Armed and dangerous

Village View Senior Services will be sponsoring the annual flu shot on 10/25 between the hours of 9:30 and 11:00 A.M. Please check with your doctor for allergies or other conditions that may disqualify you as a good candidate for immunization. It is requested that you sign up in advance in the community room. 

!@#$ That hurts!

The Mooncake Festival 10/3/12

Village View Senior Services sponsored it's annual mooncake festival on Wed. Oct. 3. This year the dumplings were especially delicious, and the community room was beautifully decorated with Chinese lanterns. There is a legend that secret messages were hidden in the cakes, and it resulted in the overthrow of the Mongols during the Ming Dynasty. At nearly 1,000 calories per cake the only thing you'll be overthrowing are your pants that fit too tight.

Patience is a virtue

Finally our laundry rooms are being updated with newer machines. David Baron the President of Metro Management said that out of all the properties he manages Village View had negotiated the "best" laundry vendor agreement. Special thanks to Liz Rybkin who spent many long hours going over the contract, Luis Ruiz who monitored the progress, and Board President Adam Silvera who kept his sanity during the constant back and forth, and never threw in the towel. So to speak.

Bldg. 6 washers

Bldg. 6 dryers

Don't forget to pick up your new Coinmach laundry cards in the office when your building is being renovated.

2nd annual playground party.

Behold the miracle of cotton candy.

You may remember that last year we renovated the playground between buildings one and two, and celebrated by throwing a party for the children. This year the party was even better with more refreshments and an inflatable bouncer. No franks were expelled in the bouncer despite the enthusiastic gymnastics of the children.

The kids just keep getting bigger.

Maintenance increase update

Thanks to efforts of our treasurer Frank Gardner, and finance committee member Richard Ropiak an agreement was reached with H.P.D. to lower the increase to 2% for each of the next two years.

Access Approved

For those who live in buildings 2 and 4 we thank you for your patience in dealing with the temporary ramps installed in the lobby. They were necessary for residents who require wheelchairs to have access to their apartments on the first floor. The new ramps are A.D.A. compliant and are constructed of cedar which is resistant to insects and the weather. The total cost for both was $3,854.67, and much cheaper than I had anticipated. Thanks to Rick Pamias, and our management for their swift response to a complex problem. In the future when our lobbies are renovated the interior design will be A.D.A. compliant, and may necessitate changes in the current ramps.

Sorry they are not for skateboard stunts.

The Village Viewfinder.

On July 11 a number of Village View residents got together to do a little shooting. We left our guns at home, and opted to bring our cameras instead. Our long term goal is to market a Village View pictoral calendar, and use the revenue for new senior programs. If anyone has old pictures of Village View please allow us to scan them, and add them to our collection. It only takes a few minutes so they will be returned promptly. Please check the schedule for our next class, and join us.