Hillary Herald Autumn 18

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Resident Lorna Orbell and little lion, Charlise Orbell, at our Children's Party

Inside this issue: • Children’s Party • Cashin Scholarship winner announced • Meet Elaine and John • Christmas festivities Edmund Hillary Retirement Village Autumn Newsletter 2018

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Greetings from Dean...

Hello and welcome to the first edition of The Hillary Herald for 2018. I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and New Year.

The village was extremely busy in 2017 with many large maintenance projects.

We are also looking forward to implementing myRyman Care app, which will benefit our care centre residents by allowing our staff to spend less time on paperwork and more time with our residents.

One of the highlights of 2017 was the introduction of the Delicious menu.

This meant that residents now have a choice with their meals. The feedback has been fantastic and residents are

enjoying this welcome change.

The gardening and maintenance teams are all focused on improving the standards of our gardens as we head towards the goal of ‘Village of the Year’.

Please keep your eye on your calendars for all the upcoming activities.

I look forward to the year ahead and please feel free to come and see me if you have anything you would like to discuss.

Kind regards,

Dean Jackson 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.

Dean Jackson Village Manager Ph: 09 570 0070 Call Dean for general enquiries, or any information about resthome, hospital and dementia care.

Becky Gillanders Shona Bayliss Sales Advisor Sales Advisor Ph: 09 570 6432 Ph: 09 570 0072 Talk to Becky and Shona about retirement living options and availabilities in the village.

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We had a fantastic children’s party during January. We had a jungle theme and the children, disguised as animals, turned up in droves. They waited patiently to have their faces painted by our fairy staff.

There were loads of games for them to enjoy and our grandparents and great grandparents also got involved.

Fairy bread, ice cream cones and cold drinks were enjoyed and in the afternoon, everyone took a loot bag home.

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The children lining up for their egg race!

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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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Octoberfest Happy Hour

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Armistice Day

During November we commemorate d Armistice Day with a service in the packed village centre. Chaplain Rev, James Withers R.N.Z.N., V.R. opened the ceremony with wonderful words. After the cerem ony, the residents had the opportunity to talk and enjoy a wonderful afternoon tea.

Resident Ron Mayhill speaking to

the residents

Introducing Kerry Hello, my name is Kerry Brett and I am the weekend village coordinator for our independent residents at Edmund Hillary.

I was born in a small town called Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, England. My memories of England are full of football, fishing and horse riding as well as visiting the large extended family for Christmas and other holidays.

I grew up in a large family with seven siblings, six brothers and a sister. In March 2005, my family decided to emigrate from the UK to New Zealand. My five older brothers are now married with families of their own. To date I have nine nieces and three nephews so far!

As many of you know already, I have a passion for all things horses. I bought my

first horse at age 11, and my partner and I currently own four horses. I have been fortunate enough to be able to work in a variety of equine related disciplines, including trekking, showing, show jumping and racing.

St Patrick's Day was a lot of I recently joined Edmund Hillary fun at the Edmund Hillary with team and Igreen absolutely love the friendly outfits, green food, and supportive environment of the and of course, Guinness! village. I look forward to getting to know all of you.

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the accounts department. We married in Northcote and moved into our first home there. We were blessed with two children, Jeffrey and Belinda, and we now have six grandchildren.

ohn J d an e n i a l Meet E Hello, our names are Elaine and John Nagle.

We both emigrated from the UK to New Zealand as small children, and lived on the North Shore in Auckland. John attended Northcote College, while Elaine attended Rangitoto College.

John spent his spare time fishing off the Northcote wharf and Elaine loved roller skating and ice skating.

We met when we both worked at Collins Publishers in Auckland. John was a trainee manager and Elaine worked in

In 1980, we moved to Rotorua, where John worked for the Lockwood Buildings as assistant marketing manager. In 1991, John’s health took a turn for the worse and he retired. Elaine went into real estate and eventually became a director of Rotorua’s largest and oldest real estate company.

Over the years we have travelled a lot including the UK, USA, China, Vietnam, Canada, Europe and Australia. We moved back to Auckland in 2002 to be closer to our family.

As John’s health declined, it was obvious to us that our next stop should be to look for a place that would provide adequate care. We moved into our townhouse at Edmund Hillary Retirement Village in December 2017.

We enjoy village life, especially the Triple A exercise class, the library, craft group and various outings. We also love not mowing our lawns! It is a fantastic place with caring and friendly staff.

Shortbread The Ralph Family Recipe Makes approx 30 pieces Ingredients: 450g butter 3/4 cup caster sugar 1/2 cup cornflower

2 cups flour 1/4 teaspoon salt

Method: • Cream butter and sugar well.

• Add sifted flour, cornflour and salt.

• Knead well, roll out fairly thick (1cm).

• Cut into pieces, place on cold greased tray and prick with a fork.

• Bake for 15-18 minutes 180°C. • Leave to cool.

Enjoy!

Hillary Herald Residents Sally Wallace, Jake Lush and Margaret Lush with our staff at the Christmas party

Christmas festivities Our village was busy over the festive season. We celebrated Christmas with a Christmas-themed housie. The evening was very popular among our residents!

Our care centre residents celebrated Christmas with a delicious lunch while the independent and serviced apartment residents dressed up for Christmas dinner. The village centre was decked out in full Christmas glory and the danceďŹ&#x201A;oor was never empty. We hope everyone enjoyed the season as much as we did.

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