 We Remember
Gerald Koross
February 7, 2014 Phyllis Sher February 19, 2014 Please note that there will be a funeral today (Sunday, February 23) at 4 pm at Congregation Beth Ha Tephilah, 43 N. Liberty Street in Asheville. |
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Spring Registration
Tuesday
Feb. 25,
8 am
REGISTER for classes starting Tuesday, February 25, 8 am, for best availability (and please be aware that many people get to the Reuter Center well before 8 am)
We will send an email later today with full details.
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Today
Chamber Music Concert 
Asheville Chamber Music Series (ACMS)
presents
The Ciompi String Quartet
Sunday, February 23, 4 pm
Unitarian Universalist Congregation at the corner of Edwin Place & Charlotte Street
in Asheville
Individual tickets are $35 and are available at the door,
first come, first served.
or call Nathan Shirley at
(828) 575-7427
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We Need You!
The College For Seniors
curriculum committee's
health
and wellness topic group
is looking for instructors to teach courses in the areas
o f traditional medicine, alternative therapies, and other health related issues.
We have had such success in our most recent offerings that we
are hoping to expand. If you, or someone you know, has a medical background, or expertise, please consider sharing it with your OLLI friends by teaching an 8, 6, or 4 week course, or even a single two-hour
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 Help Support Volunteerism in Buncombe County- Information Session The Land of Sky Regional Council's Retired Seniors Volunteer Program (RSVP) is currently seeking volunteers, age 55 +, to help build the capacity of Hands On, the volunteer center of the United Way of Asheville & Buncombe. The team members will work on community outreach, volunteer research, creating video and animation media and most importantly providing personalized volunteer placement support to volunteers that walk or call Hands On. RSVP will be holding an information session for interested volunteers at the Land of Sky Regional Council on Thursday, February 27, 2-3 pm To attend please notify Patti Cameron, Lead RSVP Coordinator, at 828-251-6622 or patti@landofsky.org Click on this link to learn more about this opportunity |
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New SIG Wine Tasting Two
 Are you interested in learning more about wine? Do you want to share knowledge you may already have? Wouldn't it be nice to learn to pair food and wine? Join us! Building on the success of the current wine tasting SIG, a new wine tasting SIG is forming.
Our organizational meeting is scheduled for
Wednesday, February 26, 4:15 pm
in Reuter Center Room 207
(Note new date for meeting)
Contact Kathleen Mainardi, kkmainardi@gmail.com
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OLLI Member Photo Exhibit
OLLI member, Meredith Norwood, is having an exhibit of photographs in the Blower  Gallery in the Ramsey Library on the UNCA campus. The exhibit will be in place
Friday, February 28, 2014 and run through the month of March.
Her six week journey through India and Bhutan provided hundreds of photographs and the exhibit shows a small sample and is entitled, "Sacred Spaces and Special Faces."
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Opera Talk
Asheville Lyric Opera (ALO) brings great stories and music to Asheville's premiere theatrical stage, the Diana Wortham 
Theatre. Come enjoy a behind the scenes journey as ALO general director David Craig Starkey and a cast of professionals guide you through their operatic world.
On Friday, March 21, 3 pm, ALO provides a lecture with guest artists from their spring opera, Mozart's Don Giovanni.
Click here for more information about the Asheville Lyric Opera.
Free and open to the public!
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Sierra Club Meeting
Hiking in
Western North Carolina
Wednesday, March 5, 7 pm
Location: Unitarian Congregation,
Edwin Place & Charlotte Street
in Asheville
 Sierra Club, Western North Carolina Alliance, and Green Drinks will present Carolina Mountain Club's past president Marcia Bromberg to talk about favorite places to hike in western North Carolina, conservation, greenways, and greenway development in Asheville and Buncombe County. For more information contact: Judy Mattox,
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 Thursday * April 10, 2014 * 6-8 pm
A-B Tech Ferguson Auditorium
Welcome to the third annual Children First/CIS "Are You Smarter Than An Elementary Student?" event. This promises to be a great night of fun and learning! Proceeds from the evening will benefit Children First/CIS, which serves economically disadvantaged children and families in Buncombe County.
Teams from area businesses and organizations will test their knowledge with multiple choice questions on geography, science, state capitals, math and more. But don't worry, if the questions are too tough; each team will get help from their "celebrity" team member-a child from one of our afterschool learning centers!
Contact: Children First/CIS of Buncombe County, 50 S. French Broad Avenue, Suite 246 * Asheville, NC 28801
Phone: 828-259-9717
Email: KaitlynB@childrenfirstbc.org
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Dear OLLI Members,
We want to thank everyone who turned out for the "Meet Me at the Drive-In Social" on Friday. We had an enthusiastic group of people who enjoyed '50s food, music and trivia. We will have a full list of committee members in next week's newsletter, but we want to give special thanks to Jeanne Smolkin, Kathy Rouse, and Ann Cowden for their efforts to provide another opportunity to gather for fellowship and for their flexibility in managing a change in the event's date. Thanks also to Henry Morrow for taking photos and to Joe Sasfy for providing us with hours of great 1950s music.
We will be sending out a separate email with all of the details about registration for Spring 2014 to take place on Tuesday, February 25. Please be aware that we have a separate registration form this term ( click here for a copy that lists all the workshops described in the catalog). You may sign up for workshops at registration, but you may also sign up for workshops at any time by dropping in the office.
Special thanks to Anne Mock and Leanna Preston for their help in re-scheduling missed College for Seniors courses. And thank you for your patience as we work together to get all of our schedules back on track after our wintry weather.
Catherine Frank
Executive Director
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This Week Feb 23-Mar 1, 2014
Tuesday, Feb. 25, 8 am, Spring Registration
Tuesday, Feb. 25, 7:30 pm, World Affairs Council Lecture: "China's Foreign Policy" by Dr. Jim Lenburg
Wednesday, Feb. 26, 7 pm, Blue Ridge Orchestra Open Rehearsal Friday, Feb. 28, 11:30 am, Fab Friday Lunch and Learn Lecture" Overview of Sleep Medicine: From Insomnia to Snoring by Jim McCarrick, MD
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Next Week Mar 2-8, 2014
Tuesday, March 4, 4:30 pm, STEM Lecture: Dr. Kevin Moorhead presenting "The Science of Gardening"
Tuesday, March 4, 7:30 pm, World Affairs Council Lecture: Dr. Samer Traboulsi on "Turkey: A Nation at a Crossroads"
Wednesday, March 5, 7 pm, Blue Ridge Orchestra Open Rehearsal
Thursday, March 6, 7:30 pm, Astronomy Club of Asheville
Click here to see the OLLI calendar and then click on each event to discover times, event specifics and more.
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And Beyond
Tuesday, March 11, 7:30 pm, World Affairs Council Lecture: " Israel" by Dr. Heather Hawn
Wednesday, March 12, 7 pm, f/32 Photography Group meeting
Friday, March 14, 3 pm, Symphony Talk with Daniel Meyer
Tuesday, March 18, 7 pm, Audubon Society meeting
Friday, March 21, 3 pm, Opera Talk
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World Affairs Council (WAC)
2014 Great Decisions Series
"China's Foreign Policy"
Dr. Jim Lenburg, Mars Hill University and
OLLI at UNC Asheville
Tuesday, February 25, 7:30 pm
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
China has gone to great lengths to emphasize the "peaceful" nature of its meteoric rise. Yet few dispute that China is the dominant regional power in Asia, and in recent years Beijing has begun to flex its muscles regionally in order to advance its strategic interests. What does the rapid rise of this new superpower mean for other countries in the region, and are there potential points of conflict with the U.S. as it "pivots" to Asia?
 Jim Lenburg retired from Mars Hill University in 2006 after 33 years teaching history and humanities. His major field of interest is US foreign relations and Chinese history. Since retirement, Jim has been teaching courses at OLLI at UNC Asheville where he also serves as chair of the OLLI Steering Council. Jim has visited China on several occasions beginning in 1978. In 2004 he was a Visiting Professor at Jilin University in Changchun, China. He has a bachelor's degree in history from Butler University and a PhD in history from Penn State.
Co Sponsored by The Department of Political Science, and the OLLI at UNC Asheville.
No admission charge to WAC members or
UNC Asheville students. All others $10.
OLLI members receive a discount on WAC membership
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Fab Friday Lecture
Friday, February 28, 11:30 am
(Date changed from Feb. 21, 2014)
"Overview of Sleep Medicine:
From Insomnia to Snoring"
by Jim McCarrick, MD
Dr. McCarrick , of Asheville Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, will cover the concept of normal sleep and the effects of aging on our sleep. He will address several sleep problems such as leg movements sleep disordered breathing like snoring and sleep apnea, narcolepsy, insomnia and things that go bump or scream out at night.
Bring your questions.
This lecture is part of the Health Education Series. Scheduled in Reuter Center's Manheimer Room, Fab Friday lectures are free and open to the public.
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Let's Loop Western North Carolina! Dr. Juliette Sterkens to speak in Asheville, March 10, 2014, 7 pm, St. Eugene's Roman Catholic Church, 72 Culvern Street (off Beaverdam Road near the Asheville Catholic School).
Don't miss this special opportunity to hear one of the nation's top experts on hearing loops explain, answer questions, and demonstrate the technology to officials, ministers, business owners, and those with hearing loss. Juliette is a dynamic speaker! She will stimulate you to not only make use of the wonderful hearing loop we have in the Manheimer Room (#102) at the Reuter Center, but will also show how you can spread the word in our community for the benefit of other citizens. Learn how a hearing loop can be installed in your own TV room!
Do you know someone who could benefit from learning about hearing loops? Bring them along! Headsets will be available for loan to those without hearing aids who want to experience the effect.
The church is looped. Refreshments will be served, and there is plenty of free parking. For more information, call: 254-5193. Or, email Ann Karson at akarson57@gmail.com
or Melinda Stuart at mystuart@mac.com
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Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society presents
"Living on the Edge of Rising Seas:
Waterbirds of the Virginia and
NC Barrier Islands"
by Dr. Mike Erwin
Tuesday, March 18, 7 pm
Reuter Center, Room 206
 Dr. Mike Erwin will provide an overview of the species of waterbirds that nest or migrate through the region and describe some unexpected scenarios of how sea level rise will affect some of their long-term prospects. Dr. Erwin was most recently stationed at the University of Virginia where he was Research Professor of Environmental Science. His talk will be based on his thirty years of experience in research on waterbirds and wetlands in the Atlantic coastal regions.
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Volunteer Opportunity
Be p  art of a community-wide effort to support families and improve children's mental health! Buncombe County has received a grant to implement the most extensively researched parenting support program in the world, Triple P-Positive Parenting Program
Triple P offers many ways for parents to get support, and it never prescribes what parents should do. The programs offers a "menu" of proven  strategies that parents are assisted to choose from and adapt to their family.
At the end of March, Buncombe County will offer a 3-day training (followed by two more days of accreditation activities in the following months) to prepare practitioners to deliver one of the more intensive interventions, Triple P Group, an eight-session program.
 Triple P, when made widely accessible to caregivers in a community, has been proven to reduce substantiated child maltreatment cases, out-of-home placements, and hospitalizations for abuse-related injury, as well as reducing social/emotional/behavioral issues in children.
If you have a background in counseling, social work, nursing, public health, child development, education, or another related field and you want to use your skills to improve the lives of children in Buncombe County, contact Deanna LaMotte, Triple P Coordinator, 828-351-8098, Deanna.lamotte@buncombecounty.org
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Asheville Area Piano Forum announces
A Spring Benefit Concert
Sunday, March 23, 3 pm
Deerfield Retirement Community
1617 Hendersonville Road,
Asheville, NC 28803 
The program will include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Griffes. Forum pianists in the program are: Kimberly Cann, Les Downs, Anna Hayward, Cynthia Riley and Teresa Sumpter.
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