We Remember
Al Shields April 25, 2014
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TODAY
Reuter Center Singers Concert
 Sunday, May 4, 4 pm
Manheimer Room
Free Admission
Donations Welcome
Limited Seating
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OLLI News
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Summer Catalog is Coming!
 Registration for Summer classes begins, May 20, early morning.
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Fab Friday Lecture
Friday, May 9, 11:30 am
Reuter Center Manheimer Room
Living Well: Getting Vested in Growing Older Right (VIGOR) by Teresa Fralix, MD, PhD
Life expectancy has changed dramatically in the last 100 years. However, many of us are living longer with chronic medical illnesses that can be positively affected by our health choices and habits.
 Find out what you can do to live longer and healthier. Dr. Fralix, a family physician and UNC Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) faculty member, will present the latest evidence and research about health, wellness, diet, exercise, and the lifestyle habits that lead to better human flourishing.
Free and open to the public, this lecture is part of the Health Education Series.
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Sierra Club MeetingWednesday, May 7, 7 pm
Unitarian Universalist Assembly
1 Edwin Place, Asheville
Upcoming North Carolina Legislative Session
Sierra Club's state  lobbyist will present a legislative preview of upcoming issues expected to be addressed by the North Carolina General Assembly in the short session beginning May 14, including a possible coal ash bill and other environmental legislation. Free & open to the public.
Location: Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 1 Edwin Pl. on Charlotte in Asheville.
Contact: Judy Mattox, 828-683-2176
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Book & Travel Lovers
Save the date!
Tuesday, May 13, 7 pm
for a book reading and signing at  Malaprop's Book Store in downtown Asheville with Lynne and Tim Martin, former Asheville residents. Lynne is the author of Home Sweet Anywhere: How We Sold Our House, Created a New Life, and Saw the World.
She and Tim have been traveling the world for the last three years after selling their home and most of their possessions.
Free and open to the public.
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Senior Games
May 13- June 3, 2014
Join area Seniors for friendly competition in a variety of events.
Click here for a schedule of events.
Registration Deadline is
Friday, May 13, 2014
More information, contact
Dee Black at 259-5809 or dblack@ashevillenc.gov
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Radiation Lecture
Thursday, May 15, 7 pm
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
 Dr. Perry Sprawls will offer a talk on radiation in our lives. In this program Dr. Sprawls will review the different types and sources of radiation, their benefits to individuals and society, and the actions to minimize risks. Perry Sprawls is Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Emory University Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, with over fifty years of experience in the use of radiation for medical purposes. Free and open to the public.
This talk is offered in collaboration with the WNC Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
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OLLI Volunteer Opportunity
at Asheville City Schools Preschool
May 14, 2014 , 9 am - 12 pm
Asheville City Schools Preschool,
441 Haywood Rd., Asheville, NC
Calling all OLLI members! On Wednesday, May 14th, you are invited to volunteer at Asheville City Schools Preschool to cre ate an outdoor learning environment for students. OLLI members will help transform the back field into an outdoor learning space that includes a garden for instruction, bamboo teepee, an outdoor seating area for classrooms, and more!
If heavy lifting is a concern for you, that's not a problem. We'll have activities on hand that you can do in support of studentsContact Laurel Jernigan 250-3871 ljerniga@unca.edu
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Asheville High Needs Judges
Thursday, May 22, 2014
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Silver Arts Showcase
Tuesday , May 27, 4 pm
Awards Ceremony & Dinner
5 pm
(registration required)
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
"A celebration of the creative expression of older adults in
North Carolina"
Silver Arts is a component of the Asheville-Buncombe Senior Games and contributes to the total wellness and creativity of our community.
Silver Arts provides a stage for the creative talent of artists in the visual, heritage, literary, and performing arts.
Registration Deadline: Friday,
May 13, 2014
For more information
Contact Dee Black at 259-5809 or dblack@ashevillenc.gov
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USO-Style Dance
Saturday, June 14, 2014, 7-11 pm
Woodland Hills Church Gymnasium
$20/person;$35/couple
1940s Costume Contest!
Refreshments, live music (featuring Maddy Winer and the North Buncombe High School Jazz Band) and dancing!
All proce  eds to benefit the North Buncombe High School Marching Blackhawks' December, 2014, trip to the Pearl Harbor Memorial Parade. Contact Theresa, 828-545-5754 for tickets
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Dear OLLI Members,
If you missed the Reuter Center Singers (RCS) in performance last night, you will have one more chance to enjoy their renditions of the music of the Rat Pack (Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, and Frank Sinatra), today, Sunday, May 4, 4 pm in the Manheimer Room at the Reuter Center. Please remember that the concert is free, but that donations are welcome. Thanks to RCS director Chuck Taft and all of the singers for the vitality and joy they bring to their performances.
OLLI Steering Council chair Jim Lenburg and I returned on Thursday from the OLLI National Conference, held this year in Carlsbad, California. These meetings offer an opportunity to learn from other OLLIs, to share best practices, and to meet with other people who want to foster stimulating and enriching environments for lifelong learning. We heard from many people who are excited to attend the Southern Regional Lifelong Learning Meeting that we will be holding here in Asheville July 30 - August 1. Both Jim and I felt very proud to share with others the work that OLLI at UNC Asheville members and staff achieve together daily. We feel confident that we ensure a creative retirement for the people in our local community and for the people who come from around the country for our Paths to Creative Retirement and Creative Retirement Exploration Weekend programs. We have a very special program with a solid history and a bright future.
With gratitude for your commitment to our community of teachers and learners,
Catherine Frank
Executive Director
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Around the Center
Jann Nance and guest performer, Kat Williams, brought smiles and applause to the recent Ladies Sing the Blues class, part of the stellar College for Seniors spring curriculum. |
Check the links here to see OLLI and UNC Asheville current events: 
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Symphony Talk with Daniel Meyer
Friday, May 9, 3pmAsheville Symphony Orchestra's music director and conductor Daniel Meyer will speak about the performance for the next evening's concert and local music aficionado Chip Kaufmann will speak about the composers. The May 9 Symphony Talk will feature discussion of Rachmaninoff's  Piano Concerto No. 2 with piano soloist Mariangela Vacatello and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 "The Year 1905." For more information about the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, or to find out how to purchase tickets for performances at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, visit ashevillesymphony.org
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room Free and open to the public; plan to arrive early to find a seat at this popular event.
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Stand up Comedy Performance
Members of the College For Seniors Course
Performing Stand-Up Comedy
will give a one night only show  Sunday, May 11, 7:30 pm
Highsmith Student Union
UNC Asheville campus
Admission is free, and the performance is open to the public. Parking is free and ample.
This performance will be hosted by instructor Randy Robins. Previous shows have been SRO performances.
Doors open at 7 pm.
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Registration Is Open for OLLI 2014
Life Transitions Programs!
 Exploring Continuing Care Retirement Communities helps you assemble the relevant information and ask the right questions to see whether the CCRC is a living option that meets your needs and helps you choose among the options available to you. Thursdays, May 22 - June 26, 2014. Cost: $150 The Gift of Time program will provide tools, resources, and a supportive environment in which to think about how to plan and communicate your end of life wishes to spouses, partners, children and parents. Tuesdays, May 20 - June 24, 2014. Cost: $100 members/ $110 non-members.
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Basic Feng Shui for Your Home
Dates: Saturday, May 31 Times: 9 am - 4 pm
Instructor: Su Shen Huang Fee: $60/person
(Workshop has been rescheduled from May 17 to May 31)
Is your home helping you thrive? In this workshop you learn and apply the power of Feng Shui to rearrange your furnishings using principles of the five elements, bagua (eight areas of your life), and your intuition to change the energy flow of your home. Following these methods will help you live, relax and sleep better, improving your health, love, prosperity, and happiness. Su Shen Huang (myneedle47@hotmail.com) has integrated her passions for philosophy/ culture, psychology, science and spirituality into a holistic healing practice. With her knowledge of feng shui and five elements, she has been able to advise her clients to live in harmony with their environments/homes to enhance their lives. She has a BA in psychology and MA in counseling and has practiced acupuncture.
Open to the public. OLLI Membership is not required to register.
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Proton Therapy:
A New Radiotherapy Treatment Lecture
by Bradlee Robbert
Wednesday, May 14, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room,
free and open to the public
Radiation therapy has been around nearly 100 years, but traditional radiation therapy utilizes x-rays. An x-ray has no weight and travels at the speed of light. Now there is proton
therapy, which is particle therapy. The advantage of particle or proton therapy is that this subatomic particle can be accelerated or slowed down to stop the radiation dose inside the human body.
Robbert will present some of the past, present and future possibilities of the future of radiation oncology specifically highlighting proton therapy and will show actual treatment plans and compare them to traditional radiation therapy.
Bradlee Robbert, Director of Patient Services at the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, is a licensed radiation therapist with a bachelor's in healthcare administration and nearly fifteen years of medical experience, ten of those in radiation oncology.
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Successful Aging 2014
by the Council On Aging of Buncombe County
 Date: Tuesday, May 13Time: 8:30 am till 3 pm
Place: UNC Asheville's Kimmel Arena
Cost: $17 per person
Breakfast and lunch will be served
Three different class sessions will be offered with six different classes in each session to choose from.
Registration required. Go to WWW.COABC.ORG and register on line or call 828-277-8288 Please register by May 8, 2014
(please note the La Zoom tour offered in session 3 is full)
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Downton Abbey Class Photo
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 Saturday May 10th, the 22nd annual National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) nationwide food drive will take place. The food drive is one of the largest of the year, with much of the food in our service area benefiting MANNA and their partner agencies. Last year the NALC food drive collected over 74 million pounds of food nationwide. MANNA and NALC need your support so that we can make this the most successful food drive yet! Click here to read more and for contact information
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