WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!

Judy and John Bross
Annabelle Cramb and Antonia Diaz
 Thomas and Sylvia Decker

Mary Finn

Sheila and David Ganch

Bill Gordon
Lois Gross
Ken and Nancy Marks 

Nina Whitsel 

COMING IN OCTOBER

Register for these programs by calling 773.248.8700 or e-mail

celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org

Payment is due in advance.

Let the Village office know if you need a ride!    

As the Village grows, from time to time events with limited attendance are fully subscribed with a waiting list.  If you wish to participate in such an event, please sign up early. You can do this by calling the office or going to the Member Web Site.  Just select "Events" from the menu on the left and follow the prompts.

FITNESS

T'ai Chi

Mondays

10:00 - 11:00 AM

Whole Foods, 1550 N. Kingsbury

Nia

Thursdays

10:30 - 11:30 AM

Church of the Three Crosses

333 W. Wisconsin St.  

Members - $40 for each

series of 8 sessions  

or $7 per session  

Non-Members - $15 per session

 Series continues; join anytime.

Hatha Style Yoga
Mondays

7:00 - 8:15 PM 

Church of the Three Crosses

333 W. Wisconsin St.  

Members & Guests - $15

Basic Meditation
Saturdays, November 5 and 19
9:15 - 10:30 AM
Hosted by Ellen Stone Belic

Members & Guests - Free  

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

PLAYBACK THEATRE TRAINING 

Saturdays
October 1 to November 17
(contact the Village for  

all dates and times)

Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church

600 W. Fullerton Ave

Members - $105, Guests - $140
 for the series of 7 sessions 

Liz Muckley, actress, drama therapist and veteran trainer, will teach us Playback Theatre.

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR HEALTH

October 5 to November 9 

 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

 Hosted by Pam Washburn 

 Members - $20, Guests - $36

These six sessions will help participants increase skills to manage their diseases and teach adults to work with their health-care professionals. Attendees will be able to confront the challenges of living with chronic illnesses.  

For more information, click here.  

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

MEMOIR-WRITING SERIES WITH BETH FINKE  

Thursdays  

2:00 - 3:30 PM   

This series is full. 

THE GREAT FIRE   

Thursday, October 13, 7:15 PM
Lookingglass Theatre

421 N. Michigan Ave, in the old Water Pumping Station

Members and Guests  

$36 per ticket

Space for 10 has been reserved.  

Join us at 5:45 PM for an optional self-hosted dinner at Mity Nice in Water Tower shopping center.

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MONEY 

Sunday, October 16
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Hosted by Barbara Koren 

Members and Guests - Free  

Dr. Mary Pappas will identify the issues that confront us all as we make complex financial decisions, particularly in retirement.  

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

FALL VACCINATIONS 

Monday, October 17,
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Lincoln Park Village Office  

Members and Guests Welcome   

Walgreens will be on hand to provide flu, pneumonia and shingles shots. Medicare and Medicaid cover all shots; reimbursement for MS for ILBC are available, and United Healthcare is accepted. If you are paying with cash, flu shots are $31.99 and pneumonia shots are $71.99 (but are covered by Medicare). Most Medicare plans cover the shingles vaccine (and you must pre-register with your insurance information with the Village office). Blood pressure and blood glucose testing will be available at no charge.  

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

WHAT'S THE STORY ON ELECTRIC COMPANY DEREGULATION? 

Lincoln Park Library

 1150 W. Fullerton Avenue

Hear a Citizens Utility Board speaker and learn about saving money on your utilities.  

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

CHICAGO IN FICTION:  

Saturday, October 22
2:00 - 3:30 PM
Hosted by  

Pam and Mel Washburn
Members - Free, Guests - $5

We will discuss books that take place in various Chicago neighborhoods and time periods. Attendees will follow this schedule:

October 22, 2011 
Hosted by
Pam and Mel Washburn
The House on Mango Street   

by Sandra Cisneros   

November 19, 2011 
Hosted by Lois Baron   

The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow

No Meeting in December 2011

January 21, 2012 
An undetermined novel  

by Sara Paretsky

 
February 18, 2012  

Chicago 
by Alaa Al Aswany   

March 17, 2012    

 In the Castle of the Flynns 

by Michael Raleigh

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

DEPAUL SCHOOL  

OF MUSIC EVENT  

Attend a faculty chamber ensemble performance of Igor Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale"
("L 'histore du soldat").  

A reception with Dead Donald Casey follows the event.  

RSVP by October 15. 

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

RETIREMENT INCOME STRATEGIES  

Tuesday, October 25,
2:00  - 3:30 PM
Offices of Charles Schwab
820 W. North Ave.
Members and Guests - Free

A review of different investment strategies that can help generate retirement income in a low interest rate environment. 

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

DICK SIMPSON AND
DON ROSE: POLITICS   

Sunday, October 30,
3:00 PM
Hosted by Myrna Knepler
Members and Guests - Free

Mr. Simpson, currently a Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, served as alderman of Chicago's 44^thWard in the early 1970s and was a leader of progressive politics in Chicago.  He is the author of many books and is a media commentator on Chicago politics. 

Mr. Rose is an independent political consultant heading Don Rose Communications and The Urban Political Group, a firm that offers campaign consulting and management services. Rose's weekly column for the "The Chicago Daily Observer" won the Chicago Journalists Association 2010 award for best commentary. He has been an on-air commentator for WLS-TV (ABC), hosted a weekly community-affairs talk show for 22 years on WPNT-FM and its predecessor stations and was editor and co-publisher of the monthly Hyde Park-Kenwood Voices.

Reservations are a MUST for this event; a list of participants will be given to building security. Please bring a snack or beverage to share.

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

COMING IN NOVEMBER

Register for these programs by calling 773.248.8700 or e-mail

celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org

Payment is due in advance.

Let the Village office know if you need a ride!    

As the Village grows, from time to time events with limited attendance are fully subscribed with a waiting list.  If you wish to participate in such an event, please sign up early. You can do this by calling the office or going to the Member Web Site.  Just select "Events" from the menu on the left and follow the prompts.

LEARN TO PLAY BRIDGE    

Tuesdays in November  

6:30 - 8:30 PM 

Hosted at a private home in Sandburg Village 

Members Only - $80

Basic bridge classes will be taught by Master Jane Kennedy.  Included in this 6-week series of instruction will be a copy of Audrey Grant's Bridge Basics 1: An Introduction.  

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

VILLAGE POTLUCK AND ANNUAL MEETING     

Wednesday, November 2
6:00 PM

Church of the Three Crosses 

Members Only - Free

Our potlucks have become famous for conviviality and fun. Call the office to let us know your food contribution; members may attend only the meeting and not the potluck.

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

DEPAUL OPERA THEATRE PRESENTS  

DIDO AND AENEAS  

AND

DON QUICHOTTE AUF DER HOCHZEIT DES COMACHO  

Friday, November 4 

DePaul Concert Hall
800 W. Belden Ave.

Members and Guests - Free 

 To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL WITH FRIENDSHIP FORCE CLUB OF CHICAGO     

Sunday, November 6
2:00-4:00 PM

Lynn McCarthy and Bob Hernquist will share their experiences of traveling and hosting with the Chicago Friendship Force Club and invite you to join with them for future trips.

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

GREAT CONVERSATIONS: DISCUSSING GREAT BOOKS 

Monday, November 7
6:30 - 8:30 PM 

This month's reading is
The Epic of Gilgamesh

Locations:
To be announced 

Members Only - Full
(Let the office know if you are interested in subsequent offerings.)      

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

FIVE LIFESTYLE CHANGES  

Tuesday, November 8
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Rush Professional Building,
5th Floor  

Come and learn five ways you can make a significant improvement in your health and longevity, starting today. You will leave this session armed with tools and resources to help enhance your brain functioning, improve health and increase longevity.   

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

THE ADVENTUROUS VIOLINIST RACHEL BARTON PINE AND
ARS ANTIGUA

Saturday, November 12
8:00 PM

Francis W. Parker School - Diane and David B Heller Auditorium
2233 N. Clark Street 

Members and Guests - $15 

Celebrated violinist Rachel Barton Pine has developed another, recent love. It's the viola d'amore--the "viola of love"--a 14-stringed hybrid of the violin and viola da gamba that set 17th-century hearts aflutter. In his treatise on violin playing, Leopold Mozart wrote that it sounded "especially charming in the stillness of the evening." Pine's curiosity in the instrument developed in her late teens, and three years ago she began performing on it publicly. In this concert, Pine, early music ensemble Ars Antigua, and director Jerry Fuller showcase this cousin of the violin in a romp through its repertoire, including works by Telemann and Vivaldi.

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

A DISCUSSION ABOUT LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE      

Sunday, November 20, 3:00 PM

Hosted by the Campbells

Members and Guests - Free  

Join Steve Greenberg, an expert on long-term care insurance, to discuss the ins and outs of long-term care insurance and whether it is right for you.

To register for events, e-mail celebrate@lincolnparkvillage.org.

To Jane Curry, Rick Stuckey, Dian Weddle: 

Jane, Rick and Dian are retiring from the Lincoln Park Village board of directors. Jane and Rick worked to make the Village a reality long before the doors opened, and Dian played the same role in the formation of Lake View Village, joining the Village board after the merger.

Jane's focus was on communications, and many of her ideas and the beautiful words she wrote are still woven into may of our current written materials.

Rick (along with his committee co-chair, Marcia Opp) worked primarily in the technology arena and is the reason we now have both a public and a members-only Web site--as well as a functioning software system to manage our information and activities.

Dian brought her health and public policy background to the board during the past year, as well as her keen knowledge of and love for her Lake View neighborhood.    

Jane, Rick, Dian--all Village members and staff thank you and wish you well!

Welcome, New Village Directors! 

Seven people have been elected to serve three-year terms on the Village board of directors effective October 3, 2011. Lincoln Park Village is honored and privileged to have these outstanding individuals advising and guiding us as we tackle our future.

Here are thumbnail sketches about our new board members.

Neelum T. Aggarwal, M.D.

Dr. Aggarwal is an Associate Professor of Neurological Sciences at Rush University Medical Center and an internationally recognized researcher, author and speaker on the topic of longevity, aging and Alzheimer's disease. She conducts community-based research studies as the clinical core co-leader for Rush's Alzheimer Disease Research Center and also as a co-investigator on National Institute of Aging grants in Aging and Cognitive Disorders. She led the Village's first health forum on the brain in fall 2009 and was on the panel of the Village's second annual benefit, "The Conversation" with Jane Gross. She brings to the board expertise on structural approaches to doing work in the community and a firm belief in the total wellness picture of health: combining traditional medicine as well as such community approaches to keeping healthy as reliance on social networks and even on music and the arts. She and her physician-husband have two sons and live in Lakeview.

David Baker

Mr. Baker, vice president for external affairs at Illinois Institute of Technology since 1995, is responsible for IIT's governmental relations, technology park development and trustee relations. He helped to create and serves on the board of Perspectives Charter Schools/IIT Math and Science Academy; he is also a member of the Mayor's Council of Technology Advisors and the Economic Club of Chicago. He attended the very first coffee hosted by the Village in the home of Mike and Judy Spock and became an early member. His main goal as a board member is to be part of the process that establishes a business model for the sustainability of the Village. On a lighter note, so to speak, he also wants to expand playing music within the Village membership: He was a founding member six years ago of the New Horizons Band at DePaul University's School of Music, in which he plays trumpet. (Member John Hobbs plays cello in the same group, Baker notes.) He is married with two children and lives in Lincoln Park.

John A. Bross

John Bross is a Harvard-trained lawyer who served as vice president of the Northern Trust Company from 1979 to 2001. When he retired he went back to school, this time to Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, from which he received an M.A. in Church History in 2004. He and his wife, Judy, who live in Old Town and share grown children and grandchildren, are both lay chaplains at St. James Cathedral. He hopes to help the Village expand its base of community partnerships by developing a spectrum of services between the Village and other community resources such as The Admiral, a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) where he serves on the board. His goal is for the Village and other community partners to share services and resources that will benefit and build ongoing cooperation, capacity and win-win relationships. 

Armand Cerbone

Armand Cerbone, a Ph.D. who holds an American Board of Professional Psychology diplomate in clinical psychology, is a Fellow of six divisions of the American Psychological Association (APA) and has co-authored APA's guidelines on psychotherapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) clients. In 2001 he co-chaired the first international conference on LGBT psychology; he is the former director of behavioral health at Howard Brown Memorial Health Center, the Midwest's largest LGBT health center. He learned of the Village from Kathy Zartman, mother of his partner Michael, and first became involved when he attended the Village's first benefit, with Gail Sheehy. Interested in seeing how the Village is going to become part of health care reform, he is especially keen on issues related to the aging of the LGBT community and how the Village might target services to that population.  

Maddy Rodriguez

Maddy Rodriguez is a Community Leader for Walgreens who is responsible for seven Chicago stores and mentors six other store managers in that effort. She is manager of the 24-hour Walgreens at North Avenue and Wells Street, which records more than $16 million in annual sales and has a staff of 48. She is responsible for the Village's Flu Shots and More health-first initiative with Walgreens (see article below), which will take place on Monday, October 17, and is planned to become an annual event. She became aware of the Village when Lois Stack asked her to post a flyer in the store for the Jane Gross benefit; she was impressed by any organization that would present such a program. She hopes that the Village and Walgreens can work on more wellness issues and sees both organizations as aligned in their outlooks. Her hope is to see more Villages take hold across Chicago. She lives in Logan Square.

Lois Stuckey

Except for four years in human resources when she first got out of college, Lois Stuckey spent her career of 25 years in hands-on manufacturing: She managed the factories of both Jays Food and Proctor & Gamble. In 1995 she began to focus on the Latin School of Chicago's Parents' Association, which she served as vice president and in various other capacities. She became involved with the Village early; she and her husband, Rick, live next door to Mike and Judy Spock, and the Stuckeys were among the Village's original members. She has served the Village in numerous ways and continues to be active with the Program Committee. Given the tremendous talent pool in the Village, she would like to see more members become involved in activities on an informal basis, much as the Food Committee matches up people who discover restaurants with others who want to try them.  

Dirk Vos

Chairman of the board of advisors of Alpha Capital Partners, Ltd., a Chicago-based private equity firm, Dirk Vos also serves on the boards of several privately held for-profit and not-for-profit corporations. He had a notable career in corporate finance and banking in Europe and Asia as well as in the United States at First Chicago Corporation, which merged into what is now J.P. Morgan Chase. He and his wife, Donna, attended the Village's public planning meeting at Victory Gardens Theatre in October 2008; their Old Town neighbor is Village President Ruth Ann Watkins. He would like to see the Village, a model of what he calls a "social enterprise," succeed in achieving its social goals while becoming a viable business enterprise. The Village, unlike many non-profits, doesn't just ask people to send a check, he points out. Instead, it asks people to become members, use the services offered, and at the same time become volunteers who themselves provide some of the Village services by giving their time and talent to perpetuate the organization.

Conversations:    

They're Not 'Just Talk'  

By Bruce Hunt

Meg Wheatley, a consultant who helps organizations to improve their effectiveness, has worked closely with large international corporations as well as with small, local non-profits. She has found that change, even very grand and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care about.

That's what happens when neighbors turn to one another, says Wheatley in her book, Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, available on Amazon; remember to shop for the Village!). Conversations, she writes, can change us, and conversations can create new things.

Friends and members of Lincoln Park Village may recognize the origins of the Village in her observation. A few years ago two neighbors, Kathy Zartman and Marjorie Freed, were talking about what it would take to be able to continue to live in their homes for a while longer. They explored the model Marjorie found in a New York Times article about Beacon Hill Village in Boston and expanded their discussion to a group that included their respective husbands, Jim and Harvey, and Michael and Judy Spock. The three couples' spirited conversation over dinner rippled outward to include other people in the Lincoln Park area. And so it was that Lincoln Park Village went from being an interesting idea to a real thing.

Now, we engage in conversations all the time. Sometimes those conversations just hum; sometimes they are labored and awkward. And any conversation may take courage to initiate.

Sometimes it is a matter of the topic--how do I talk about my faith in the future, or about end-of-life issues? Sometimes it is a matter of the conversation partner--how do I talk with my spouse about how to reclaim a little time to think, or with my neighbor about how we can better care for the community?

No matter the topic and no matter the participants, Wheatley identifies a number of practices that make for richer and deeper conversations. See how many of these practices you recognize from conversations that have made a difference for you.  

• We acknowledge one another as equals. We meet together as peers, not as roles we play. We need each other because we can't figure it out all by ourselves. Conversation is not a competitive sport; nobody wins a conversation.
• We try to stay curious about each other. We are interested in who else is present, and we find it easier to tell our story if we understand that others are genuinely curious about us. One way to maintain this curiosity is to remind ourselves that everyone here has something to teach us. That helps a person be more attentive and less judgmental, and it also leads to the next practice.
• We recognize that we need each other's help to become better listeners. Wheatley writes, "When I'm hosting a conversation, I ask everyone to listen as best they can and to help each other listen better." In a time when everyone is busy and when time itself is so precious, listening is hard work. And, as with any practice, we will not get it right the first time. She suggests that we be gentle with one another when uncovering troubling or surprising differences.
• We slow down so we have time to think and reflect. Communication devices advertise the speed of transmission; in many business meetings, being able to speak rapidly and loudly is rewarded, even if it means interrupting others. By contrast, slowing down, even allowing silence, improves the odds that we will be on the same page.
• We remember that conversation is the natural way humans think together. Language has provided the vehicle for human beings to think together throughout the ages. Conversation is not a 21^st-century invention, so we can have some confidence that it is something we already know how to do. The challenge is to do it better and to unlearn some of the bad habits that can drive us away from one another.
• We expect it to be messy at times. Life does not move in straight lines, and neither does conversation. Particularly at the beginning, people say things that don't connect, and allowing for the variety of voices and perspectives can try our patience. But resisting the temptation to make the conversation process efficient and linear may allow us to discover something new and unanticipated.

Wheatley summarizes in this way:

The practice of conversation takes courage, faith and time. We don't get it right the first time, and we don't have to. We settle into conversation; we don't just do it. As we risk talking to each other about something we care about, as we become curious about each other, as we slow things down, gradually we remember this timeless way of being together. Our rushed and thoughtless behaviors fade away, and we sit quietly in the gift of being together, just as we have always done.

Lincoln Park Village provides many opportunities to host or enter into rich conversations, from planning sessions and book discussions to social events and even chance encounters on the street. The challenge for our Village is to seize those moments that provide openings for meaningful communication and to begin to use some of Wheatley's practices in order to make our conversations sing.

Spotlight on Services:   

While most members join Lincoln Park Village to have access to services for themselves, some members who are still caring for one or both of their parents have found the resources of the Village to be of enormous help.

If the parent for whom you are caring lives elsewhere, through our trusted partners we can identify equally trusted resources in the Chicago suburbs and even in other cities.

We have directed caregiving adult children to resources that can develop a geriatric care plan for their parents or refer them to a local agency for top-notch professional home health care providers.

The Village provided peace of mind to an out-of-town adult child whose mother is a Village member by watching over Mom with well-being calls and volunteers who accompany her to classes and on walks in the park.

Recently, the Village helped a member through the decision of whether to move a parent to the Chicago area--including identifying appropriate facilities for the parent and accompanying our member as she visited and evaluated them.

Helping care for an aging parent may not be something you thought the Village could do ... but we can.

Remember, if you don't ask, we can't help. 

So ask! No matter what.  

How to Shop on Amazon and Help  

Support the Village

Shop for Lincoln Park Village on Amazon!    

The Lincoln Park Village Store gives you access to practically everything you can buy on Amazon, which isn't just about books and music.  Amazon is a huge online department/
grocery/drug store with products in such categories as Jewelry, Kitchen and Housewares, Apparel and Accessories, Tools and Hardware--and much more.  It has printer ink cartridges, vitamins, soup, hair brushes--you name it, Amazon's probably got it. To help you shop smarter, Amazon also provides very useful customer reviews of many of the products. (You might learn, for instance, that this particular humidifier has a tendency to break down, or that those towels are not as fluffy as they ought to be.) 

Best of all, when you do your shopping via the Village link to the Amazon marketplace, a portion of what you spend will go to support the Village. Not only that--most orders of $25.00 or more ship free!

Tell your friends and family, too. It's easy!

Just log on to Amazon via our Web site, www.lincolnparkvillage.org
and from the menu at the top of the home page, select "Store".

Click here to log onto Amazon via our Web site.

All the convenience of Amazon and support for the Village, to boot--this is a win-win if there ever was one!