Hi Villagers!

We want to usher in springtime with the hope that you will enjoy it and the rest of the year in good health. April is Healthy Aging month for the Village.  We're linking with the National Health Observance calendar to celebrate National Public Health Week, April 4-10, and World Health Day on April 7.

To stay in step with good health, we invite all of you to attend a FREE lecture series sponsored by our neighbors at CPMC, the Institute for Health and Healing. They are having a Mini Medical School in Integrative Medicine focused on The Healing Power of Food. You can find details in our section on Calendar of Events, or to register, click here:

http://www.cpmc.org/services/ihh/hhc/minimed/index.html#Info%20&%20Registration

You can also call to RSVP at 415-600-2120.

Enjoy April--fingers crossed we've said goodbye to the rain!

Best,
Gayle Uchida, Editor and Publisher

Dear San Francisco Villagers:

Thank you all for your kind words of welcome to San Francisco Village. I’m looking forward to getting to know you all over the next few months during Christabel’s absence. My primary goals are to ensure you continue to receive the most from your Village membership and to shepherd the programs and plans that are already in place. And of course I will try to do all this with the professionalism and compassion that you’ve come to expect from Christabel. I’ve got big shoes to fill!

Irish-born VERA FIELDS lived in the north of England with her parents through her teenage years, and her attractive accent is still present after a lifetime of subsequent adventures in Vancouver, Montreal, Jamaica and San Francisco, where she settled in the 1960s.

Married for many years to prominent artist Curtis Fields (who died in 2008 at the age of 87), Vera is the mother of two grown children, Greg and Antony, the grandmother of 3 and the great-grandmother of 1. For many years she supervised the family’s investments in local apartment buildings in Pacific Heights, which they remodeled and/or managed. Now living in the duplex she owns in Cow Hollow, Vera learned about SF Village by attending a program at the Jewish Community Center and was eager to learn more about the organization's mission to support local seniors who want to stay in their own homes as they age.

With this column, we are launching a new quarterly report of services requested by our Villagers. We aim to keep you informed about the many services available to our members. We also want to invite your input for services we might add as well as for service providers you may recommend as positive additions to our nearly 100 approved Village providers.

Recommendations are always welcome; just call the office at 415-387-1375 or drop us an email at info@sfvillage.org.