Malvinas Overtures Christmas newsletter 2017

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Chief Executive Gordon MacLeod at the grand opening of our village centre

Inside this issue: • Romeo & Juliet celebrations • Village centre grand opening • Delicious summer menu • Meet Sally

Malvina Major Retirement Village Christmas Newsletter 2017

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Majestic Malvina a showstopper!

Greetings from Lynne...

Hello and welcome to the Christmas edition of Malvina Overtures.

The village has certainly had a makeover this year with our stunning new café and many great renovations. The café is open seven days per week with a lovely selection of tasty treats, sandwiches, and coffee.

Other renovations include the refurbished serviced apartment lounge and the serviced apartments also have a new nursing station in the far corner next to the main lounge.

The Burma lounge has been fitted with a new kitchenette, air conditioning unit and sound and speaker system. Our lounge will provide our residents with a wonderful place for musical performances and special events.

In November, we also celebrated the village re-opening. It was a fantastic day and I want to thank everyone who worked so hard to make this day spectacular.

We have a lot of events and activities for Christmas coming up so please keep an eye on your calendars so that you don’t miss out.

I want to wish you a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year!

Lynne Peirse 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

In November, we put on a show like no other for the opening of our village centre. The residents now enjoy a breath-taking view of Wellington harbour from the refurbished Seville lounge and they can enjoy a coffee in the new Café Positano.

Our village now looks brand new with a spectacular new kitchen, cosy lounge areas, and dining and bar areas opening onto a huge conservatory and terrace.

Beautiful harp music greeted the guests on the day, along with bubbles and stunning canapés. After the official opening by Gordon MacLeod, the Wellington City Jazz band set the scene and residents and guests mingled during the afternoon.

Bronwyn Barry Sales Advisor Phone: 04 478 3422

Call Lynne for general enquiries or any information about resthome and hospital care.

Talk to Bronwyn about retirement living options and availabilities in the village.

134 Burma Road, Khandallah • www.malvinamajor.co.nz

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Thank you to the construction team lead by Jason Browne who did such an amazing job!

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.

Lynne Peirse Village Manager Phone: 04 478 3754

Gordon congratulates Jason Brown

s e, New Zealand Sale irs Pe e nn Ly er ag an ette Village M tions Manager Bernad and Community Relavisor Bronwyn Barry and Forsdyke, Sales Ad Manager Jenny Thiele Regional Operations

Romeo & Juliet

Resident Margaret Mounsey-Smith and activities coordinator Jimaima Naikatini

For the Royal New Zealand Ballet and Ryman Healthcare season of Romeo & Juliet we created a love seat and everyone had the chance to take their photo! We also decorated the village in romantic themes, sang love songs and had poetry readings.

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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 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 was rolled out in October.

Fashion show

the We were very fortunate to welcome hion fas a for g Black Pepper Women’s Clothin the event show. We had a huge turnout for supported and our residents and their family ing and our residents who modelled the spr ement nag summer wear. Black Pepper ma are looking had a wonderful time with us, we forward to the next fashion show!

Maya Denise, Mary Tresch, Dorothy Hitchen and Wilmar Tester

Fine dining

Head Chef Steve Edwa rds and Chef Peter Jay put on an Elizabethan fest for our Fine Dining extravaganza. We were served roast beef, vegetables and a specta cular dessert. It was a delicious evening.

Peter Jay with his partn er in crime Steve Edward s

Cashin Scholarship open for entries

g n b al l i r p S The Swing into Spring ball was spectacular.

Most of our residents attended the event and we had so much fun on the dance floor. Hospital resident Beulah Fox even had a spot of wheelchair dancing with her son!

Our activities staff also dressed up in their best spring outfits and flower garlands.

The last residents to leave the party were resthome residents Sally Burrage and Wynn Campbell and our resthome activities coordinator Michelle! We hope everyone enjoyed the ball and we look forward to our next one.

ma Naikatini, Our lovely hosts Jimai elle Loader Pam Houghton, Michayton and Pauline Cl

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

The 2018 Cashin Scholarship is now open.

Ryman staff and family members undertaking tertiary study in 2018 can apply.

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

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

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.

Everyone cele b a glass of charated with mpagne

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

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Father's Day

For Father’s Day, our resthome and afternoon independent residents enjoyed an nt of fun and laughter. Residents spe the h wit g yin the whole afternoon pla a remote-control cars. Everyone had turn driving and it sure was fun! itive Our residents showed their compet side playing with the cars

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Challenge accepted

Some of our residents were recently challenged to a game of Jenga. Nerves were stretched to the limit bu t everyone enjoyed the afternoon. We didn’ t know that our residents could become so competitive!

Janet Cooke, Judith War dill and Marie Tresch

Introducing Ash Rahman Hello, my name is Asharif (Ash) Rahman and I am the temporary hospital coordinator. I immigrated to New Zealand in 2012 from Chennai City, South India.

I graduated as a registered nurse in 2010 and when I arrived in NZ, I started working as a care assistant at our sister village Yvette Williams in Dunedin. I decided to continue my studies and completed a comprehensive assessment program at University of Otago and started working as a roaming registered nurse supporting our Ryman villages.

I worked at Malvina Major twice before accepting the permanent position here. As I had previously worked at Malvina Major it made the transition easy as I already knew the village and most of the staff.

In 2015, I returned to India to get married and recently we welcomed our baby boy Imtiaz.

I decided to step mporary hospital in for Divya as the temporary coordinator while she is on maternity leave. My lifelong ambition is to move into information technology. I would love to help create new programs that support residents and clinical practice like our new app myRyman care.

I love working at Malvina Major as I get wonderful support from my peers and the residents are also so welcoming.

I look forward to many more years in the Ryman family.

y l l a S t e Me Hello, my name is Sally Burrage and I am Malvina Major’s most recent centenarian. I turned 100 years old on 6 September 2017!

I was born in Christchurch to two teachers. My mother was from Dunedin and my father from Doyleston. We lived in the country with my four half-brothers and half-sister, and two full-blood sisters and a brother. I attended Waiau Primary School and at the age of 12 I started to attend Christchurch Girl’s High School and boarded with my auntie and uncle.

When I left school, I attended university for a year but left and took up a post as an accounts sales clerk at Fruit and Vege Auction Market.

After World War II, I met my husband John who worked as an auditor at a local auditing firm. We married after a year-long courtship in 1946 at the St Ninian's Church in Riccarton. Together we have five children, David, Rex, Peter, Stephen and Susan. Three of my children live in New Zealand and my other two live in Australia.

I have been back to Christchurch twice since the earthquakes devastated the beautiful garden city. My fondest memory is running free and exploring the riverbed and the surrounding hillsides as a youngster, safe to wander wherever I pleased. I also fondly remember picnics during which my father taught me all about the local flora and fauna – my love of nature can be traced back to those days.

As a teen, I played hockey and was also an accomplished swimmer. I decided to become a teacher in 1966 following in the footsteps of my parents. I completed a pressure cooker teacher training programme and graduated as primary school teacher. For the next four years I taught special needs classes as well as forms one and two.

My proudest moment was when I was named as part of the New Zealand Hockey team in 1938 and I also received the University Blue. Another proud moment for me was in 1988, when I was awarded the Queens Service Medal for my public service with the historical society in Christchurch. I volunteered for more than 20 years for the Christchurch Museum Research Associate in archaeology. I helped in recording and researching.

I loved to travel and after the death of my husband in 1977, I travelled extensively. One of my favourite places is the Australian outback and the Yosemite Park in the United States of America. My fondest memories of travelling are the glittery lights of Las Vegas and the amazing architecture of St Petersburg in Russia.

I have lived a wonderful life and have spent five years here at Malvina Major and couldn’t be happier.

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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.

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