A rare white killer whale calf was captured on video Monday swimming among a pod of orcas off the Southern California coast.

The footage of the orca pod was captured by Newport Coastal Adventure, which was tipped off to the pod’s location around 10:30 a.m. by a Long Beach whale-watching company.

The orcas were initially spotted over 45 miles from the Newport Harbor, but crews with Newport Coastal Adventure decided to take all available boats out on a last-minute trip for a chance to see the killer whales, according to Captain Delaney Trowbridge.

A group of 20 passengers were able to spot the pod of seven in the waters, including a three-year-old calf aptly named Frosty for its white appearance, Trowbridge said.

According to Newport Coastal Adventure, Frosty has a unique genetic condition that gives the calf a lighter pigment than normal killer whales. Killer whale calves usually have the same black-and-white coloring as adults do, but the light-colored areas may appear creamy white to pale yellow or tan during the whale’s first year, according to SeaWorld.

Whale watchers were able to spectate the whales for over two hours while the pod traveled up the coastline until sunset, even making a few close passes under their boats, Trowbridge said.

Crews left the pod as it continued traveling north in search of food.

According to Newport Coastal Adventure, killer whale sightings are very rare in Southern California. This particular pod was last spotted in Morro Bay in October and has been sighted as far north as British Columbia.

The killer whale sighting isn’t the only rare whale occurrence spotted by Newport Coastal Adventure this year. Last month, a gray whale with a missing tail was seen breaching off the Southern California coast.

The April/May Village Breeze cover celebrates spring with a photo by Laguna Woods resident Jerry Sears of a pair of cute rabbits. Inside this issue you will:

• Celebrate the Foundation of Laguna Woods Village’s silver anniversary and learn about its legacy of neighbors helping neighbors.
• Discover six thriving ways to start your day with kindness toward yourself that gets passed on to others.
• Meet Pastor Rick Bradford, resident and founder of the Village’s popular Saddleback Church campus.
• Find out how good neighbor captains aid residents during disasters and how you can volunteer to help.
• Learn about the risks, signs and minimally invasive treatments available for heart valve disease.
• Gain insights into the counseling services, bereavement support, caregiver referrals and more offered by Laguna Woods Village Social Services.
• Get the latest news from your boards of directors and a behind-the-scenes glimpse at more Village departments.

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February/March 2022 Village Breeze

The February/March Village Breeze cover features Laguna Woods Village resident Mark Rabinowitch’s photo of a black phoebe, a beautiful bird species that dwells along creeks and ponds in the Southwest. If you frequent Aliso Creek, you might hear these birds’ sharp, whistled calls or see them catch insects just above the water’s surface.

Inside this issue you will:

• Learn about the mission of Laguna Woods Senior Clown Alley to keep residents laughing through challenging times.
• Find vital information you need to know about community association insurance.
• Explore the programs, services and facilities that the the Village Community Fund supports to enrich the lives of older adults.
• Learn about six pillars of brain health that protect the mind.
• Uncover what you need to know about recycling organic waste in the Village and how the new trash haulers will make it happen.
• Meet two Village residents who were elected to the El Toro Water District Board of Directors.
• Gain insights into VMS CEO Siobhan Foster’s goals in her new role.
• Discover the latest from your boards of directors and get a behind-the-scenes look at Village departments.
• And much more!

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Using secrets discovered in the original Blue Zones—rare longevity hotspots around the world where people are thriving into their 100s—we help people live longer, better^®  through community transformation programs that lower healthcare costs, improve productivity, and boost national recognition as great places to live, work, and play.

Landscaping Services—one of (VMS) Village Management Services largest departments? It’s an immense and impressive operation, designed to deliver maximum results at minimal cost. That includes irrigation management, tree maintenance, turf maintenance, shrub bed and slope maintenance, composting and an expansive nursery, pest control, creek maintenance, rain event response, herbicide testing and more. Landscaping manages 303 acres of turf, 158 acres of shrubs, 142 acres of slopes, 56 miles of edging, 39,000 trees, over 460 controller controlling almost 500,000 irrigation heads.

Much of what landscaping provides to the Village begins with three vital areas: the mower shop, the mulch yard and the nursery. To share with the community all the amazing things that are accomplished via these important functions, VMS and a few Landscaping Services crewmembers bring you this special video presentation, which includes incredible bird’s-eye views and an in-depth look at how Landscaping works hard for you!

Apollo Health is building the first-ever community around the prevention and reversal of cognitive decline. The foundation of our efforts is a true vision to build communities that support our participants throughout their journeys by providing them with the resources and guides they need to be successful. The community encompasses a professional care team of support staff that works with our participants of the PreCODE and ReCODE programs.

The ReCODE and PreCODe Reports are a proprietary implementation of the Bredesen Protocol, allowing practitioners and individuals to achieve unprecedented success in the prevention (PreCODE) and reversal (ReCODE) of cognitive decline. Through genetics, blood biomarkers, and a multi-modal reporting system, participants and their practitioners receive new prevention and treatment options for brain health optimization and the prevention of cognitive decline (PreCODE), and the reversal of the symptoms for those in the early-stage Alzheimer’s disease or experiencing cognitive decline (ReCODE). Our goal is to reduce the global burden of dementia.

The Bredesen Protocol developed by Dr. Dale Bredesen is a comprehensive, personalized program to improve cognition and reverse the cognitive decline of subjective cognitive impairment (SCI), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and early Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Bredesen has outlined 36 metabolic factors that can trigger “downsizing” in the brain. Working with the results from the PreCODE and ReCODE Reports, the protocol shows us how to rebalance these factors using lifestyle modifications and a community of professionals.

The ReCODE Program is designed for individuals who would like more resources to combat cognitive decline or the onset of cognitive decline. The program is derived from the principles of the Bredesen Protocol. Utilizing Apollo Health’s ReCODE Report and Dr. Bredesen’s 30+ years of research, we can provide better and more precise outcomes of care, paired with our community of PreCODE and ReCODE certified practitioners, specialists, health coaches, and nutritionists.

82% of seniors say it is important to have their thinking or memory checked, but only 16% say they receive regular cognitive assessments. It is startling that more than half of the 5.4 million Americans with the disease have no idea they do. Take the next step to improving your mental health and get a PreCODE or ReCODE Report.

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Dr Steven Gundry interviews an internationally recognized expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases, Dr. Dale Bredesen’s career has been guided by a simple idea: that Alzheimer’s as we know it is not just preventable, but reversible. Thanks to a dedicated pursuit of finding the science that makes this a reality, this idea has placed Dr. Bredesen at the vanguard of neurological research and led to the discoveries that today underlie the ReCODE Report.

Dr. Bredesen earned his MD from Duke University Medical Center and served as Chief Resident in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), before joining Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner’s laboratory at UCSF as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow. He held faculty positions at UCSF, UCLA, and the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Bredesen also directed the Program on Aging at the Burnham Institute before joining the Buck Institute in 1998 as founding President and CEO.

Dr. Bredesen’s research explores previously uncharted territory in explaining the physical mechanism behind the erosion of memory seen in Alzheimer’s disease, and has opened the door to new approaches to treatment. This work has led to the identification of several new therapeutic processes that are showing remarkable early results. Dr. Bredesen is a prodigious innovator in medicine, with over thirty patents to his name. Notably, he put much of his findings and research into the 2017 New York Times‘ Best-Seller, The End of Alzheimer’s.

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