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EVENT{FULL}Monthly updates from your {FULL} Life community

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Summer’s ending, and the livin’ is easy

Jazz tunes floated through the crowd during An Evening of Jazz on the Touchmark Green. Residents Dick and Twila Taylor hosted the event in the backyard, where everyone enjoyed the light breeze, setting sun, and lively music by the Jazz Band with Style. The evening also included a delicious array of appetizers and champagne.

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Seeing summer highlightsFall in love with the full life Learn about the Full Life at Touchmark: home and yard maintenance provided, great neighbors, and attentive and caring staff. Call to arrange your personal tour—and find out for yourself why people fall in love with Touchmark!

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Residents recently honored the Dining Services team during an ice-cream appreciation social. The Resident Council hosted the event and gave appreciation certificates to the team members, including cooks, dishwashers, servers, and management. Pictured: President Janet Burke presents a framed certificate to Executive Chief Steven Mitchell. Moved by their gesture, Steven shared that he will hang the certificate in the Four Seasons kitchen.

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BRAIN BUILDERS

Inside of the name CHEERIOS are several other words made up of 2 or more letters. Two have been found for you already. Find as many others as you can.

Answers: Cheer, Chi, Choir, Chore, Chose, Core, Echo, He, Heir, Here, Hero, Hers, Hi, Hire, Hoer, Horse, Hose, Ice, Ire, Is, Ocher, Oh, Or, Ore, Rice, Rich, Rise, Roe, Rose, Score, Scree, Sec, Seer, She, Sheer, Shier, Shoe, Shore, Sic, Sire, So, Sore.

CHEERIOS1. Ere 2. Core

Above left: Willean Lindstrom celebrated her 100th birthday with friends and family, including her younger sister (pictured), who is 85. Willean, who lives in a cottage, and more than 100 people attended the party in The Clock at Touchmark.

When asked what has contributed to her long life, she shared, “I take good care of myself, good care of my beautiful friends, and good care of my faith.”

When asked about her accomplishments, she said, “I started my own beauty shop in a small town during the Great Depression and made it a success.” She also said she was proud of her children and the fact that she married the best-looking farmer in Fairfield, Washington.

Above right: Lorraine Davis has completed her 50-state coin collection. Lorraine started the collection several years ago after she and other residents received the first quarters as a gift from Touchmark CEO Werner G. Nistler, Jr. for their birthdays. Just recently with the assistance of Sterling Bank tellers, Lorraine found the missing coin (Florida) to complete her collection.

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Look for Active Aging Week photos on Facebook and in next month’s newsletter.

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TOUCHMARK ON SOUTH HILL2929 S Waterford Drive • Spokane, WA 99203

509-536-2929 • Touchmark.com(located at 29th and Pittsburg)

MargeCoalman, EdDVice Presidentof Wellness &Programs

The “right” to happiness “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

– Thomas Jefferson

Is it a right or a privilege—the right to happiness, that is? Whatever your interpretation of the wording of the Declaration of Independence, it has become a multimillion-dollar business to help us all find our “right to

happiness.”

We may have come equipped to pursue our own version of happiness, but North Americans seem to be endowed with the pursuit-of-happiness impulse. Many have the urge to find that greener pasture or nirvana … just over the hillside (or online, for that matter).

What does that mean? It means that the outdated definition of doing more, owning more, conquering the next challenge has become an ambition to “best” our neighbors, whether by straight-out purchase or credit. The snatch-and-grab phenomenon has become a job description for many and an “oh well” for our neighbors.

Interestingly, this is not true of those who live long and well. Studies repeatedly tell us that

philanthropy and a spirit of giving are essential to well-being. While it may not be the barn-raising or neighborhood party in this day and age, the impulse to help others is deeply imbedded. All of the current studies on “happiness” bear out the fact that compassion, concern, and action (in the way of helping hands or physical donations) make a difference in the quality of life we all seek.

So, pass up the infomercials and appeals you get in your mailbox to “feel good about yourself” with this tape or class. Release even an ongoing commitment to “feel good.” Instead, contact the Full Life wellness team at Touchmark on South Hill to get involved in programs and services that do make a difference.

Contact a Full Life team member for additional details, including registration, transportation information, and participation requirements.

Thursday, Oct. 10, 3 - 7 pmOktoberfest progressive open house. Five model homes. Prizes. German food, drinks. German choir at 5 pm in lobby.

Tuesday, Oct. 8, 1 pmSpecial Speaker Series, Spokane School Board

President Bob Douthitt. Forum.

Thursday, Oct. 24, 6:30 pmHarvest Festival & Carnival. Annual event with games, prizes, and trick-or-treating for local children.

See the full calendar of events online: TouchmarkSpokane.com/pdf/community-event-

calendar.pdf

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