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Creighton Lodge residents are ready for summer

The year is half over now and we’re all amazed how fast time flies. It doesn’t seem to matter how old you are, this comment is being made by people of all ages.
Creighton Lodge

The year is half over now and we’re all amazed how fast time flies.

It doesn’t seem to matter how old you are, this comment is being made by people of all ages. It’s been said that it’s getting harder and harder to just enjoy the moment, although around Creighton Lodge that certainly isn’t true.  
There are so many moments filled with music, fun, laughter and stories that most residents find life here very enjoyable.

We’re enjoying our pots and hanging baskets of flowers all around the building (thanks again to the United Way Estevan Day of Caring and volunteers from Tundra Energy Marketing Ltd.) With all the rain we’ve been having, they are truly flourishing. 

There were a couple of forecasts for hail that prompted us to haul all the pots into the front entryway for protection. After two false alarms and a few pulled muscles, we decided to just leave them out there and hope for the best.

We want to express our thanks to the Saskatchewan Lotteries for the grant they approved for us for the purchase of a recumbent bicycle for the residents’ use. It is a wonderful piece of equipment, easy to get on, easy to operate and a gentle way to exercise the leg muscles without hurting ourselves. We once again are so fortunate to receive help from our community.

June was quite full of music groups performing for us – a few more than we’ll see in July and August, I’m sure. Summer is quiet as far as our entertainers go as they also need a break and we’re happy to see them return in September.

We started the month with Mel Herman and Doreen Sanderson entertaining, followed shortly after by the Freebies, the Red Hat Ladies, the Happy Wanderers, Janice Hirsch and Bob Olson. We were also treated to a lovely piano recital of the students of Margaret Duncan. 

We want to thank all of you for your time and talents you shared with us.

We were kept in shape with our weekly exercise programs. Tuesday, our instructor is Monica Mackenzie, Wednesday it’s Sharon Dayman and Friday it’s Irene Tarnes.  These women are so devoted to us and we appreciate the effort they put into making our exercise time so much fun.

Sharon Dayman has completed the urban pole training and is going to help get our group going here in the lodge. It’s proven to be such a great physical program for seniors, helping them with balance, strength and posture, which is so important as we age. 

Besides a big thank you to our exercise ladies, we’d like to thank Jessica Lewgood for doing an information session on urban poles with us. It was very interesting and a few new people are trying them out now.

Our churches were as usual, tending to our spiritual needs with our weekly Sunday services. We look forward to the services, especially when we can’t get out to church ourselves.  We also thank Trinity Lutheran, St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic and St. Paul’s United for bringing communion/mass to us on a regular basis.

Joan and Christina Wock are dedicated volunteers at the lodge. Joan calls Bingo for us every week while Christina goes around visiting with her therapy dogs. Thank you ladies for all you do for us.

Our birthday party/KFC volunteers are also very dedicated ladies. Rain, shine or hail they appear to help carry out our special activity. Thanks again to Margaret Mack, Marge Heidinger, Jean Delorme, Doreen Hagen and Sylvia Prime for being our friends and supporters.

We also keep ourselves busy with our melt ball program, our movie afternoons and our cocktail hours thanks to Sharon Dayman and Norma Blackburn.

Outside the lodge, we’ve seen a little activity with the replacement of a section of concrete near the front parking lot and the preparation for a huge concrete pad at the back of the building where we host our barbeques and more.  After that work is completed we look forward to the repaving of all our parking lots. So there’s lots to keep up with over here.