Resident Care Director Joan MacLauchlan was pleased to present Caregiver, Olga Chouinard with the Associate of the Month award! Congratulations Olga!

The Dynomite Methuenites Wii bowling team at Methuen Village have just started their summer tournament season with National Senior Leagues.

Congratulations on winning your first round of six. We are rooting for you!

Call to Serve takes 1st place in senior programming

Social Program Director Kathleen Corey Rahme is the host of MCTV Call To Serve, a veterans’ history project on local access. Her crew has been together since 2003 recording veterans’ stories for the Library of Congress. The Alliance for Community Media gave them a national award of 1st place in the senior programming category. Kathleen went to Tucson, AZ to receive it. Resident Mike Beshara is a cameraman on the project and several of our residents have participated as guests of the show! Check it out on facebook “Call to Serve” and become a fan.

Methuen Village hosted its monthly Lifetime Achievement.

Receiving the awards are Mike Beshara, Katie Contarino, Jenny Ratcliffe and Louise Flynn.

Executive Chef Victor Casado prepared healthy hors d’oeuvres for the occasion for friends, family and fellow residents to enjoy!

Marianna Gabryjelski enjoys tending her garden at Methuen Village. Her zuchinis are almost a foot long and the tomatoes will be ripe by August! Betty Stafford enjoys checking the progress of the garden daily.

Residents decided to participate in the city-wide clean-up day. They received team tee-shirts and took advantage of the beautiful spring weather!

Over the past 15 years, Memory Ride has raised over $2.3 million for the Alzheimer’s Association’s research grant programs. Team Methuen Village will be joining hundreds of riders from across the country at the 2011 Memory Ride on Saturday, July 23rd, in cycling 100 miles to find a cure. Our five-rider team will take the 100 mile challenge to support all of our residents, families, and associates who attempt to conquer this devastating disease everyday. Every dollar donated goes to research so that one day we can find a cure. Each rider on Team Methuen Village carries the spirit and hope of the residents in our Compass Memory Support Neighborhood(R). We ride so that one day we will end this disease, and together we are part of that journey.

The ride starts long before the morning our team lines up on the starting line. Our fundraising goal is high but not impossible. We need to raise $3300 dollars for the cure. Will you help us? Donate by stopping in at the Methuen Village reception desk, or by visiting the event webpage at http://www.alzmass.org/memoryride/.  Thank you for your support!

Ms Irene Fink is a Methuen Village resident.  Born in 1913, here she shares her talent of playing the harmonica with current harmonica student 15 year old Madeline Corey-Rahme!

Watch Irene Fink playing harmonica

Irene Fink and harmonica student Madeline.

For all of our wonderful families that attended the Methuen Village Holiday Party, your family photos are posted on the Senior Living Residences’ Facebook fan page. I hope you enjoy looking through them, and perhaps you’ll find a photo or two to frame for your own home! Thanks again for your support, and for sharing in holiday cheer with us here at Methuen Village Assisted Living.  Visit www.facebook.com/SeniorLivingResidences