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><channel><title>Sentinel Pointe</title> <atom:link href="http://sentinelpointe.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://sentinelpointe.com</link> <description>Retirement Community Living for the Active Senior in Grand Rapids, Michigan</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:18:59 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1</generator> <item><title>Introducing More Recreation at Sentinel Pointe</title><link>http://sentinelpointe.com/introducing-more-recreation-at-s-p/</link> <comments>http://sentinelpointe.com/introducing-more-recreation-at-s-p/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:59:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurie Duvernay</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Pat's Page]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sentinelpointe.com/?p=3055</guid> <description><![CDATA[Our Marketing Director, Laurie Duvernay introduced residents to hip hop, June 5.  This dance was instructed by Keegan Loye from 61 Syx Teknique Street Dance Academy of Grand Rapids, MI.  Many active senior residents and staff members participated.  In case you are wondering what it&#8217;s all about, hip hop includes breakdancing with music and interesting...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sentinelpointe.com/introducing-more-recreation-at-s-p/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Truth Is Stranger (and way more fun) than Fiction.</title><link>http://sentinelpointe.com/senior-hip-hop-class/</link> <comments>http://sentinelpointe.com/senior-hip-hop-class/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:27:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurie Duvernay</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Sentinel Pointe Blog]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sentinelpointe.com/?p=3038</guid> <description><![CDATA[Announcing: Senior Hip Hop Class What started out as an April Fool’s joke has now become reality.  We are announcing (for real this time) a new ‘Senior Hip Hop’ Class that was, through a series of serendipitous events, inspired by a ‘fake’ announcement that the independent/assisted living facility would be training its residents to breakdance. Well&#8230;as...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sentinelpointe.com/senior-hip-hop-class/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Never Too Old To Learn</title><link>http://sentinelpointe.com/never-too-old-to-learn/</link> <comments>http://sentinelpointe.com/never-too-old-to-learn/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 18:24:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurie Duvernay</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Pat's Page]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sentinelpointe.com/?p=3003</guid> <description><![CDATA[When my husband Joe and I moved to assisted living at Sentinel Pointe in 2011 we kept our home in Kentwood considering it just a temporary trial run at S.P.  Our adult kids brought the subject up to move, insisting we were past the age of maintaining a home, flower gardens, lawn and keeping the...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sentinelpointe.com/never-too-old-to-learn/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Understanding &#8220;Do Not Resuscitate Orders&#8221; and Senior Living Options</title><link>http://sentinelpointe.com/do-not-resuscitate-orders-and-senior-living-options/</link> <comments>http://sentinelpointe.com/do-not-resuscitate-orders-and-senior-living-options/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 18:40:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurie Duvernay</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Sentinel Pointe Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Do Not Resuscitate Orders]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sentinelpointe.com/?p=2912</guid> <description><![CDATA[It was the 911 call heard around the world. An employee at an independent living facility in Bakersfield, Calif. refused to give CPR to a resident after being urged to do so by a 911 operator. Lorraine Bayless, who did have a Do Not Resuscitate Order in place, 87, died at a local hospital after...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sentinelpointe.com/do-not-resuscitate-orders-and-senior-living-options/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Announcement: Senior Breakdancing Training</title><link>http://sentinelpointe.com/breakdancing-program/</link> <comments>http://sentinelpointe.com/breakdancing-program/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:51:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurie Duvernay</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Sentinel Pointe Blog]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sentinelpointe.com/?p=2868</guid> <description><![CDATA[We are very excited to announce that Sentinel Pointe Retirement Community is announcing an exciting partnership with former breakdancing and film star Michael &#8220;Boogaloo Shrimp&#8221; Chambers (“Turbo” in 1984’s “Breakin’). Sentinel Pointe residents will now have the opportunity to learn breakdancing and other choreography with Michael in an effort to expand Sentinel Pointe&#8217;s social media and...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sentinelpointe.com/breakdancing-program/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Disaster At Anderson Ranch Dam</title><link>http://sentinelpointe.com/disaster-at-anderson-ranch-dam/</link> <comments>http://sentinelpointe.com/disaster-at-anderson-ranch-dam/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:47:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurie Duvernay</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Pat's Page]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sentinelpointe.com/?p=2712</guid> <description><![CDATA[In 1945, during World War II my fiance, Joe R. Brennan completed required missions overseas with the 15th U.S. Army Air Force, 99th Bomb Group Squadron. The group returned to the States and based at Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho. Joe was a flight instructor on B- 24s. “Honey”, he phoned me at my apartment, “now...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sentinelpointe.com/disaster-at-anderson-ranch-dam/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Goat Cheese Marinara with Crusty French Bread</title><link>http://sentinelpointe.com/goat-cheese-marinara-with-crusty-french-bread/</link> <comments>http://sentinelpointe.com/goat-cheese-marinara-with-crusty-french-bread/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:29:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurie Duvernay</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Sentinel Pointe Blog]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sentinelpointe.com/?p=2758</guid> <description><![CDATA[French Bread Slice French bread and brush with olive oil. Bake until crispy &#8211; about 10 minutes. Marinara 4 cups of your favorite marinara sauce 2 cups goat cheese Pour marinara in a nice serving dish that is oven safe.  Drop goat cheese on by spoonfuls around marinara.  Bake at 350 until hot and bubbly...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sentinelpointe.com/goat-cheese-marinara-with-crusty-french-bread/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Great Man</title><link>http://sentinelpointe.com/a-great-man/</link> <comments>http://sentinelpointe.com/a-great-man/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:10:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurie Duvernay</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Pat's Page]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sentinelpointe.com/?p=2677</guid> <description><![CDATA[This post is in memory of Pat&#8217;s husband Joe, who passed away this week.  Joe Brennan 1923-2013 &#8220;Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.&#8221;  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow &#160; www.mayoclinic.com/health/grief/MH00036 &#160; &#160;   &#160; &#160;]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sentinelpointe.com/a-great-man/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>More On The Way It Was</title><link>http://sentinelpointe.com/more-on-the-way-it-was/</link> <comments>http://sentinelpointe.com/more-on-the-way-it-was/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:12:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurie Duvernay</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Pat's Page]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sentinelpointe.com/?p=2538</guid> <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back reminiscing about Petoskey during the late thirties and early forties.  Since the town is surrounded by seven bodies of water besides Lake Michigan, local ardent fishermen sacrificed special luxuries they could do without in order to own a fairly large fishing boat.  Mom, a graduate nurse who worked at the old Petoskey Hospital...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sentinelpointe.com/more-on-the-way-it-was/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Way It Was</title><link>http://sentinelpointe.com/the-way-it-was/</link> <comments>http://sentinelpointe.com/the-way-it-was/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 03:58:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurie Duvernay</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Pat's Page]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sentinelpointe.com/?p=2457</guid> <description><![CDATA[My true story begins in the late thirties and early forties in Petoskey, a northern Michigan resort town that stretched lazily along white, sandy shores of Little Traverse Bay.  Population 6,100.  The city&#8217;s healthful climate, cool northern air and artesian springs attracted out-of-state hay fever and asthma sufferers during the summer months.  Many without kids...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://sentinelpointe.com/the-way-it-was/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>