Calling all football fans! Sid Smith, son of former resident Julian Smith, will join us as part of the 2011 football season on Monday, November 28th, at 1:30 pm. Sid will share the evolution of his sports journey from his high school days to playing college football at Brigham Young University in Utah.
This program is free and open to the public. Cornell Estates is located at 1007 NE 17th Avenue, Hillsboro. For more information, call (503) 640-2882.
Now in its 11th year, our annual Christmas bazaar is a fundraiser for the Hillsboro Fire Fighter’s Toy & Joy program. Stroll the aisles and mingle with Frosty the Snowman, the Gingerbreadman, Mrs. Claus, local carolers, and more! Enjoy beautiful heart-warming melodies from special guest harpist Jenny Linder of the Portland Opera.
Best of all, get a head start on your Christmas shopping! Over 30 local artists and crafters will be selling handcrafted jewelry, hand-sewn items for babies and children, glass art, floral arrangements, and Christmas ornaments and decor. Chase away the November chill with homemade soups, chili, and salads. Many of these items are under $25. Support the Hillsboro Fire Fighter’s Toy & Joy Program and complete your Christmas shopping at the same time!
About the Hillsboro Fire Fighter’s Toy & Joy Program
Every year, the Hillsboro Fire Fighters collect new toys for thousands of children who otherwise would not receive Christmas gifts. Several organizations support their efforts, including the Portland Air Show and Cornell Estates. For more information, click here.
About Jenny Linder
Currently, Jenny plays Principal Harp with the Portland Opera and the Oregon Ballet Theatre, and works frequently with the Oregon Symphony. She has played the harp since 1966 and has studied with Marion Fouse of Portland, Eileen Malone at the Eastman School of Music, and Catherine Michel, Marie-Claire Jamet, and Pierre Jamet in Paris. In addition to her performance duties, Jenny also teaches at Portland State University, owns a private studio, and freelances.
We have all experienced that feeling of being stuck, of not knowing how, why or where to move forward. That’s why we invited Kathie England to give her “Small Steps to Profound Change” presentation on Wednesday, November 16th at 1:30 pm.
Kathie will examine what happens in our brain when we get stuck and will explore how small steps can help us. The key is to refrain how we approach problems, big or small, and to use small steps or “kaizen” to make profound changes. She will introduce this concept why they work. The audience will leave the presentation with a small step to use the next time they encounter an issue.
Kathie is the president of Time for Success, Inc. a professional organizing company launched in 2002. A certified professional organizer, she specializes in organizing executives and small business owners who want to better manage their time and space. She also helps people who are ready to de-clutter their homes or downsize. Her role is to ask the questions that help you discover your own solutions.
This program is free and open to the public. Cornell Estates is located at 1005 NE 17th Avenue, Hillsboro. For more information, please call (503) 640-2884.
On Friday, November 11th at 1:30 pm Cornell Estates will host our annual Veterans’ Day Salute for all residents who have served in the armed forces. The ceremony will include guest speaker Air Force Colonel Matthew Schuster.
Colonel Schuster is the commander of the 142nd Maintenance Group, Oregon Air National Guard, in Portland. In this capacity he leads 460 personnel in providing mission ready F-15 aircraft and support personnel to execute the Air Sovereignty Alert Mission in defense of the Pacific Northwest, as well as any worldwide tasking in support of national objectives.
Colonel Schuster is a Command Pilot with over 2700 total flying hours and is a recipient of 15 major awards and decorations including Meritorious Service Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, and Air Force Outstanding Unit Award.
Also in attendance will be Air Force Colonel Scott Powell, Michael Ferrara QMC NRS, Army Sgt. Eric Bororr, and American Legion Post #2. Representatives from the Daughters of the American Revolution will donate U.S. flag pins for our veterans. Boy Scout Troop 855 will act as our honor guard.
This program is free and open to the public. Cornell Estates is located at 1007 NE 17th Avenue, Hillsboro. For more information, please call (503) 640-288.
A Reception for Mary Kelley Stupfel, Watercolor Artist
Saturday, November 5th at 1:30 pm
Cornell Estates is pleased to presentan artistreception to honor thelifetime body of work of Native Oregonian and Water Color Artist, Mary Kelley Stupfel. Her family has gathered many of her watercolor paintings and graphite drawings from private collections as well as her extensive artist collection of recently signed paintings for this public showing of her lifetime art achievements. The reception will be held at Cornell Estates on Saturday, November 5th at 1:30 pm.
Marywas in her sixties when her daughter encouraged her to try watercolor painting. These reflect her sheer joy of painting. Time stood still while she let her imagination explore the abstract possibilities unfolding in every painting. Many of her still life works depict her love of family history as she incorporated her antiques into them.
She studied graphite drawing and watercolor painting of still life and landscape subjects at Marylhurst College. Her landscape paintings of the Oregon Coast were often painted plein aire. Marystudied with many prominent Northwest artists.
She took watercolor classes with Zoltan Szabo, Christopher Schink, Jerry Stitt, DeAnne Lemley, Carol Orr, Michael Schlicting, Chuck Webster, Michael Friegang, and Frank Webb. Mary was greatly influenced by her extensive studies with Barbara Nechis and Gloria Heisley Webber. It was then she discovered her passion to paint flowers in abstract patterns.
For the past 10 years, Mary has also shown her work at the Maya Muse Gallery in Nehalem, Oregon. She has paintings in private collections throughout the Northwest, Montana, California, Florida and New York.
This program is free and open to the public. Cornell Estates is located at 1005 NE 17th Avenue, Hillsboro. For more information, please call (503) 640-2884.
“A Short Trip Through the Land of the Long White Cloud”
Friday, November 4th at 1:30 pm
Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud – otherwise known to most westerners as New Zealand – is an amazing country filled with exotic Polynesian cultures and scenic vistas that take your breath away. Join Tom Besson, a permanent resident of New Zealand who is in Hillsboro visiting his father, for an expedition to the Kiwi country on Friday, November 4th, at 1:30 pm. Together, we will explore New Zealand’s rich history, culture, and diversity of flora and fauna, including many species found nowhere else in the world.
Our journey will begin with a brief mihi, or formal welcome speech in Maori, one of New Zealand’s three official languages. Next, we will travel back in time to trace New Zealand’s discovery, its annexation by the British, and their recognition of the Queen of England as their sovereign ruler. With Tom as our guide, we will experience New Zealand’s current culture and rituals, as well as explore the country’s rich flora and fauna.
Most impressive, however, is our final destination: a virtual trip throughout all of New Zealand. From the top of the North Island where the Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea crash together to the bottom of the South Island, where on a clear day you can almost see Antarctica, a New Zealand adventure as seen through Tom’s eyes and his wife Ann’s camera lens is waiting for us!
An international educator with thirteen circumnavigations of the planet under his belt, Tom brings with him a vast knowledge of the world and its treasures. His father, Woody Besson, is a resident of Cornell Estates Retirement & Assisted Living Community in Hillsboro. Tom is ‘chuffed’, as the Kiwis would say, to share it with the Cornell Estates residents and Hillsboro community members at large.
This program is free and open to the public. Cornell Estates is located at 1007 NE 17th Avenue, Hillsboro. For more information, call (503) 640-2882.
In partnership with the Pacific University School of Dental Health Science, Cornell Estates is proud to invite you to the grand opening of our very own on-site Dental Clinic on Tuesday, October 25th at 2:30 pm!
Officials from Pacific University will be on hand for the inaugural “ribbon cutting” on this new service for Cornell Estates residents and staff. We will have a short reception afterwards and then, at 3:00 pm, senior Pacific University dental students will offer a special Oral Health presentation. Their presentation will help us better understand the intricate connection between our dental health and our overall physical health.
Cornell Estates’ in-house dental clinic is the culmination of a reciprocal community partnership project that began over 3 years ago with Pacific University College of Health Professions, in which Cornell Estates residents serve as mentors to assist university students in their field work experience. In the partnership projects with the Dental Health Science program, senior dental students provide basic dental services at reduced rate for our residents, who in turn teach the dental students about the unique challenges of maintaining optimum oral health as we age.
Special thanks go to Forest Enterprises, who graciously donated the dental chair which has provided Cornell Estates the unique opportunity for this permanent on-site Dental Clinic!
This event is free and open to the public. For more information on the Pacific University dental clinic, please contact Landa Carlson, Cornell Estates Retirement & Assisted Living, at (503) 640-2884 or by email.
The Columbia River Gorge is one of the most striking features in Oregon. But how did this amazing landmark form? Travel back in time with Marjorie Burns on Tuesday, October 24th, at 1:30 pm at Cornell Estates Retirement & Assisted Living as she describes the geology that gave the Gorge its striking features.
Marjorie will also tell a second story about J Harlen Bretz, the man who first proposed that an ancient flood formed the Columbia Gorge. His theory was wildly unpopular even through the 1920s, when most geologists were trying to wean the public away from images of the Biblical flood affecting local geology.
But, as it turns out, Bretz was correct: Giant floods, racing across Eastern Washington into the Columbia basin and on down to the ocean, were what created the shapes, formations, and waterfalls we see in the Columbia Gorge today.
Marjorie Burns is a professor emeritus of nineteenth century British Literature at Portland State University and one of the two original authors of Cataclysms on the Columbia. Copies of her book will be available for purchase after the presentation.
This program is free and open to the public. Cornell Estates is located at 1005 NE 17th Avenue, Hillsboro. For more information, please call (503) 640-2884.
In this modern age of texting and email, the art of capturing the world around us in poems is a rare talent. Luckily for us, it’s a talent that the current Oregon Poet Laureate has in abundance. That is why we are delighted to invite you to a reading and discussion by Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen on Wednesday, October 19th at 2:00 pm at Cornell Estates Retirement & Assisted Living in Hillsboro.
The Oregon Poet Laurate, selected by the governor, is someone who has captured “the beauty and spirit of the state through the medium of verse.” A native Oregonian, Paulann was first inspired to capture Klamath Fall’s high plateau landscape in verse. Her first poem, which appeared in The Oregonian in 1975, encouraged her to become a high school English teacher and to pursue her poetry. She received a Stegner fellowship to study at Stanford with notable poets Adrienne Rich and Grace Paley in the 1980s.
She has published numerous books of her poetry, as well individual poems in dozens of magazines, anthologies, and Poetry in Motion, which places poems on Tri-Met buses. Now retired, Paulann has given readings in hundreds of places around Oregon. She also frequently teaches workshops for colleges, high schools, libraries, and writers’ organizations.
The position of Oregon Poet Laureate was first established in 1923 and adopted by the Oregon legislature in 1989. Paulann became the 6th Poet Laureate in April 2010 with an initial appointment of two years. Previous Poet Laureates include Lawson Fusao Inada, William Stafford, Ethel Romig Fuller, Ben Hur Lampman, and Edwin Markham.
This program is free and open to the public. Cornell Estates is located at 1007 NE 17th Avenue in Hillsboro, OR. For more information, please call (503) 640-288.
Available to the general public 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
According to the CDC, flu seasons are unpredictable in a number of ways. Although epidemics of flu happen every year, the timing, severity, and length of the epidemic depends on many factors, including what influenza viruses are spreading and whether they match the viruses in the vaccine. However, the first and most important step to protecting against the flu is to get a yearly flu shot as early in the flu season as possible.
That’s why we’ll be hosting Get A Flu Shot clinic on Tuesday, October 11th from 9:00 am -12:00 pm. Get a Flu Shot.com will be giving the influenza and pneumonia shots and billing most insurances. We will have a list by the end of September along with consent forms to be completed. The clinic will be open to the public from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, leaving the 9:00 am hour reserved for our residents.
Cornell Estates is located at 1007 NE 17th Avenue in Hillsboro, OR. For more information, please call (503) 640-2882.
Cornell Estates is an assisted living and retirement facility located in Hillsboro Oregon and serves Washington County: Aloha, Banks, Beaverton, Bethany, Cornelius, Durham, Forest Grove, Gaston, Hillsboro, North Plains, King City, Sherwood, Tigard, Tualatin and the Portland metro area.
Calling all football fans! Sid Smith, son of former resident Julian Smith, will join us as part of the 2011 football season on Monday, November 28th, at 1:30 pm. Sid will share the evolution of his sports journey from his high school days to playing college football at Brigham Young University in Utah.
