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EVENT{FULL}Monthly updates from your {FULL} Life community

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Wrapping up a savory summer

Residents, team members, and friends enjoy entertainment and shopping for fresh produce at the Touchmark pesticide free farmer’s market.

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Touchmark Chef Joe Volske filled the room with smells of fresh mint and basil at a recent cooking demo featuring quinoa salad.

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Left: Residents averaged eating three corn cobs each at the Sweet Corn Feed hosted by Life Enrichment/Wellness Assistant Katie Carlson, her husband Aaron, and son AJ. Right: At a recent fund-raiser bake sale, residents, family members, and team members donated baked goods for others to purchase. All free-will donations benefit the Walk to End Alzheimer’s.

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Mascot Hawkeye made his way around the ballpark during the last Red Hawks baseball game of the season.

Lois Vogel celebrated her 99th birthday at the Pirate Themed Birthday Party.

Community fun

The Quilt Show displayed quilts residents have made over the years. Quilters were on hand to answer questions.

Look for Active Aging Week photos on Facebook and in next month’s newsletter.

You said it!

“My wife and I made a wise choice in moving to Touchmark. I am so pleased with all the staff; every department does an outstanding job. There are so many Life Enrichment activities available. I am so happy to be here!”

-Don Hogenson, resident

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When Sunny Crahan visits the Touchmark Health & Fitness Club, it can be a family affair! Her good health, vitality, and commitment to her health and well-being have inspired her daughter and grandson to follow in her footsteps and join the club, as well.

But it’s not the opportunity for a chance encounter with family members that motivates this 91-year old to continue her regular visits to the club. She has never seen a sedentary lifestyle as an option. “I’ve never thought anything about staying active; it’s just the way I’ve always been,” says Sunny. “My mother lived to

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Featured: The Avondale

Offers: 1,877 square feet, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, den, fireplace, patio, garage. New construction

Fall in love with the full life

Learn about the Full Life at Touchmark: home and yard maintenance provided, great neighbors, and attentive and caring staff. Call to arrange your personal tour—and find out for yourself why people fall in love with Touchmark!

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Featured: Apartment 354

Offers: 742 square feet, one bedroom, one bathroom, lots of storage

A look at the Sunny side

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Sunny Crahan (right) and her daughter at the club (cont.)

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be 101, so I’ve got to keep myself going. I better do something to make my health better while I’m here. I take it a day at a time and enjoy myself.”

A lifelong resident of Fargo areaSunny can’t imagine living anywhere else. “Fargo-Moorhead has three colleges, a symphony orchestra, and we don’t even have to go to Minneapolis for good theater,” she says. “We’re very fortunate, and I’ve always been grateful to live here.”

Born and raised in Minot, Sunny moved to Fargo, met her first husband, and enjoyed 47 years of marriage with him before he died. Just over two years later, she reconnected with her college boyfriend. They married and enjoyed 14 years together until his death. “I’ve had two wonderful husbands,” says Sunny. “With the happiness I’ve had in my life—even with the deaths of my husbands, and my oldest daughter died of cancer—I’ve never felt sorry for myself, I really felt that I was blessed. That makes a difference in how you age gracefully. Accept those difficult things without regret or anger. Regret and anger will age you. I tried to teach my girls that, and I think they have the same philosophy.”

So much to do!When Sunny moved to Touchmark nearly three years ago, she was no stranger to the Touchmark Health & Fitness

Club. She had been enjoying the club’s warm pool and water-exercise classes for two years before making Touchmark her home. “I’d had two knees and a hip replaced and couldn’t walk for exercise, so I decided to exercise in the water, and it has been wonderful,” she says. “I’m now good friends with the other people in the class. It’s really nice at my age to meet new, younger people. We stop for coffee and popcorn before I go back to my room.”

In addition to regular exercise, Sunny appreciates the many activities and opportunities offered by Touchmark. “They have something for us to do almost every day,” she says. “They bring in people to entertain, they bowl and have beanbag games—there’s always something going on. The Heritage Garden is beautiful, and they have teas, get-togethers, and wine-and-cheese gatherings. They take us to movies, symphonies, corn feeds, down to the lake—it’s absolutely wonderful.”

“I don’t feel like I’m 91, and I don’t dwell on it either.”Were it not for the passing days on the calendar, Sunny almost wouldn’t even realize she was aging. “I don’t feel my age at all. I sometimes feel like I’m 19, because I keep myself active, and I play a lot of bridge and cards—that’s my favorite hobby. I try everything you read about what to do and not do. My doctors ask me why I take so many vitamins, and I tell them

that I’ve done it for 30 years, so why stop? Then they say, ‘well you’re the healthiest 90-year old I’ve ever met!’”

Touchmark salutes Sunny for being a true champion of active aging and epitomizing how people are changing the way they age. She truly lives the {FULL} Life!

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EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

Contact a Full Life team member for additional details, including registration, transportation information, and participation requirements.

Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2 pmFM Ambulance Presentation. Auditorium.

Friday, Oct. 4, 4 pm Oktoberfest games, music, and pig roast dinner. Auditorium and Prairie Rose Dining Room.

Monday, Oct. 7, 2:30 pm Gospel music performance by Gene Oker.

Auditorium.

Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2 pm Historic Bus Tour with Ronald Ramsey.

Monday, Oct. 14, 2:30 pm Tour of St. Anne and Joachim Catholic Church.

Wednesday, Oct. 16, 10:30 am Lunch outing to Old 52 General Store in Sabin.

Thursday, Oct. 17, 5 pm Dinner starts for October Birthday Party. At 6:30 pm: music

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TOUCHMARK AT HARWOOD GROVES 1200 Harwood Drive S • Fargo, ND 58104

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© 2011 Touchmark Living Centers, Inc., all rights reserved

MargeCoalman, EdDVice Presidentof Wellness &Programs

The “right” to happiness “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson

Is it a right or a privilege—the right to happiness, that is? Whatever your interpretation of the wording of the Declaration of Independence, it has become a multimillion-dollar business to help us all find our “right to happiness.”

We may have come equipped to pursue our own version of happiness, but North Americans seem to be endowed with the pursuit-of-happiness impulse. Many have the urge to find that greener pasture or nirvana … just over the hillside (or online, for that matter).

What does that mean? It means that the outdated definition of doing more, owning more, conquering the next challenge has become an ambition to “best” our neighbors, whether by straight-out purchase or credit. The snatch-and-grab phenomenon has become a job description for many and an “oh well” for our neighbors.

Interestingly, this is not true of those who live long and well. Studies repeatedly tell us that philanthropy and a spirit of

giving are essential to well-being. While it may not be the barn-raising or neighborhood party in this day and age, the impulse to help others is deeply imbedded. All of the current studies on “happiness” bear out the fact that compassion, concern, and action (in the way of helping hands or physical donations) make a difference in the quality of life we all seek.

So, pass up the infomercials and appeals you get in your mailbox to “feel good about yourself” with this tape or class. Release even an ongoing commitment to “feel good.” Instead, contact the Full Life wellness team at Touchmark at Harwood Groves to get involved in programs and services that do make a difference.

(cont.) by Acappella Xpress. Auditorium and Prairie Rose Dining Room.

Friday, Oct. 18, 2:30 pm Movie review with Tony McRae: Strangers on a Train. Auditorium.

Monday, Oct. 21, 2:30 pm Sing-O with Inez. Silver Maple Room.

Thursday, Oct. 31Halloween Party. Auditorium.

See the full calendar of events online: TouchmarkFargo.com/pdf/community-event-

calendar.pdf

BRAIN BUILDERS

Inside of the name CHEERIOS are several other words made up of 2 or more letters. Two have been found for you already. Find as many others as you can.

Answers: Cheer, Chi, Choir, Chore, Chose, Core, Echo, He, Heir, Here, Hero, Hers, Hi, Hire, Hoer, Horse, Hose, Ice, Ire, Is, Ocher, Oh, Or, Ore, Rice, Rich, Rise, Roe, Rose, Score, Scree, Sec, Seer, She, Sheer, Shier, Shoe, Shore, Sic, Sire, So, Sore.

CHEERIOS1. Ere 2. Core