Annual Appeal - A Notice to All Residents

The Annual Appeal needs the help of ALL residents to keep the KoH Residents Association active for the next year. Your recommended contribution ̶̶-- $200 per person ($400 per couple) -- is tax-deductible. This one’s for us.

Unlike most CCRCs, Kendal on Hudson does not have an Activities Director. Instead, we generate all the activities that are right for us through our Residents Association: the weekly Spotlight, nightly movies, lectures, concerts, a year-round art exhibit, our Residents Website, Kendal View magazine, KoH-TV, special celebrations, clubs, an amazing 24/7 Library, a Residents Council responding to our concerns. Of course, it also supports the Residents’ Website.

Residents should put their checks in the box at the Front Desk.

Spectacles Needed

Dare to Make a “Spectacle” of Yourself and Be Proud!

In just two years, the Kendal on Hudson “New Eyes for the Needy” campaign collected 2,263 pairs of eye glasses.

These donations give the gift of clearer vision and change the lives of children and adults in need of glasses, who cannot afford them.

Please continue to contribute your glasses and cases by placing them in the box located in the Activities Alcove (opposite the Computer Room).

Any questions? Contact Amelia Augustus.

Library News

The Kendal Library is a place to behold. And, it can be beheld any day of the week and any hour of the day, in other words, 24/7. On weekdays it is staffed from 10 am to 12 noon and 2 pm to 4 pm by a resident volunteer.

One of the Library’s greatest strengths, other than its own collection, is that it has a wonderful connection to the much larger Warner Library in Tarrytown. Through Warner, books in the entire Westchester Library System are available to Kendal residents, and a trip to Tarrytown is not even necessary. Call the Warner to reserve a book and, after a short wait (depending on availability), it will be delivered to you at Kendal.

However… every once in a while a glitch in Kendal’s own system appears. Currently it’s a missing book. Has anyone seen A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell? It disappeared between the front desk and Clearwater, and we would very much like to get it back. Many thanks in advance.

Also, there is a DVD collection in the library. We would like to make room for new donations and therefore find out which DVDs are borrowed and how often to determine their popularity. Please help us learn more by jotting down the date, your name and the title when you borrow a DVD. A sign-out sheet has been placed on the middle top shelf of the collection for this purpose.

Programs and Courses

February/March/April Monday Night
Programs 7:30 pm on Zoom

February 8 - No Program (Resident Council meeting in afternoon)

February 15 - Local Charities Reports: RSHM Life Center; Open Door Family Medical Centers

February 22 - Nicholas Meyer, author, screenwriter and director: “My Sherlock”

March 1 - Louis Bauer: “Nature into Art, the Gardens of Wave Hill”

March 8 - No Program (Residents Council meeting in afternoon)

March 15 - Professor Andreea Cotoranu: “Artificial Intelligence”

March 29 - Environmental Law Professor Nick Robinson: “The Next Pandemic is Here”

April 5 - Masha Turchinsky, Executive Director, The Hudson River Museum

April 12 - No Program (Residents Council meeting in afternoon)

April 19 - No Program: Residents Association Quarterly Meeting

Apr. 26 - Peter Iskenderian, Executive Director, Rockefeller Preserve

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Courses - 2 pm to 3 pm (Zoom - by
subscription)

Friday, February 5 - “History of Paris” (Edward Berenson)

Tuesday, February 2, 9, 16, 23 - “Impact of Religion on Human Society” (Jean-Marc Oppenheim et al.)

Tuesday, March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 - “American Impressionism” (Jill Kiefer)

To sign up, contact Fran Kelly.

Give and Take Table Returns

The good old Give & Take Table will return to the Terrace Level on Monday, February 1 as close to 8:00 am as possible!

EVERYTHING LEFT on the table at 5:00 pm Sunday, February 7 will be deemed to be dregs and will be disposed of.

REMEMBER: No food, no clothing, no sharp objects.

Use the hand sanitizer, keep your distance, be safe, and ENJOY!

Happy Hunting!

Sustainability Notes

RECYCLING REMINDERS

• Despite their deceptive look, the brown soup cups and lids are not recyclable as the inside of both is coated with a plastic or wax film. Please put them into your bagged household trash and dispose in your trash room dumpster.

• The white and blue plastic bubble-lined Amazon Prime bags bear a recycling symbol with “Store Drop off.” Take them and other plastic shopping bags to the supermarket and deposit in special bin near the entrance/exit.

• Vegetable and fruit remnants are a NO-NO on the plant heap outside the gate to Sleepy Hollow Manor as they may attract unwanted animals. Please grind up your vegetable and fruit scraps in the disposal in your kitchen sink or add them to your bagged trash.

Our hats are off to Ursula Hahn, the Chair of the Sustainability Committee. Her dedication to proper recycling is outstanding.

Looking Forward to Seeing People Again

For the last several months Kendal has labored under fairly severe restrictions. Residents have been precluded from dining together, so even that bit of socialization has had to suffer.

Without question, the rules and regulations have gone a long way in keeping us alive. By and large, while unhappy, the residents have adhered to the code of conduct and, at the same time, fully understood that that their lives depended on it. Kendal’s record has been superb. Now, a little light has appeared at the end of the tunnel. In a note from Management, we were advised:

“We know that everyone is eagerly looking ahead in hope that, with the vaccination clinics behind us, we will be able to lessen restrictions that have been necessary to mitigate the spread of COVID.

After the upcoming vaccination clinics, the resident population will be over 90% vaccinated. We will allow for the two-week period for second doses to reach full efficacy.

It is then our intention to – beginning March 1st –allow independent residents to once again eat and drink together in apartments. If visiting does occur, the limit is four (4) guests per apartment.”

It may not seem like much, but any movement forward gives us hope that the light will become brighter and that we will be alive to enjoy this newly earned freedom.

Local Elections

As we breathe a collective sigh of relief that we have gotten through a national election and a change in national leadership, we may have thought we could rest. But no. There continue to be more elections held at local levels.

The Village of Sleepy Hollow has an election scheduled for March 16. As in the past, a polling place will be here at Kendal, but who knows? There could be last minute changes in timing because of the coronavirus.

In the late spring, probably in June, there will be party primaries for Town of Mt. Pleasant and County of Westchester offices.

And in November there will be state-wide elections.

At the moment, the need is to enable the village government to continue to operate. For that to occur, a mayor, village board members and a judge need to be nominated to be on the ballot.

There is only one slate, United Sleepy Hollow, (USH). At this writing it is unopposed. The slate has both Democrats and Republicans. To sign the nominating petition, which we ask you to do, you need to be a registered voter (any party or unaffiliated) in Sleepy Hollow. Once the nominating process is completed, the unopposed slate must be voted in on March 16. By signing a petition you are participating in the process of governing our nation.

Martin Smolin and Annette Leyden are gathering signatures. Please say yes. Local government is extremely important.

Memorial Service February 1

Once a year, the residents at Kendal gather to memorialize those who have passed away in the last year. Normally, the event is held is person. This year, since that is not possible, it is taking place on Zoom.

All residents are invited to attend the ANNUAL MEMORIAL SERVICE.

It will honor the 33 fellow residents we lost during 2020.

The service will take place on Monday, February 1 at 7:30 pm.

The arrangements are being made by Bob Sanders who chairs the Memorial Committee.

Residents are urged to invite their less technically savvy neighbors to watch with them in their apartments.

Contemporary Issues Discussion Group

Kendal’s Contemporary Issues Discussion Group (CIDG) continues its weekly Thursday morning pursuit of learning and discussion.
On January 28 at 10:00 am, the group, which currently meets on Zoom, will hear from Ambassador James D. Bindenagel who will be on line from Bonn, Germany. He will talk on “Germany and the U.S.: Today and Tomorrow”

J.D. Bindenagel is a retired 30-year U.S. career diplomat and expert on Germany, where he served as deputy chief of mission in the U.S. Embassy, Bonn, from 1994 to 1997. His latest book, Germany from Peace to Power? was recently published by the Bonn University Press.

Previously, Ambassador Bindenagel served as the founding Henry Kissinger Professor at Bonn University. He is currently Senior Professor there and also a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Berlin.

In 1999, Mr. Bindenagel was appointed by President Bill Clinton as U.S. Ambassador and Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues. He also served as Special U.S. Negotiator for “conflict diamonds.”

Following his diplomatic career, he was Vice President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and subsequently Vice President at DePaul University. Prior to his diplomatic career, he was assigned to the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division in Germany.

Ambassador Bindenagel received the State Department’s Distinguished Service Award in 2001, the Commander’s Cross of the Federal Order of Merit from the President of Germany in 2001, and the Presidential Meritorious Service Award from President George W. Bush in 2002.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), the President’s Circle of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the American Council on Germany and the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies. Mr.Bindenagel is also President of the Japan America Society of Chicago.

He holds an MA in Public Administration and an AB in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Residents who are not on the CIDG Zoom list, can be added by contacting Gene DuBow.