SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2011
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NEWALDAYA LIFESCAPES
THE COURIER
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RICK CHASE / Courier Staff Photographer
NewAldaya’s new front entrance. story independent living Glen Meadows Apartments opened in 1995. She is grateful that they made their decision early in life to move. “It is reassuring to know that I have access to so many amenities — and this new
Main Street is wonderful.” In keeping with their family’s history, the musically-inclined Thuesen family have left their legacy by way of The Revue Performing Arts Center on Main Street. “It’s the right thing to do
to keep the organization going,” Thuesen says. To find out how to make a gift or leave a legacy to NewAldaya Lifescapes, contact Annie Vander Werff at 268-0401 or visit www. NewAldaya.org
Congratulations Newaldaya on your new Main Street!
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nization. “They worked hard to create this community. So it was pretty easy for us to decide that the Lutheran Home was for us,” Kathy Duke, chairperson of the she said. The Thuesens were among board of directions, said, “The Main Street building project the first to move into the twocompletes the series of a threephase ‘Community Under One Roof’ building concept set forth by the NewAldaya Lifescapes’ board of directors.” The initial phase in the series was accomplished in 2007, when 18 new Glen Arbor Independent Living and 42 Bryhl Assisted Living Apartments were opened. The second phase removed an age old structure that served for many years as the organization’s front door. As a result of changing codes and regulations, the building had to be demolished. In the third and final phase, Main Street replaced the original structure with a new front door. Elva Thuesen is pleased to see the Main Street become a reality. She recalls 55 years ago, when a group of seven Lutheran congregations came together to make the Cedar Falls Lutheran Home a reality. Her late husband, Ralph, and his father were among founding members for the orga- WO-100211003
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