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The Century Village Community Chanukah Celebration

Jan 190 min read

Visit Your CVE Clubhouse Library!

For those new to CVE please come in to browse or join our library. It’s located in the Clubhouse lower-level across from the Billiard room, which is located on the shuffleboard courts side of the Clubhouse.We will be closed on January 1 st for New Year’s Day. Happy New Year! If you have a CVE ID, come in and borrow one of our 5,000+ holdings, read the New York Times, or shop at our variety of boutique items for sale. If you cannot find the book, ask a Library volunteer

Jan 13 min read

The Century Village Community Chanukah Celebration

Jan 190 min read

Visit Your CVE Clubhouse Library!

Jan 13 min read

A grandmother’s careful touch inspires a perfect graham cracker cookie

I used to watch my grandmother make strudel. She was a pro. She’d take great pains in rolling out the dough to an impossibly thin sheet, and then she’d carefully put the fillings on. But Gram wouldn’t take a handful of raisins or walnuts and toss them onto the dough. No, she would lovingly place each of the food items strategically so the finished product would have a raisin and a piece of walnut in every bite. Then she would gently, gently roll up the dough into a very

Jan 12 min read

Paintings Created and Donated to Benefit Children’s Hospitals

Prize-winning artist Maxine Bloom is painting and exhibiting a collection of original works with one purpose in mind: helping children in need. Throughout the month of January 2026, every painting she displays in the Century Village East Art Gallery will be offered for sale, with one hundred percent of the proceeds donated to either St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital or The Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation Special Research Project. Each painting has been personall

Jan 11 min read

Temple Players Fill the House

The Temple B’nai Shalom Players put on the home grown play Middle Age Muddle, written and directed by one of their members. It was nearly a full house. The Temple B’nai Shalom Players consisted of 17 congregants for the production, none of whomhad previous acting experience. B’nai Shalom meets in the Activity Center for Shabbat Services every Friday night at 7:30 PM The upbeat services, led by Cantor Mitch Martin, are followed by an oneggiving attendees an opportunity to mi

Jan 11 min read

A case for CIAC accreditation

Although Keswick B is a small 20-unit garden building, the Board of Directors decided to pursue Community Improvement Accreditation Committee (CIAC) accreditation to objectively assess whether the association was meeting all governance and management requirements. As we worked through the CIAC checklist, we identified areas where improvements were needed, as well as procedures that were not being properly documented. As part of the process, we also created a building website,

Jan 12 min read