Luigi Prina, 83, has dedicated nearly twenty years of his later life to building flying model boats, bicycles and other unconventional aircraft. Read more and see more beautiful photographs here. And don’t miss the cool 1:39 video!
Faber-Castell Pencils from a Bavarian Count
We recently published a post entitled, “What’s Happened to the Fountain Pen?” So it was fun to discover an article in the New York Times about pencils. Count Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell, 72, presides over the family’s pencil-making empire in Stein, Germany. They’ve been in business since 1761. Click here to read more and to see a 3:22 video tour of a pencil manufacturing plant. (How do they get that lead inside?)
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Worth Repeating: Holiday Gifts for Seniors
“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 12/6/12:
Many older people aren’t interested in receiving “stuff” as gifts. Maybe they’re downsizing, or they’re aware that they have everything they want, or maybe they’re struggling in this difficult economy and would prefer to receive something useful. Elder blogger Ronni Bennett has come up with some suggestions, ranging from consumables, to gifts of your time, to practical items like flashlights, batteries, and stamps. Read more here and please leave a comment if you have a suggestion.
Community Photo Albums: September
Gardening, music, art, swimming, crafts, computers, and more kept our EngAGE community residents active all month. We also marked a special occasion:
After almost nine years, Jewel Forga, EngAGE Food Bank Coordinator, retired. Jewel’s job was to oversee food delivery from Orange County Food Bank and Second Harvest Food Bank in Anaheim, Buena Park and Garden Grove — no small task. In addition to the important regular Food Bank delivery, twice a month Orange County’s Second Harvest delivers 2000 pound pallets of groceries to one of EngAGE’s sites for seniors who may not qualify for the Food Bank. EngAGE team members divide the food, then transport it to five other properties where individual packages for residents are prepared for distribution, on-site, by a group of 5-7 resident volunteers.
At a farewell party for Jewel, volunteers, co-workers, and three coordinators from the Orange County Food Bank’s main office cheered her, thanked her, and recalled various hair-raising experiences during their years of working together.
And, fortunately, Jewel didn’t leave us without taking the time to train our new Food Bank Coordinator, Laura Sardisco. Welcome, Laura!
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- Food delivery.
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- Welcome, Laura Sardisco!
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- Thank you, Jewel Forga!
Photographer Steve McCurry’s New Book
Award-winning photojournalist Steve McCurry, 63, is best known for his photograph, “Afghan Girl” that originally appeared in National Geographic magazine. A new book has just been published of spectacular photographs he’s taken over the last thirty years. Click here for more information and a sample of the photos. Click here to purchase Steve McCurry Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs.
Paul’s Kitchen in L.A.’s Chinatown
Paul’s Kitchen is located in City Market in L.A’s Chinatown, a neighborhood that has changed a lot since the restaurant opened in 1946.
“For 23 years, manager Charlie Ng has run the restaurant on downtown’s San Pedro Street as his uncle Paul directed, adhering to a business strategy that has over the years been elevated to maxim: Keep everything the same. It’s even woven into the restaurant’s Chinese name, bao ju — a common naming format for restaurants of the time period that translates literally as ‘treasure memory.'”
Read more here.
We’re Back!
After an unexpected hiatus that resulted when we redesigned our website on a new host, the EngAGE Blog is back online. Thank you for your patience!
Several posts were published during the hiatus that didn’t get distributed to our subscribers or posted on Facebook, so please take a look at them on our new blog address:
We’ll get to work on new posts right away!
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