Today’s Tip: Banishing Winter Weeds

Hello and welcome, fellow gardeners!

We’re delighted to entertain and educate you each Friday as Arden shares garden tips learned over a lifetime as a master gardener.

This week, Arden goes to war against common winter weeds: bittercress, groundsel, and other plants. Over-the-counter herbicides, hoeing, and hot water are all effective weapons against these persistent weeds. To learn more, simply click the play button below!

Arden In The Garden - Preventing Wormy Apples

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Music Matters Presents:

Rose City Flute Choir

Saturday, December 10^th at 2:00 pm

Everywhere you turn, there are brass quintets, orchestra performances, and carolers celebrating the holiday season. Join us at Cornell Estates Retirement & Assisted living on December 10^th at 2:00 pm for a different kind of holiday musical adventure: The Rose City Flute Choir.

This year, the Rose City Flute Choir will be entertaining the public and residents alike with traditional holiday favorites and some special arrangements. A community flute ensemble, the Rose City Flute Choir is made up of approximately 20 flutists playing everything from a piccolo to a bass flute.

Together, these instruments produce a range of 5 full octaves. One of the most popular features of their concerts is the instrument demonstration where they introduce each of the types of instruments and let the audience hear what the different types of instruments sound like individually.

Founded in 1986 by Treese Kjeldsen, the Rose City Flute Choir meets weekly to rehearse and perform quality flute ensemble music. Its musicians come from all walks of life: professional flutists, educators, homemakers, business professionals, computer specialists, doctors, nurses, retail employees, and retirees. In addition to their holiday performance at Cornell, they also perform at the Hillsboro Farmer’s Market, the Grotto, and the Metropolitan Youth Symphony Flute Choir.

This program is free and open to the public.  Cornell Estates is located at 1005 NE 17^th Avenue, Hillsboro.  For more information, please call (503) 640-2884.

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Today’s Tip: Winterizing Dahlias and Pruning Roses

Hello and welcome, fellow gardeners!

We’re delighted to entertain and educate you each Friday as Arden shares garden tips learned over a lifetime as a master gardener.

This week, Arden presents late fall garden tips: winterizing your dahlias and pruning your roses.  As usual, Arden’s tips are short, easy to follow, and full of his unique brand of garden humor. Just click the play button on either link below to get started!

Arden In The Garden - Winterizing Dahlias

Arden In The Garden - Winter Rose Pruning

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Educational Travelogue: Tanzania

Through the Eyes of a Professional Safari Guide

Friday, December 4^nd at 1:30 pm

While visiting the United States as a special guest of Hillsboro residents Jim and Gayle Darr, African Safari Guide, Gerion Kavishe, will take time to come to Cornell Estates Retirement and Assisted Living to share his experiences and insights of his beloved homeland, Tanzania.This program will be held on Friday, December 2^nd and is free and open to the public.

Kavishe, who recently received his PhD, will discuss Tanzania’s geography including the highest peak of Mount Kilimanjaro, the deepest depths of Lake Tanganyika, vast plains of the Serengeti, the massive Selous Game Reserve and Ngorongoro Crater the 8^th wonder of the world. Once a volcano, it is now a collapsed crater 2,000 feet deep and 10 miles wide where prides of lions roam.

The audience will learn about African food and culture, African traditions and taboos including the local Maasi and two other primitive tribes. An expert on Tanzania’s flora and fauna, Kavishe will explain the migration of more than one and a half million wildebeest to the nocturnal movements of the predators that stalk them as well other wildlife, including lions and zebras to hippos, flamingos, and more.

Gerion Kavishe is an employee of Ranger Safaris, one of the country’s oldest and most respected tour operators located in the heart of Arusha. The company arranges climbs on Mount Kilimanjaro, bird watching, cultural and historic tours as well safaris for groups and family members. It was while Gayle Darr was on a family safari with her three grandchildren, Riley, Sydney and Parker Hoffman, they first met Kavishe who served as their Professional Safari Guide.

This program is free and open to the public. Cornell Estates is located at 1007 NE 17^th Avenue, Hillsboro. For more information, call (503) 640-2882.

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