The Mayflower Community Health Center kitchen has been rebuilt. All new equipment has been installed. (See below.) Over 200 donors have made the $500,000 project possible. The new menus are being developed with the assistance of a class of Grinnell College students, who have created an electronic application for modification and printing. Now, the Health…
Marcy Heim, life coach and author, keynoted the second day of the LeadingAge Iowa Spring Conference, presenting “Invest in Joy. What If You Dialed Down the Drama and Dialed Up the Joy?” The owner of the consulting firm, The Artful Asker, L.L.C., is based in Madison, Wisconsin and specializes in staff development and strategic planning…
A leadership team from The Mayflower Community (Grinnell IA) is attending the LeadingAge Iowa Spring Conference on Wednesday and Thursday, May 1st and 2nd at the Prairie Meadows Conference Center in Altoona, Iowa. LeadingAge Iowa is a professional association of Iowa not-for-profit senior living and nursing care providers. Even though in 1993 Mayflower established the…
April 25th, 17 Mayflower residents were treated to a tour of the huge Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. company north of I-80 and west of Williamsburg. We traversed the 30-acre, 1,000,000 square-foot plant via tram, hosted by an insightful and knowledgeable tour guide. Founded by Jon Kinzenbaw as a welding shop in Ladora, Iowa in 1965, the…
On April 12th, the Grinnell High School senior choir performed a medley of songs for residents of The Mayflower Community (Grinnell IA). They were directed by Roger Henderson, vocal music instructor, and accompanied by Juli Bey, pianist. See photo below. — Bob Mann, Sales & Marketing Director
The Mayflower Community (Grinnell IA) Book Club meets monthly to discuss the book that they have selected at their previous meeting. They choose books on a variety of topics. Mostly recently, the group read “The Common Good” by Robert Reich. Currently, they are reading “Little Heathens” by Mildred Armstrong Kalish. Pictured above are some of…
The April session of Mayflower Community’s “Armchair Travel” was presented in the Kiesel Theatre on the 23rd. The films for this session featured New Guinea, Southern England, and various Iowa counties. Hosted and arranged by Mayflower resident, Shane Estes, the series runs once a month on a Tuesday afternoon. These vivid videos help one apparate…
On Friday, April 19th, the Easter Bunny left a bunch of plastic eggs filled with chocolates in the Mayflower Community Buckley Courtyard. The Bunny was a bit tired out by all that laying, so she/he hung around to watch the eggs being gathered by the children and grandchildren of Mayflower employees. We are not allowed…
Curbside pick-up in Grinnell is a’changing. Here is information from the City’s website: “All residents and businesses outside of the Central Business District are receiving rolling solid waste carts this week. Delivery should be complete by the end of the day on April 18th. Collection with the new truck and carts will start the week…
In the lower level of The Mayflower Community’s Edwards building, there is a buzz of activity. Besides being the home to the 40,000-piece Disney character puzzle, it is the site of the weekly craft activities. Resident John Noer is about finished with the first of ten frames of the big puzzle. This one is Cinderella…