Tudor Oaks "ACORN" Monthly Newsletter – June 2023

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Tudor Oaks Main Line: 414-529-0100

Reception Hours

Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 7:00pm

Saturday: 9:30am - 5:00pm

Sunday: 9:30am– 4:00pm

Meal Times

Reservation Line: 414-525-6419

Breakfast~8:00am-8:30am

Lunch~11:30am-12:30pm

Dinner~4:30pm-6:00pm

Butternut Bistro Hours

Monday - Friday: 9:00am - 1:30pm 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Saturday: 10:00am- 2:00pm

Gift cards available

Bank Hours

Thursday: 9:30am - 10:30am

Office located—Wisdom Tree Library

Curly Willow Beauty Shop

Call for an appointment : 414-525-6403

Massage Therapist: Sherry Radish 414-525-9578

Patty Cures: Patty Schmidt

414-858-9209

(Manicurist/Pedicurist)

June 2023

2023

Calendar Key A1 Lounge (A1L)

Butternut Bistro (BB)

Fitness Room (FR)

Frances Henry Health Center (FHC)

Lamson Plaza (LP)

Leaf and Petal Greenhouse (LPGH)

Multi-Purpose Room (MPR)

Oak Ridge Lounge (ORL)

Oak Ridge Room (ORR)

Olive Wood Theater (OWT)

Poplar Lifestyle Room (PLR)

Private Dining Room (PDR)

Reflection Room (RR)

Swimming Pool (SP)

Wellness Clinic (D218)

Windsor Gardens (WG)

Windsor House (WH)

Windsor Manor (WM)

Wisdom Tree Library (WTL)

We llnes s News: llness

►Bocce pick up games will begin on June 1 and will be held Thursday at 6:30pm and Saturday mornings at 9:30am Come join in the fun!

►Trivia Competition will be on Thursday, June 22 at 3:00PM in the Olive Wood Theater. Be on the lookout for team sign ups outside of the wellness office.

Clothes for Ukraine

Do you have wearable clean clothes that you would like to donate to a worthy cause? Men, women and children need clothing. The residents of Ukraine have nothing but the clothes on their backs. The clothing will be given to the refugees that come here and what is le昀 will be distributed and sent overseas by the Church of Ukraine. Place dona琀ons in bags or boxes, label them “Ukraine” and leave them in the Poplar Lifestyle room. Thank you from the grateful people of Ukraine.

Proceeds will bene昀t the Residents Activities Fund and R.A.R.E.

Wheelchairs, walkers, furniture, household items.

If residents wish to donate items to the rummage sale, bring them to the Marketing of昀ce NO LATER THAN MONDAY, MAY 22

Please see Jane/Allison with questions

News and Notes

Acorn submissions are due by the 15th of each month to insure they are included in the following month’s issue. PDF format emailed to mhyde@abhomes.org or dnovak@abhomes .org is preferred or you can put them in the tray on the file cabinet in the PLR.

FOOD COMMITTEES OD

Independent Living: Food Committee every third Thursday of month ~sign up at the Hostess Station

~1:00 in Oak Ridge Dining Room

~Dining Experience Committee to meet immediately after Windsor Manor: Every second Thursday of month at 2:30pm

Windsor House: Every second Thursday of month at 3:30pm

Therapy Announcement: Free balance assessments with our new … VSTBalance, an automated fall-risk assessment tool that u琀lizes Ar琀昀cial Intelligence with machine vision to objec琀vely iden琀fy de昀cits in balance, gait and func琀on. Come check it out on Thursday, June 29th from 2:00-3:00pm in the Olive Wood Theater. Be on the look out for sign up 琀mes to get your free balance assessment.

Kentucky Derby in Review May 6, 2023

We had 73 reserva琀ons for our Kentucky Derby Party with around 70 a琀ending. Everyone had a good 琀me even though the actual race did not start un琀l 6 PM. The winners are as follows:

Derby $ - Red Box - 50% pay out – Win 25%, Place 15%, Show 10%, and 50% to ac琀vity fund.

Winning horse—Mage #8—Harriet Lisiecki

Second place—Two Phils’s #3—Jo Pli琀

Third Place—Angel of Empire #14 Mary Deglow

Random Draw Chance—We have two sellers at $2 per chance. There will be 4 hats sold. Each winner will get 50% and 50% to ac琀vity fund. 18 horses running which means $18 to each winner.

Winning Horse was Mage #8 Yellow 琀cket—Pam Long

Green Ticket—Barb Yahr

Blue Ticket - Nan Rupp

Pink Ticket—Looking for the winner

Pony Races—We had 4 sellers of chances for $2. Winner receives $6 and ac琀vity fund gets $6 — a winner from each hat (up to 4 winners each race). We ran 6 races with 4 sellers for each race—thus 24 winners.

Fashion Show—Dee Maxwell and Don will provide prizes to the winner.

Women Hats: Most Elegant—Shirley Mendini

Most Zaniest—Marlene Hultgren

Best use of Roses—Nancy Wanie

Men’s Show: Most Dapper—Ken Schneider

Most Unique—Mike Holmes

Couples: Most Elegant—Guy & Louise Osborn

A big thank you to all of the volunteers and residents !! Great 琀me and big success! Don B on Bardonner ardonner

June Highlights J June

Entertainment (OWT or Ch. 957)

►June 6 at 6:30 PM:

Brett Gaertner, Singer (OWT)

►June 8 at 6:30 PM:

Ron Anderson Travelogue (OWT)

►June 13 at 6:30 PM:

The Dolce Duo (OWT)

►June 14 at 6:30 PM:

Gregory Hartmann, Pianist (OWT)

► une 29 at 6:30 PM :

CP Kent, Folk Singer (Outdoor Concert, Weather permitting)

6:30 pm

Channel 955 on your TV

June Movie Line Up

2nd Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

9th Downton Abbey

16th The Man Called Otto

23rd The Fabelmans

30th Downton Abbey, New Era

(Ch. 955)

June 4th - The Glass Castle

June 11th - Whitney Houston: I

Wanna Dance With Somebody

June 18th - Game Plan

June 25th - Julie and Julia

6:30pm in PDR

(June 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th)

Risk

By Charlo琀e Kovac

My risk occurred in high school. My school required strict a琀endance with no absences each year. Students who accomplished that feat went on an ou琀ng and picnic lunch at the state fair grounds in West Allis. I seem to remember the park was reserved for our school. Each student was given 琀ckets that could be used on all the rides and snacks, co琀on candy, popcorn, soda then served a picnic lunch. All students able to a琀end got on a school bus and rode to the park. Lots of laughing and talking about which ride to go on. Of course, we all talked about the roller coaster. My choice went more toward the merry go round and the tamer rides. My friends and I headed 昀rst for the bumper cars before the boys took them over. Another was a ride that you spun around in, but I forget what it was called. We even tried the Ferris Wheel. Then we headed for lunch. All the cha琀er was about riding that scary roller coaster -which I was trying to avoid! My friends began shaming me about not wan琀ng to RISK a ride on it. A昀er lunch we did the fun house and a couple tamer rides. The roller coaster loomed in front of me. My friends lined up and I said that I was out of 琀ckets -a friend o昀ered one of hers to me, and I said, “What a friend you are, wan琀ng me to go on that rickety old roller coaster”! They all said, “Yes, we’re ALL going on it and you will be a baby (along with some other choice names) if you don’t go”. I sat in the middle, and it was horrible and scary and the sound it made, clickety clack- like the wheels were about to fall o昀! In fact, I was shaking like a leaf! The ride lasted for an eternity and all the ups and downs and arounds made me queasy.

When the risky, horrible ride ended, I could not get o昀 fast enough! I walked a few steps and promptly lost my lunch -much to the chagrin of my former friends who were terribly embarrassed to have a friend who could not hold her lunch. It was quite a risk for me as well as an embarrassment. I was glad I survived the ride, but I never went on any roller coaster or thrill rides again.

LOOKING GOOD

My face in the mirror isn’t wrinkled or drawn.

My house isn’t dirty. The cobwebs are gone.

These ducks are in the triangle enclosure you can see from the pool and hallway. There's 12 -13 babies. Momma duck didn't pay a琀en琀on to the owl deterrent (now removed) someone put in there. She's been there in previous years.

My garden looks lovely and so does my lawn.

I think I might never put my glasses back on.

Update on the Employees Gifts and Grants Committee (EGG)

The EGG Committee is very pleased to report that two employees have been awarded grants! One employee will be learning to train people in administering CPR, and important set of skills that can then be shared with other Tudor Oaks employees. The other employee will be gaining skills related to dementia care in a set of workshops offered by the Alzheimer’s Association.

The afternoon of Tuesday, June 13th at 3:00PM the EGG Committee and the Lifestyle staff will be hosing a celebration in the OWT for all graduating High School employees. Refreshments will be served and all residents are welcome to attend. Watch for details soon.

Our thanks to all who are supporting our Gifts and Grants projects with their donations in the wooden box in the dining room lounge.

Movie Committee Meeting

The next meeting will be on Thursday, June 15 at 2:00 in the PLR. Please join us and bring your ideas for future Friday night movie choices.

MONARCH GARDEN BETWEEN BIRCH AND DOGWOOD

Friends of the Monarch Trail in Wauwatosa sent a reminder of their plant sale on May 13. They sent the reminder based on the fact that our first two Monarch gardens at Tudor Oaks were completed in 2019, one around the reflection pond and the second one by the Glenn Cove.

The Monarch butterflies are still listed as endangered. A lot of cities, garden clubs and individuals are planting Monarch friendly milkweed and pollinator plants to help their survival, and migration from Mexico to as far north as Canada. They usually stop in Wisconsin in May and return for their trip to Mexico in August or early September.

A third Monarch area was added to the marsh land between Birch and Dogwood this past Saturday and Monday. We purchased 116 plants from Friends of the Monarch trail with funds that had been donated for our first two projects. On Saturday we had four of us plant 50 milkweed and pollinators. On Monday we had nine of us plant the remaining 66 plants. Not only will this area now be food for the Monarchs but also add some beautiful color.

A big thanks to all that helped plant our latest Monarch garden!

Employee Highlight: Dayle Bugalski

Dayle Bugalski is our Employee Highlight for the month of June. Dayle has been with Tudor Oaks as the Wellness Director for two years at the end of August. She currently lives in Mukwonago with her husband Dave and their two sons Gavin (13) and Owen (11). A fifth member of the family is their Boxer mix dog, Luca, who is four. Dayle says, “She will be the only daughter I’ll ever have!”

Dayle grew up in Ironwood, MI and is a “true blue Yooper!”. She obtained her undergraduate and graduate degrees at UW-LaCrosse. She worked as a certified Athletic Trainer at Tomah High School for one year right after receiving her undergraduate degree. Dayle then went back to graduate school for Clinical Exercise Physiology working in inpatient and outpatient Cardiac Rehab for 10 years. She also spent 3 years working for the MACC Fund (Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer). Dayle’s son is a leukemia survivor and childhood cancer is a cause near and dear to her heart. She quickly found that working for a non-profit wasn’t what she had hoped it would be and that brought her here to Tudor Oaks.

Dayle loves to travel, especially with her boys to show them new places. They have travelled to Hawaii, Dominican Republic, California, Colorado, Florida and Washington D.C., which was the boy’s favorite! Dayle is obsessed with the Royal Family so her dream trip would be to

London to see Buckingham Palace and where Princess Diana grew up. She loves reading about the Royal Family and the history of the British monarchy.

When Dayle has free time, she enjoys reading, walking her dog, and traveling with her family. She also likes doing small DIY projects around the house. Dayle also loves downhill skiing in the winter she used to be a ski racer in high school!

Thank you for keeping us active and healthy here at Tudor Oaks. We are glad you are here!

Resident Highlight: Velma Stein

Velma Stein is our featured resident this month. Velma grew up on a dairy farm on the prairie near Mt. Carroll, Illinois. Her father was a dairy farmer and her mother had been a teacher until marriage and in those years, women could not work as teachers after marriage. She traded teaching for becoming a hard-working farmer’s wife with a garden, raising chickens, canning then freezing, feeding hungry farm workers three meals a day, all while raising a family of four! Velma went to a country one room schoolhouse for all eight grades, where she was the only one in her class. She went to Rockford Business College where she became an Executive Secretary.

Velma was a private secretary at the Rockford Chamber of Commerce, she then married and moved to Beloit, Wisconsin and worked for Besley Welles, a tool manufacturing company. Velma met her husband, Charlie, while at Business College. He worked in the oil industry, and they moved five times due to his promotions. When they had their first child she became a stay-athome mom until their two children left for college. She always said she would go back to work after the children left and she did. Velma worked seven years as a secretary to an Investment Advisor before Charlie retired. They then split their time between Naples, Florida and their lake house in South Haven,

Michigan on the shore of Lake Michigan. Velma has traveled widely. As her son and daughter grew up, they enjoyed camping in their hard top pop-up camper as they toured the National Parks all over this country. Velma and her husband traveled five continents: North America, South America, Africa, Europe, and Australia. Her most favorite destination was Australia/New Zealand. A highlight of this trip was snorkeling on the great barrier reef off the coast of Australia.

She loves to write and belongs to the Tudor Oaks Story Tellers group. Velma also writes of her family history that she feels her children should know. She has written her Aunt Esther’s life story, stating she was a “lady ahead of her time”. Esther taught all over the world before settling down and buying a lake house in South Haven which Velma now owns. Velma also enjoys interior decorating as she had lots of practice with the family’s five moves!

When it was time to find a retirement home, they decided the best decision was to live near their children who both live in Waukesha. Voila! Tudor Oaks fit the bill. Velma has lived here for eleven years and has enjoyed the many activities offered, especially the Story Tellers writing class. She has also learned to play Euchre and enjoys the professional evening entertainment. Thank you, Velma, for sharing your story.

The Women of Note

Kentucky Derby Celebration in Windsor Gardens

Sherwood Alper and Jeff Stoll

JTnT Duo

Spiritual Services & Programs

Weekly Chapel Service Wednesdays at 3:00 pm (OWT or ch.957)

Tuesday @ 2:15 pm– Chaplain’s Corner in Windsor House

Tuesday @ 3:00 pm– Chaplain’s Corner in Windsor Manor

Thursday @ 10:30 am–Chaplain’s Corner in Frances Henry

Health Center

Thursday @ 11:00 am—Chaplain’s Corner in Windsor Garden

Catholic Mass – Weekly Services

Every Wednesday at 1:00 pm (OWT or channel 957)

Heritage Presbyterian Church

Sundays at 10:00 am (OWT or channel 957)

Weekly visits with Bro. Long Nguyen – Wednesdays from 9am-12pm

Dementia Support Group : Tuesday, June 20th

6:30pm (PDR)

Grief Support Group : Wednesday, June 28th 6:30pm (PDR)

Any questions about the support groups, please contact Pastor Michelle Peterson at 529-0100 x 2105

Book Club Discussion, 1st Wednesday of the month

June 7th at 1:00 pm, Private Dining Room

Contact Julia Kurlinski at 414 -421-7633

More Derby Fun

Tudor Oak T Oak s Storyt eller s eller’’s Group s

Do you like to write stories? Do you like to tell stories? Join us every Thursday morning at 10:30am in the Private Dining Room to discuss various subjects.

ST STORYTELLERS SUGGESTED TOPICS ORYTELLERS

June 2023

June

Week 115- June 1st- Describe a time when someone did something nice for you.

Week 116- June 8th- Discuss the one thing at Tudor Oaks that you would change and how you would change it.

Week 117- June 15th- Describe the worst food that you have ever eaten. Who prepared it, and/or where were you when you ate it?

Week 118 -June 22nd- Imagine that the year is 1875. Describe where and how you would be living. Would you be in a large city? Would you be crossing the prairie in a covered wagon? Would you be farming in Wisconsin?

Week 119 -June 29th- Describe/discuss what you consider to be the greatest invention of all time. How did it change the world?

Questions? Please contact Lisa Runte, in the Lifestyles Department. 414-529-0100 x2853

Derby

SECOND SUNDAY OUT”REACQUAINT WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS”

When: June 11th from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Where: The Lamson Plaza (OWT in case of rain)

What: Bring an Appe琀zer or Dessert to share with your neighbors.

Bring your own beverages & utensils.

Community Choir

South Milwaukee Band