October 2009 Entries
Perhaps the piano in the Clubhouse should be moved to the dining room, and a young host's responsibilities be expanded to playing it as we enjoy dinner. At a recent, almost-impromptu concert after his working hours, Jeff Dundas impressed a fortunate, though small, audience of residents with his concert level artistry. Now scheduled for a full-blown performance on October 5, Jeff is willing for us to know a little more about him.
Born in California to a mother too young to keep him, he was adopted at the age of one week into a family of musicians, with an opera singing...
- by Chuck Mortensen -
The small, semi-rural town of Van Nuys in the San Fernando Valley during pre-World War II days displayed all the accoutrements of the typical community of that time, struggling along economically during the Great Depression. Many backyards contained a chicken pen or two, fruit trees and vegetable gardens. Dairies, farms, citrus orchards and walnut groves dotted the land between Van Nuys and neighboring San Fernando, Canoga Park, Chatsworth and North Hollywood.
The town had a library, a Women's Club, and the Van Nuys News and Green Sheet published social events, weddings, births, deaths, school activities and...
- by Marty Mortensen -
An advantage of each interest group at University Village is the potential for making new friends. So it is with the "Needle Crafters," a group of ladies who meet every Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. in the Crafts Room, with the common bond of working on various projects that call for needles.
Some of the women – men are welcome, but so far none have ventured forth – are working on projects started years ago, for which they found no time to complete until now. Others knit just to participate in the interesting conversations that are never...