Thursday, December 30, 2010

New Year's Raffle Basket

The Wiggins Place Tenant's Association once again is raffling  off tickets for their New Year’s Basket.  Our tenants were out in full force getting Menorah Park staff, residents and family members to take a chance.  Proceeds will go to the Wiggins Place Tenant's Association. 

This year the Gift Basket is worth over $200 and includes items such as a Digital 8inch picture frame, 8 piece fondue set and a $20 gift card for Shutterfly among many other wonderful items. 

Stay tuned...the drawing will be held on Friday at 2:00PM

Happy New Year!
Wiggins Place Tenants Ida Kaufman (l) and Ruth Schwartz (c) sell (hopefully) the winning raffle ticket
to Rabbi Howard Kutner (r).



Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Tamir Goodman at Wiggins Place!

We welcomed sports star Tamir Goodman dubbed the "Jewish Jordan" to Wiggins Place recently to share his experiences with our tenants as a nationally recognized Baketball player and also about his current projects which he has been pursuing since announcing his retirement in 2009.   
 
Mr. Goodman currently devotes his time to the Haifa Hoops For Kids program, which raises money to help disadvantaged children in Israel attend basketball games.
 
Thank you, Tamir!

Also a very special thank you to David Markovich for coordinating Tamir's visit and making this very special treat happen for our Wiggins Place tenants.  We are so happy to have you as a volunteer at Wiggins Place, David.  You're the Best!
 



The Importance of Olive Oil during Chanukah

Rabbi Shmuli Friedman came in to  
Wiggins Place
to talk about the importance of olive oil during Chanukah. He showed us how to crush the whole olive and extract the juice.  He then proceeded to put it into a centrifuge to separate the juice into pulp and oil. The tenants made their own wicks out of cotton and the tenants were able to take some of the olive oil pressed in class home with them! 

It was a very interesting class that the tenants really enjoyed and they want Rabbi Friedman to return to make Matzo at Passover time.     







Monday, December 6, 2010

Celebrating Chanukah at Wiggins Place



Out of Darkness comes light
Celebrating Chanukah at Wiggins Place
Come Light up your World…. ….Miracles still happen today



Ida Kahn (l) and Jean Hyman (top) make potato latkes for one of the Chanukah parties

 
Jenna Haffey, Asst. Director of Life Enrichment (l) and tenant Ida Kahn (r) make latkes for one of the Chanukah parties


Rabbi Kutner (center) and tenant Shirley Kronenberg (at piano) lead the tenants in their favorite Chanukah songs!
   

 





Thursday, December 2, 2010

Wiggins Place Bagel Brunch

It is always so nice to see everyone gathered together with family and friends at one of our Bagel Brunches here at Wiggins Place. 

On Sunday, November 21st we welcomed not only our tenants and their families but members of our waiting list as well.  We hope that you will join us on the 3rd Sunday of each month to share great food and see old friends.  No need to RSVP and we encourage you to bring YOUR family members with you.

Below are a few pictures of our tenants and waiting list members with  their families and friends at our Bagel Brunch.  We hope to see you soon.
 

 

   


 If you have any questions or would like to schedule a tour please contact Nancy Sutula, Wiggins Place Administrator at 216-831-5452 x 705.






   

New Wiggins Place Blog!

There are so many exciting things going on at Wiggins Place right now and we can’t contain the urge to shout about it to everyone.  So we are very excited to announce the launch of our very own Wiggins Place Blog!

Our blog will allow us to post pictures of recent events, update everyone on upcoming events and brag about our fabulous Wiggins Place tenants.  We invite everyone to take a look at our new blog, comment and offer any suggestions.  The link will be posted to our website http://www.wigginsplace.org/ but you can always find us here at http://wigginsplace.blogspot.com/.

We wish you all Happy Holidays!