Newsletter January 2014 - Stone Gardens Assisted Living

January 2014
Volume 3, Issue 1
The Monthly Newsletter of
Stone Gardens Assisted Living
A Residence of Menorah Park Center for Senior Living
Ask The Activities Directors
Dear Activities Directors:
I know you’ve written
a lot about the new library
already, so I hope you don’t
mind my query. The library
is beautiful, but the walls
seem kind of bare. Can we
get some artwork or something to put up in there?
- Luke King Atwalls
brary. (The committee’s work is
ongoing.)
completed one, she got the goahead to complete the rest.
The Library makeover
was completed in late October
and the official Grand Opening
was held on November 5. Everyone commented positively on
the new look and expanded selection, but one wall looked a
little bare. It was suggested that
it could use some dressing up.
The series is titled
“Read, THINK, Learn, Dream,”
and each two-dimensional
piece represents something one
might use a library for. They
are hanging on the south wall of
the Library.
Dear Luke:
Perfect timing! We now
have new artwork in the library!
And not just any artwork—we
have specially created, custom
made artwork.
Marla Papcum, an Activities assistant at Stone Gardens
(now an Activities Coordinator
at Menorah Park) was given the
task of gathering a resident Library Committee and working
with them on the focus and direction of the new library. Marla
did a wonderful job with the
committee, and the committee
did a wonderful job with the li-
Marla, who attended the
ceremony, readily volunteered
to create art for the wall herself.
Marla is an artist and has a
Master's Degree in art education. Her vision was to do a series of four works tied together
by a common theme. After she
Also, we have a new volunteer librarian. Her name is
Amy Canadee and
she’s usually here
on Mond a y s ,
Wednesdays, and
Fridays. Even though the library
works on the honor system—
borrow a book, then return it—
she’s here to organize shelves
and assist with any of your library needs.
Please stop in and enjoy
our beautiful new space.
Written In Stone is the monthly newsletter of Stone Gardens Assisted Living Residence at The Menorah Park
Center for Senior Living.
Please direct all inquiries or concerns to:
Noah Budin, Editor, c/o Stone Gardens Assisted Living, 27090 Cedar Road, Beachwood, Ohio 44122-1156,
216-593-0484, [email protected]
Stone Gardens Staff Directory
Ross Wilkoff
Administrator
216-896-1105
[email protected]
Linda Holpuch
Dir. of Resident Services
216-593-0476
[email protected]
Kelly Henderson
Assoc. Dir. of Res. Services
216-593-0477
[email protected]
Bianca Williams
Office Manager
216-292-0070
Marnie DeGuire
Admissions Coordinator
216-593-0479
[email protected]
[email protected]
Sarah Taub
Director of Activities
216-839-6674
[email protected]
Noah Budin
Asst. Director of Activities
216-593-0484
[email protected]
Angie Holpuch
Physical Therapist
216-593-0478
Larry Betlejewski
John Kwasni
Environmental Serv.
216-593-0480
[email protected]
[email protected]
Helen’s Place
Joel Fox
Foundation Director
216-839-6688
[email protected]
Sous Chef
Chris Brockway
216-593-0488
Margo Davitt
Night Supervisor
216-593-0483
[email protected]
Pantry
216-593-0487
Nurse On Duty
216-593-0483
Fax: 216-378-4004
Amy Kinstlinger
Social Worker
216-831-6500 ex. 176
[email protected]
Beauty Shop
Cheryl Pietrondi
216-593-0486
Marina Sanchez
Valorie Ventura
216-360-8206
[email protected]
[email protected]
Gorye Chin
Dietary General Manager
216-593-0482
[email protected]
[email protected]
Kitchen
216-593-0481
[email protected]
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January Resident Birthdays
4 Lillian Friedlander 25 Ruth Sicherman
7 Jean Kritzer
25 Seymour Greenstein
17 Marilyn Hersch
27 Harriet Morse
22 Daniel Baskind
January Staff Birthdays
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Jennifer Northrup
Nancy Bernstein
Alverta Crenshaw
Michelle Bell
PLEASE HELP
PREVENT THE
SPREAD OF
INFECTIOUS DISEASE!
Visitors:
We appreciate your visits,
but if you are sick,
please don’t visit.
Please wash hands with
soap and water, or use
hand sanitizer, upon entering the building.
Everyone:
Please wash hands with
warm water and soap often. Rub soap on hands
for at least 20 seconds.
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18 Rivka Berkovic
26 Lekeyia Caldwell
A Limerick
By
“The Resident Poet”
Every human being on earth
Contributes something of worth
Our world expands
Becoming very grand
Little things develop to great girth
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What is a Rocksino anyway?
It's only fitting that the
home of Rock and Roll and the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
should be home to the first
Hard Rock Rocksino. The
200,000-square foot, slots-only
casino and entertainment complex opened adjacent to Northfield Park race track on December 18, 2013. In addition to
gaming, the facility, a part of
the Hard Rock Cafe International Group, will host concerts
and other events and offers five
restaurants and bars. The
Rocksino is open 24/7, 365
days a year.
The Hard Rock Rocksino offers more than 2,200 slot
machines, both on its state-ofthe-art gaming floor and on its
two outside, smoking lounges.
Machines range from pennies
to high limit.
The Hard Rock Rocksino offers five separate restaurants and bars, each with its
own flavor.
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Hard Rock Cafe -- Like the
Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Cleveland, this restaurant offers classic American
food for lunch and dinner in
a casual atmosphere with a background of classic
rock and rock tunes
and plenty of rock
and roll memorabilia to fascinate
any music fan.
Kosar's Wood Fired Grill - Kosar's Wood Fired Grill,
named for the Cleveland
Browns #19 Bernie Kosar,
offers steaks, chops and
seafood for dinner nightly,
accompanied by an extensive wine and beer selection. The walls are decorated with a selection of Kosar memorabilia.
Fresh Harvest -- Fresh
Harvest is the Rocksino's
lavish buffet, open for
breakfast, lunch and dinner
daily, featuring 64 different
items each day.
• Constant Grind -- The
Constant Grind is the Rocksino's coffee shop/diner.
Open 24 hours a day,
seven days a week,
this is the place for a
late night sandwich or
• Center Bar -- The
center bar is, aptly, located in the center of
the Rocksino action, on
the gaming floor. It's open
as many hours as the State
of Ohio will allow, from 6am
to 2am.
On Sunday, January 26,
Stone Gardens will offer an opportunity to visit the Rocksino
with a stop at the Hard Rock
Café for lunch. Watch for the
flyer in your boxes and the sign
up sheet to go out on the front
desk.
congratulations
Stone Gardens extends a
heartfelt congratulations to Stone
Gardens Resident Violet
Spevack on her induction
into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame.
The dinner and
induction ceremony was
held by the Press Club of
Cleveland at the Cleveland Marriott on November 14, 2013 Vi was one of five honorees that evening and holds the
distinction of having written the long-
est running continuous newspaper
column in the United States.
From the Cleveland Press Club website:
At age 97, Violet
Spevack
maintains
she is too young to retire. She has written
for the Cleveland Jewish News for nearly 50
y e a r s .
H e r
“Cavalcade” column continues to
entertain and inform the community as it has since nearly the
first day the CJN debuted as a
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weekly newspaper. In her columns and in her feature stories,
Violet captures the heart and
soul of organizations, community
leaders, celebrities and everyday
folk. She also has been a regular
on the speaking circuit, with her
current topic of “Everything I
Really Know I Learned in My Old
Age.” The CJN Foundation created the Violet Spevack Internship Endowment in her honor to
help train the next generation of
journalists.
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Getting to Know You
There’s a new
face in our Dietary
Department.
Meet
Josh Hartranft, Sous
Chef.
Josh grew up in
Columbus, Ohio and
participated on the
soccer
and
swim
teams. After High
School he attended
Butler University in
Indianapolis,
Indiana, and then graduated from the Arizona Culinary Institute in Scottsdale.
From there he
went
to
Boulder,
Colorado and worked
as a Line Cook and
Sous Chef at Falstaff
House.
Josh came to
Cleveland
and
worked as a Sous
Chef at One Walnut,
an Executive Chef at
Lago in Tremont, and
an Executive Chef at
Town Hall in Ohio
City.
Josh
lives
in
Lakewood , Ohio with
his 9 year old daughter and is engaged to
be married.
We are pleased
welcome Chef Josh
to Stone Gardens.
EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
Every month the
Stone Gardens Department
Heads
select an Employee of the
Month. Department
Heads
nominate people based
on the notes that residents and family members post on the
“Service With a Heart”
board located in our
front lobby, and from
their own observations.
The Employee of the
Month is publicly recognized
at a staff meeting, gets their name on
a plaque, and receives
two movie tickets. In addition, the Employee of
the Month gets to
choose a “buddy” from
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the staff who will also
receive two movie tickets.
November’s Employee of the Month was
RA Brittany Dunn. Brittany chose Dietary employee Phil Jelenic as
her buddy.
Congratulations to
Sandra, and to all of the
employees who were
nominated!
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Musings
By Barbara Drossin
The other day I
found a thin wooden
stick in my desk drawer.
It had a sharp pointed
end at one end and a
rubber plug at the other
end. You know---a pencil. When was the last
time you found a beautiful never-used pencil?
Once in a while I
enjoy rethinking times
which impacted my life
significantly.
One of
those times concerns a
bundle of six pencils
which my mother gave
me when I started
school.
Not any old
pencils scattered around
the house. New pencils
to signal that I now had
the tools for developing
my education.
The creation of the
rubber plug embedded
in a wood shaft was the
idea of a man named
Hymen Lipman. In 1858
Joseph Reckendorfer
bought the patent from
Lipman.
However, in
1875 the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled it was not a
legitimate invention because it merely com-
bined two known technologies.
The patent
was denied.
My little bundle of
pencils gave birth to the
rest of my life of creativity and speculation.
They initiated an imaginary world to which I
might retreat when my
ordinary world was just
so ordinary.
I discussed my
thoughts with my secret
friend Helen who lived in
the wall behind my bed.
No one knew about
Helen because she was
a secret and she was all
mine. Eventually Helen
went away and I couldn’t
find her. I just got older.
G r o wi n g
older
brought me into today’s
world where aliens seem
to occupy every aspect
of the 21st century. Do I
believe in aliens or an
alien world? Television
seems to. Have I been
visited by an alien?
Would I know?
What would aliens
say about us, one of
them to the other?
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“ Yo u
realize
they’re made of meat.”
“Meat? Are you
suggesting meat created
life and countless inventions?”
“Yes!
Meat
thinks. It loves, it dreams,
it hates and terrifies.”
“So what does it
want with us?”
“It wants to talk,
to explore ideas. When it
flaps its meat a certain
way it sings”
“Can’t we just
pretend there is no one
home in the universe?
Who wants to meet meat
anyhow?”
“Well, the meat
keeps frying. It must think
we are very special.”
And so are we as
well. After all, didn’t all
this thinking, all this wondering, begin with pencils?
~Barbara
The David P. Miller Computer and Technology Center
at Menorah Park
Offers Individual Computer Classes by Appointment,
For Residents of the Menorah Park Campus
To schedule a class Call Sylvia at
216-831-5452 x20
*****NEW*****
Basic IPAD/ Tablet Classes
Learn about APPS, settings, mail, internet,
using YOUR iPad or Tablet
If you’re thinking about getting an iPad
and would like to see one ,
we now have an iPad for demonstration purposes.
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JANUARY OUTINGS
Date
Wed., Jan. 8
Wed., Jan. 15
Thurs., Jan. 16
Outing
Shopping at Super
Wal mart
Movie Outing
Dinner/
Ho Wah
Wed., Jan. 22
Lunch/
Cedar Creek Grill
Wed., Jan. 22
CIM/
Faculty Recital
Sun., Jan. 26
Hard Rock
Rocksino
Northfield Park
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Walking
Family Members-Let.s have career Night!
By Noah Budin
I remember when I
was in the sixth grade,
some parents of classmates came in over the
course of the year to talk
about their jobs. They volunteered their time and
did some meaningful programming for the 12 year
olds of Coventry Elementary School.
What if we brought
that same concept to
Stone Gardens? Only,
this time, it would be the
children making their parents proud.
We know that many
of you have interesting
jobs and careers, and
even hobbies for which
you are passionate. You
may not think of your job
as interesting—because
you do it all the time—but,
I’m sure that most of us
would love to hear about
it, because it would be
new and interesting to us.
You might be a
teacher, a lawyer, or a
musician. How about a
writer or a bartender? A
business owner or a politician.
A
clergym an/ wom an.
M a yb e
you’re a world traveler or
a collector of stamps,
cards, rocks, Faberge
eggs, or, well, anything.
Career Night! That’s
what we’d like to present
for our residents. We can
do one, or a series, depending on your response. Please contact
me at 216-593-0484 or
email me at nbudin@ menorahpark.org and we can
talk. Call me even if you
don’t think you do anything interesting. I’ll listen,
and then I’ll tell you why
you’re wrong!
Enjoy Fine Gourmet Dining
Right here at Menorah Park
The Menorah Cafe
The Menorah Café serves a delicious, upscale menu on the 2nd
Tuesday of each month. Dinner begins at 5:00 P.M. and is only $5.00
for residents of the Menorah Park Campus. Guests may dine for
$13.00.
Past menus have included House Smoked Salmon with Sweet and
Sour Spinach and Apples, BBQ Short Ribs with Napa Cabbage Cole
Slaw and Beer Battered Onion Rings.
Call Vicki Snyder at 216-839-6654 for reservations.
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From the Rabbi.s Desk
By Rabbi Howard Kutner
Tu B’Shevat, the
15th of Shevat on the
Jewish
calendar—
celebrated this year
Thursday, January 16,
2013—is the day that
marks the beginning of
a
“New
Year
for
Trees.”
This is the
season in
which the
earliestblooming
trees
in
the Land
of
Israel
emerge from their winter sleep and begin a
new fruit-bearing cycle.
Legally, the “New
Year for Trees” relates
to the various tithes
that are separated from
produce grown in the
Holy Land.
These
tithes differ from year
to year in the sevenyear
shemittah
(sabbatical) cycle; the
point at which a budding fruit is considered
to belong to the next
year of the cycle is the
15th of Shevat.
We mark the day
of Tu B’Shevat by eating fruit, particularly
from the kinds that are
singled out
by the Torah in its
praise
of
the bounty
of the Holy
L a n d :
grapes,
figs, pomegranates,
olives and
dates. On
this day we remember
that “man is a tree of
the field” (Deut. 20:19)
and reflect on the lessons we can derive
from our botanical analogue.
There are
many
lessons
that we can learn
from trees and
what this minor
holiday on the Jewish
calendar teaches us
about ecology, nature
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and our surroundings.
When the children of
Israel were about to
enter the land of Israel
the Torah told them
“And when you come
into the land and shall
plant all manner of
trees for food.” The
thought derived from
this verse is that it is a
sacred duty to plant
trees to improve and
beatify the land and the
earth. We hope to explore these topics and
more at our classes
prior to Tu B’Shevat.
We also look forward to
celebrating the meaning of this special day at our
annual
Tu
B’Shevat Sed e r
o n
W e d n e s d a y,
January 15 at
11:00 A.M. in the Ivy
Room. I look forward to
seeing all of you there.
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The David P. Miller Computer and
Technology Center at Menorah Park
For New Computer
Users we offer the
following classes
For Residents of the Menorah Park Campus, offers
Individual Computer Classes
by Appointment,
Customized to the individual student’s needs
and capabilities
Monday - Friday
Between 1:00 PM—3:00 PM (Half Hour Classes)
To schedule a class
Call Sylvia at 216-831-5452 x209
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•
Laptop Basics
•
How to use the
Mouse
•
Intro to Computers
•
Creating Greeting
Cards
•
Internet
•
e-Mail
(See Monthly Flyers for Class
Description)
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Bianca – That’s Who!
(To the tune of “Bye, Bye Blackbird”)
By Violet Spivak
Pack up all your cares and woe
To the Front Desk you will go
There’s Bianca
She’s so clever, she’s so smart
She’ll help you, she’ll take your part
That’s Bianca
At Stone Gardens there is no guessing
Bianca personifies its blessing
So, as you pass her desk for lunch
Blow a kiss, say “honey Bunch”
Bianca – That’s who!
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