milestones Birthdays
Tiffany Macauley - December 2 Anna Ihle – December 3 Terresa Aughtry – December 7 Carly Kane – December 14 Thomas O’Kell – December 15 Andrew Kiener – December 16 Toni Hernandez – December 23 Chris ne Turner – December 24 Laura Pasquarella – December 25 Jus n Azzarella – December 27
Anniversaries
Michele Ogden – 1 year Kyle Savage – 1 year Angela Penzo – 2 years Alexis Soto-Colorado – 2 years Nicole Coonly- 3 years Johnny Mora – 5 years Laura Pasquarella – 6 years Rosalind Townsend – 8 years Johanna Aponte – 9 years Helene Cacciato – 9 years Maria LoTempio – 11 years
Your Con nued Dedica on and Hard Work Are No ced and Appreciated! - Management Team
connections DECEMBER 2013 PUBLISHER/LAYOUT John Carocci EDITOR Kimberly Harding CONTRIBUTORS Sheila Marcheson, Christopher Miller
Evergreen Health Services is excited to introduce a new wellness challenge: Healthy Adds Up! Healthy Adds Up is a six week progressive wellness challenge which combines water consump on with stretching and physical ac vity. Par cipants will be encouraged to drink 80 ounces of water, stretch daily and work up to 150 minutes of physical ac vity per week. Par cipants will be given weekly ps, challenges and educa on on the benefits of drinking water, stretching daily and living an ac ve lifestyle, as well as a tracker for recording achievements and to help par cipants stay mo vated. The challenge will begin on January 6, 2014 and run un l February 16, 2014. What Are the Weekly Goals? Week 1: drink 80 ounces or 10 cups of water every day. Week 2: stretch daily and con nue to drink water. Weeks 3 & 4: add in 75 minutes of physical ac vity each week, while con nuing to stretch and drink water each day. Weeks 5 & 6: increase weekly physical ac vity to 150 minutes and con nue to stretch and drink water daily. How Do I Sign Up to ParĆ&#x;cipate? Please see Sheila Marcheson by December 15th, to sign up for Healthy Adds Up and to receive your tracker and pre-program survey. Par cipants who complete their tracker and surveys and submit them to Sheila by February 23rd, 2014 will be entered into a rae to win a FitBit Zip ac vity monitor! A grand prize Healthy Adds Up basket will be awarded to the par cipa ng organiza on that returns the highest percentage of completed trackers and surveys! The first 25 employees to sign up will receive a water bo le!
you can’t take it with you It’s been said, “when you die, you can’t take it with you.” Connections asked “if you could take it with you, what would “it” be?” Here are some answers: My dog, Tova – Mindi Mietlicki My pillow. The dead need comfy places to sleep. Just sayin’! – Chris Reybrouck My family – Maisha Drayton I would need to bring my laptop hands down! I’m going to be so bored when I die so what better thing to bring than a computer. I can see what’s going on with the world, play games, watch youtube, read, the possibilities are endless. Hopefully there’s WiFi up there... – James DeGarmo If I had to take one thing with my when I died, it would be my best friend, my dog Ginger. She and I would be some
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pretty awesome ghosts! - Patrick Butler If I could take something with me when I die, it would probably be my Xbox... or Angry Birds, the Star Wars Edition. – Mike Lee Well, I am assuming that I will perish before my son, so I would want to take him with me so I wouldn’t leave him alone. But that is selfish because he has so much more left to do here on earth first!!! – Aaron Pry I would take my dog Foxie with me!!! – Michele Ogden My cats (All three of them... they’d have to come as a set as I couldn’t pick just one.) – Kimberly Harding “It” would be my beautiful, annoying dog, Arthur. Except in heaven, he would never poop. He would never, ever poop again. Never. Oh, and Lindt chocolate truffles. - Kimberly Lombard. C
THIS MONTH’S QUESTION:
“What is Your Favorite Season?” 6 say Spring, 13 say Summer, 12 say Autumn, 1 says Winter
Angelina Jolie Sandra Bullock Denzel Washington Will Smith Be y White - Cord Stone
Morgan Freeman Sean Connery Ed Harris Tom Hanks Dennis Hopper - Aaron Pry
Don Cheadle Judy Garland – Maisha Drayton
Robert De Niro Anthony Hopkins Leonardo DiCaprio Steve Carell Ryan Gosling - James DeGarmo
Anna Kendrick Julia Roberts Sara Jessica Parker Ma Bomer Ryan Gosling - Mindi Mietlicki
Meryl Streep Denzel Washington Brad Pi Will Smith Tom Cruise - Michele Ogden
William Powe Cate Blanche Cary Grant Katherine Hep Ma Damon (yes, Ma Dam - Kimberly Ha
What’s Your Favorite Holiday Movie? Meet Me in St. Louis, starring the one and only Judy Garland. She was 21 when she was cast, and she considered it her first grown up movie. Vincent Minnelli directed it (it was when they first met) and she claimed he was the first person to make her feel beautiful. The infamous Christmas song, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is the film’s signature song. This movie is my favorite movie of all time. I own it on DVD and VHS. (Maisha Drayton) National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation!!!! (Aaron Pry) My favorite holiday movies are A Christmas Story and Elf. (Theresa Shankland) The Family Stone and Love Actually. (Michele Ogden) National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. (Patrick Butler) The Year Without a Santa Claus (who doesn’t know the Heat Miser/Snow Miser song?) and Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. Claymation is awesome! (Kimberly Harding) Family Stone - Diane Keaton makes my heart melt in this movie. If you haven’t watched it, email me for a viewing party at lunch. How the Grinch Stole Christmas - the Jim Carrey version! (Mindi Mietlicki) My favorite holiday movie is The Grinch Who Stole Christmas - the cartoon, not the heinously terrible Jim
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Sally Field Danny Glover Meryl Streep Melissa McCarthy Anthony Hopkins - Chris Reybrouck
Clark Gable Katherine Hepburn Meryl Streep Al Pacino Linda Hunt (She is AWESOME on NCIS) I need to add one more: Sidney Poi er - Trish Hopkins
Tom Hanks Jeff Bridges Jeff Daniels Anthony Hopkins Ma Damon - Mike Lee
Barbara Stanwyck Joan Crawford Nicole Kidman Catherine Deneuve Audrey Hepburn - John Carocci
Carrey one. (Mike Lee) Editor’s Note: uh oh... we have an argument brewing! A Christmas Story. (Amajaraya Hunter) It’s A Wonderful Life an all-time classic. I try to watch it every time it comes on TV. (Trish Hopkins) This was a tough choice, but Bad Santa would be my favorite. It’s not the usual classic Christmas movie, but it makes me laugh every time and it keeps with the Christmas spirit so Bad Santa it is. ( James DeGarmo)