Duncaster Connection
DUNCASTER TURNS 25 – CELEBRATES WITH THE COMMUNITY
Duncaster Kicks off a Year of Celebration with a Parade, Music, Antique Car Rides, Ice Cream and Games
BLOOMFIELD, CT, May 8, 2009 – On Saturday, May 16, Duncaster Retirement Community kicks off its 25th Anniversary celebration by inviting the town to a parade. To help with parking, a shuttle will run from The Carmen Arace School to Duncaster from 10:00 until 11:00 and return to the school at the end of the festivities.
The parade, including marching bands such as The Carmen Arace Bulldog Band and the Marquis of Granby will wind through the Duncaster campus. Town officials will also be on hand to march in the parade. Long-time residents and staff of the community will ride in antique cars and local celebrity and Duncaster staff member, Caleb, the community’s Golden Retriever, will march along with staff members, their children and their dogs.
The parade will end with a community celebration that will include music, antique car rides, displays and food vendors. To celebrate the day, M. Jodi Rell proclaimed May 15 (the day the community opened its doors officially) “Duncaster Retirement Community Day”. Her proclamation, along with others from the Mayor and Bloomfield’s State Senatorial representative, will be read.
Duncaster was dream of a group of local business leaders who wanted to create a new community for people 60 and over where companionship, comfortable surroundings and life-long care came together. In fact, it was the first time in Greater Hartford that seniors were able to join one community that allowed them to move from independent living, to supported living to nursing home care, all on the same campus.
Throughout the year, Duncaster will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a celebratory dinner, a cabaret, "Duncaster the Musical," fireworks and picnic and a golf tournament.
Those attending the parade should park at the Carmen Arace School where shuttles will run from 10:00 to 11:00 to the parade and celebration. Parking is free.
Duncaster is Bloomfield's signature lifecare retirement community. This campus of 190 independent residences, assisted living and Duncaster’s Caleb Hitchcock Health Center is designed to help residents live life to the fullest by providing security and fulfillment. The community includes an aquatic and fitness center and an on-site health clinic. Residents can participate in ongoing education, social and cultural programs.
For more information, contact Fran Kent at Duncaster, (860) 380-5006 or fkent@duncaster.org.
About Duncaster Duncaster is Bloomfield's signature retirement community. Celebrating 25 years, this campus of 190 independent residences, assisted living and Duncaster’s Caleb Hitchcock Health Center is designed to help residents live life to the fullest by providing security and fulfillment. The community includes an aquatic and fitness center and an on-site health clinic. Residents can participate in ongoing education, social and cultural programs. For more information about the issues facing the Panini Generation, see www.duncaster.org or call (860) 380-5005.
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CARMEN ARACE STUDENTS BECOME HISTORIANS WITH DUNCASTER RESIDENTS’ HELP BLOOMFIELD, CT.
Mar. 11, 2008 -- Students from the Carmen Arace Middle School are becoming personal historians for some of Bloomfield’s older adults. On Monday, March 10 twenty-three eighth-graders paid their third visit to Duncaster to document the lives of ten Duncaster residents (and one participant from the Bloomfield community) as part of the “Ingenuity Grant” program. Eighth-grade teacher Carol Mamlok created the project which she calls “Tell Me a Story.” She describes the project this way: “Eighth grade students will collaborate with senior citizens from Bloomfield to create an oral history project…Students will have a first-hand opportunity to use senior citizens as a primary source for learning about such a sensitive and timely topic as tolerance. Reflecting on their own…personal experience, students will gain tremendous insight into the past of how people struggled with, dealt with and overcame obstacles based on their cultures.” Shown here are: Front row - Chantay Morgan, student; Duncaster resident Antoinette Mason and student Tashonne Rose. Middle row - students Anyssa Quinn and Robert Moore. Back row - Carol Mamlok, teacher and Duncaster resident, Dr. Norma Granville. This is the third visit the students have made to Duncaster as part of the “Tell Me a Story” project. Previously they met the residents and recorded their stories in notes and photos as part of their field research into their personal histories. During their next meeting they will work with a professional scrapbook instructor to put the information and photos they have been gathering into journals that will document their research. About Duncaster
Duncaster is Bloomfield's signature life care retirement community. This campus of 190 independent residences, assisted living and the Caleb Hitchcock Health Center is designed to provide a lifestyle of security and fulfillment. Aquatic and fitness center activities, ongoing education and a myriad of social and cultural programs energize and enrich residents' lives. For more information, see http://www.duncaster.org/ or call (860) 380-5005.
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