Month: December 2019

Beebe Assisted Living residents work on their gingerbread houses with Girl Scouts in the Activities Room

Mayflower Christmas Gingerbread Houses

In preparation for Christmas, residents of The Mayflower Community’s Health Center and Beebe Assisted Living have made traditional gingerbread houses. Mayflower Activities Director, Chery Nelson has been leading this activity at Mayflower since 2008. Dating back almost 15 years prior to that, Chery first started making gingerbread houses with local first-graders in her native northwest

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Lighted Christmas tree decorating the skywalk at Mayflower.

It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas…At Mayflower

Grinnell, Iowa’s Mayflower Community is senior engagement living for residents 55-years of age and older. With 285 residents living in independent living patio homes and apartments and receiving care in assisted living and in the Health Center, it is time to honor this season of celebration and new beginnings. The photos attached show some of

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New residents-to-be, Tom and Emily Moore, enjoy the Prelude to Christmas dinner flanked by Greg Buntz and Gerry and Sara Adams.

Mayflower Has Prelude to Christmas

On Thursday, December 5th, The Mayflower Community (Grinnell IA) presented the annual “Prelude to Christmas” dinner. The event featured the delicious food for which Mayflower is known plus resident and guest congeniality. In addition, the event was buoyed by the striking holiday décor in the Buckley Dining Room and outside, through the tall patio windows

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Mayflower Hospitality Council's hosts and guides breakfast

Mayflower Hospitality Council Gears Up

In The Mayflower Community (Grinnell IA), many volunteer residents working as part of the Mayflower Residents Association (MRA) handle the welcoming and acclimating of new independent living residents to the community. “Hosts” and “Guides” were feted at a brunch on Monday, December 2nd. MRA President-Elect, Gene Wubbels, who will assume the presidency in January, thanked

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