milestones Birth days Tiff any 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 HardWork Are No ced and Appreciated!

- Management Team

connections D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 3

PUBLISHER/LAYOUT John CarocciEDITOR Kimberly Harding

CONTRIBUTORSSheila 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 benefi ts 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 Par 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 raffl 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 fi rst 25 employees to sign up will receive a water bo le!

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. Th e 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 bett er 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

prett y 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 selfi sh because he has so much more left to do here on earth fi rst!!! – 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 truffl es. - Kimberly Lombard. C

you can’t take it with you Connec ons Poll THIS MONTH’S QUESTION:

“What is Your Favorite Season?” 6 say Spring, 13 say Summer, 12 say Autumn, 1 says Winter

Angelina JolieSandra BullockDenzel WashingtonWill Smith Be y White- Cord Stone

Morgan FreemanSean ConneryEd HarrisTom HanksDennis Hopper- Aaron Pry

Don CheadleJudy Garland– Maisha Drayton

Robert De NiroAnthony HopkinsLeonardo DiCaprioSteve CarellRyan Gosling- James DeGarmo

Anna KendrickJulia RobertsSara Jessica ParkerMa BomerRyan Gosling- Mindi Mietlicki

Meryl StreepDenzel WashingtonBrad Pi Will SmithTom Cruise- Michele Ogden

William PoweCate BlancheCary GrantKatherine HepMa Damon (yes, Ma Dam- Kimberly Ha

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Sally FieldDanny GloverMeryl StreepMelissa McCarthyAnthony Hopkins- Chris Reybrouck

Clark GableKatherine HepburnMeryl StreepAl Pacino Linda Hunt (She is AWESOME on NCIS) I need to add one more: Sidney Poi er- Trish Hopkins

Tom HanksJeff BridgesJeff DanielsAnthony HopkinsMa Damon- Mike Lee

Barbara StanwyckJoan CrawfordNicole KidmanCatherine DeneuveAudrey Hepburn- John Carocci

What’s Your FavoriteHoliday Movie?

Meet Me in St. Louis, starring the one and only Judy

Garland. She was 21 when she was cast, and she con-

sidered it her fi rst grown up movie. Vincent Minnelli

directed it (it was when they fi rst met) and she claimed

he was the fi rst person to make her feel beautiful. Th e

infamous Christmas song, Have Yourself a Merry Litt le

Christmas is the fi lm’s signature song. Th is movie is my

favorite movie of all time. I own it on DVD and VHS.

(Maisha Drayton) National Lampoon’s Christmas Vaca-

tion!!!! (Aaron Pry) My favorite holiday movies are A

Christmas Story and Elf. (Th eresa Shankland) Th e Fam-

ily Stone and Love Actually. (Michele Ogden) National

Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. (Patrick Butler) Th e

Year Without a Santa Claus (who doesn’t know the Heat

Miser/Snow Miser song?) and Tim Burton’s Th e Night-

mare Before Christmas. Claymation is awesome! (Kim-

berly 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 Th e Grinch Who Stole

Christmas - the cartoon, not the heinously terrible Jim

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)

Th is was a tough choice, but Bad Santa would be my fa-

vorite. It’s not the usual classic Christmas movie, but it

makes me laugh every time and it keeps with the Christ-

mas spirit so Bad Santa it is. ( James DeGarmo)