January 2021
Semira Abdilahi (Portland Place) Kelsang Dolma (Aurora) Kadra Ismail (1250 Hoyt) Fardowso Isse (York Lane) Suado Moalim (Oliver) Hodan Warsame (Dayton Our House) Maymun Warsame (Dayton Our House) Pat (In-Home) Ahmed Hasan (Oakland) Moyosore Kassim (Aurora) Charity Daklou (Portland Avenue) Andrea (11th Avenue) Lily Marchan (Harmony) Kimberly Weldon (In-Home) Margie (Portland Place)
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Gayelan Thompson-Nedd (Oakland) Stacy Boehmer (Plato) Joe Bjelland (Plato) Peter Leverich (Harmony) Pam (Colfax) Allysa (In-Home) Jessica Cowan (1489 Hoyt) Shania Samuels (Troseth) Daphne Magana (Dayton Our House) John (Aurora) Ann (91st Street) Adeola Omoyeni (Harmony) Javier (Oliver) Deborah Croom (In-Home)
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Anniversaries
Semira Abdilahi (Portland Place) 1 yr, Lyly Dao (Harmony) 1 yr, Fatia Sado (Portland Our House) 1 yr, Kalkidan Tamiru (1250 Hoyt) 1 yr, Victoria Adepoju (Sheridan) 2 yrs, Lafayette Dolo (Portland Avenue) 3 yrs, Bernard Fonkwa (Harmony) 3 yrs, Kadra Ismail (1250 Hoyt) 4 yrs, Mangwi Loknjinu (Troseth) 8 yrs, Adama Kargbo (Fairview) 9 yrs, Stephen Odika (16th Avenue) 9 yrs, Gregory Malush (Oakland) 10 yrs, Victoria Ishola (Demont) 12 yrs, Margaret Oladipo (Skycroft) 23 yrs, totalling 87 years. Congratulations everyone!
Kristine Celebrates Her 35th Birthday! December 2nd was Kristine's (Skillman) 35th birthday. She enjoyed decorating a gingerbread house and eating her favorite food and ice cream cake. Happy Birthday Kristine! ~Lina Ntakagero~
Thanksgiving Festivities
Big shout out to Sharron Aken and Lyly Dao (Harmony) for the special Thanksgiving celebration. They had a very challenging day. One client was in isolation, EMUR’s, and there were some minor injuries. With all that happened, staff at Harmony rock! They are so awesome and were able to save the day!! The clients had a nice Thanksgiving meal, wrote, “Thanks” on the birch tree, played tons of new games, participated in family zoom celebrations and a special bingo.
Kelly, Jayne & Jenny (Glenpaul) decorated a gingerbread house. Wathc for the eblast with many more pictures of beautifully decoratead houses
Emma (staff) is doing to bingo numbers, going from her right- is Mike (client), Young (staff), Derain (client), Ezra (staff), and Jessica (client) in the orange shirt
Greg Malush, Laura, Ann and Barb & Lori Mason crafted a huge Thanksgiving feast
Decorating team Teresa & Linda (16th) decorated this beautiful Christmas tree
Oakland House had a busy week of celebrating the last week of November with two birthdays and our Thanksgiving feast! Oakland Ladies usually go out to eat on their birthdays, but this year we brought the food of their choice home to celebrate. Laura desired her absolute favorite food in the world – PIZZA, and of course we had to have cake – white with white frosting for her. We then had to change decorations for the Big Thanksgiving day – in which we were all to be home for due to the pandemic. We all did our part in the kitchen, played turkey bingo, and made a “Thankful” wreath, as well as Zoom sessions with families. The next morning we switched it all up to celebrate Ann’s BIG 70th birthday. She always refuses to request anything for a meal, so we chose Olive Garden and she partook in the big variety platter so she had lots of everything. Although Ann was going to make her own cake, we had to encourage her not to, and her sister dropped off a delicious fancy deep chocolate one before she had time to make her own. I think everyone spent that weekend sleeping off all the fun and food. Lori Mason~
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With Deepest Sympathy Linda Schnobrich from 11th Avenue passed away peacefully in her home December 8th. One of my favorite Linda stories is from when she first moved in. Her mother, Dee insisted Linda be able to go into her neighborhood alone to find her way around. Very shortly thereafter Linda went off and didn’t return after her allotted time. Staff frantically began the search for her with no luck and then two hours later she came walking up the block with a smile on her face and a church bulletin in her hand. She had found a church she wanted to go to a few blocks away. She was loved and will be missed by many people. Please keep her housemates (Casey, Dana, & Andrea) and all the staff (Marlene, Victor, Sheleion, Jacob, Addyson, Brianna, Emily, Masieten, Taiwo, Aishah, Giao, & Shelda) and all the others who had the privilege to work with her in your thoughts and prayers. ~Frank Merrill~