HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH!

ACTIVE AGING WEEK
SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2012

As a leader among Virginia’s Retirement Communities, we look forward to joining this nationwide celebration of healthy lifestyles. For our residents, as well as guests from other area retirement communities, it promises to be a week-long menu of games, exercise programs, garden walks, oceanfront strolls at the Neptune Festival, good food and fun! 

Monday 9/24: Emphasis: Spiritual 

10am Forum, “Sea Level Rise” by environmentlist Clay Bernick. 

1-2:30pm Tours of the Meditation Garden, our residents' gardens and the Tuttle Courtyard.

1:30pm Tortoise and Hare Race, Entertainment & refreshments 

Tuesday 9/25: Emphasis: Physical

10am Excursion to Eastern Shore National Wildlife Refuge

1-2:30pm West Tower Pool Fun—walking laps, volleyball & Aqua Zumba 

6pm Martial Arts demo 

Wednesday 9/26: Emphasis: Social/Emotional

1-3pm Atlantic Shores/Harbor’s Edge residents visit for outdoor fun—bocce, croquet and corn hole

3-5pm Entertainment, beverages & snacks!

Thursday 9/27: Emphasis: Vocational

Noon-1:30 Volunteer Fair - explore outreach opportunities at Westminster Canterbury and within the community

7:30pm Choral entertainment by Regent University

Friday 9/28: Emphasis: Intellectual

10am Excursion to Neptune Festival Boardwalk Events 

10am-noon Brain games - fun ways to test thinking, memory 

1-3pm Fitness Center Wii games - virtual bowling, tennis, more! 

Best news of all? These active aging options, programs and events go on at Westminster Canterbury on the Bay 52 weeks a year.  We don't just retire. We refresh! Revive! Renew! Rejoice! Rediscover! Consider joining us. And discover a whole new age in active aging! 

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September Song

“Life on the Chesapeake Bay is sweet in September. The weather is still warm, still  offering a friendly invitation for a walk, especially when the air is laced with a gentle breeze. At your feet, the water laps lazily, holding summer’s warmth long into fall.  Come walk and meditate on the beauty of coastal Virginia. Watch fishing boats skim past seagoing titans from ports far and wide.   Overhead, seagulls and pelicans dip and soar.  Every now and then, a duet of dolphins will put on a show.  

“The old song says, “The days grow short when you reach September.”  Perhaps, but here, lingering in the soft watercolor scenes that change from sunrise to sunset, another thought occurs. Robert Frost said it. ‘Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.’ “

Reflections of a resident.