Steve Langerud, Executive Director of The Mayflower Community, facilitated the recent annual retreat of “Leadership Iowa,” a program of the Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI). On October 10, 2018, the group met at the Honey Creek Resort to focus on leadership and communications. Leadership Iowa is Iowa’s premier statewide issues-awareness program for current…
The Mayflower Residents Association sponsored a “Fun Fall Party” on Thursday, October 8, 2018. The featured menu was a buffet of burgers and brats, tater nachos, all the fixings, and caramel apple sundae desserts. About 75 residents attended and enjoyed the food and comradery. – Bob Mann, Sales & Marketing Director
On Friday, October 12, 2018, Glennon Doyle was the featured speaker at the West Des Moines Annual Meeting of the Iowa Conference of the United Church of Christ. As Mayflower is a ministry of the United Church of Christ, Executive Director, Steve Langerud, and Sales & Marketing Director, Bob Mann, attended the meeting. Doyle is…
On Saturday, October 6th, 17 Mayflower residents boarded the famous Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad Dinner Train for an excursion over the high bridge on the Des Moines River valley. They saw the changing-color leaves in the Iowa woodlands while dining on a scrumptious white-tablecloth meal of Iowa chop, veggie lasagna, chicken marsala, prime rib,…
On Wednesday, October 3, 2018, Mayflower residents and staff joined with Davis Elementary School students to participate in the statewide “Healthiest State Initiative” to walk around the campus. Over 50 Davis 4th graders and teachers accompanied about 40 Mayflower Health Center, Beebe Assisted Living, and independent living residents and staff for the five-block walk. It…
Steve Langerud, Director of Mayflower Community, spent Saturday morning, September 29th working on leadership and communication skills with the DSM Fellows, a program of the Greater Des Moines Partnership at Camp Dodge in Des Moines. The is the first year of the Des Moines Fellowship program, which is a professional development initiative program which attracts,…
On September 23, 2018, Harold Tindall celebrated his 104th birthday. A native of New Jersey, Harold moved into a Mayflower Community apartment in the Edwards building in March 2007. In August 2017, Harold subsequently moved into an apartment in the Beebe Assisted Living building, his current home. Born and raised on a dairy farm in…
Congratulations to Mayflower Community residents, Doug and Lorna Caulkins who have been named the 2018 recipients of the Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation Connie Marshall Spirit of Giving Award. The Foundation annually bestows this honor, which “celebrates an individual or couple with a lifetime of service to others through individual endeavors and through overall community involvement.”…
Steve Langerud, Mayflower’s Executive Director, will be making presentations to the 2018 Midwest Habitat Networking Convention to be held in Des Moines October 23-26. Sponsored by Habitat for Humanity, Wells Fargo, and The Mayflower Community, the event is expected to draw participants from throughout the region. Steve, who came to Mayflower after a career in…
On August 17, 2018, an energetic group of Grinnell College Residence Life Coordinators in training for the 2018-19 school year came to the Mayflower campus for volunteer work. Some served as “Techie Tutors,” assisting residents in navigating their electronic communication devices. Others, pictured above, helped stage a “carnival” of activities for residents of Mayflower’s Health…