Louis Pinter Celebrates 100 Years

Louis Pinter celebrated his 100th birthday in style last month in our Health Care Center. He was joined by over 30 friends and staff members to commemorate the milestone event. Partiers enjoyed cake, coffee, and punch while a local magician entertained.

Louis joined us at the Lodge in 1998 with his late wife Edna. The Pinters’ first lived in one of our garden apartments. Louis is originally from Brooklyn and spent much of his career working for ATT. Louis and Edna were great travelers and on two separate occasions travelled around the world. Louis donated much of the beautiful furniture in our HCC lobby and his extensive owl art collection to the Lodge. Happy Birthday Louis!

4th of July with the Arizona Swing Kids

Residents were treated to the Arizona Swing Kids again this year for our Fourth of July celebration. The entertainment troupe is made up of members between the ages of 2 and 90 who perform World War II and Doo Wop era shows for seniors around the state.

The group was formed in 1999 and trains young participants to sing and dance with an overall focus on improving grades, preventing teen pregnancy, studying arts and American history, improving generational relationships, and preventing drug use. The lessons are free to the participants and no auditions are required. The Swing Kids have performed over 500 shows since their inception and have had over 1,800 youths perform in their programs.

Jan has already booked them for next year’s 4th of July celebration so look for the Swing Kids on July 2nd of 2009.