Beginning on Monday, May 9th, The Mayflower Community will be celebrating national “Nursing Facility Appreciation Week.” The theme for this week is “Creating & Nurturing Connections.” Each day Mayflower will recognize a separate department, celebrate a fun theme, and encourage staff members to participate. Activities and fun snacks will be offered to staff throughout the…
Residents in The Mayflower Community have been busy making origami paper cranes to celebrate the inauguration of Grinnell College President, Anne Harris. The ceremony will be held on Kington Plaza on Saturday, May 7th, at 10:30am. The College has invited the community to be a part of an art project as part of the reception…
Recently, the aroma of freshly-baked cinnamon rolls wafted through The Mayflower Community’s Health Center and Beebe Assisted Living homes. Grinnell College student volunteer, Sarah Wilts, helped Mayflower’s Community Life and Wellness Coordinator, Jessica Hasenyager with the baking. The event was hosted by the Community Life and Wellness department. The cinnamon buns and cream cheese icing…
On Friday, April 15th, the Easter Bunny visited the Health Center and Beebe Assisted Living at Grinnell’s Mayflower Community. Egg coloring. Fuzzy gifts. Posing for pictures. Celebrating. Another day—well, an Easter anyway—at Mayflower! The Community Life and Wellness Department under the direction of Leslie Jaworski organized the events. Jessica Hasenyager, Coordinator, was the Easter Bunny.…
In what The Mayflower Community calls a “Meet & Greet,” a Grinnell College student recently spent time with Health Center residents leading their participation in artistic drawing. Aubrie Torhorst, a Wisconsin native and Art major and golfer for the College, led the event. Given the many meal options in the Rosenfield ’25 Center Marketplace Dining…
If you are hungry, don’t read any further. This article will inspire you to go to your refrigerator….or out to eat! In keeping with the routine of offering a monthly special dining event, The Mayflower Community served a Sicilian Dinner to residents and their guests on Friday, April 1st (no joke!). Sitting at tables of…
One more sign of progress through the pandemic: The Grinnell group, “Sit ‘n Knit,” is again meeting. Devoted to sitting while knitting or other crafting while talking just a bit, many members live in The Mayflower Community. Therefore, a number of meetings of this social group have been held in Mayflower residents’ homes as well…
On Wednesday, March 23rd, the Lippincotts marked their 76th wedding anniversary. Currently residents of Grinnell’s Mayflower Community, they are former residents of Brooklyn, Iowa. Dale and Helen were married in the Grace United Methodist Church, Brooklyn, on March 23, 1946. This was a few weeks after Dale’s return from serving in the United States Navy.…
On Monday, March 21st, the Community Life and Wellness staff in The Mayflower Community hosted a tea party for Health Center and Beebe Assisted Living residents. Residents kept their distance, a procedure we continue to observe for infection protection. In the Carman Center, apple and apricot pastries were accompanied by Earl Grey tea. Earl was…
On Thursday night, March 17th, residents of The Mayflower Community’s Beebe Assisted Living celebrated the completion of the most recent book club reading, The Lincoln Highway, with a special dinner. The second “Book Club Dinner” was held in Mayflower’s Anchor Room off the Buckley Dining Room. All Beebe residents were invited. Because the book, authored…