We had Garden Club yesterday and now we’ve got the itch for Spring! Rain and warmer temps are making us feel like it might not be that far off. Of course, Michigan is always good for a surprise or two, though!
Updates
Our Sweethearts
What’s a Valentines party without conversation hearts and games and treats and music and a little bit of dancing! We even crowned a King and Queen from resident and staff votes! Lots of fun for all of us.
When You Have Your Own Super Bowl Commercial
It’s a learned behavior:
commercials come on, time to run for a refill.
commercials come on, time to run for a refill.
Except… not on Super Bowl Sunday! That’s the one day of the whole year when, for some of us, commercials are the main attraction.
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Movie Highlight: Gone With The Wind
Playing this Week at The Village: January 25-26
10 Interesting Facts About Gone With The Wind, 1939
- Scarlett was cast after filming began.
- Leigh almost lost the part after her first test reading.
- The first director was fired. In all, the film had three directors.
- Leslie Howard absolutely despised playing Ashley.
- Gable begged not to be shown crying on camera.
- There weren’t enough extras in the entire Screen Actors Guild to shoot the Confederate Wounded scene.
- Atlanta went crazy for the film’s premiere and then Georgia governor declared it a state holiday
- Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Oscar, but was banned from the premiere.
- Author Margaret Mitchell, heading to watch a movie with her husband, was fatally struck by a car 10 years after the film’s release.
- It took 16 different writers to make the screenplay a viable length.
New Tables and Chairs
Take a look at our new dining room tables and chairs. These were provided by gifts from the Morley Foundation, the Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation, the Allen & Marie Nickless Foundation, and another foundation that desires to remain anonymous. Funds included an allowance for new laminate table top surfaces that were expertly installed by the Community Village maintenance staff. The new look not only enhances the dining room appearance, but has taken safety and comfort to new levels. A few days after the new chairs arrived, one of our board members shifted the wrong way in one of our old chairs, causing it to collapse. That event truly made us appreciate the great safety improvement of the new indestructible chairs.
Community Village Partners with PharmaScript
PharmaScript Long Term Care Pharmacy of Michigan makes serving the residents of long term care facilities their primary focus. PharmaScript is a family owned and operated LTC Pharmacy, serving LTC facilities, adult foster care, homes for the aged, assisted living, and nursing homes since 2004. PharmaScript takes pride in providing high quality service, care, and pharmacy solutions to their customers.
Administrator Ken Streeter states, “We are very proud of this new partnership. We have attempted to make a complete change to electronic records for our medication administration during the past 3 years. This partnership has provided a seamless connection between physician’s prescriptions, safe administration of medications, and electronic data records of all medication administrations. PharmaScript told us that whey were able to provide and they have fulfilled every commitment.”
Medication administration is vitally important to long term care because the complications of multiple drugs being administered at the wrong time or in wrong amounts can create life-threatening errors.
