It was a close contest! The nursing staff in Mayflower’s Beebe Assisted Living placed 1st in the Annual Pumpkin Decorating Contest with their gnome entry. The Community Life department’s hungry caterpillar placed 2nd. The other three finalists split the remaining votes. All the entries were fabulous! First-place prize for the Beebe staff? A Mayflower pizza…
To celebrate Halloween in the Mayflower Community, employees gathered by department to decorate pumpkins. The five finalists in the judging contest are shown here. Winners were announced on Halloween Day. — Leslie Jaworski, Mayflower Community Life Director
The following events will be hosted by Mayflower residents and staff to celebrate Halloween. Halloween Buffet Dinner. Monday, October 30th. 4:30-6:00pm. Buckley Dining Room. “Trick or Treat Center” hosted by residents in front of Watertower Square, 625 Broad Street. Tuesday, October 31st. 4:30-7:30pm. The Mayflower Residents Association and some individuals will be providing the treats.…
The Mayflower Community celebrated 2022 Halloween. It kicked off with a pumpkin “face-off” contest with each department “decorating” a pumpkin for display and judging. On Thursday, October 29th, various stations were set up around the campus to give treats to resident and staff families who dressed up to “crawl.” Then, that evening, a special soup…
Grinnell’s Mayflower Community celebrated Halloween last weekend with a kids parade Friday afternoon and staff dress-up on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. In preparation for the parade, residents in the Health Center and Beebe Assisted Living also dressed up to receive the Trick-or-Treaters. In the accompanying photo, Jacki Hicklin, RN, Mayflower’s Assistant Director of Nursing and…
The Mayflower Community celebrated Halloween in various ways. There were Trick-or-Treat tables, costumed parades, staff costuming, goodie bags, and pumpkin decorating. In the accompanying photo, “witches” Sue Drake (left) and Joyce Wubbels, have finished their assignment of delivering goodies to Health Center and Beebe Assisted Living residents. — 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…
On October 1st, Sue Drake, accompanied by her daughter Melody and mutual friend, Paige Everly, appointed The Mayflower Community “Treasurer Chest” with Halloween decorations. Each month, the display in this special area of the Pearson lobby, changes to a collection of a different variety. A Mayflower Residents Association committee of residents, chaired by Sue, oversees…
So, who won The Mayflower Community pumpkin-carving competition? Members of the Food Service department made the winner, which was a display of pumpkin members of the M&M family. Those are real pumpkins! The creators, left to right, areJean Lewis, Marilyn Starnes, Sandy Maddocks, Sharon Gersdorf, and Sue Allen. Not pictured is Roxanne Wozny. — Bob…