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The Carolina Renaissance Festival Returns October 1 & 2 for 8 Weekends of Fall Family Fun. The popular Carolina Renaissance Festival, a combination of outdoor theater, circus, arts and crafts fair, jousting tournament, and feast, returns on Saturdays and Sundays, October 1 through November 20. [...]
SearStone Celebrates First Anniversary, Assesses Positive Economic Impact SearStone Continuing Care Retirement Community welcomed its first official residents on Nov. 1, 2013. To help celebrate the community’s first anniversary, residents, staff and board members attended a special ceremony on Nov. 7 to recognize the occasion and dedicate the lake around which the community is centered. The first anniversary also served as [...]
By Jessie Ammons When it came time for Herb Fussman to retire, the lifetime New Yorker knew he wanted a change. He and his wife, Rita, wanted to stay on the East coast – still an accessible flight away from their remaining family in New York. And they were looking for a place to slow down and take it easy, [...]
The Wine Guys, Joe and Matt, spent August 18-20 at the Shelton-Badgett Center for Viticulture and Enology at Surry Community Center, judging the 2017 N.C. State Fair Competition with the media, bloggers, and editors. The Yadkin Valley is beautiful any time of year... from a cold winter morning to a hot summer afternoon. No matter the time of year, beauty [...]
By: Guide to Retirement Living Staff Although making the decision to move is especially difficult for seniors, the decision and the moving process can be made considerably easier if the individual and their family plan ahead and enlist the help of professionals. Deciding to move on your own, when you are healthy and independent, will make the transition from your [...]
By Sam Matthews, Shepherd’s Center of Greater Winston-Salem The Seniors’ Health Insurance Information Program or SHIIP is a consumer information division of the North Carolina Department of Insurance that helps Medicare beneficiaries with Medicare, Medicare supplements, Medicare Advantage, Medicare fraud and abuse, and long-term care insurance questions. The program was founded in 1986 in direct response to the growing concerns [...]
How Should I Prepare for Medicare? More than 120,000 North Carolinians will turn 65 this year. Turning 65 is a lot like turning 16. When you turned 16, you didn’t automatically get your driver’s license; instead you had to take an exam and prove that you were a safe driver. There was a specific order and procedure for getting your [...]
SearStone residents participated in the Wake County Senior Games and Silver Arts for the second consecutive year. This year, the number of participants tripled with 23 residents competing in events ranging from cornhole to tennis and even a singing competition. SearStone residents brought home 27 gold, bronze and silver medals. Encouraged by Mark Johnson, SearStone’s Wellness Director, many competed for [...]
Drew Gehling, a native of Greensboro’s Sedgefield community and now a successful singer and actor on Broadway, film and TV, will perform in January at a “homecoming concert” at The Well•Spring Theatre in the second installment of the “Broadway to Greensboro” series, a collaboration between Well•Spring and UNCG Musical Theatre. [...]
Kisco communities know how to celebrate the holidays! This season, Abbotswood at Irving Park and Heritage Greens teamed up for a progressive celebration that began in the morning and continued all day. The morning saw holiday wreath-making at Heritage Greens followed by a “History of Fruitcake” presentation. The festivities then moved across town to Abbotswood at Irving Park [...]
