November 2015 - Pillsbury Senior Communities

November 2015
Welcome New
Residents!
Gazebo
Anne Pastula
Celebrating
November
Allenwood
Onnie Fisher
Sara Sussman
Election Day
South
Lee Nunziata
November 3rd
Homestead
Gloria Martell
Elvy Kidder
Veterans Day
November 11th
Happy October Birthdays to a few of our Centenarians!
This month we celebrated Ruth Adams’s 101st birthday and
Rollande “Frenchie” Shepard’s 100th!
Fun Fact: In total we have 8 Centenarians in all of our
communities!
We Will Miss You
Gertude Wolffe
Paule Pembroke
Georgette Rainville
Pat Morgan
Rita Forman
Shirley Sherrer
Ken Baizley
Jim Thompson
Solange Lalancette
Marie-Paul Comtois
Gladys Lemnah
Barbara Snelling
Thanksgiving
November Birthdays
Dezi Rottler
Roddy Cleary
Harriet Tamini
Betty Mereness
Patricia Calmer
George Myers
Anne Bond
Ethel Schuele
Roger Bourgea
Nov 01
Nov 05
Nov 08
Nov 08
Nov 08
Nov 10
Nov 11
Nov 11
Nov 15
Richard Alpert
Barbara Jaffe
Joan Frey
Helen Harvey
Peggy Hassler
Yvonne Bessette
Kay Herko
Robert O’Brien
November 26th
Nov 17
Nov 19
Nov 19
Nov 21
Nov 21
Nov 23
Nov 23
Nov 28
Keep Those Knitting Needles Flying!
Watch those knitting needles fly under the magical fingers of the Pillsbury Seniors
at Harborview/ Allenwood Community!
Every Monday afternoon ten women knit stylish hats, vibrant mittens, striking
scarves, unique baby bibs and cowls (close fitting scarves with button closure). Each
week they collect their weekly projects, help each other with difficult patterns and
share their creative ideas.
This year the Pillsbury Seniors are supporting JUMP (Joint Urban Ministry Project),
a drop-in emergency assistance center for neighbors in-need. JUMP provides direct
assistance with food, medication, clothing and utility vouchers. JUMP also provides
hospitality, support, conversation and comfort from 40 plus volunteers.
Last Monday in Allenwood they displayed a colorful assortment of their articles.
It was a knitters paradise that drew many spectators who made donations for these
lovely items! The donations from the sale were beyond the ladies expectations! JUMP
will be thrilled to receive a $700 check from the donations received from all those
beautiful items. This money will provide four families each with a $50 voucher four
times this year. This voucher can be used for food, gas, medication and/or utility
assistance.
In addition to JUMP, this philanthropic
group donates items to WCAX for the
Mitten Tree. Presently they are knitting hats
for Hope Lodge, a temporary home for the
hospital adult patients who are in treatment
for cancer.
Thank you Eleanor, Michelina, Barbara,
Audrey, Helen, Marylou, Yvonne, Carol,
Harriet and Bea. You ladies are awesome!
A special thanks to Ruth Severance,
Pillsbury Senior Communities Activity
Director, who supported and encouraged this group,
and supplied many skeins of yarn.
Barbara Stearns
Harborview resident—JUMP volunteer
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Turkeys Up for Thanksgiving Adoption
Nutritional News from Dietician Shelly Gage
Though Thanksgiving is celebrated in October in Canada and in November in the United
States, both countries often share one tradition: a roasted turkey for the Thanksgiving feast.
Why has turkey become the iconic meal for this holiday? Why not ham, chicken, goose, or
beef? The menu choice is gastronomical as well as historical—with a long- held belief that Pilgrims
ate turkey during their “First Thanksgiving.”
But did America’s European settlers actually feast on this gobbling bird? We know from the
memoirs of William Bradford, governor of the Plymouth colony, that wild turkeys roamed the area
around Plymouth Rock. However, when we look to colonist Edward Winslow’s first-hand account
of the First Thanksgiving, there is no mention of turkey. He notes “wild fowl,” but this could just
have easily meant duck or goose.
If eating a turkey seems “fowl,” consider adopting one instead. November is Adopt-aTurkey Month, and rescue organization Farm Sanctuary will be hard at work finding loving homes
for an array of needy turkeys. Or perhaps you would prefer the nation adopt the turkey as its new
national bird. Founding Father Benjamin Franklin himself denounced the bald eagle as America’s
symbol, writing:
“I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative
of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character…
the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird,
and withal a True original Native of America.”
Pillsbury Communities recently participated in National Food Day. On
October 24th, the food for the menu was obtained from local sources. In the
current farm to health care movement, local is defined as within 90 miles. We
had turkeys for tetrazzini from Misty Knoll (New Haven), our eggs for eggs
benedict were from Shadow Cross Farm (Colchester), and our apples for apple
crisp were from Champlain Orchards (Shoreham).
Over 300 health care facilities throughout the US served 235,000 meals
that featured meat or poultry raised without antibiotics. The Farm to Health
Care movement has proven value to us as consumers, to local famers, their
employees and families. It reduces air pollution by having shorter distances for
delivery and provides fresher food that has less exposure to chemical
treatments.
The University Of Vermont now has a Master’s degree program (soon to
be a Ph.D program) in Food Systems. They will host their 5th annual Food
Systems Summit in June, 2016. The summit will address “What Makes Food
Great?” We already know that smaller scale farming, locally grown and
distributed food make the opportunity to eat healthier food easier and
potentially, more affordable. Perhaps there will be opportunities for some of
you to attend part of this 2 day conference to hear more about the nationwide
efforts to increase access to locally distributed agricultural products.
We are continuing our efforts to purchase local produce (fruits, veggies),
eggs and milk. We welcome your input as we strive to locally source a greater
percentage of the food that is served at Pillsbury.
North residents enjoyed
decorating Halloween
cookies!
Is it time to redesign the United States’ Presidential Seal?
Gazebo resident Sandy
Imes enjoying an apple
picking trip!
South resident Lorene
Vaut with her
decorated pumpkin!
Allenwood and Harborview
residents visited Hope
Lodge. Our knitting group is
currently knitting hats for
them for Christmas.
Veterans Day is an official United States federal holiday that is observed
annually on November 11, honoring people who have served in the U.S. Armed
Forces, also known as veterans. It coincides with other holidays including Armistice
Day and Remembrance Day, which are celebrated in other parts of the world and
also mark the anniversary of the end of World War I (major hostilities of World
War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of
1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect). The United States also
originally observed Armistice Day, it then evolved into the current Veterans Day
holiday in 1954.
Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day; Veterans Day
celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans, while Memorial Day is a day of
remembering the men and women who gave their lives and those who perished
while in service. Thank you to all of our veterans for their service to our country!
Homestead resident
Yvette Champagne in a
ceramics painting craft