Your Treasure is Within: March Events

Our Alive in All Seasons program is alive and well at Juniper Village. This quarter’s seasonal theme is on Creative Expression: “Explore Your Creativity” and serves to promote our philosophy of encouraging an active body, an engaged mind and a fulfilled spirit. For March, we will turn our focus to Performance: “Your Treasure is Within”.

This month on March 2, 2014 we look forward to the 86^th celebration of the Academy Awards. As we watch popular comedian and talk show host, Ellen DeGeneres host the festivities while the beautiful stars dressed in their finery walk the red carpet we can’t help to stop, to pause and reminisce of all of the great performances of past years. Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro, Tom Hanks, Jack Nicholson, Vivien Leigh, Meryl Streep, Peter Ustinov and Dustin Hoffman; the list goes on! In addition to guessing who might win the Oscars for 2014, this month we will be learning about and experiencing all different types of great performance art, enjoying cultural events and trying our hand at acting in drama club.

It’s going to be a theatrical month at Juniper Village at Louisville filled with creativity, great experiences and memorable performances! You are cordially invited to attend our Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday Celebration on March 4^th at 5:30 pm, our Moriaty-Moffitt School Irish Dancers performance on March 17^th at 3:00 pm, our 2nd Annual Suessical Night at the Oscars on March 19^th at 6:00 pm, our Village Volunteering activity on March 28^th at 2:30 pm, or any of our other activities (see our Newsletter for a complete listing).

So come in, and join in on the act to find that “Your Treasure is Within”.

National Pancake Day Celebration, Yes Please!!!

We focus a lot on our residents and put a lot of effort into making sure that there are always fun events for them to attend. One of the things that we don’t blog nearly often enough about is our staff…and to be honest, we have the best staff around. They work hard and truly provide the best care possible for the residents who live here, and that is praise worthy in and of itself.  And, to be honest, we celebrate them often, but we don’t always remember to get our camera out as those celebrations are not always as photo worthy. This year, 2014, we will work harder to post more often about our staff.

So, with that in mind, every month we have at least one big celebration…this month we chose National Pancake Day…because who doesn't love pancakes! (Or at least that’s what we were thinking when we were planning this event). Of course, it’s never limited to just the staff, we often make sure vendors and residents celebrate with us for any and all of these events.

Our chef made the pancake mix, the leadership team cooked them up, we had a toppings bar, and the staff came, they saw…and devoured. It was a lot of fun, and we always would encourage you to join us for these events, the more the merrier! Join us next month when we celebrate with the staff again…naturally, we will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day all day long with cheesy themed food to eat…and of course pinches for anyone not wearing green. (Thank goodness our Juniper Polo shirts are green!)

Masked and Ready and Spreading the Love

Valentine’s Day comes around the same time every year…and this year we decided that there was no better way to celebrate than by hosting a Masquerade. The Leadership Team came dressed in their fanciest of dresses to help set the tone for this event. We enjoyed frolicking around the building in our masks with the residents in hand and of course, there had to be a photo booth, because what better way can we capture the spirit than by setting up an area to take pictures and enjoy ourselves.

If events like these sound like fun to you, please come to our Mardi Gras Celebration on March 4^th. We will be celebrating all day long by enjoying junk food; after all, it’s Fat Tuesday, and we should enjoy ourselves on this day.