ASHBY VILLAGE NEWSLETTER
Changing Our World Again - Join Us!
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Intro to Shared Housing & Aging in Place
Sat, Mar 21, 2 - 4:00pm
2330 Durant Ave, Berkeley.
This free event focuses on issues about shared housing and "aging in place", and on community resources to support these housing options - including Ashby Village, North Oakland Village and TTN's Caring Collaborative. Co-sponsored by TTN-Home & Ashby Village.
LIVING ROOM CHAT
Sunday, March 15, 2-4pm
Member's N.Berkeley home
San Mateo Rd
(near Indian Rock)
Contact Ann Smith
To RSP call (510) 204-9200
or info@ashbyvillage.org.
Living Room Chats are smaller events where we give those who might be interested in joining Ashby Village a chance to hear what it means to be part of our Village. Click here for more information.
 OPEN HOUSE
Wed, April 1, 1:15 - 2:45pm
El Cerrito Senior Center
6500 Stockton Ave, El Cerrito
Learn how we enhance the quality of life of our members today, while also helping them develop peace of mind about the future. Click here for information.
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Stewardship...
Anniversaries
to Remember
* 50th anniversary of Medicare, Medicaid, and
the Older Americans Act.
* 80th anniversary of
Social Security.
Learn about the
2015 White House
The White House has held a Conference on Aging each decade since the 1960s to identify and advance actions to improve the quality of life of older Americans. |
MARCH 2015
In This Issue
Enjoy reading other people's mail?
Many Villagers, especially those with vision issues, need some help with different forms of written documents. Spend time reading aloud a book or magazine article, or help members read their email messages or mail. Its more fun for both of you reading a book together and chuckling over the funny parts... Contact Pat Carvalho info@ashbyvillage.org or call 510 204-9200 to make a request or volunteer. |
Community Building Late Afternoon Pot-Luck
Friday, March 20, 4:00 - 6:00pm
For Village Volunteers & Members
Ashby Village Office, 2330 Durant Ave
Great opportunity to meet up with Villagers from all over Ashby Village neighborhoods. See familiar faces you haven't seen in awhile, and make new friends! Bring a dish and a bottled beverage to share. Make your favorite dish, and be sure to bring the recipe for our upcoming Ashby Village Recipe booklet. Click here for information. |
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Strong Collaborative Relationships:
"Scalability and Sustainability"
 In the January Newsletter we introduced the 2015 Ashby Village Board and shared that one of the new Board subcommittees is External Affairs, which takes initiative on behalf of Ashby Village to build strong collaborative relationships between our village and other organizations. Such "external" relationships further Ashby Village's own long-term sustainability, and contribute toward building a Village movement that changes the face of aging on the regional, state and national levels.
Ashby Village is finding a great partner in San Francisco Village, as together we explore opportunity for "scalability and sustainability through diversification of revenue sources and collaboration." These efforts include:
Nationwide: Ashby Village and San Francisco Village are in discussion with the Village to Village Network to better understand what ways they might contribute to the national village movement.
Statewide: Ashby Village and San Francisco Village are partnering to establish a California Village Coalition to support California villages.
Regional: Ashby Village and San Francisco Village are the core of the newly formed Bay Bridge Group (see adjacent article). |
Local:
Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) who provide home and community based services to older persons. Last December, Ashby Village's External Affairs met with executives from Episcopal Senior Communities, Eskaton, and American Baptist Homes of the West. (Click on the name of the organization to find out more.)
Advocates for quality nonprofit senior living and care in the state of California such as LeadingAge. This public-interest association represents more than 640 nonprofit providers of aging services - including affordable housing, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living, skilled nursing, and home and community-based care - that collectively serve more than 100,000 seniors. Ashby Village will be presenting at the Leading Edge Convention this Spring.
Government representatives such as Congressperson Barbara Lee, the City of Berkeley and Alameda County Planning.
Educational institutions: Ashby Village continues to build on its longstanding ties with the University of California, Berkeley, especially the UCB Retirement Center and its new Executive Director Carey Sweeney, and the Haas School of Business highly competitive project Social Sector Solutions (S3), which has selected Ashby Village as a recipient to work with MBA students and McKinsey and Company. |
 Stewardship in Action
Ashby Village Board Member
STEVE LUSTIG
When asked about what drew him to Ashby Village in 2011 and becoming a new Board member in 2014, Steve Lustig explains:
 "I knew others who were already involved and Ashby Village's goal of supporting us to remain in our communities as we age was a purpose I could really get behind. "
Steve co-chaired our Strategic and Business Planning Processes before joining our Board. " I am especially excited about new developments as we actively reach out to other organizations in the Bay Area, in order to leverage what each of us do, and to build a strong collaborative network to achieve common aims. This allows Ashby Village to avoid duplicating what others do better, while focusing on doing what Ashby Village is uniquely positioned to do."
As Chair of the External Affairs Committee of the Board, Steve is looking forward to the many opportunities evolving for our Village. He looks forward to reporting back on what comes out of these efforts. |
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Thank you!
Challenge Campaign a Great Success
"Thank you! The support from Ashby Village members and other friends is just overwhelming," said Andra Lichtenstein, new chair of the board of Ashby Village. "Your generosity made it happen!"
"We have received $65,080 from 114 donors, far surpassing our goal of $50,000," noted Andy Gaines, executive director. "This terrific success means that we can continue to keep our dues as low as possible, to about two-thirds of our annual costs, while also working to deepen the benefits and impact of our Village." Added Pat Sussman, former chair of the board, "When our Ashby Village community of members, volunteers and friends comes together, we can work wonders."
"In the Year of Stewardship," Andra noted, we are especially grateful for charitable giving, which carries on the tradition of our founders. Their giving helped make Ashby Village a reality, and every gift means so much to us all. Thank you."
 For a list of those who made this incredible achievement possible, scroll down to the end of this Newsletter. |
STAFF NEWS
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Volunteer Manager Pat Carvalho (and
Chief Morale Officer, Lola)
We're seeking to raise awareness about several of our "speciality" services (e.g., reading aloud, see sidebar) for which we have many volunteers standing ready to help with tasks our members may not realize they can get help with. Email me at pat.c@ashbyvillage.org
to learn more about specialty services. |
Executive Director
Andy Gaines
Speaking of 2015 anniversaries, Ashby Village will be celebrating its 5th Anniversary by holding a June Town Hall where all of us get together to share with each other what's going on in our corner of the Ashby Village universe. Be there! | 
Program Manager Andrea Mok
Although most of our members continue to prefer to live in their own home, some members are starting to look at alternative ways to live in community, such as co-housing or independent living centers. Ashby Village is ready to help you plan for whatever choice you make in the coming years. |
MARCH CALENDAR
(click on date below for information) |
Steam Train Trails
Outdoor Nature Walk
Sunday March 1,
10:30am - 12:30pm
Redwood Regional Park in Oakland
Audre and Roger Newman (shown with Irene Marcos) will lead a wheelchair accessible walk along the Stream Trail in Redwood Regional Park, 7867 Redwood Rd, Oakland, CA.
Meet at the north end of the parking lot which is about a quarter of a mile beyond the kiosk within the "Redwood Gate". This entry is located off the north side of Redwood Road about 2.25 miles east of Skyline Blvd.
The trail is paved for the first mile first passing thorough meadows and picnic areas on the floor of the valley, then entering a magnificent forest with towering redwoods, arching bay trees, and lush ferns. Thereafter the trail is packed dirt, but still wide and with little elevation gain, following tiny Redwood Creek. There are several steeper and more challenging trails which branch off from the Stream Trail which provide alternatives for those who have more energy to burn. We will have lunch in Montclair afterwards. For more information or to register, click here or call (510) 204-9200.
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Two Different Ways to Wear Out your walking shoes...
Claremont-Elmwood Neighborhood Group invites you to Tour/Lunch at New Safeway
Thursday March 12, 11am - 1pm
6310 College Ave, Oakland
If walking outdoors is not your thing, consider joining the Claremont-Elmwood Neighborhood Group walking tour of the brand new Safeway (its been called a "monstrosity") that just opened at the intersection of College Ave and Broadway Ave. The new store is 45,000 square feet, cost about $35 million to build, and employs about 160 people. The plan is for everyone to meet in front of the organic asparagus, then head for the delicatessan. Lunch will be in the courtyard.
For more information, click here or call (510) 204-9200.
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Ongoing Monthly Activities
(10am Thursdays)
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Neighborhood Groups
Thousand Oaks Hamlet
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Mid-Landish (N.Berkeley)
March 12 Happy Hour
(7-9pm, second Thursdays)
Claremont-Elmwood
Mar 12 Tour New Safeway
11am - 1pm, Thursday
Kensington Kaleidoscope March 18 Lunch Bunch (location varies)
(11:30am, Third Wednesdays)
Contact Beth Burnside
510-527-6308
Thousand Oaks Hamlet
March 18 Kensington Circus Club
(5:30pm third Thursdays,
every other month)
Emery Bunch (Watergate)
March 19 Trader Vic's
Happy Hour
(4:30pm third Thursdays)
Outlandish (formerly known as South of Campus)
March 20 Potluck
(6pm, third Fridays, alternating dinner/lunch)
Support Groups
March 3 & 17 Macular Degeneration/Low Vision
(2pm first & third Tuesdays)
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Challenge Campaign
| Nancy Adams | | Marlene and Ben Bagdikian | | Marilyn Barkin | | Kathy Barrows | | Anne Barrows and Mason Drukman | | Robin Beebe/Divine Home Care | | Anonymous | | Anonymous | | Dr. and Mrs. Robert Z. Apte | | Anonymous | | Janis Brewer | | Mollyanne Brewer | | Patricia Brucker | | Ada Burko | | Beth Burnside | | June Cheit | | Ronald Codron | | Joan Cole | | Anonymous | | Connemara Fund | | Jan and Luciano Corazza | | Linda A Cozzarelli | | Christina Crowley | | Barbara and Howell Daly | | Philip & Beverly Davis | | Merle and Bob Davis | | Robert Deutsch-Jewell Foundation | | Sue Diehl | | Leah Emdy | | Alice Erb | | Lisa Esherick | | Karin Evans | | Susan Fischer | | Katharine and Donald Foley | | Sam Foushee and La Rae Schneider | | Lisba Fowler | | Marcia Freedman | | Rachael Friedman | | Dagmar Friedman | | Veronika Fukson | | Nan Gefen and Jonathan Omer-Man | | Jean Goldman | | Anne Good | | Mary Graham | | Judy and Sheldon Greene | | Pamela and Elmer Grossman | | Margot Harrison | | Peggy and Philip Havey | | Charlotte Herzfeld | | Anonymous | | Carole Hickman | | Edith Hillinger | | Vivian and Sandy Hirshen | | Kristina Holland | | Nancie and Tom Hughes | | Paula Hughmanick & Steven Berger | | Phyllis Isaacson | | Ellen & Darryl Jacobs | | Anonymous | | Carole Joffe and Fred Block | | Kathleen Kahn | | Nicole Kaplan | | Anonymous | | Marjorie and Theodore Keeler | | Carole Kennerly | | Pat Kirkpatrick and Sidney Wolinsky | | Patricia Klahn | | Chris and Liza Klein | | Arkay Foundation/Dr. Cecelia Hurwich | | Mona B Kreaden | | Deborah Levy | | Frank and Ildy Lewis | | Andra Lichtenstein and Bill Glover | | Wendy Lichtman | | Linda and Steve Lustig | | Michela Maiden | | Anonymous | | Andree McGiffin | | Floramay Moser | | Albert Nahman Plumbing | | Kris Owens | | Martin Paley | | Frieda Pardo | | Laura Peck | | Margie Pezzaglia | | Phyllis Plate | | Enid Pollack | | Mary Jo Powell | | Roberta Pressman | | Liz Raymer and Ronnie Boynton | | Marie Rhein | | Brad Ricards | | Anne Rosenthal | | Betty Roszak | | Pat Sakai and Richard Shapiro | | Anonymous | | Tobey and Sheila Schwartzburg | | Alison Seevak | | Jane and Joe Selby | | Nina and Nathan Shoehalter | | Jane Simon | | Sonia Spindt | | Barbi Jo Stim | | Mick Sullivan | | Pat & Peter Sussman | | Sheba Sweet | | Carol Takaki | | Pat Ungern | | Brenda Webster and Ira Lapidus | | Betty and Bill Webster | | Gene Weinstein | | Eva Yarmo and David Rosenthal |
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Thank You to
Our Donors!
General Fund
| Ackerman's Volvo | | Jimmy Baker, Jr and Experian | | Anonymous | | Kathy Barrows | | Carol Bernstein | | Joyce Bird | | Barbara Blomer and Seymour Chatman | | Linda Bryant | | Frederica Bunge | | Beth Burnside | | June Cheit | | Carolyn Corbelli | | Shirley Culver | | Eleanor Dahl | | Anonymous | | Maryl Gearhart | |
Nan Gefen and
Jonathan Omer-Man | | Kristina Holland | | Frank and Ildy Lewis | | Veronica Martin | | Anonymous | | Anonymous | | Danute Nitecki | | Anonymous | | Jean Radford | | Liz Raymer and Ronnie Boynton | | Julie Shearer and Russ Ellis | | Thilakavathy Soundararajan | | Carol Takaki | | Brenda Webster and Ira Lupidus |
It Takes a Village Membership Fund
| Alice Abarbanel & Alan Bern | | Barbara Blomer and Seymour Chatman | | Anonymous | | Carolyn Corbelli | | Maryl Gearhart | | Donna Mickleson and Tim Gordon | | John & Diane Gossard | | Kristina Holland | | Kathleen Kahn | | Rachel Kahn-Hut | | Naneen Karraker | | Steve and Linda Lustig | | Clare Marcus | | Randy Milden | | Audre and Roger Newman | | Betty Pigford | | Liz Raymer and Ronnie Boynton | | Rachel and Carl Resnikoff | | Irene Rosenthal | | Sara Shumer | | Bess and Steve Sternberg | | Tess Tait | | Sharon Caplow Todd | | Jing Wang and Evie Zhang | | Betty and Bill Webster |
Member Memorial Fund
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Suzanne Baldwin | |
Eileen Cafferty | |
Audrey Franklin | |
Susan Helmrich & Richard Levine | |
Drs. Risa Kagan and Richard Stern | |
Carol Nguyen | |
D Rosen and R Klein and family | |
Randy & Bessie Rosenberg | |
Phyllis and Jerry Rosenberg | |
Grace Rosenberg | |
The Schissel Family | |
Lynn M Senecal | |
Russell, Felice & Richard Shatz and Bob & Cindy Thomas | |
Bob and Betty Spiegelman | |
Anonymous |
Volunteer Appreciation Fund
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Beth Burnside | |
Dottie and Dana Kemp | |
Irene Rosenthal |
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ASHBY VILLAGE
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Newsletter Editor: Sarah Hawthorne
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