Getting ready for the holidays….Mayflower residents of the Watertower Square apartments, 625 Broad Street, have lit up the Jewel Garden located on the west side of the building. Beautiful in daylight. Spectacular after dark! – Bob Mann, Sales & Marketing Director
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Thanksgiving Day 2020 in The Mayflower Community was full of appreciation, even with all the struggles of 2020. The highlight was the home-delivered meals to Mayflower residents. Independent living residents ordered 125 specially prepared turkey and ham dinners with all the fixins. Health Center and Beebe Assisted Living residents dined from the same menu. Food
The Mayflower Community superb baker, Teresa Nicklas-Beck, has been doing what we do for Thanksgiving…baking pies. She displays a couple of them in the accompanying photo, with a lot more (including pecan!) in the background. Along with the first-class Thanksgiving Day meal that will be delivered by Mayflower staff to the doors of independent living
Recently, a long-time friend of Mayflower resident, Jeanette Tisdale, Dudu Mbangi of South Africa, contacted Mayflower’s social worker, Rhonda Hudson, to inquire about getting in touch with Jeanette. Dudu and Jeanette had not visited in decades. Taking into account the seven-hour difference in time zones, Rhonda made arrangements for a Zoom (virtual) call. Leslie Jaworski,
Grinnell’s Mayflower Community has acquired a second “Clorox 360®” machine to deal with the coronavirus. This innovative electrostatic sprayer, with special nozzle, delivers Clorox disinfectants and sanitizers to the front, back, bottom, and sides of surfaces. This coverage provides better germ protection than is possible with human wiping as it disinfects hard-to-reach surfaces. Although sprayed
On Wednesday, November 11th, National Veterans Day, The Mayflower Community (Grinnell IA) celebrated its residents who are veterans and spouses of veterans. Their sacrifice has assured our way of life. It was fitting to celebrate their gift to us. The original plan was to present a virtual address from veteran and resident Leo Lease to
Lest you think it is all serious work at The Mayflower Community, take a look at how some staff showed up to work on Beggars Night Day! Maybe our residents were a little scared, but they are COVID-19 free! — Bob Mann, Sales & Marketing Director
What is Halloween without a parade—costumes and safe distancing? So, we had one of those in The Mayflower Community on Friday, October 30th. The stars were children of Mayflower employees and their family members. Starting at the corner of 2nd and Broad, the procession headed south with a first stop at Watertower Square, where prepackaged
Pandemic precautions or not, to make Halloween official, you need to have decorated pumpkins. We have them in Grinnell’s Mayflower Community. Groups of residents and employees (small and socially-distanced, of course!) created their own pumpkin creations and submitted them for judging. Members of the Mayflower Residents Association Social Committee judged the pumpkins and named the
A donation has been given for the planting of a tree to honor Mayflower resident Bob Williams and his late wife Jan. Planted at the southeast corner of 1st and Broad streets, near the Edwards apartment building, the tree is a red sunset maple that will grow to be about 40-feet tall. A permanent plaque