A holiday card workshop will be held at 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 at the Oak Park Arms retirement community, 408 S. Oak Park Ave. Ada Willer, administrative secretary for Oak Park River Forest High School, has volunteered to host. She will bring her own materials for participants to use. The workshop will allow […]
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The Monday Night Concert Series continues with The Windsome Quintet at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, at the Oak Park Arms, 408 S. Oak Park Ave. The Windsome Quintet will present classical pieces featuring the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn and Bizet. Oak Park Arms Senior Living is a rental retirement community which provides senior
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The public is invited to an afternoon of movement-based learning with Brain Gym® with Aimee Edwards at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, at the Oak Park Arms, 408 S. Oak Park Ave. Brain Gym movements, exercises or activities refer to the original 26 Brain Gym movements, sometimes abbreviated as “The 26.” These activities recall the
Roberta Kulik will teach a Military Dance workshop at 11 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 14, at the Oak Park Arms, 408 S. Oak Park Ave. A military dance team, also known as a drill team, is a marching unit that performs routines based on military drills. Once the drill steps are perfect, drill teams compete against
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A representative from Interim HealthCare will present a talk titled “Mental Strength & Brain Fitness” at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, at the Oak Park Arms retirement community, 408 S. Oak Park Ave. The seminar is part of the ongoing monthly series called, “Here’s To Your Health.” Age-related memory decline affects more than half of
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Kathleen Matheny of Peoria and Sarah Walstra of Oak Park have joined the Oak Park Arms retirement community as interns. Matheny works in the marketing and leasing department, and Walstra assists with the Adult Day Care program and Home Care. Matheny earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and certificate in Gerontology from St. Ambrose
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Oak Park Arms presents its popular series “You Be the Critic” at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, at the Oak Park Arms, 408 S. Oak Park Ave. The 1993 film “The Fugitive” will be viewed and reviewed with radio announcer Dan Kane. Directed by Andrew Davis and starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, this
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Visitors are welcome at the next meeting of the Mills Investment Club at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2 at the Oak Park Arms, 408 S. Oak Park Ave. New members are always welcome to join or visit. For more than 30 years the members of the investment club have come together to learn how to
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Claudia Lora, M.D. will lead a discussion on blood pressure at “Breakfast with the Docs” at 8:30 a.m, Wednesday, Oct. 30 at the Oak Park Arms retirement community, 408 S. Oak Park Ave. Blood pressure is considered a barometer of overall circulatory health and is one of the vital signs of the body. High blood
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Emil Messina’s grandfather was a barber. So was his father and two brothers. “I was born in a barbershop, barbers all around me,” he said. “I don’t know anything else.” Messina, 84, has been a barber since the age of 13, when he was cutting the hair of soldiers during World War II in his
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