Hillary Herald Christmas 17

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Sir Jon Trimmer, who played Friar Laurence in Romeo & Juliet, was happy to see his old friend and Edmund Hillary resident, Val Murray

Inside this issue: • Romeo & Juliet celebrations • Delicious summer menu • Meet Pamela • The Sentimental Journey Edmund Hillary Retirement Village Christmas Newsletter 2017

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Greetings from Dean...

Welcome to the Christmas edition of the Hillary Herald.

Over the past months we have been busy completing some of the major projects around the village. We have reopened the top patio area above the village centre.

The patio now has new paving, turf and planters and also much more seating so that everyone can enjoy using it.

The work in reception has also been completed and the gardens, pathways and curbs will now be reinstated. Next, we want to focus on carpark spaces as we want our residents and visitors to be able to park on site.

In other news, our new chef, Clemens Martinoli, has started to make some

changes to the food presentation. He will be focusing on service delivery, flavour and variety. We look forward to seeing his work and helping him achieve his goals.

I want to wish you a happy festive season and all the best for the new year.

Please remember that my door is open if you have any queries.

Kind regards,

Dean Jackson Village Manager

Charity partner announced In June, Alzheimer’s NZ was announced as Ryman’s charity partner for the year. Ngaire Dixon, chair of Alzheimer’s New Zealand, was delighted with the announcement as dementia and Alzheimers will become more of an issue in the future. There were more than 62,000 New Zealanders with dementia

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

in 2016, and the this is forecast to grow to 170,212 people by 2050. Ryman villages include 710 dementia beds and demand for care is growing.

Every dollar raised for Alzheimer’s New Zealand at our villages this year will be matched dollar for dollar by Ryman Healthcare.

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

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Masquerade Happy Hour During September, to celebrate the Royal New Zealand Ballet and Ryman Healthcare’s season of Romeo & Juliet, we held various events. For our happy hour, we decided on a masquerade theme in the atrium. Residents and staff spent some time making their very own masks before the event and wore them proudly at the happy hour. The atrium filled with residents and staff enjoying finger foods and drinks, all the while listening to the amazing duo, De Beat. We hope everyone enjoyed the special occasion.

Feathered lady: Crescent Rowland

Beverley Liddell, Mavis Pavis and masks Brenda Bradnam showing off their

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Summer menu launched!

Our Delicious menus have taken our villages by storm since the launch in February this year. The much-anticipated summer menus will combine age-old favourites along with a few new additions, such as the inclusion of couscous.

Hospitality manager Andrew Gibson said that the team concentrated on refining the menus for this edition.

“We’re building on the success of our previous menus by refining the recipes.

We know what works now and we’ll build from there. But we also included a few new dishes.”

Among these new dishes are chefs Paul Kuronic and Steve Iraia’s crab cake dishes.

Paul and Steve both won silver at the New Zealand Hospitality Championships earlier this year, and residents will now get a taste of their creations.

And the best new dish on the menu?

“Definitely the brisket!”

Andrew enthused.

The summer menus will be rolled out in October.

International Month celebration For International Month, our staff and residents celebrated our diversity by dressing up in traditional outfits of our home countries. Although we were not born in the same countries and many of us have different traditions and outlooks on life, we all have one thing in common – our desire to help others.

The team had a wonderful afternoon, sharing traditional food and learning more about different cultures.

Colourful: our staff in their na

tive dress

Christmas tree cookies Makes approx 10 trees Ingredients: • 2 cups flour • ½ tsp baking soda • 1 tbsp ground ginger • 1 cup (220g) firmly packed soft brown sugar • 150g butter

• 1 egg • Cookie cutter, one shape varying sizes Royal icing sugar: • 2 egg whites • 2 cups icing sugar • 2 tsp vanilla extract

Method: 1. Preheat oven to 180°C. 2. Sift flour, baking soda and ground ginger together in a bowl. Add butter.

3. In a separate bowl beat the egg and sugar until light and fluffy.

4. Mix everything together. Refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes.

5. Roll out on a lightly floured surface and cut out the shapes.

6. Bake for 8-10 minutes until golden.

Keep an eye on the smaller cookies so that they don’t burn.

7. Remove from oven and cool on baking rack.

8. Assemble the tree by using a bit of icing sugar between the layers.

Royal icing sugar: Beat egg whites in clean, large bowl with mixer at high speed until foamy. Gradually add sugar and vanilla extract. Beat at high speed until thickened.

Cashin Scholarship open for entries Fozia Tasheem has no doubt that winning the first Cashin Scholarship changed the course of her life.

Fozia was studying accounting and information systems at Victoria University and funding her studies was a struggle.

Fozia’s mum, Hushn Bano, was working at Malvina Major as a housekeeper, and Fozia took a part time job there.

“I did everything I could at the village to get extra shifts.’’

In 2011, she applied for the first Cashin Scholarship and it could not have come at a better time.

Now 25, Fozia has just been promoted to a co-ordinator’s role at Datacom in Wellington, so her career is on the up.

The 2018 Cashin Scholarship is now open.

Ryman staff and family members undertaking tertiary study in 2018 can apply. Entries close November 24.

For more details contact David King at: david.king@rymanhealthcare.com

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education, so I decided to become a teacher. I graduated with a Kindergarten Diploma in Auckland.

On returning to Gisborne I opened my own kindergarten. Some years later, I went for an interview at 3ZB radio.

Surprisingly, this resulted in an ‘on air’ position as a reporter.

Romeo & Juliet quiz

our Our residents thoroughly enjoyed t. gus Au Romeo & Juliet quiz during two Our teams of three had a week or the ore bef to review the famous tragedy idents so quiz. The activities staff helped res ns, but they could easily answer the questio re as with any other competition the me tho res The can only be one winner. resident team (pictured) took the honour! Congratulations!

Father's Day sizzle

To celebrate all the wo nderful fathers, we have at the village, we held a sausage sizzle in the village centre on Father’s Day. Care centre residents and ind ependent residents all took part. Our new chef , Clem, worked hard at making the sausages divine and our lovely activities staff helped ou t. We also served cheese and complimen tary beer, which went down a treat. Happy Fa ther’s Day!

I was born in Howick, and I had a great childhood filled with years of ballet, dress-ups, tree climbing and trolley racing.

From a very young age I wanted to travel and have clocked up over 16 years of living abroad. I spent 10 and a half years living in the beautiful Czech Republic in a town called Opava. It’s a place where native English speakers were very few and far between. But I loved it regardless.

My working life has been a little varied, with my favourite years spent working in theatre, travel, hospitality and teaching.

Hello, my name is Pamela Schöler, I was born in sunny Gisborne on 30 November 1929. I was the third daughter for my parents.

Music was always a large part of my life and I loved to sing in choirs. At school, I took part in gymnastics and won both Junior and Senior Gymnastic Championships. Sunday school nurtured my love for pre-school children and

Introducing Diana Hello everyone, my name is Diana Cleveland and I am the new activities coordinator for our independent residents.

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The most recent position I held prior to coming here was working as an ESOL teacher for 15 years. It was a role I thoroughly enjoyed. orking with people I’ve always loved working and I am looking forward to becoming confident and capable in my new role at Edmund Hillary.

What is my biggest challenge in the village you might ask me? It is learning all your names!

I hope to see you often at Triple A and on our outings in the not too distant future.

I moved to Wellington for training and met my future husband, Fritz Schöler.

He was an accomplished violinist and I loved nothing more than to listen to him playing. Once married, I started working for The National Film Library, which is a part of the Department of Education.

We moved to Auckland in 1960, Fritz joined a legal firm and I was back to the beginning – starting a kindergarten!

Sadly, I was widowed in 1977 with three teenagers, but with love we made it through.

I have also enjoyed my many travels to the USA, China and even North Korea.

Gardening has been another great love of mine so I have filled my veranda here at Edmund Hillary with lots of pots.

I am grateful to be here in the final years of my life, full of God’s blessings and His care.

The Sentimetal Journey The Sentimental Journey was written by Selina Mortensen and performed by a group of our independent residents.

The show was held in the village centre, and there were two shows on two nights to accommodate all the residents and their families who wanted the chance to see it. It proved to be so popular that we needed to add a third day!

The group also performed the piece for our resthome residents who all loved the performance. It was a fantastic show and we hope to see more from this entertaining group!

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Hillary Herald Sales advisor Becky Gillanders with residents Tony Shaw, Jill Dixon and Joyce McNee

Mallory Scott party It has been several years since the independent residents in the Mallory and Scott blocks have had a social get-together. Ken Galley and Richard Still discussed the need to do something about this and came up with the idea of a cocktail party with everyone getting dressed up.

Audrey twisted the arm of Barnaby Bews from Zarbo caterers to provide some great cocktail style food, and George Bonner agreed to play piano. They also found some delicious cocktail punch recipes.

Three grandchildren of our residents volunteered to help out and serve the residents so that they were free to enjoy themselves on the night.

The group was also delighted that the staff and management were able to join them.

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