Princess Alexandra Post Autumn 2019 Newsletter

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Princess Alexandra Retirement Village • Autumn edition 2019

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Residents, staff and their families were alll smiless on a summ mer’s day

Meet Ray and Robyn

Centenary celebration

Men’s Club

Greetings from Jodie...

Hello everyone, and welcome to our autumn edition of Princess Alexandra Post.

for residents to attend a concert each year. I hear the recent concert was a fabulous evening.

We started the year with an exciting and fun day for residents and families with our Children’s Party held in the lovely Ahuriri Park right next door to our village. The children had so much fun. Our activities team also worked hard planning this event and on the day to make it memorable, a big thank you to them!

We really enjoy organising events and outings for our residents and friends of the village. You are always welcome to come and join in.

Other special events that we have celebrated recently include the Napier Art Deco Festival week.

Our residents loved dressing up for this occasion.

I hope to see you at the village soon.

As it is nearly flu season, I strongly encourage you to take advantage of the free Ryman Healthcare vaccination for staff and residents to keep yourself healthy and protect others over the winter months.

Kind regards,

We also celebrated Marjorie Watson’s 100th birthday. This was a lovely get together, held in our hospital lounge with her family and friends.

Ryman is proud to sponsor the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and we organise a van trip

Jodie Robb Village Manager Ph: 06 835 9085

A note from Shona...

Once again, the annual Art Deco Festival in Napier was a huge success and our village residents happily joined in the summer celebrations. One art deco event we hosted was a bowls tournament at Bluff Hill Bowling Club.

Our participants were all dressed up in their finest 1930s-styled dress, and played their hearts out on the green.

To add to the glitz and glamour there were bubbles and platters on offer, and entertainment by the Twin City Stompers, a Dixieland jazz band.

Here at the village we have some interesting and fun events on the horizon, including a fashion show and an Age Concern talk on life without a car.

Please feel free to drop by at any time to have a cuppa and chat with me about our lovely village, I always enjoying catching up with you.

Pictured: Resident Bob Tuck and Shona.

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Shona Bayliss Sales Advisor Ph: 06 835 3018

Village news

Children’s Party We had a fabulous time at our annual Children’s Party, held in the middle of a hot Kiwi summer. We had so much organised for our residents, staff and young ones to do.

For the children there was a sausage sizzle, a bouncy castle, face painting, a lolly scramble and a very special performance from a visiting clown.

Some youngsters took the pirate and princess theme seriously, while others were just happy to be out on a beautiful mid-January day.

A treasure hunt was organised, and for those feeling in need of sustenance after the exertions, our staff were happy to create ice cream sundaes.

The barbeque food also went down a treat!

Pictured: The children enjoy the various games.

Inset: Cute princess Poppy Coker.

Cover photo: Residents and their families find some shade on a summer’s day.

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Long Road Home brings team together Ryman supports veterans’ charity event A memorial service to celebrate the end of The Long Road Home charity trek brought a tear to the eye for many involved in the walk.

The walk was organised to raise awareness for post-traumatic stress injury (PTSI), and was sponsored by Ryman Healthcare.

The early new year trek from St Arnaud along 110km of high-country station roads ended in Hanmer, on January 12, with a memorial service at Soldier’s Block in the South Island township.

Dozens of onlookers gathered at the block to hear accounts from the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Charitable Trust (NZMRT) team that took part in the horse-ride and walk.

They had followed the route taken by soldiers returning from World War 1, 100 years ago, but with the benefit of blue-sky days and a support team.

The event remembered that soldiers returning from WW1 were often left to make their own way home. Many felt abandoned, hopeless and segregated from their fellow Kiwis after witnessing the horrors of war.

The walk was a success and Ryman has signed on to support the trek next year, and the plan is to make it an annual event.

The trust was also in contact with overseas groups, to help spread the idea of supporting those with PTSI. PTSI continues to impact the lives of soldiers that have served in arenas such as Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, Timor and Afghanistan.

“I think 800 people a year are exiting our current armed forces … some of those will definitely be suffering from PTSI,” Mark said.

Organisers Bernard Shapiro, Murray Hill and Mark Appleton, president of the NZMRT, said the group was raising funds for people suffering from PTSI as a result of traumatic events.

The walk was a success and Ryman has signed on to support the trek next year, and the plan is to make it an annual event.

There were wreaths laid at the memorial on behalf of Ryman, a sponsor of the trust and its work.

Above: NZMRT members, Ryan Haigh and Anna Keehan, with their horses.

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Book review

Dust to Gold The compelling story of Bendigo station, home of Shrek.

Written by John Perriam and photographed by Stephen Jaquiery.

This fascinating history of Central Otago’s iconic Bendigo Station is illustrated with stunning photographs of a wild and rugged landscape. It also showcases the farms owners, the Perriam Family as well as stockmen, animals, wildlife and memorable characters including the legendary Shrek, filling the pages with vibrant colour.

Shrek was the woolly hermit merino, whose story captivated the world when he was discovered high in a mountain cave after avoiding muster for six years. Read about his famous discovery and his subsequent travels throughout the country as an ambassador for Cure Kids. Incidentally, all profits from the sale of Dust to Gold will also go to Cure Kids, a worthy charity for sick children.

As you read, you begin to feel part of this resilient family, joining them in their struggles and setbacks as they nurture the land in their care while also promoting their merino breed of sheep from “fleece to fashion”.

I felt their pain as they watched their family’s original farm, brimming with memories and dreams, sink below the waters of Lake Dunstan: the trigger

for the eventual purchase of Bendigo Station.

From droughts, weeds, gorse and rabbits to indifferent bureaucrats and meddling politicians, many battles were fought and not always won.

The Perriam family story is a compelling one.

“For me it was a nostalgic reminder of my roots in the nearby North Otago high country.”

This is a book for rural and urban dwellers alike.

For me it was a nostalgic reminder of my roots in the nearby North Otago high country.

It is also an insight into the lives of those who work with and care for our land and country, a blue print on diversifying and a connection with the past for us all.

John Perriam’s prose is easy and uncluttered, with the pages full of accurately drawn high country characters and the sometimes cruel events impacting on the lives of his family.

Reviewed by Phyllis Thorby Edmund Hillary Retirement Village.

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Melbourne bowls challenge Ryman supports trans-Tasman bowls excursion A group of Charles Upham village lawn bowls enthusiasts have made the most of a trip across the Tasman making friends and enjoying some Ryman hospitality in Melbourne.

The group of bowlers and supporters from the Canterbury-based village took on some of the best from Australia at Melbourne greens located at the Glen Waverley Bowls Club, not too far from where Ryman’s Weary Dunlop and Nellie Melba villages are based.

They won the right to represent Ryman having topped a South Island Ryman village competition held at Charles Upham village in November.

The bowlers Barbara McJarrow, Bruce McCorkindale, Alan Pegley and Frances McDowell plus supporters Trevor McJarrow, Anna Armstrong and Gill Small flew out on Boxing Day and stayed in Australia until New Year’s Day. Ryman is a major sponsor of the Glen Waverley club and bowls carnival.

Alan says the team competed on four of the five days in the open competition.

“The calibre of competition was of a very high standard with many of the locals having represented Victoria and Australia,” Barbara says.

“We won a few and lost more than we won,” Alan adds.

Two days saw temperatures in the mid-30s, with more than 150 players at the club to contend with the sweltering conditions. The thermometer reached 36.4 degrees on the first day.

Between them the group members have been bowling for a considerable number of years and have watched changes in the game including more modern bowls running on a ‘tighter draw’, meaning they don’t have to be played so wide.

Nowadays the events are social, colourful and regularly held at most Ryman villages.

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Gemma wins the Cashin Scholarship Gemma Ballantyne’s year has got off to the best start possible thanks to the 2019 Cashin Scholarship.

Gemma has opted for a pharmacy degree after her first year, which adds another four years at university followed by an internship.

Gemma, 18, will use the scholarship to fund her pharmacy studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin.

Gemma’s looking forward to starting back at university and says the scholarship will be a big help with a busy year of learning ahead.

She was thrilled to get the news.

“I’m thrilled to win and I’m honoured that the Cashin family selected me,” Gemma says.

“I’m thrilled to win and I’m honoured that the Cashin family selected me.”

“It’s awesome to win. It means that it will ease the financial stress this year and allow me to focus on my studies so that I can be the best that I can be.”

Gemma has been part of the Ryman family since 2016, when she was a part-time receptionist at Anthony Wilding Retirement Village in Christchurch.

She says she loved the job from the very start.

“I was 16 and it was my first job and I couldn’t have had a better place to work. I loved talking to the residents, they were always interested in what I was studying and it was like having 200 grandparents.”

In 2018 she began her first year at university, studying health sciences at Otago University. She worked at Yvette Williams Retirement Village in Dunedin part-time to support herself.

“I’m really grateful.”

Blair Cashin, Mike Cashin’s son, said the family wished Gemma all the best with her studies.

There were 100 applicants this year, a record for the scholarship.

The Cashin Scholarship The Cashin Scholarship was established to honour the memory of former Ryman director Mike Cashin. Mike was a strong believer in the power of education to change lives and was a great advocate for Ryman Healthcare and its staff. The scholarship is designed to provide a helping hand to members of the Ryman family who are taking on tertiary study. Each year the Cashin family help select the winner of the $5,000 grant, which is intended to help with study costs.

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Independent resident profile

Meet Ray & Robyn

The pair were raised in inner-city Auckland and met at the local youth club at a Johnny Devlin concert. Ray was 19 and Robyn 15.

Ray and Robyn moved from Auckland 20 years ago to be with their family and, in particular, to be part of their granddaughter’s life as she grew up.

Ray was a butcher and Robyn was a real estate sales person, but on retirement it was time to start afresh.

They fell in love with the art deco town and bought a villa not too far from the centre in Napier South.

After 20 years they decided to look at the retirement village option and quickly decided that they should move into Princess Alexandra and it has been a very good decision.

We love the modern comfortable home we live in, and the fact the village lies within beautiful grounds.

The couple loves their modern, comfortable home, and the fact the village lies within beautiful grounds.

Ray and Robyn Kennedy have been part of the Princess Alexandra family with their cute little dog Louie since early 2018.

The pair say the village has offered them fun and companionship, lovely living conditions, the opportunity to stay fit and the ability make many other lifestyle opportunities.

They feel safe, warm and lucky and they have been welcomed with friendliness. Ray especially loves living so close to the bowling green. But the biggest bonus of all is that they were able to bring their little dog Louie to live with them in the village.

They’re always saying thanks to all the staff and management as they enjoy their wonderful lifestyle.

Centenary celebration At 100 years old, fashion is still paramount for Marjorie Watson.

Marjorie recently celebrated her centenary with close family and friends at the village.

Fashion is a lifelong passion for Marjorie, and on her special day she wore a classic dress and pink cardigan.

Her secret to a long life was plenty of walking - either in high heels or any other type of shoe.

Her cousin Maureen Davidson said there were no barriers when it came to style and fashion for her.

Pictured: Marjorie Watson enjoys a celebratory moment.

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News from our care centre residents

News from our independent residents

Men’s Club

NZSO concert outing

Our Men’s Club recently set out to the Faraday Centre Museum to explore items of yesteryear. The residents had a very special outing, and loved being able to see historic means of transport and communications technology from the past.

Our independent residents recently had a wonderful outing to a New Zealand Symphony Orchestra event at the Napier Municipal Theatre.

The ‘Classical Journey’ evening was a hit, according to our happy group.

Pictured: Residents enjoyed trying out some of the museum’s transport options.

Pictured: Residents enjoy each other’s company in the theatre lobby.

Staff profile

Introducing Tarn

Hello, my name is Tarn Gardner, and I’m a cook’s assistant here at the village.

I come from a family of great chefs. My earliest memory is of being at my Pop’s place; me in one of his arms and him stirring a pot of one of his many creations with the other.

I enjoy helping create the vast selection of food we offer our residents.

Growing up with both grandparents and my mother, who was involved in a catering business, meant moving into a kitchen role came with ease.

There is nothing we do that doesn’t involve food.

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I have been working here at Princess Alexandra for nearly seven years. I enjoy helping create the vast selection of food we offer our residents.

I get the fun job of being the baker and serving all the treats and desserts included in morning and afternoon teas.

I also love catering for the regular events and village Happy Hours.

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Savoury or sweet profiteroles fi Ingredients ¾ cup water 125g butter 1 cup high grade flour

Pinch of salt 4 eggs

Savoury filling 150g middle rindless bacon

Sweet filling 200g fresh or frozen raspberries 3 tbsp icing sugar 2 tbsp lemon juice 200ml double cream 150g white chocolate 50g shelled pistachio

(diced)

500g smoked chicken breast (diced)

125g sour cream 125g mayonnaise ½ cup spring onions

A note from Ryman chef,

Timothy Garlick This makes a delicious finger food as it’s small and easy to eat. It’s always a big hit with everyone and you can change it up and serve it as an entrée or dessert.

This is on the menu at Jane Mander Retirement Village and the residents absolutely love it!

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Profiterole method

Sweet filling

• Preheat oven to 180˚C. • Bring water to the boil in saucepan, add butter and stir until melted. Sift in flour and salt, and mix with a wooden spoon over a low heat until the paste starts to dry out. Allow to cool.

• Place paste in a bowl and beat in eggs, one at a time, mixing really well after each egg is added.

• Place tablespoonfuls of mixture onto a tray lined with baking paper. Bake for 20 minutes. Cool profiteroles on a wire rack.

• Put the raspberries, icing sugar and lemon juice into a food processor or mini blender and blitz until smooth. Press through a sieve into a bowl.

• Whip the cream until stiff, then fold in 4tbsp of the raspberry sauce. Spoon the filling into a piping bag and make a hole in each profiterole.

Make sure the profiteroles are cool before piping in the filling.

• Break up the chocolate into a small bowl and melt in the microwave on low for 1½-2 mins.

Leave to cool briefly until slightly thickened.

• Carefully spoon the melted chocolate over each filled profiterole and sprinkle with pistachios.

Leave to set. To serve, drizzle the remaining raspberry sauce over the profiteroles.

Savoury filling • Fry the diced bacon and place in a bowl to cool.

Add the diced chicken with the sour cream, mayonnaise and spring onions. Slice the top off the puff, add the filling and put the lid back on top.

• Serve with your favourite chutney.

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Village news

Art Deco week Napier’s Art Deco Festival week gave our residents a great chance to dress up and enjoy a series of exciting events.

We took the residents out and about as Napier took on a 1930s-look with fashion shows and parades of steam engines and vintage cars helping recreate a different era.

Ladies got out their best costume jewellery, and men their waistcoats and ties, looking to capture attention and maybe grab a prize for best dressed.

The week commemorates the 1931 earthquake and rebuilding of Hawkes Bay in the art deco-style.

Above from left: Residents Bruce Bagley, Jill McConnochie, Jan Willson and John Willson with Sales Advisor Shona Bayliss.

Jodie Robb Village Manager Ph: 06 835 9085 Call Jodie for general enquiries, or for information about resthome, hospital and dementia care.

Shona Bayliss Sales Advisor Ph: 06 835 3018 Talk to Shona for information about independent apartments, townhouses or serviced apartments.

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