Beating the Winter Blues

At Wiggins Place we love any excuse for a party.  That's why we celebrated beating the Winter Blues with a Luau style social with some of everyone's favorite snacks and tropical drinks. 

Toasting to warmer weather

Ian Hoy, Life Enrichment Associate, is ready to serve you at the Bar

Annette Kolt (l) and Fanny Jaffe (r) are ready to party!!

Storytime at Wiggins Place (Intergenerational Programming)

Intergenerational programming is a high focus for tenants at Wiggins Place.  We often host programs during the year and invite the tenant's grandchildren and great grandchildren to participate.  Twice a month we host children from the Menorah Park FUNdamentals Day Care program for crafts, snacks socials and story time.  Today three of the Wiggins Place tenants delighted the children with three popular stories.  There is nothing quite like seeing the children's faces light up as our tenants, all excellent, well practiced story tellers, read from their favorite books.

From Left to Right Dorothy Pearl, Eva Rosenberg and Anne Berk read to the children from FUNdamentals

Honor FLight 2012

Every third Wednesday of the month World War II veterans along with their guardians board a Southwest Airlines plane for the trip of a lifetime to Washington D.C.  Honor Flight Cleveland  takes WWII Veterans to THEIR Memorial and on October 17th ten tenants from Menorah Park Center for Senior Living were able to enjoy this amazing experience. 

http://www.honorflightcleveland.com/Home_Page.php

A beautiful video of our tenant's wonderful and meaningful experience is below.  I know you join everyone at Menorah Park in thanking all of our veterans for their selfless service to our country.

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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. - Joseph Campbell

The Life Enrichment Department at Wiggins Place is always trying to keep activities fresh and exciting for our tenants.  This summer we welcomed music instructor Ian Hoy to the Activities staff.  Ian has brought a new perspective on music to the tenants and uses his experience with many different orchestras across Northeast OH to encourage great discussion and renewed interest in his music classes. 

This afternoon Ian and his class were playing various songs on the Bongos.  Tangos, waltzes, cha chas and Samba.

It was so much fun one couldn't help dancing to the strong beat.

Evelyn Tiktinsky is all smiles

Life Enrichment Associate Ian Hoy instructing his class on the Samba

Jean Sokol showing Ian how it's really done!

Innovative Programming for Seniors at Menorah Park

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
Socrates 

Menorah Park believes in the best, the crème de la crème, in intellectual programming for its' tenants and residents.  The Long Distance Learning programs offered on campus are no exception.  Case in point the innovative and unprecedented Long Distance Learning Program from the Cleveland Museum of Art.  

Below is a link to a video taken during this program and it showcases quite well the kind of programs we offer and plan to offer in the future.  

Please join us and share the great things happening at Wiggins Place with friends.

http://www.viddler.com/v/7bfa43aa?secret=79951577

 

Dr. Herman Weinberg turns 100

Each month the Menorah Park Platinum Club comes together to celebrate some of our most special tenants.  These tenants,  all 97 and above, have many stories to share and have many reasons to celebrate.  One of these incredible tenants is Dr. Herman Weinberg. 

Dr. Weinberg has been a fixture of Wiggins Place since we opened our doors in 2004 and we celebrate 100 years of his incredible life. 

Thank you, Dr. Weinberg!

Dr. Weinberg

Tracy Derschau, Director of Activities, welcomes everyone to this month's party

Dr. Weinberg's loving family

Members of the Wiggins Place staff gather to wish Dr. Weinberg a Happy 100th Birthday

Bench Dedication for Polly Shultz

It is always wonderful when family members want to do something special in memory of their loved one that lived here at Wiggins Place.  We have been the recipient of so many amazing gifts including art work, our wonderful Gazebo, many of the beautiful flowers that dot our landscape and so many more.

The Shultz family has given Wiggins Place another such gift when they dedicated one of the lovely benches in the front courtyard in honor of their mother, Polly Shultz.  Elvin Shultz, who still resides at Wiggins Place, along with his daughter, Marcia Arons, wanted to do something special for Wiggins Place in honor of Polly.  The bench is in a lovely, sunlit area which is perfect as it will always remind us of Polly Shultz's beautiful smile.

Elvin Shultz (c) and his family dedicate the courtyard bench in memory and in honor of their wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother, Polly Shultz

If you would like to make a gift to Wiggins Place please do not hesitate to contact Joel Fox at the Menorah Park Foundation.  He can be reached at jfox@menorahpark.org or 216-831-5452 x 214.