Pizza in the Corona Era

PIZZA IN THE CORONA ERA
Desperate for pizza? Locked down! Delivery not possible! Necessity can be the mother of invention. So, one of our highly valued residents, Wayne Richter, showed that all the many years of his education weren’t wasted.

Looking forward to making their own pizza, Wayne and wife Anne White had a friend deliver some groceries to them, including ingredients they had requested for a favorite special treat — Hawaiian pizza — that Wayne makes occasionally on Sunday evenings. But when they opened up the grocery bags, there was one important element missing — the pizza dough. “We were so-o-o looking forward to our pizza, and so-o-o disappointed”.

Then, as they sorted their grocery order, they noticed two packages of Thomas English muffins. Maybe they could substitute for pizza crust? They decided to try it, and the result was delicious! Crisp and crunchy. Maybe even better than regular pizza? So they named it Wayne’s Pizza Pandemica. Here’s the recipe:

Place pizza stone or baking pan in oven and preheat to 375 degrees

Prepare toppings:

Prosciutto — cut or tear into small pieces

Goat cheese — break up into small pieces

Pineapple — cut into small pieces, fresh if possible; if canned, drain well

Macadamia nuts — chop up into tiny morsels; roasted, unsalted preferred

Split and lay out English muffins on pizza peel or platter, add toppings and carefully slide pizzas onto preheated stone or baking pan

Bake for 10-15 minutes, or until edges of pizzas are crisp and brown

Allow to cool for at least five minutes, serve and enjoy!

Vision Committee Help Project

Volunteers needed! Please read this!

Several members of our community are unable to read the notices distributed to their apartments. At times they don’t even know they are delivered.

If you have the time and inclination to phone someone and read the notices to them, please contact Amelia Augustus.

If you want to know what you can do to help others during the difficult time we are going through, this is an easy and valuable service.

Kendal's Centenarians

Far be it for a website editor to make any kind of a scientific proclamation, but I think that many of our residents feel that the quality of life at Kendal adds to its longevity. If you have doubts, read on.

Kendal’s Group of Centenarians grew this past week when Myron Gordon turned 100, joining Marjorie O’Brien, Clara Eldridge, Betty Russell, Jean MacIntosh, and Bill Rakower. We congratulate them all and look forward to adding Una Olaksen to the list in June.

Myron Gordon on the great day wrote, “One Hundred Years and Beyond.” On April 12, 2020 I reached the summit of this hill of years. At this height it almost seems fictional. The most recent five years were spent on the life-giving path of Kendal. At this stage I can stop counting the steps and days but rather view each one as a bonus. The birthday celebration started in the morning when I heard people cheering and clanging pots from adjacent balconies. During the day I received messages including emails, greeting cards and phone calls of all sorts. I deeply thank all of you at Kendal who contacted me, and hope we can soon be together after this imposed isolation. Love and regards from Jetta who successfully got through this storm of affection. Myron Gordon, K.C. (Kendal Centenarian).

All of us at Kendal wish Myron many more years of health and friendship.

Tree Debris in Rockwood Park

Photo by Maria Harris

After several days of severe winds, there was considerable tree damage in Rockwood Park, as you can see in Maria’s photo above.

Shakespeare Lecture via Zoom – Thursday, April 30, 2020

“To be or not to be, that is the question.” 

Professor Yoel Magid, who was planning to give a four-session Shakespeare course in our Gathering Room in April, has offered to give a one-hour lecture via Zoom starting at 2 pm on Thursday, April 30.

His talk will be about acting, role playing, faking in everyday life, and some psychological speculations on why we like actors/acting/theater.

Information on How to Participate:

Date:                           Thursday, April 30, 2020

Time:                           2 to 3 pm

Registration Limit:  20 residents, first come, first served

What you will need:  

• A computer, tablet, or smartphone

• Ability to use the Internet

• Some familiarity with Zoom (you can visit Zoom.us for a tutorial or ask for assistance by telephone from our IT intern Anthony Bradford. Anthony is available Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 9:30 am to 5 pm. His phone number is:  914-236-8553.

Process and Schedule:

• No later than April 25, advise Fran Kelly via email of your interest.

• The first 20 residents will be put on the class list.

• On Wednesday, April 29, each participant will receive an email invitation to join the class. SAVE THAT EMAIL; YOU WILL NEED IT ON THURSDAY TO SIGN IN.

• About 10 minutes before 2 pm on Thursday, April 30, click on the invitation; that will start the process of launching you in.

• Professor Magid will ask each participant first to click the “mute” button on his/her computer screen.  After 45 minutes, Professor Magid will open the session to participants’ questions.

• The lecture will end at 3 pm.

If this experiment works, we will consider scheduling additional lectures on other subjects until the COVID-19 quarantine is lifted.

VIRTUAL ART SHOW: "It's Spring"

The curators ask for submission of photographs of your artworks, that is, works made by residents.  They may include paintings, collage, fiber arts, assemblage, and photographs.

ONE Submission MAXIMUM

Email a high resolution photograph of your artwork to:

webmasterkohresweb@gmail.com

Deadline: Friday, April 24.

Include your name and type of medium.

Questions: Contact Lynn Brady.

Don't Hesitate to Call Anthony for IT help

Recycling Information

With dinners being delivered to the Independent Living apartments at Kendal, there are a great many plastic and aluminum containers accompanying the food. All this material can be recycled.

Ursula Hahn, Chair of the Recycling Committee, reminds us:

 Continue to rinse recyclable plastic food containers and cut the two halves apart for tight nesting.

 Rinse foil trays and nest them.

 Use plastic produce bags for small amounts of trash and knot them for proper disposal.

Questions? ask Ursula. She’ll be glad to help.

Confused About Primary Elections? Keep Reading!

If you are confused about the New York State elections, so is everyone.

The dates have been shifted because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some of you have already received absentee ballots for the Democratic Presidential primary to be held in June. The Board of Elections printed them before most of the candidates dropped out, so you will see a list of names including Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Sanders etc. in column 1 on the right-hand side. If you vote for a candidate who has already dropped out, you are wasting your vote.

As of this date, only Biden is in the race. In columns 2 through 8 are the names of delegates to the National Democratic Convention (this is not the same as the Electoral College). They are pledged to the candidate preceding them in column 1. You can vote for any seven of them. It makes sense to vote only for the seven pledged to your candidate.

You still have plenty of time to vote before the June 23 deadline, but do vote.  If the above doesn’t clarify things, you can call Martin Smolin  or Annette Leyden .

Gardening in the (Hopefully) Near Future

Peter Limburg, Chair of the Horticulture Committee, announced that there is space available in three (possibly four) planters on the Terrace this season. This is a good outdoor activity as long as the gardeners don’t stand too close to each other (at least a rake and a half away).

If you’re interested, please apply to Peter who tells us that the cutoff date is Friday, April 24.