Heart of the Manor March 2002

 

 

Friends, Family and Love

 

Our Mission:  Celebrating Family, Friendship & Love

 

Our Values:

Respect & Dignity

Holistic Care

Dedicated to Quality Service

Community Oriented

Homey Lifestyle

 

Our Vision:  Innovating Excellence in Resident-Centred Care

 

www.stirling-rawdon.com/StirlingManor/

 

 

 

Greetings Family and Friends,

 

Our home is interested in having a Family Council.  A Family Council in a long-term care facility (home) is an organized, self-led, self-determining, democratic group composed of family and friends of the home=s residents.  Emphasis is placed on advocacy, empowerment and mutual support.  The structure and function of a particular Family Council will be unique in each Home and will be influenced by such factors as the level of care, the role of the Resident=s Council, staff support and demographics of the family members.

 

For more information contact Shirley Lowery.

 

NOTE:    When using the front entrance, please do not park on the concrete area of our patio.

 

Welcome to Our Home

A warm welcome is extended to Burton Coulter, Florence Mumby, Mary Holmes and Eileen Shaw.  We hope you are becoming acquainted with others and feeling at home with us.

 

March Birthday Greetings

Flower - Crocus, stands for youthful gladness

Birth stone - Aquamarine, meaning courage

 

Keith Casement March 3rd                 Alma Demille March 8th 

Marion Clarke March 13th            Betty Bos March 15th 

Kathleen Moyse March 21st                  Ferlie Weatherell March 24th

     Margaret Wease March 24th      Florence Harbridge March 26th

Ed Heasman March 28th                   Mable Cranston March 31st

 

Guests are invited to join our Birthday Party Tuesday, March 26th  at 2:00 p.m. hosted by the St. Andrews Presbyterian Church Ladies

 

Belated Birthday greetings to Ed Heasman February 28th

 

Quote: By the time a man finds greener pastures, he is too old to climb the fence.

 

Bereavement

We extend our sympathy to the families of Reg Jones, Ella Tupper,

Margaret Haggerty and Marjorie Winstanley.

 

They are gone but will always be remembered.

 

Congratulations...............Gord & Sandra Redner have a new born baby girl named Katelyn Amber weighing 8 lbs 9 oz.

Life of St. Patrick Quiz (True or False)

 

1.                    St. Patrick was born in Kilpatrick, Scotland in the year 387?

2.                    In his sixteenth year, Patrick was carried off into captivity by Irish marauders and sold as a slave?

3.                    His parents were very poor farmers?

4.                    He was born with the name Patrick?

5.                    St. Patrick was able to easily spread the word of Christianity in Ireland because of his knowledge of the Celtic language?

6.                    It took him only one year to destroy paganism in Ireland?

7.                    Another legend of St. Patrick is that he banished all spiders from Ireland?

8.                    The greatest legend of St. Patrick is his use of the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity?

9.                    Patrick=s writings have come to be appreciated for their simplicity and humility?

10.                 March 17th is the date of birth of St. Patrick.  This is why we celebrate St. Patrick=s Day on the 17th of March?

11.                 What is the meaning of these two Latin words Apater civium@?

 

By our resident writer, Arne Strand.

 

The face above me was not friendly at all.  It belonged to some sort of a being in a uniform.   Judging by its expression, it was looking down on a creepy lowlife with no redeeming qualities at all.  It was informing me that my health depended very much on how fast I could get up on my legs.  His lack of gentlemanly conduct and breeding was appalling.  He must have been a Scandinavian or an Irishman.  So to humour him I got off my cot, picked up some clothes from a chair and followed the guard, for that was what he was, a guard at the Alcatraz prison.  Why I was there, I could not quite understand.  Maybe it was because I had picked up some loose change from a bank, but to send a man to jail for the rest of his life for Aborrowing@ a measly 100,000 dollars was too much.  I said so to the judge, and we had a little argument about it, but some people are so set in their own ways that they can=t see anybody else=s points of view.  So instead of going to one of those country club places, I found myself being awakened this morning at Alcatraz.

 

As places go I have seen them better.  Beside the eternal stone breaking the social environment was not of the four-star quality either, and since I was seen fit by a judge to spend the rest of my life there the future did not look all that bright.  I could not see much sense in breaking big stones into small stones for any useful purpose at all.  Maybe somebody figured it was a useful training for sainthood, but there were fellows there who had been breaking stones for years and they did not look very much like saints, far from it.  So it seemed I was stuck in an unhealthy situation not of my own choosing, but of an unreasonable judge=s choosing.

 

Lifetime means lifetime of course and nobody had ever escaped from this place before, but I was desperate and had to try something.

So now after all those years I have decided to reveal the secret of my escape, for escape I did.  How I managed to get out of my cell and down to the shore would take too much time to tell, but on the first moonless night I was there and from there I walked on the bottom of the bay to San Francisco and found my stash and lived happily ever after. 

 

Answers to Quiz

1.  True           2.  True           3. False           4.  False           5.  True           6.  False           7. False           8.  True

9.  True           10.  False           11.  Afather of his people@