s ' t r e BINNINGS Resident Emma Mackintosh with her grandchildren at our Children's Party
Inside this issue: • Children’s Party • Cashin Scholarship winner announced • Burn’s Night celebrations • A history of our village site Bert Sutcliffe Retirement Village Autumn Newsletter 2018
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Greetings from Marika... Bonjour et bienvenue to our autumn edition of Bert’s Innings. Wishing you a Happy New Year! It was lovely to see so many relatives and friends join us for our Christmas and New Year celebrations. Our Children’s Party was spectacular and we’re looking forward to next years already, make sure you add it to your calendars! 2018 will be an important year for us as our beautiful village will be completed. Many new residents are moving in over the next couple of months and we’re looking forward to welcoming them. We are also pleased with the launch of the new myRyman Care app developed
by Ryman Healthcare. This technology will improve the way we care for our residents and allow staff to spend more time with them. Please remember to check your calendars for all upcoming events, including St Patrick’s Day, Easter and our Anzac commemorations. My door is always open if you have an enquiry, so please stop by for a cup of tea. Kind regards,
Marika Laflamme Village Manager
The Ryman Season of The Nutcracker The Royal New Zealand Ballet is hard at work to bring the new production of the muchloved Christmas classic, The Nutcracker, to New Zealand’s stages. The Ryman Healthcare Season of The Nutcracker will be the RNZB’s biggest tour of 2018, opening in Wellington on 31 October and touring to Blenheim, Invercargill, Dunedin, Christchurch, Palmerston North, Napier, Auckland and Takapuna, through to 15 December. The Nutcracker is the third tour sponsored by Ryman, following the sell-out success of The Wizard of Oz and Romeo and Juliet.
Marika Laflamme Village Manager Ph: 09 482 1777 Call Marika for general enquiries, or any information about resthome, hospital and dementia care.
Leanne O'Meara Rosalind Hayhoe Sales Advisor Sales Advisor Ph: 09 483 2226 Ph: 09 483 2226 Talk to Leanne or Rosalind about retirement living options and availabilities in the village.
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Summer started out with a bang at our spectacular Children’s Party. It was a sweltering afternoon so of course we had snow cones and an ice cream sundae bar to fight off the heat!
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Everyone enjoyed petting the animals and the children especially loved cuddling them. Billy the baby goat was by far the favourite of the day along with Wilbur the pig and many more little critters. Mo Asraf and Andy Heels manned the barbeque while chef Kumar Mekala’s tasty treats filled the village with delicious smells. The children got the chance to expend energy on the bouncy castle, and had fun with face painting and games. It was a wonderful day with many great memories made.
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Residents Ken and Maria Carpendale with their daughter-in-law and grandson
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<generic recipe> Bob Scott bowlers take on Melbourne While most of us were sleeping off our Christmas feasts on Boxing Day, four residents from Bob Scott Retirement Village were heading to Melbourne. The winners of the Ryman lower North Island regional bowls tournament, Arie Molenaar, Shirley Wilson, Ron Scott and Reta Morris, were eager to take on Australian bowlers in the Glen Waverley Bowls Carnival. “The atmosphere was brilliant. There was a lot of interest in us and people asking how we were doing,” Arie says. The team also enjoyed their visit to Ryman’s 1st Melbourne village the Weary Dunlop Retirement Village where they had a tour and morning tea with the residents.
ta t, Shirely Wilson and Re Arie Molenaar, Ran Scot a ent Bob Scott in Australi es pr re to d ou pr re we Morris talk there. It’s a social spot,” Arie says. “Sometimes we’re there for half an hour and we don’t play bowls we just talk!”
They all agree that it is the best thing to have a bowling green in a village as it brings people together.
They all give a very big thank you to Ryman and Denise Thompson, Ryman community and relations team leader, and Russ Nicholls, from the Glen Waverley Bowls Club.
“A lot of people go there just to sit and
“We’re just so proud to be part of Ryman.
Cashin Scholarship Winner 2018 Emma Glasson is all set to pursue her dream career after winning the $5,000 Cashin Scholarship. The 18-year-old from Invercargill has started her first year studying for a Bachelor of Commerce and she says the scholarship has eased the pressure on her family. Emma’s mum Deanna is a senior caregiver at Rowena Jackson Retirement Village in Invercargill and started there in 2012 after the family moved south from Christchurch. Emma says the earthquakes were tough on the family. “The earthquakes took a toll on us all and mum and dad decided that Invercargill would be a good place to move to.’’ Emma is the seventh winner of the scholarship established in honour of
Ryman director Mike Cashin. Blair Cashin, Mike’s son, said Emma was a deserving winner. “We were delighted to support Emma’s ambitions to study accountancy. She’s part of a family whose lives were disrupted by the earthquakes but she is a determined character who has done well at school through her hard work.’’ The scholarship is open to all Ryman staff and their families.
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Resident Esma Rastrick with New Zealand Women’s Weekly editor Alice O’Connell
The hunt for fantastic grandparents is on! Ryman Healthcare has joined forces with New Zealand Women’s Weekly magazine in the search for the nation’s Grandparents of the Year. To help launch this year’s search, Ryman invited magazine editor Alice O’Connell and her team to a lavish high tea at its Bert Sutcliffe retirement village where residents gave them a very warm welcome.
“With so many wonderful grandparents amongst our residents alone I just know choosing the winners is going to be extremely tough – I will have my tissues at the ready too!”
How to enter
Radio presenter Lorna Subritzky, was the MC for the event.
Describe in 500 words or less why you or your nominee deserves to be a winner
“With more mothers working and under so much pressure it’s grandparents who end up picking up the slack either with childcare or financially - they are the unsung heroes,” she said.
For more information head to: nowtolove.co.nz/grandparentsoftheyear for more information
“So we need to celebrate these people and say they’re doing something wonderful.” Alice said more judges had been brought on board to choose each category winner this year, including Ryman’s own Group Sales Manager Debbie McClure, who grew up living next door to her grandparents. “I know from first-hand experience just how special the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren can be and I’m thrilled that Ryman is involved with New Zealand Women’s Weekly to celebrate that.
The four categories are: Gran of the Year, Granddad of the Year, Honorary Grandparent of the Year (to recognise those who may not be bloodrelated but whose love is no less strong), and Grandparents of the Year. Closing date for entries is Sunday March 4, 2018. The competition is open to Ryman Residents.
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Summer outings
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In November, residents celebrated St Andrews Day by dressing up in tart an! The haggis was ‘addressed’ by resident Dennis Carle, then toasted with a “wee dra m” before everyone savoured the dish . Local singer, Gary, also regaled the audien ce with great Scottish tunes.
Introducing Meredith Fricker and Moshe Asraf I am pleased to introduce our staff members of the month. Meredith Fricker is a gardener at Bert Sutcliffe. She was born and raised in the North Shore and she has a daughter and grandson whom she adores. Before joining the team at Bert Sutcliffe in 2017, Meredith worked for the Auckland Garden Care and did contract work for private residences. Working at the village is a pleasure for her and she loves the gardens and meeting all the residents. In her spare time, she enjoys the great outdoors. Gardening is in her blood as her nana and mother loved it too. Meredith is passionate about the gardens at the village and she takes a lot of pride in making it beautiful! Moshe Asraf, or Mo as we call him, grew up in a kibbutz (a collective community based in agriculture) in northern Israel. In the mid-90s, after his mandatory military
i h ll d to N l d and d mett service, he travelled New ZZealand his future wife. Mo immigrated to NZ 18 years ago but returned to Israel intermittently. In 2001, he obtained a qualification in horticulture. Mo took a break from horticulture and joined the police force, however, after a few years he returned to his passion by working at our sister villageStEvelyn Page Patrick's Daybefore was ajoining lot of the Bert Sutcliffe as a gardener in 2016. funteam at Edmund Hillary with ts, green food, In his sparegreen time, outfi Mo enjoys spending and of course, Guinness! time with his two boys as well as working towards his landscaping architecture degree.
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A l k into the pa The history of the Bert Sutcliffe site The Bert Sutcliffe village site has been used as a cricket ground, a council depot and most recently a holiday park prior to Ryman Healthcare acquiring it. The cricketing connection is strong – so who better to name the village after than the extraordinarily talented Bert Sutcliffe – a North Shore hero who captained New Zealand and had a profound impact on generations of New Zealand cricket fans. Before 1905, details are scarce: it was probably the head of a steep valley from which kauri trees were milled in the late 1800s. The Birkenhead Borough Council purchased the site in 1905 for a water reservoir. They soon realised this was a mistake, and purchased adjacent land on Bagot’s Hill and built the reservoir there. The site remained vacant until 1934 when the Borough Council began planning to upgrade sports facilities in the district. The Birkdale Cricket Club had been playing on assorted fields in the BirkdaleBeach Haven area since 1905, and needed a more permanent home. So, it was decided to develop the site as a cricket ground. With assistance from a government subsidy, in 1935 the Council provided work for unemployed men to level the land and dispose of rubble into the gully below. Osborne Park was opened for the cricket season of 1936, with a tent as a pavilion.
It had good drainage and was a natural amphitheatre for spectators. Club members prepared the ground for play. After a lull during WW2, by 1947 the club was experiencing renewed growth and built a pavilion and changing rooms on the northern slope. Meanwhile, the Birkenhead Cricket Club which had folded in the early 1900s was brought back to life when a new sports centre was opened at Memorial Park Birkenhead. It made sense to merge and centralise the cricket activities of Birkdale, Glenfield and Birkenhead at Memorial Park, as Birkenhead Cricket Club. The site then became used as the Borough Works Depot, animal pound and dog-dosing strip. The lower corner of the site was used for rubbish disposal. In the 1990s the Birkenhead City Council did the extensive native tree planting around the upper perimeter of the site. The site had become the Fernz Convention Centre, Restaurant and Holiday Park with family chalets and caravan sites. Because of the site’s history as a council depot more than 80,000 cubic metres of soil at the bottom of the site was removed and replaced with clean fill before building began. (Adapted by Eric Bowater from the article by Elizabeth Collins in the Birkenhead Heritage Society newsletter of March-April 2017)
State of Bert's Innings Grace The Christmas spirit was high at our class
Triple A Christmas party Here at Bert Sutcliffe we had a great Triple A exercise class Christmas party facilitated by our lovely instructor Charlotte. She put together a snowman relay, a spelling bee, and some team building activities to get our hearts pumping! The residents were working hard to be the winning team and the competition was ďŹ erce throughout the classes. Naturally we ended with a delicious morning tea.
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