May 2015
BrainWaves
Monthly Newsletter
Inside this Issue
Birthdays
Creativity is Ageless
Events/ Activities
Leah’s Notes
Memory Minute
Puzzle Challenge
Sponsor Coupon
Volunteer Corner
Contact Us
We are a ministry of
St Paul Lutheran Church
730 County Road PPP
Sheboygan Falls
(920) 627-6847
Email: [email protected]
Web: memorymattersmost.com
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Quote of the Month
“You can’t live a perfect day
without doing something for
someone who will never be
able to repay you”
~John Wooden
the event onsite. An added
of having it here will
Leah’s benefit
allow families, and potential
participants, a wonderful
N otes new
open-house setting to
Art continues to be a very
integral piece of our program
model. It improves the quality
of life for those with memory
loss. It offers participants a
way to express themselves,
and sometimes even a method
of communication. Often
times, when our volunteers are
working with the participant
on an art project, we are
able to unlock an interesting
story or memory from the
participant’s past. Experiences
like these are proof enough
that art can improve one’s
memory. So please, save the
date and plan to join us June 2.
Leah Zehel, come and tour the TGP&MM
Director program environment.
Do you have a loved one in
April has come and gone, our programs?
and we continue to spring Be sure to stop by, and bring
forward into the beautiful them along to this special
blooms of May. TGP&MM event with you. You will enjoy
have been staying quite seeing the wide variety of art
busy working on a variety of and various activities that
different projects. Our focus keep them engaged each
continues to be on Art as week, and they will equally
we prepare for our annual enjoy showing you what they
Creativity is Ageless event. have created!
Here is a little taste of some
of the projects participants
av e t h e
at e
have been working on: paper
ADMISSION IS FREE
mache sculptures, pottery,
June 2, 2015
Live Music
All artwork has been
pastel paintings, glass art,
Hors d’oeuvres
by local artists
5:00pm–7:00pm hand–crafted
feather art, decoupage chairs,
Program Tours
Fellowship Hall and program participants.
Silent Auction
and wind chimes just to name
Proceeds benefit
a few.
Art Enrichment Programs of
The Gathering Place & Memory Matters
All recent art that has been
created with our artists will be
on display at our 4th Annual
Creativity is Ageless event—
“Music is Art!” June 2nd in
the Fellowship Hall, here
at St Paul Lutheran Church.
Admission is free, and unlike
years past, we decided to host
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Volunteer Corner
by Carol Bimmel
This past month we were
fortunate to be able to
offer our volunteers the
opportunity to become more
acquainted with the iPads
that were purchased 3 years
ago for Memory Matters with
grant money from The St.
Paul Endowment Fund. We
thought it would be nice to
get more use out of them by
incorporating the iPads into
our TGP art programs and
for general use. However, we
found that most volunteers/
staff weren’t as familiar as we
could be in using them.
Pictured above: iPad training at LTC
A few days later, I received an
email from Foua Hang, Career
Placement Center Manager
at LTC, about a unique
opportunity that we could get
the training we were looking
for. As Foua stated in her
email, “This semester, there
is a class in our Administrative
Professional program called
Training Techniques. In this
class, groups of students
are required to conduct
training
for
some audience
on a topic of
the audience’s
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choosing.” I immediately
replied, hoping for 15
volunteers, and to my
surprise had 31 volunteers
sign up, split into two classes!
Although overwhelming to
someone with no computer/
smart phone experience, we
did learn how to take pictures,
maneuver through some
basic settings, and used our
YouTube app. For those with
some computer experience,
this class just made everything
more understandable and
easier to use the equipment.
I will be looking forward to
seeing those iPads out and in
use!
Volunteer of the Month~
April 2015 [Mary T.]
In April Mary Tryggeseth
shared with us the love that
she and her husband had in
opening up their lives to the
eight children with special
needs that they adopted
including 2 sets of twins.
Pictured above: Mary T. and Janice S. in Sue
Alby’s dance class at TGP.
Places they lived and jobs they
had. Mary’s love of art with
some samples of the variety
of things she has tried her
hand at. She is also very good
at making soup and we had a
chance to sample that at our
recent soup cook-off! Mary
is a dedicated volunteer who
comes up with the greatest
ideas and I thank her for that!
TGP Person of the Month~
April 2015 [Bob G.]
This past month Bob G. also
shared a little insight into his
life with us. He brought along
beautiful pictures of himself
with his wife Judy, their
children, granddaughters and
dogs. Bob was an international
buyer for Sears when he was
working. He enjoys spending
time when he gets the chance
at their home on Bear Lake,
and enjoys fishing there and
Photo above: Bob G. helps a preschool child
create a windsock during a recent visit at TGP.
the Boundary Waters. He loves
the outdoors is a very good
water color painter. A little
known fact is that Bob was
a train conductor in Laona
after he retired. Bob is a real
asset to our program, and he
is a man of many talents and
interests.
In observance
of
Memorial Day
Our office will be closed
Monday, May 25
M ake a
D ifference
G et I nvolved !
We are always looking for
great volunteers. As of right
now we could use extra help
on Thursdays in Memory
Matters, Monday and
Tuesdays in The Gathering
Place. Invite a friend or
family member to join our
family of volunteers this year!
For more information please
call us at (920)627-6847 or
email [email protected]
Memory Minute
by Janette Faul
With the arrival of warmer
weather the Memory Matters
group has been getting out
and about experiencing art and
music. At the end of March we
attended a special performance
by a Parisian musical group
called “Les Yeux Noirs” at the
John Michael Kohler Arts Center.
We smiled and clapped along
as “Gypsy Jazz” and Yiddish folk
songs filled the theatre with
vibrant sound. Afterwards we
explored some of the exhibits
in the galleries. On a rainy day in
April we took a trip to EBCO- Art
Works to create with Margaret
Hall colorful fused glass art
pieces. We will be displaying
these as well as other creations
at the “Creativity is Ageless
Event” in June. Art benefits us
in so many ways beyond the
power of self-expression; it can
be restorative while it enhances
memory, reasoning and the
speed by which the mind
processes information. By simply
gazing at beautiful works we
increase the blood flow in certain
parts of the brain by up to 10
percent! Please be encouraged
to use art for your health too. In
May we will be exploring some
of the benefits of music at each
class. Our own Ruth Raeder will
be sharing her expertise as a
Music Therapist on May 28th.
Recently, special fitness guest
Margo Norworatzky got our
hearts pumping with an exercise
routine involving drumming
and thumping on five gallon
pails. It should be noted that
everyone immediately took to
the drumsticks! This was a fun
way to lead us into our May
music theme.
Sources: Celeste Carneiro, Creativity and
the Brain, Amanda Alders Pike, Improving
Memory through Creativity
Memory Matters Calendar
May 07 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ear Worms, Why Songs get stuck in
our heads and Healthy Steps w/ Mary Ellen Schmidley
May 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fieldtrip - Leaving St. Paul’s @ 9:15!
Spring Concert Preview at Kohler Memorial Theatre
May 21 �� Art for Memory Training
Reminiscence self-expression project
May 28 ��Music Matters
Special Presentation with Ruth Raeder
Photo above: Group outing to EBCO Studio
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We’ll be on Television!
Watch for an interview with our Memory Matters Assistant Director,
Janette Faul, on “Senior Connections,” a cable show produced with
Wendy Schmitz for the Senior Activity Center of Sheboygan. They
will be chatting about the recent Brain Boost classes we hosted at
the center, along with other helpful information for the community.
This episode will air during the month of May.
You can catch the show on WSCS Cable Channels 95 and AT&T U
Verse 99, or visit the WSCS website at http://www.
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