Your Treasure is Within: March Events

Our Alive in All Seasons program is alive and well at Juniper Village. This quarter’s seasonal theme is on Creative Expression: “Explore Your Creativity” and serves to promote our philosophy of encouraging an active body, an engaged mind and a fulfilled spirit. For March, we will turn our focus to Performance: “Your Treasure is Within”.

This month on March 2, 2014 we look forward to the 86^th celebration of the Academy Awards. As we watch popular comedian and talk show host, Ellen DeGeneres host the festivities while the beautiful stars dressed in their finery walk the red carpet we can’t help to stop, to pause and reminisce of all of the great performances of past years. Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro, Tom Hanks, Jack Nicholson, Vivien Leigh, Meryl Streep, Peter Ustinov and Dustin Hoffman; the list goes on! In addition to guessing who might win the Oscars for 2014, this month we will be learning about and experiencing all different types of great performance art, enjoying cultural events and trying our hand at acting in drama club.

It’s going to be a theatrical month at Juniper Village at Williamstown filled with creativity, great experiences and memorable performances! You are cordially invited to attend Mardi Gras Carnivale Event on March 4^th at 3:00 pm, our “Mind Power Performance” by Flavian on March 14^th at 3:00 pm, our m Irish Cultural Concert Celebration on March 17^th at 4:00 pm, our “Voices of Legends” Performance on March 27^th at 3:00 pm, or any of our other activities (see our Newsletter for a complete listing - highlighted events also occur in our Wellspring building one hour earlier than the times listed here).

So come in, and join in on the act to find that “Your Treasure is Within”.

The Artists' Heart- "Awaken Your Passion"!

This month at Juniper Village of Williamstown as we celebrate our
Alive In All Seasons Theme of: Art-"Awaken Your Passion", we have
truly celebrated the "Artisan Heart" that resides within all of us!
We also celebrate the most artistic and powerful expression of life,
which is the art of Love! Across the board at Williamstown, every
creative endeavor is first created with the art of love in action!

We began these celebrations with our Resident Art Show, where our
residents were able to exhibit their beautiful artistic paintings
which are featured on our walls in Williamstown. We had many guests,
which included residents, families and friends from area communities.
Guests also enjoyed the artistry of violin and harp while they
celebrated with champagne and refreshments. Continuing on with our
expression and celebration of the arts, we enjoyed a wonderful
Author's Workshop, which featured three guest authors, two published
authors, Kathleen Lindsey who has published over 9 books available
through Amazon, and Ferida Wolff, who has published over 28 books and
and has many writings in the famed "Chicken Soup For the Soul" books.
In addition, we were very proud to have our own colleague, Joe
Cannizzo; who has written two books and is in the process of having
them published. It was a wonderful and very intriguing time for all.
Guests were on the edge of their seats as they heard the process of
our writers, listened to them as they read some of their books, and
also interacted with an open forum for questions. It was a great
time!

To conclude our wonderful celebration of the Arts, residents, families
and friends from the communities enjoyed a wonderful Valentines event,
with love, music, chocolates, and as we enjoyed the wonderful
demonstration of the art of love with families and friends, even the
pets got in on the action. They wanted to express their love as well!
And as with all we do it wouldn't be a celebration without the "Art
of Giving"! We enjoyed hosting our Fund Raiser event of "Cookies For A
Cure" raising funds to be donated to the Alzheimer's Foundation. It
was a wonderful time and everyone loved the cookies!

Welcome New Beginnings in Williamstown!

As we have enjoyed the birth of a brand new year in 2014, we are all
filled with anticipation of the wonderful new beginnings in store for
all of us! Here at Juniper Village of Williamstown, NJ; we are in full
celebration of all forms of "New Beginnings". We have welcomed new
residents and families joining our community in 2014, while at the
same time celebrating the joy of "New Beginnings" in a new season of
life as one of our long time volunteers became newly married!  What a
beautiful time of joy for all of us and now we have gained another
friend and volunteer in our community!  In addition, we have shared
the miracle of new birth as our residents held their newborn great
grandchildren for the very first time and all of the community
gathered around to witness the miraculous!

We have also shared new beginnings as we have learned to enter new
seasons and phases of our lives and the new relationships and stages
of relationships that creates!  In addition, we have welcomed new
students, professors and friends from Rowan University that have
become part of our community in 2014 and have even learned new fashion
and dance moves as we enter this beautiful new year!  Join us at
Juniper Village of Williamstown as we engage in the beauty of "New
Beginnings" and meet someone new, try something new, and learn
something new with us in 2014!