandria,
our rehabilitation center offers services
that are tailored to meet your needs.
Interested in learning more? Please at-
tend our informational session on April
27 at 1:30 PM in the Auditor ium A.
During this session we will discuss the
indicators for therapy and differences
between the services. You will also get
a chance to meet your therapy team
and ask questions about the services
we offer. We look forward to seeing
you there!
Stephanie Reagan PT, DPT
POETRY REVIEW The scheduled speaker for the
Book Review — in the Auditorium at
3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24 —
has canceled because of illness. Merle
Thompson has volunteered to give us a
review of poetry instead. Merle will
bring some of her favorite poems from
30 years of teaching literature at
Northern Virginia Community
College. This might be a memory
journey for some of you. Come to be
reacquainted with those beloved
classics, or to meet some you’ve never
heard of. Handouts will be provided
so you can follow along.
Marilynn Eaton
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This is a
nonpartisan effort.
All Voting Aides
are certified by the
Commonwealth of
Virginia to assist
with voter
registration.
The Residents’ Business Office has
registration forms, absentee ballot
requests, and other information.
Candidate information also will be
there.
For more information, contact any of
the Voting Aides or call the Alexandria
Registrar’s Office at 703-746-4050.
Laura Lawson
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TRIPS IN MAY All sign-up sheets for May will
come out on Monday, April 30 at
10:00 am. Please sign-up by the
Front Desk.
On Thursday, May 3 and
Wednesday, May 16, we will go to
see the Nationals. If you signed up
several months ago, your tickets have
already been purchased. You will get
a reminder in your mailbox shortly.
On Friday, May 4, join us for lunch
at Hank’s Oyster Bar in Alexandria.
The bus will depart at 11:30 a.m. and
return around 1:30 p.m.
Transportation costs $5.00.
On Wednesday, May 9, come to
Green Spring Gardens as they
present Potomac Valley
Watercolorists “Inspired By Nature”
featuring our very own Gretchen
Thompson. You can also take some
time to enjoy the outdoor area. The
bus will depart at 1:00 p.m. and
return around 3:00 p.m.
Transportation is $5.00 and
admission is free.
On Thursday, May 17, explore the
Burning Man exhibit at the Renwick
Museum. No Spectators: The Art of
Burning Man brings the large-scale,
participatory work from this desert
gathering to the nation’s capital for the
first time. The exhibition takes over
the entire Renwick Gallery building
and surrounding neighborhood,
bringing alive the maker culture and
creative spirit of this cultural
movement. The bus will depart at
10:00 a.m. and return around 1:00 p.m.
Transportation is $15.00 and
admission is free.
On Friday, May 18, enjoy lunch at
the Peking Gourmet. The bus will
depart at 11:30 a.m. and return around
1:30 p.m. Transportation costs $5.00.
On Friday, June 1, enjoy a special
lunch at Chez Francois in Great Falls,
VA. Due to the distance, the bus will
depart at 11:00 a.m. and return around
3:00 p.m. Transportation is $15.00.
The meal is at a fixed price of $45.00.
Matt Schwartz
No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man
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ENOLA GAY AND BOEING B-29 PRESENTATION Col Willey will cover the story of
the development and use of the
technologically advanced Boeing B-29
bomber against Japanese targets in
World War II. He also will cover the
creation of the atomic bomb. The story
will focus on the mission to Hiroshima
on 6 August 1945 by the most famous
airplane of the war, Enola Gay, and the
aircraft’s subsequent history. Be
prepared to see a significant piece of
history that is on display at the
Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center
near Dulles Airport. The program will
be held in the Auditorium on Monday,
April 30 at 3:00 p.m.
Scott Willey
CARDS AND NOTEBOOK WORKSHOP April 26 at 10:00am AC
Turn your spirit paper and original
print into cards and notebook for the
Arts Festival, and repurpose old cards
into new and fresh images with tried-
and-true easy collage techniques.
Beth Kim
SAVE THE DATE: ARTS FESTIVAL FRIDAY: JUNE 15, 2018
This year’s theme is “Growing
Roots.” We will have food,
entertainment, live performances, and
arts exhibition. If you would like to
submit your art works for the festival,
please pick-up the art submission form
at the Front Desk.
Beth Kim
PET ETIQUETTE Fellow pet owners
A friendly reminder
Pets should be on leash
Please pick up after your dog
Please respect plantings
Frank Sullivan
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NOVA CONCERT A bus will be escorting residents to
the Schlesinger theater on Friday, April
27 for the Music From Around the
World concert featuring The Nova
Community Chorus, The Nova
Alexandria Band, and The Nighthawks
Jazz Band. The bus will depart at 7:20
p.m. and return around 10:00 p.m.
Admission is free and transportation is
$2.00. Please sign up at the Front
Desk. Eight people need to be signed
up for the bus to transport people.
Matt Schwartz
PHYSICIAN SERVICES Dr. Sam Hong recently began
providing medical care to Small House
residents. He is now expanding his
services to Residential Living residents
in the Clinic and in their apartments.
His Clinic hours will be from 10 am to
noon on Fridays and will be for
Assisted Living or Residential Living
residents. If you would like to be seen
in your apartment, Dr. Hong is able to
come to you. Please call the Clinic to
be placed on Dr. Hong’s schedule. He
will accept appointments for morning
or afternoon on Mondays and
Wednesdays. Friday afternoon is also
available for house calls. Please call
the Clinic at 703-824-1283 or
703-824-1003 with your request.
Cathy Farmer
CZECH FILM NEXT The next in the once monthly
Foreign Film Night will take place
Sunday, April 29, at 6:30 p.m. The
film is Kolya, a Czech film which won
the Oscar and a Golden Globe for best
foreign language film in 1997. The
film takes place in Soviet-occupied
Czechoslovakia and is the humorous
story of a classical musician and
confirmed bachelor who has lost his
place in the state orchestra and, for
financial reasons, unhappily has to
take on the temporary oversight of a
small Russian boy. What ensues is not
what he expected.
Lee Lederer
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BE A FRIENDLY VISITOR TO A HOSPICE PATIENT Hospice volunteers offer comfort
and companionship to residents and
their families at a special time of life.
As a member of the hospice team,
you’ll receive training and ongoing
support while you visit hospice
patients. Volunteer tasks include
providing respite to family members
and visiting to provide companionship
and comfort.
Goodwin House Hospice volunteers
now have a choice to work at GHA,
GHBC, or in patients’ homes in the
community. Please consider working
in the community, where families have
particular needs for respite, running
errands, etc.
Join our hospice team for this
rewarding work! For more
information, contact Amy Conradt,
Hospice Volunteer Manager at
703-578-7108 or
aconradt@goodwinhouse.org.
Amy Conradt
REALITIES OF FIREARMS IN AMERICA
Residents will have an opportunity
to learn about the role of firearms in
our country from someone who knows
the topic well.
On Saturday, April 28 at 10:00 a.m.
David Chipman will speak in the
Auditorium. Mr. Chipman is Senior
Policy Advisor to Giffords, the
organization founded by former
Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and
her husband, Mark Kelly. He currently
also serves on the Firearms Committee
of the International Association of
Chiefs of Police. Previously, Mr.
Chipman served 25 years as a special
agent for the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
(ATF) during which he disrupted
firearms trafficking conspiracies in
Virginia supplying illegal guns to New
York City. Mr. Chipman is a graduate
of the American University in
Washington, DC and received a
Masters Degree in Management from
the Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore.
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GOOD FRIDAY OFFERING - THANK YOU! The offering received at our Good
Friday service totaled $614.00 and has
been sent through DFMS (Domestic
and Foreign Missionary Society) for
the ministries of the Episcopal/
Anglican Province of Jerusalem and
the Middle East ( The donations help 4
dioceses in 21 countries), assisting
people of all faiths in schools,
hospitals, clinics, senior housing, and
children with special needs. Thank
you!
Bruce Stewart
The 4 Dioceses:
Jerusalem
1. Palestine
& Israel
2. Lebanon
3. Syria
4. Jordan
Egypt & North
Africa 5. Algeria
6. Tunisia
7. Libya
8. Egypt
9. Eritrea
10. Ethiopia
11. Djibouti
12. Somalia
Iran
13. Iran
Cyprus & the
Gulf
14. Cyprus
15. Iraq
16. Kuwait
17. Bahrain
18. Qatar
19. United Arab
Emirates
20. Oman
21. Yemen
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Sunday, April 22, 2018
9:00: Holy Eucharist — CHP
10:30: Holy Eucharist — AUD-AB
1:30: Opera — CH 972
Les Contes D'hoffmann
2:15: Trip: Little Theater of Alexandria
— LBY
Monday, April 23, 2018
8:00: Morning Yoga — AUD-B
9:00: Fun & Fitness — AUD-B
9:30: Gentle Waves — Canceled
(Staff unavailable.)
9:30: NOVA Watercolor Class — AC
10:00: Catholic Communion — CHP
10:00: Trailblazers — Canceled
(Staff unavailable.)
10:00: Beginners Line Dancing —
AUD-A
10:15: Water Fit — POOL
11:30: Tai Chi — AUD-AB
1:00: Bus to Bailey's Shopping Center
— LBY
1:30: Monday Movie — CH 972
Lilies of the Field (1963), 1h 34min.
A traveling handyman becomes the
answer to the prayers of nuns who
wish to build a chapel in the desert.
The Weekly Schedule Sunday, April 22, 2018 — Sunday, April 29, 2018
(The room location key is at the end of this calendar.)
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(Monday, April 23, continued)
2:00: Drawing Class — AC
3:00: Art Film — AUD-A
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010),
1hr 25min. Filmmaker Thierry
Guetta's project to chronicle the
underground world of street art takes
a fascinating twist when he meets
elusive stencil artist Banksy, who
turns the project around to film
Guetta while he reinvents himself as
a street artist.
3:00: Support Services Committee —
RCR
3:15: Seated Meditation — GR
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
9:00: Morning Stretch Class —
AUD-B
9:00 - 11:00: Seamstress — 426
10:00: Painting Studio — AC
10:00: Library Shuttle — LBY
10:00: Sit and Be Fit — AUD-B
11:00: Wii Bowling — GR
11:00: Bible Study — CHP
1:00: Poker — GR
1:15: Core & Balance — AUD-B
2:00: Legacy Art — AC
3:00: Poetry Review — AUD-A (See
article on page 2.)
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018
8:00: Morning Yoga — AUD-B
9:00: Fun & Fitness — AUD-B
9:30: Gentle Waves — POOL
9:30: NOVA Watercolor Class — AC
9:30 -11:30: Market Place Accepts
Donations — MP
10:00: Vendor: Elegant Affordable
Jewelry — SOL
10:15: Water Fit — POOL
11:00: Teaching Company — AUD-A
Ep. 23 1759 Quebec—Battle for
North America
Ep. 24 1776 Trenton—The
Revolution’s Darkest Hour
1:30: Duplicate Bridge — LR
2:00: GHA Arts Festival Planning
Meeting — AC
2:00: Caregivers’ Support Group —
BR
2:00: Open Studio — AC
2:30: Market Place Special Sale —MP
For residents who use walkers.
3:00: Entertainment: Singer Ernie
Tolley — AUD-A
Thursday, April 26, 2018
9:00: Tai Chi Practice — AUD-A
9:00: Morning Stretch — AUD-B
9:30 - 11:30 & 2:30 - 3:30: Market
Place Sale — MP
10:00: Sit and Be Fit — AUD-B
10:00: Holy Eucharist — CHP
10:00: Trip: Newseum— LBY
10:00: Spirit Paper Card Workshop —
AC (See article on page 4.)
11:00: Wii Bowling — GR
11:00: Holy Eucharist — AUD-A
1:15: Core & Balance — AUD-B
1:30: Line Dancing 1 — AUD-A
2:00: Dining Committee — RCR
3:00: GHA Players — AC
7:15: Thursday Movie— AUD-A
All the Money in the World (2017),
2hrs 12min. This is about the
kidnapping of the grandson of
billionaire J. Paul Getty. Starring
Christopher Plummer, Mark
Wahlberg and Michelle Williams, it
is a morality tale about people being
bought by money.
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Saturday, April 28, 2018
9:00: Tai Chi Practice — LBY
(Special event at 10:00 am in the
Auditorium. We will meet in the
Lobby and decide where to hold
practice.)
9:00: Sit and Be Fit — CH 972
10:00: Documentary — Canceled
(Special event at 10:00 am in the
Auditorium.)
10:00: Realities of Firearms in
America: Special Presentation by
David Chipman — AUD-AB (See
article on page 6.)
1:00: GHA Popular Music — AUD-A
7:15: Saturday Movie — AUD-AB
Ladies in Lavender (2004), 1hr
44min. Two sisters befriend a
mysterious foreigner who washes up
on the beach of their 1930's Cornish
seaside village.
Friday, April 27, 2018
8:00: Morning Yoga — AUD-B
9:00: Fun & Fitness — AUD-B
9:30: Gentle Waves — POOL
10:00: Singing Seniors — AUD-A
10:00: AL Memory Café and
Community Studio — AC
10:00: Replay of Thursday Movie —
CH 972
10:15: Water Fit — POOL
11:30: Lunch Trip — LBY
1:00: Shanghai — LR
1:30: Rehabilitation/therapy Info
Session — AUD-A (See article on
page 2.)
2:00: Quilting Bees — RCR
Join this group of dedicated quilters
for conversation and a chance to
create projects for fellow residents.
7:20: NOVA Concert — LBY
See article on page 5. Eight people
need to be signed up for the bus to
transport people.
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Sunday, April 29, 2018
9:00: Holy Eucharist — CHP
10:30: Holy Eucharist — AUD-AB
1:30: Opera — CH 972
Marriage of Figaro
6:30: Foreign Film — AUD-A (See
article on page 4.)
Kolya (1996), 1h 45 min. Franta
Louka is a concert cellist in Soviet-
occupied Czechoslovakia, a
confirmed bachelor and a lady's
man. Having lost his place in the
state orchestra, he must make ends
meet by playing at funerals and
painting tombstones. But he has run
up a large debt, and when his friend,
the grave-digger Mr. Broz, suggests
(426) = Apartment 426
(AC) = Arts Center
(ALAR) = Assisted Living
Activity Room
(AUD-A) = Auditorium A
(AUD-B) = Auditorium B
(AUD-AB) = Auditorium AB
(AUD-ABC) = Auditorium
ABC
(BR) = Bishops' Room
(CH 971) = Channel 971
(CH 972) = Channel 972
(CHP) = Chapel
(CL) = Clinic
(CR) = Computer Room
(GR) = Game Room
(GW) = Gallery Walk
(LBY) = Lobby
(LR) - Living Room
(MP) = Market Place on G-1
(RCR) = Residents’
Conference Room
(RF) = Roof Deck
(SH) = Small Houses
(SOL) = Solarium
ROOM KEY
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a scheme for making a lot of money
by marrying a Russian woman so that
she can get her Czech papers, he
reluctantly agrees. She takes
advantage of the situation to emigrate
to West Germany, to her lover; and
leaves her five-year-old son with his
grandmother; when the grandmother
dies, Kolya must come and live with
his stepfather - Louka.