Summer is here!
Be sure to visit our full monthly calendar for all our upcoming activities HERE
We have many dates scheduled that allow us to enjoy this beautiful time of year! Join us!
Saturday July 1st we’re joined by USC Students in our Residential Dining Room at 3pm for the ‘Fried Music Performance’
Monday July 3rd Gustavo will hold a Piano Concert at 3pm in our Residential Dining Room
Tuesday July 4th enjoy Patriotic Music with Bob Brandzel’s Band at 3:30 in the Residential Dining Room
Saturday July 8th Seth Becker highlights the American Songbook Series in the Navigage Room at 10am
Tuesday July 11th join us for an Ice Cream Social from 1:30pm to 3pm
Thursday July 13th Root Beer Floats are served in the Patio
Every Friday at 3pm, join us for Happy Hour!
Solheim’s Classical Music Appreciation Society is Tuesday July 18th in the Chapel at 1:30pm
Mark your calendar for Tuesday August 1st and National Night Out, as we partner with our 7th Day Adventist Church neighbor for an evening of fun.
Check out the full calendar for more activities HERE!
The Solheim Book Group continued to join the celebration with a discussion of a book which was a bestseller one hundred years ago, in 1923, The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse. CLICK HERE to see the list of the ten Bestselling Books of 1923.
Originally published in 1923 in the UK and in the US in the same year under the title Jeeves, this was the second collection of comedic Jeeves stories, featuring Reginald Jeeves, the highly competent valet of a wealthy and idle young Londoner, Bertie Wooster. Jeeves is repeatedly called upon by Bertie and his friends to solve their problems and navigate difficult situations. The character Jeeves’ uncommon knowledge, wisdom, and insight became the inspiration for the search engine, “Ask Jeeves.”
The book was not a favorite of the Book Group’s. Although a couple of readers enjoyed the British humor, most readers found the humor dated and considered Bertie Wooster annoyingly “foppish.” But most were glad to have read the book to understand what all the fuss was about and to appreciate the satire regarding class distinctions in Great Britain at the time. One resident commented, “There was more humor in discussing the book than in reading it.” We did have quite a few laughs! We also welcomed a new resident reader to the Book Group.
The Book Group will continue to read throughout this Solheim Centennial year books which were published in 1923 or were bestsellers in 1923. The members are excited to be part of this very special Centennial celebration.
The Book Group has selected for its July discussion Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery, which is the first in a series of novels about an orphan girl growing up on Prince Edward Island, being raised by her relatives at New Moon Farm after her father dies of tuberculosis. Montgomery is also the author of the previously published and beloved Anne of Green Gables series. Montgomery considered Emily to be a character much closer to her own personality than Anne, and some of the events which occur in the Emily series happened to Montgomery herself.
The Book Group will meet on Saturday, July 15, 2023, at 10:30 a.m. at Solheim Senior Community in the Navigage Room. All are welcome. Please join us even if you have not read or finished the selected book. We always seem to have a lively general discussion or two!
Please join us in July as we celebrate Solheim’s 100 Years, and Happy Reading!