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Pine Hills Community & Senior Center HEAD START & COMMUNITY SERVICES WE WISH YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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On Line Fitness Program Daily at 10 a.m.
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Encouraging Seniors to Stay Active, Stay interactive communication! TUES. January 5th the Council will host its first virtual Open House to include some 2021 forecasts for Pine Hills and
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Involved and to induction of the 2021 Board. Also, ioin Live Active, Healthy us virtually on February 2nd for
Lives! community updates. PHCC is a Civic Organization whose mission is to improve (Go! exemplifies the shared experiences of many contributing the quality of life for the 70,000 seniors… how they Live, Love and Serve You may obtain a copy at: unincorporated people living in Pine Hills pinehillsseniors.org Just click on the cover of the book top right hand area. Join and be the solution! Just one corner. .Pine Hills Seniors Inc. is an award-winning 501 (c) (3) non- person can make a difference. profit organization. Its mission is to "Empower our Seniors to Live Active, Healthy Lives." This Home Page is designed as a 'one stop' portal to facilitate easy access to many of the services and elder resources for Seniors in Pine Hills and surrounding Orange County communities of Florida. Use the relevant 'Quick Links' below to www.pinehills.info or contact prumph7@gmail.com Call for a Shop Pine Hills Card for local business discounts]. connect to topics of interest to you. TURN TO PAGE THIRTY
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THE MASK-Safeguard,Symbol or Both
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) advises that a mask limits one’s exposure to the viral contagion and also protects the vulnerable from our own potential spread of the disease. That’s the obvious and practical purpose for the mask, but like so many other things in life, mask-wearing has a rather checkered history largely due to its varying symbolism over time Among the ancient Greeks an actor could vanish into his role by putting on a mask. Indeed, the Greek word for mask is ‘persona’. The mask became the personification of the role played by the actor. The mask both disguises and reveals, as we know from our own experience at Halloween, when the “tricks or treaters” appear with the persona of a fearsome or funny character, but they are just the neighborhood kids engaging in a bit of theater of their own. Exactly the same phenomenon occurs when adults attend a masquerade ball or frolic on Bourbon Street during Fat Tuesday celebrations. Many ancient cultures observed rituals in mask and costume to represent supernatural beings and ancestral figures. But the mask’s function as disguise to hide a person’s true identity is more common—think of the masked bandit, the executioner and even the present-day protester bent on destruction rather than peaceful, civic action. With the increasing prominence of identity politics as a result of which one’s facial appearance became regarded as an indicator of destiny, perhaps the mask serves both as an antidote against the viral spread of Covid-19 but also against the viral spread of that cultural toxin, identity politics.
