Month: May 2020

Jean Carpenter with her birthday card

How to Celebrate a Birthday for Someone in Quarantine?

Let’s say that you have a loved one living in a healthcare facility that has restricted visitors due to the current pandemic. Let’s say that she has a birthday. How do you honor her and brighten her day? See how Jean Carpenter’s grandson and his children did it. Exciting. — Bob Mann, Sales & Marketing

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The “Ferguson Singers,” from left Gillian, Susan, and Alana.

Happy Birthday Wish While Social Distancing

Friday May 1st, is Janet Ferguson’s birthday. (How many? You will have to ask her!) To celebrate—from afar during this time of social distancing—Janet’s daughter Susan and grandaughters Gillian and Alana, came to her balcony to sing “Happy Birthday.” While the younger Ferguson women stood in The Mayflower Community Buckley courtyard and broke into song,

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Jeanette Tisdale with a letter from her Pen Pal

The Anderson Kids’ Pen Pals in Process

Three more Pen Pal partnerships have emerged from the homemade greeting card gesture on the part of Jackson, Grady, and Reese Anderson of Marion, Iowa. The parents of the three youth are Tara and JT Anderson, formerly of Grinnell. The newest pen pals are Diana Long and Grady, Jeanette Tisdale and Reese, and Rudi Munitz

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Lisa Adkins, flower in her hair and painted rock in her lap

Painted Rocks

Somebody’s been painting rocks and leaving them in the Mayflower community. — Bob Mann, Sales & Marketing Director

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Karin Connelly and friend add paintings to Treasure Chest display in Pearson Building

Karin Connelly’s New Zealand Paintings in Mayflower’s Treasure Chest

Recently, Mayflower Community resident, Karin Connelly returned from a trip to New Zealand. After a period of self-imposed isolation, we have now seen Karin again. Just in time! She volunteered to adorn the Mayflower Residents Association (MRA) “Treasure Chest,” a glass-front display cabinet in the Pearson building lobby. The photos show Karin displaying paintings that

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