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Volume 13 Number 6 June 2017

THE LEGACY VILLAGE VOICE News and Information from Legacy Village Retirement Community

Barbara is 100 !

The family and friends of Barbara Jones held a 100th

birthday celebration at the Legacy Village Community

Center on June

10. Unfortunately,

the editor was

occupied with the

Yard Sale in the

gazebo that day

and was unable

to get pictures

and a story—

except for this

one as her loving

family shielded

her from the sun

as they wheeled

her back to the Assisted Living at the end of the after-

noon. Happy Birthday, Barbara!

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Mark Twain to Entertain

at Independent Living

Storyteller Mark Twain will be a special guest at the

June 27th Independent Living cookout. Sign up soon

and show up at 5 pm at the Community Center for this

special evening.

National Church Residences

Brings Revised Apartment Plans

In response to objections from residents and others to plans that would have placed the new 100 unit Inde-pendent Living apartment complex on the site of the Me-morial Garden, a new site placement has been proposed.

Project Manager Amy Rosenthal, Architect Dodd Katt-man and Acquisition and Development Coordinator Bel-kis Schoenhals, came to the Village on June 8 and met with Executive Director Steve Throop and the Memorial Garden committee (Carol Lynne Usher, Chair, Sue Lane, Design Director, Becky Strayer Volunteer Coordinator, and WD Campbell, member). They brought a drawing that shows one wing of the apartment complex wrapping around the Memorial Garden. Though the three story building will only be 20 feet away from the back of the garden, this compromise represents their need to site the building on level ground and the desire of the Legacy Community to keep the garden.

The architect noted his desire to preserve as many trees as possible, a plan which was received with relief and joy by the committee. The other good news from the meeting was a green light on the placement of the monu-ment. This is triggering a series of activities at the garden as tree trimmers will soon be cutting out dead branches from the maple and ash trees. This will be followed by concrete work on the monument foundation, and capped with the monument placement—a long-anticipated event!

Dodd, Belkis, Amy, and Steve

making some final observa�ons on site.

Legacy Village Voice June 2017

Multiple Resident Photographers Record Campus Beauty The weather brought some awe-inspiring vistas and several residents submitted photos of sunrises, sunsets and rainbows. Photo credits to WD Campbell (top row and lower left photo), Jay Strayer (full rainbow) and John Longland (lower right)

Rise early

When morning darkness

s�ll enwraps the trees.

walk into the dark forest

with only your a�en�ve heart.

Gaze toward the east,

take a deep breath, and wait.

A�er a short while you will see God

carrying a lantern through the forest,

bits of light bobbing up and down,

in and out, higher and higher,

the light climbs, spilling over

into the spaces between the leaves

and on into the world

beyond the forest.

…

Li� your face to experience the dawn.

Bathed in morning light, pray

that the lantern of your life

move gently this day

Into all those places

where light is needed.

Poem by Macrina

Wiederkehr, OSB, of

St. Scholas�ca mo-

nas�c community in

Fort Smith, Arkansas

and included in her

book Seven Sacred

Pauses.


Please join us for a celebration of life

In loving memory of

Margaret B. Fuhrer August 11, 1929—May 5, 2017

Beloved mother and grandmother

Loving friend and neighbor

Memorial Service to

be held

Saturday , July 8,

2017 at 1 p.m.

Legacy Village

Community Center

In lieu of flowers, donations to:

In memory of Margaret Fuhrer

Kettering Medical Center Foundation

Women's Wellness Fund

3535 Southern Blvd.

Kettering, OH 45429-9924

Memorial Garden at Legacy Village

In memory of Margaret Fuhrer

Legacy Village Foundation

2335 Bank Dr.

Columbus, Ohio 43220-5423

EXERCISEEXERCISEEXERCISEEXERCISE

With Leslie Sansone

And Maggie Gapinski

Mondays & Wednesdays Let’s DO this!Let’s DO this!Let’s DO this!Let’s DO this!

Beginning July 24th at 3:30

At the Community Center

Call or see Maggie if you have ques�ons.

Xenia Gazette Memorial Day Column

XENIA — Robert Impson was a graduate of the Ohio Sol-diers’ and Sailor’s Orphans’ Home and often stated that he was happy to have lived and attended school at the Home. His father, a soldier, died when Bob was young, so he and his siblings went to live at the Home. His mother visited as often as possible, bringing socks and other treats. He stud-ied to be a butcher, but when he graduated, he joined the military. Upon completion of his military service he used his GI bill to attend college, got his degree in education and later became the Superintendent of Schools. Article by Joan Baxter, a local resident and weekly historical columnist. Photo Credit:

Wallace D.

Campbell

Note from Editor

of the Legacy

Village Voice:

The plaque hon-

oring Impson and

the statue of chil-

dren on a tricycle

are both located

at the OS&SO

Museum on the

Legacy Campus.

Inside are many

other items of

interest. Visit!


Our Book Corner is Back!Our Book Corner is Back!Our Book Corner is Back!Our Book Corner is Back!

Faith Waltke serves as our Village librarian, and has recently been purging and reorganizing the shelves in the Community Center. She offers these suggestions for your summer reading pleasure: There are a number of “new” books that have been donated to our Legacy Community Library. We are cur-rently searching for the books missing in several of our fiction series. One of the “new” fiction books is Naomi and Her Daughters. Author Walter Wangerin, Jr. skillfully weaves the history of Biblical Israel and its culture into the life journeys of Naomi and Boaz. A quick read, An-gel of Mercy introduces us to Heather, a recent high school graduate, daughter of famous plastic surgeons in Miami. She chooses to delay college and joins a medi-cal team on the Mercy Ship, whose destination is to care for the needy in Africa. I want to read the sequel, Angel of Hope, which I am ordering from our Greene County Library. This author is Lurleen McDaniel. If non-fiction is your preference, you’ll enjoy House Calls and Hitching Posts as told to Dorcas Hoover. You will follow family doctor, Dr. Elton Lehman, who practic-es in Eastern Ohio and is dedicated especially to those of the Amish faith. He is not the usual doctor who limits his contact with his patient to 15 minutes in his sterile office. There are 2 books, The Light and Glory and From Sea to Shining Sea, by Peter Marshall, the famed Chaplain of the U.S. Senate. The Presidents’ Wives is also on my “must read” list. It gives insights into those who served as First Lady, from Martha Washington up to modern day First Ladies. For inspiration, Peggy Reynolds is especially fond of Max Lucado’s writings. You may want to check out his fiction books as well. Don’t forget the “Bring One/Take One” book ex-change. This is a way for you to share a book you are willing to give up and receive one another resident is sharing. For a movie night, check the ample supply of DVDs Joyce Stacy has provided for our enjoyment. Kids have Summer Reading Programs. How about you? You can travel to different places, different times and meet different people, all in the pages of a book, and you can do it easily by simply pulling something from our excellent book shelves right here on campus!

Another Gardener/Photographer! WD is not the only resident who walks around the campus and snaps photos of eye-catching things. Dorothy Kampf has submitted these beautiful pics—and one rare sight!

The top pictures is the small Magnolia that many of us have at the corner of our house here at Legacy. The left one is actually a pe-tunia! It is called Night Sky. I found it at Kroger & just couldn't pass it up. Third one is an Asiatic lily which looks striking against a section of contrasting fence.

And I couldn’t resist taking a photo of Jim Geist walking his cat in a stroller!


Skilled Carpenter Resides Here

Most of us are using our garage to park our car and store

things that won’t fit in the closets inside the house. But at

least one resident has a fully functional woodworking shop in

his! When people walking on ten Boom Lane pass the open

garage door of Tim Shumaker they can hear the sounds of

carpenter’s tools and can glance in and see him hard at

work on his latest creation. Most recently he created this

sideboard cabinet with a beautiful solid cherry wood top for

his oldest granddaughter Felicia and he and Phyllis deliv-

ered it to her and her husband in Milford, New Hampshire.

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A VERY CHEERY WELCOME greets visitors to Bonnie Phil-

lips’ front door. Colorful blooms adorn the beds and the or-

anges of the petunias contrast with the black of the chairs

creating an atmosphere that seems to say, Come, sit a spell!

Legacy Christian Academy Choir

Entertains at Birthday Luncheon

When the residents gathered for their May birthday

luncheon they learned of a special treat. The Legacy

Christian Academy high schoolers were there to sing

some beautiful selections to entertain them!

Between numbers and with a twinkle in his eye, Director

Bob Colaner asked if there were any residents who had

a relative in the choir, and his mother, Esther Houk (in

black and white stripes above) raised her hand! It was a

treat for all of us to see her.

Another resident who raised her hand was Carolyn Armstrong who had two grandchildren in the choir: Amanda Everett, in glasses, and her cousin, Clinton Brads, on the right below.

None of us wanted the concert to end, but the students were headed to Assisted Living for another performance.


The Legacy of the Red Canna

By WD Campbell

You may have noticed that one of the islands in the Strong Tower Ministry park-ing lot has a mass planting of red leaf cannas. The orig-inal canna bulbs were grow-ing at Camp Cooper, the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home’s camp on

Clifton Road. I acquired the bulbs from George Coulter and his wife, the couple who ran the camp during my employment at the Home from 1963-1966. George also worked maintenance at the Home. As a playground supervisor and relief house parent, I supervised chil-dren at the summer camp where I first saw the bulbs. The bulbs are not winter hardy and have to be dug each fall, stored for he winter where they will not freeze, and replanted in the spring. Miss Melvin (see my story about her in the January 2017 issue of the Voice) allowed me to develop a flowerbed in front of the Peter Pan Complex. I planted some of the can-na bulbs in this garden. The plants grew to be over eight feet tall. I invit-ed Professor Popham, who had been my freshman botany teacher at the Ohio State University, to come see the garden. To my surprise, he accepted my invitation and drove here all the way from Columbus. He was duly impressed with the size of the cannas. I have planted the canna bulbs every summer since then. There was one location where the cannas sur-vived the winter without being dug. When I was super-intendent of the Greene County Children’s Home, I planted the bulbs along the back wall of the boy’s dor-mitory. There was a steam pipe that kept the soil near the building from freezing. The plants survived several years after I left my employment there. The bulbs lasted the forty-five years I planted them in my Middleton Corner home’s garden south of Xenia on US 68. I added cannas to the Casesarscreek Town-ship Butterfly Garden, and they are growing there still. I shared starts of the bulbs with more people than I can remember.

I now have canna bulbs growing along the side of our new home on Livingston Lane at Legacy Village, built on the old OSSO campus. The canna bulbs with an Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home connection have returned home. Now that is quite a legacy!

In Memory of

Earl P. Miller

April 9, 1919 - June 2, 2017

EDITOR”S NOTE: It is not likely that most of you read-ing this would have known Earl Miller, as I also did not. He was only at Legacy facilities for a short time. Typi-cally the obituaries we print do not run as long as the one that follows. (This is a shortened version of all they had to say. I added images I got off the internet, which may be erroneous.) But as we as a Legacy Community host many of The Greatest Generation in their final days, months or years here on this earth, I deemed it an honor to print what Mr. Miller’s loving family had to say about him and was disappointed to be unable to access the photo they referenced of him after his 25th bomber run. May we each live our lives in such a way as to leave behind such a legacy.

Earl P. Miller , 98, passed away on June 2, 2017, while sleeping peacefully and in the company of his adoring family. He was born on April 9, 1919, near Chrisney, Indiana. When he was just six years old, his father died from complications of a hunting accident, and his mother married John W. Price who would be-come much more a loving father than a stepfather. He was predeceased by his parents, a sister and his wife of 66 years. He is survived by his son, Ron Miller, daughter Marjo-rie (Jeff) Barth, son Chris (Pam) Miller. Also cherishing his memory are 5 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.


Earl grew up in rural southern Indiana, cared for by his parents as well as maternal grandparents. In spite of sharing the deprivations of the Great Depression, he excelled in just about everything but especially in aca-demics. Many high school friends told us that our father was “the brain of Chrisney High School. He won the county’s Latin contest and its scholarship to Butler Uni-versity in Indianapolis. Too impecunious to attend immediately, he took what’s now called a “gap year” to work for a local farmer for a dollar a day, room, and board. After that year, he enrolled at Butler, the first person in his imme-diate family to graduate from high school and the first to attend college. Those of us writing this are most grateful that he did because it was there that he met a strikingly beautiful coed from Indianapolis, Georgianna Smith. Their first date, auspiciously, was to attend church, but they prob-ably didn’t know just yet that church would become the focal point of their lives. Earl’s courtship was a gallant one, but when he asked Georgianna to marry him, the winds of war were blowing, and they elected to await its outcome before marrying.

In the years immediately before America’s entry into WWII, a forward-thinking Army Air Corps subsidized flying lessons in colleges about the country. As this course was tuition-free, Earl jumped at the chance. Thus, he already knew how to fly on December 7, 1941. This talent, of course, translated directly into ac-ceptance as an Aviation Cadet, and, after spending Christmas of 1941 with his family and Geor-gianna’s family, he em-barked on active duty in February, 1942. He aspired to fly the racy P-38 fighter, but his lot, it was determined, was in multi-engine aircraft. There ensued training in the rela-tively new B-17. It was dubbed the Flying Fortress be-cause the Army Air Corps Doctrine Center believed that massed formations of heavily-armed bombers would be impervious to attack by enemy aircraft. Earl would be among an early group of intrepid airmen who

would give their all, including, in many cases, their lives, to prove how dreadfully wrong those experts were.

He and his crew arrived in England in May, 1943, after

flying their plane at night, in inclement weather across the north Atlantic from Newfoundland, over Ireland, to Great Britain—a major accomplishment in itself. They were as-signed with a new plane, the Axis Hotfoot. It had already been shown that massed formations of American bombers, flying in daylight, were anything but impervious to Luftwaffe attack. The chance of survival was so slim, that the 8th Air Force decided to limit a tour of duty to twenty-five missions just to provide slight hope to flight crews. Even though it provided hope, completing twenty-five missions was a daunting, almost superhuman, task in an era when, with no fighter escorts at all, a crew statistically was expected to be shot down before they could complete ten missions, let alone twenty-five. Through the inestimable talent of command pilot, Earl Miller, incredible luck, and the grace of almighty God, however, the Hotfoot II (the original Hotfoot having been damaged beyond repair) did return from Earl’s twenty-fifth mission on his sister’s birthday, Oc-tober 10th, 1943. Eight days later he and his bombardier were on the Queen Mary, bound for New York City. Earl and Georgianna were married in Indianapolis on Nov. 7, 1943. They moved to Boston where he served as a test pilot in an experimental-electronics squadron until after VE day. He then returned to Indianapo-lis with a Distinguished Flying Cross, an Air Medal with three oak-leaf clusters, his bride, and new son, Ronnie, to finish college at Butler. He soon graduated with a business degree and went to work as an accountant for the IRS. When later asked by Ron why he didn’t instead accept offers he had to fly for civilian airlines, he replied, “I thought that flying was dangerous.” [continued]


About 3 years later, after saving up his vacation days, he was able to take off work in the afternoons, and, working from noon to nightfall every day between the early summer and late fall of 1949, he built, almost single-handedly, the house in Indy where all three of his children would grow to adulthood. He and Georgianna would live happily there until 1995, when they moved to Cedarville to be near the family of son, Dr. Chris Miller, on the faculty at Cedarville University.

With 32 years of civil service he retired in 1974, and he and Georgianna enjoyed wintering in Boca Raton, Florida until 2006 when a series of Georgianna’s health issues kept them in Cedarville permanently. Earl be-came a fastidious caregiver. When the love of his life passed away in December of 2009 they had enjoyed 66 years of marriage and life together. Though he always grieved her loss he was content to live in his “castle” at Creekside Condos and could always be seen up until March of this year at the highlight of his week: having breakfast at Beans and Cream on Saturday mornings with his family.

He was more than just a member of Tom Brokaw’s “Greatest Generation,” he actually defined the term. And yet, the part of the story that Earl would most want to be told began in 1960. Having observed a friend’s life he said, “I thought I had everything, but Bill had something that I didn’t have.” A Christian businessman explained to him how he could have purpose in life through a person-al relationship with Jesus. After midnight in the privacy of his family room Earl dropped to his knees and asked Christ to change him from the inside out. His purpose in life from then on was focused like a laser on advancing God’s kingdom. He loved reading his Bible and sought out good Bible teaching. He threw himself into the work of his Church and actively shared this good news with family and friends. He shared the vision of the Christian Business Men’s Committee of leading businessmen to Christ and several of those men became his best friends.

Late Friday night, June 2nd, after being on final ap-proach for over a week, he safely landed at his final des-tination, meeting his Savior and being united with Geor-gianna and a host of friends, many of whom had re-ceived their directions to the place directly from him.

A few days late for Father’s Day, here is

A TRIBUTE TO FATHER

This was published many years ago in tribute to a pastor I

knew in Missouri. His daughter wrote:

When my sisters and I were children we would walk with my dad down to the field where he did some farming. While we wandered down through the pasture, not hurrying, he would tell us about the different kinds and names of trees, point out a bird’s nest so well-hidden that the careless eye would neve see it. Sometimes when the day was uncommonly warm, he would say to me, “Walk in my shadow. I’ll be your shade.”

Even now, I recall how good it was to be a child and have the best dad in the world. While exploring the fields, watching the miracles of the changing seasons, marveling at the mysteries of the sky, ly-ing flat on our backs in the front yard on a warm summer night and asking questions that almost were unexplainable. I remember how safe I felt in his shadow, protected by the shade he provided for me.

One day we discovered that I had grown too tall to fit into his shadow. We didn’t speak of it very much. We both just knew that the time had come for us to walk side-by-side, each casting his own shadow. Later still, I came to understand that the shadow of my father was as it was, because the man who cast it was who he was—big enough, strong enough, wise enough to be my shelter until I was sufficiently strong enough to step outside and walk my own way.

I am thankful for my dad because he gave me the best of himself—his shadow and his substance.


Twelve Months of Celebrating 50 Years

When Jim and Carol Lynne Usher passed the mile-stone of being married for 49 years, Jim decided to

embark on a full year of cel-ebrations big and small to lead up to their 50th anniver-sary. He began by hiring a mariachi band to serenade his wife at a dinner with a mission team in Honduras. His other plans for the year

included tickets to see The Lion King production at the Schuster, a ride on the Ferris wheel at Navy Pier in Chicago, a relaxing silent retreat in Ken-tucky, time with their children and grand-children in Alabama and California, and a memorable cruise to the Panama Canal.

Ten days before their 50th anniver-sary, they found themselves once again in Honduras, and this time they were with ministry partners there who had just reached their 52nd anniversary. The two couples took this op-portunity to demonstrate for the people the value of staying faithful to one’s mate for a lifetime. They invited everyone in a mountain village to a celebratory meal, and 200 of the 300 residents came.

Everything was simple—the decorations, the food, and the brief program. A few balloons, a plastic table-

cloth cut into fringes and hung under the shelter of the tarp, and a paper banner that said Happy Anniversary in Spanish were all that adorned the slanted driveway and adjacent garage. Tables were set that accommodated less than half the crowd.

The simple menu: delicious chicken tacos, lemonade and cake. The informal program opened with five preschool girls singing a welcome song that they taught to the crowd. A few congratulatory words from various ones in the audience were crowned with a spontane-ous challenge from an elderly man, married for 52 years and now widowed for two, who encouraged the young men to marry and stay faithful to their wives. For us, that fulfilled our wish for the evening—and we hadn’t ever met him!

Just as the short program concluded and the food was be-ing served, the tropical rain began to fall. Fortunately, the serv-ing area was in the garage and some of those who could not fit under the tarp found shelter there. The rain made them reluc-tant to leave the party and walk home, so after the cake was eaten and the tacos and lemonade consumed, they began tak-ing down the balloons and giving them to the children. Soon there were groups of children and teens batting the balloons around and having a great time together. The falling rain and the laughter of the balloon games were the music of the even-ing. A joyful fiesta celebration to conclude the Ushers’ fiftieth year together!

Their hosts at the B&B wel-

comed the Ushers with this

“gela�n cake” with the le�ers

cut from slices of apple!


YARD SALE A SUCCESS !

With more than a dozen people saying they only had “a little bit” for a yard sale—not enough to have one on their own–the Memorial Garden committee received eight ta-bles full of items, not to men-tion those strewed out over chairs and railings! Larry and Pat Stover headed up the sorting and pricing based on their years of experience with owning antique stores. Becky Strayer stayed with them all day Friday for set up, with Jay Strayer, Sue Lan, Susan White, and Carol Lynne Usher clocking a lot of hours too. Tables were borrowed from the Community Center and Assisted Living thanks to the muscles of Charles, Orie, and of Larry Stover.

No rain d i s t u r b e d the sheet-c o v e r e d tables over-night, nor did rain mar the hours of 9-4 on Sat-urday. Jay and Becky got the

signs and balloons out early and Becky, Sue, and Carol Lynne spent the day receiving buyers and browsers, Thanks to Susan White for covering an hour also.

At the end of the day there were more hours dedicated to boxing up and storing the remaining items, (which are being donated to a church yard sale in July.) WD Camp-bell helped with the truck loading and unloading into the garden’s storage shed. When Jay and Carol Lynne count-ed the money, the figure passed $300 and a later final tally showed $329.15. As reported in the Advisory Coun-cil minutes on p. 12, $37 of this was placed in the Council funds, and after expenses were paid, a total of $266.15 was given to the Memorial Garden Committee.

Thanks to all who contributed items, and to those who stopped by to browse and buy!

Please Join Our Family

in Celebrating with

Nancy HendersonNancy HendersonNancy HendersonNancy Henderson On the occasion of

her 80th Birthday,

Thursday, July 6, 2017.

Dessert

will be served at 7:00 p.m.

at the Community Center

Please feel free to share a card or note with her on this special day!

No gifts, please!

Burglar: The police are coming! Quick, jump out the

window!

Accomplice: But we’re on the thirteenth floor!

Burglar: This is no time to be superstitious.

Now they’ve got a dial a prayer service for atheists.

You call a number and nobody answers.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of sup-

port.


Praise and Prayer

At the June birthday luncheon the residents gave a round of applause to Shirley Stavick who was able to be present. Her recovery from a serious fall is coming along well and everyone was so glad to see her.

Margery asks that we continue to pray for her husband’s good response to cancer treatments and for a full recovery.

Jim and Liz Geist went to Pennsylvania for the summer so she could get her knee operations from her doctors “back home.” The first operation went well, but then she fell and was receiving treatment and rehab for injuries from the fall. Pray for them as they cope with this kink in their plans.

Doug McPherson fell at the end of May and fractured his hip. He is recovering at the VA hospital. Pray that he can come home soon!

Faith Waltke has been upset to have to spend so much time in her recliner due to a bout of vertigo. Pray that this will pass and that she will relax about her time of forced rest.

New resident Barb Innis has not been seen at any events yet, as she moved in and then had a scheduled surgery. We look forward to meeting her soon; pray that her recovery will

be swift

Yard Sale morning Laura Bowermaster Oberlin and her thera-py dog visited the ga-zebo in the Memorial Garden where the gar-age sale is located to check out the items on sale before going on duty for her double shift.

(Advisory Council Minutes Continued from p. 10) Amy recapped the meeting of May 5, 2017. Dodd pre-sented a schematic map of location of the senior apart-ment building. This map was on display after the meet-ing for other Legacy Residents to review during the carry-in luncheon following the meeting.

The Memorial Garden will remain as is with a 20 foot space between the garden and building. Dodd said to proceed with the placement of the Memorial Garden Monument as the garden area will not be disturbed.

Other items: --A resident inquired about lawn care—many weeds and bare spots in yard. Steve will check.

--New TV has been added to the Community Center all purpose room.

--Maggie has suggested a movie night for Resi-dents.

--Maggie is starting a new Exercise Program. This will take place on Mondays and Wednesdays at 3:30 PM.

--Recycling Container for Resident use. A con-tainer would add to the trash pickup costs. Perhaps in the future we could look into this feature.

NEXT MEETING: AUGUST 1, 2017 @ 2:00 PM.

Everett Henderson moved to adjourn; seconded by Peg-gy Reynolds. Motion carried.

Faith Waltke, President Becky Strayer, Acting Secretary

MEMORIAL GARDEN GIFT & USAGE

Memorial Presbyterian Church recently donated

more than 80 folding chairs to the Memorial Garden.

These are being stored in the basement of the Commu-

nity Center and will be used for events at the garden.

And speaking of events at the garden, our first one will

be a small wedding on Saturday, July 8! We are ex-

cited to be chosen to host this event, and we hope that

others will choose to ask about having their special

event there too!

Contact Carol Lynne Usher if you wish to take ad-

vantage of this space for your event!


ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING

JUNE 20, 2017

The Legacy Village Advisory Council met at 2:00 PM in the Community Center. Members present: Faith Waltke, Peggy Reynolds and Everett Henderson. Others present: Steve Throop, Connie McPherson and Becky Strayer. The meeting was opened with prayer by Steve Throop. Secretary’s Report: There are no additions or correc-tions to May 2nd report. Treasurer’s Report: No activity Advisory Council Fund $ 63.00 Flower Fund $160.00 Fee Structure/Breakdown Committee Report: --Independent Living (IL) share of salaries charged to IL as $67,728/year; $5,644/month; $156.78/month per home. Steve states this works out to 30% of the total salaries for the five staff members. Everett stated Steve is allowing both Maggie Gapinski and Sue Hunt 50+ hrs per month supporting IL at 30% of 172 hrs/mo. We wonder if a more realistic number might be 20 hr/mo. That would be almost 12%. Clearly we do not see most of the work they do for IL but we wonder if 12% is unreasonable? Steve stated he will take this information under consideration.

--IL Real Estate Taxes: Steve has reached out to David Graham, Greene County Auditor to find out how the prop-erty taxes for Legacy Village are formulated. Are they based on land, buildings or some other formula? Steve stated that 60% of the grounds are out of IL. Real estate taxes are $120,000/year and National Church Residences is billed $13,000/month, which is a discrepancy. Mr. Gra-ham will get back with Steve this week. Everett moved to accept the above reports, seconded by Connie McPherson.

Legacy Village Council Corner OLD BUSINESS: Legacy Village Yard Sale: Proceeds from the LV Yard Sale on June 10th $329.15 Less advertising and balloons for signs -26.00

Balance $303.15 By consensus of Council members, $37.00 of the Yard Sale monies will be added to the Advisory Council Fund bringing the balance to $100.00. The Memorial Garden Committee will receive the remaining balance ($266.15) for their use in the garden.

WALKING IN AIA SPORTS AREA: Steve spoke to AIA risk manager and there are waivers that can be signed so individuals can walk on the sports fields at any time. Steve will follow up with AIA.

The May 5th Meetings with the Memorial Garden Com-mittee and LV Residents with Mark Ricketts, CEO, Na-tional Church Residences was well received. NEW BUSINESS:

Keeping in Touch Committee: A proposed change to Advisory Council By-Laws. For the special requests for prayers, illnesses and notification of deaths, etc. the Chairperson will send e-mails to those who have e-mail and call those who don’t.

Memorial for Marge Fuhrer: A Memorial service for Marge will be held July 8th in the Community Center. Council discussed a memorial gift to honor Marge. It is suggested a peony bush be added to the Memorial Gar-den in her honor and a small Memorial stone be given to her daughter, Joan. Becky will check on prices for these items.

National Church Residences Corporate Meeting: Amy Rosenthal, Sr. Project Leader and Belkis (Bel) Schoenhals, Acquisitions and Development Coordinator from Corporate and Dodd Kattman, Principal Architect of MKM Architecture met with the Memorial Committee on June 8th. (Continued on previous page)

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