Greetings!
We've been enjoying the beautiful weather this week! Our annual Golf Classic was a huge success on Monday and we had a perfect day all the way around. Our golfers, sponsors and volunteers enjoyed a wonderful event at the Heritage Club. We are always very grateful for the tremendous community support we receive for this event and if you missed it this year, put August 19, 2013 on your calendar right now! We had several ice cream events, with root beer floats, one day and spumoni another day, in the Sensory Garden, and lots of folks have been sitting outside or walking the grounds. We also had a great outing with some of our Health Care residents to Rascal's Deli and a great time was had by all! On Thursday we had a visit with folks from the Cincinnati Zoo, which is always a crowd pleaser. They brought a variety of animals for folks to learn about and also touch. We had great participation and our residents loved it. Many of them were even willing to touch and hold the snakes! Yikes! Sally's Place, the kitchen in the Rehab Center, got great use this week as well. As you may know, this kitchen was designed for life skills practice. That means that, before someone goes home after a therapy stay or as part of their outpatient program, they use this kitchen, which is equipped much like the ones we all have at home. It gives patients a real sense of how they will function in that space, especially if now they are managing with an injury, disability or use of an assistive device. We have an apartment set-up and a full bathroom in the Rehab Center for the same reason and all these areas have been well utilized and much appreciated by patients. This week's activity in Sally's Place was a little different. Not just one resident, but several, took part in making a delicious summer salad and they used vegetables and herbs that had been planted, and tended, by other patients in our Rehab garden. The gardening has been used as a part of our therapy program so it was wonderful to see the fruits of folks' labor being used in another therapeutic (and delicious!) way. On Thursday afternoon, we continued to work on our "Wall" project with the residents. We've collected more than 100 shoe boxes and these boxes are undergoing a wonderful transformation at the hands of our residents and staff. Within the next couple of weeks our transformed boxes will become a replica of the Western Wall. The Wall will have spaces in which notes and prayers can be tucked by residents, visitors and staff. All these notes will be carefully collected and packed for our Interfaith Mission travelers to take with them to Israel. At the actual Western Wall, we will carefully place all of those notes we've brought from Cedar Village. We have done similar things on our previous two Missions and it truly is a gift to be able to do that this time as well. All the best, Carol Silver Elliott CEO/President
Cedar Village
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