Volume 13, Issue 4
April 2015
Brooking Park & The Willows
211 South Woods Mill Road
Chesterfield, MO 63017
April Highlights
Brooking Park
Art with Pat
S.A.F.E. w/Maryville Students
Out to Art Museum
Music Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald
Out for lunch at Spiros
The Willows
April 7
April 10
April 15
April 15
April 22
World Bird Sanctuary
April 3
Dr. Kodner, Speaker
April 8
Cardinal Opener and Happy Hour April 13
Bev Schuetz presents Harry Truman April 22
St. Peters Choral Society
April 27
Dear Residents,
Brooking Park
The Willows
Town Hall Meeting
Thursday,
April 23, 2015
9:30 am
Food Committee
10:00 am
Town Hall Meeting
Wednesday,
April 29, 2015
4:30 pm
Followed by
Happy Hour
See you there!
See you there!
We have a few exciting staff updates to share. First, we’d like to congratulate Mike Enloe on his recent promotion to Brooking Park’s Marketing Director. Most of you know Mike as the Medicare
Admissions Coordinator at Brooking Park. He has met and enjoyed so many of you during his 10
years here. We were thrilled to have Mike take over when Amy McFarlin, our former Marketing
Director, was promoted to Executive Director at Senior Solutions. Some of you might have seen
that update in the last month’s issue of The Gazette. While we’re searching for a new Medicare Admissions Coordinator, know that Mike and Susan Signorino are still here to answer any questions
you might have about Brooking Park or Medicare Rehabilitation.
We would also like to welcome Rita Winters as the new Sales Counselor at The Willows. As we’re
branching out, Rita came on board to show the surrounding community all The Willows has to offer. She’s working closely with Andrew and Heather to make sure your new neighbors are just as
fantastic as you!
Sincerely,
Susan McClenahan, MA, Executive Director Brooking Park
Heather Finkelston, Director of The Willows at Brooking Park
Book Review at The Willows
The World Bird Sanctuary is both a unique St.
Louis attraction and entertaining environmental
education opportunity, with over 305 acres and
over 200 animals in their care. Their mission is
to preserve the earth’s biological diversity and to
secure the future of threatened bird species in
their natural environments. They work to fulfill that mission through education, captive
breeding, field studies and rehabilitation. A team of Naturalists will present an educational
program for The Willows on Friday, April 3rd at 10:00 am in the theater. There will be
birds flying over your heads.
Dr. Ira Kodner talks on:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Wednesday, April 8th at 9:30 am there will be a continental breakfast
followed by Dr. Kodner’s talk. He will discuss the impact
Henrietta’s cells have had on research and discovery of new treatments and
the social and ethical consequences. Please sign up so we know how
many to expect for breakfast.
Cardinal Home Opener
Let’s get the team off to a good start. Cardinal’s home opener is Monday,
April 13th at 3:00 pm Come to The Willows theater and watch as they take
on the Milwaukee Brewers. Join your neighbors as they cheer on the
Cardinals at a happy hour.
The #1 New York Times–bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in
Nazi Germany. For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression
comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most
desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class
boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin
what true grit really meant. Clare Sanford will discuss this book on April 9th
at 10:30 am in the Theater.
The Willows book discussion group will meet on April 9th at 1:30 in the classroom. This
month they will feature Ben Carson, M.D., a man who works medical miracles. Today, he's
one of the most celebrated neurosurgeons in the world. In Gifted Hands, he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital at age 33.
The books will arrive via the Book Mobile.
April Birthdays
Tom Tooke
Leroy Grossman
Karen Ryan
Anne O’Connell
Shirley Avey
Laura Whitener
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“Water In Motion” Class Forming
Starting Thursday, April 2, 9:00 AM
Harry Truman: Much More than an Ordinary Man
Bev Schuetz returns to present the story of Missouriʹs most famous son,
which includes his diﬃcult early life, his bravery in war, and his rise in
the powerful Pendergast political machine. Bev gives her presentation
on this great man on Wednesday, April 22nd at 2:00 pm Silver Sneakers instructor Doug Katane will begin
teaching an exciting new exercise program in the
pool. Make sure and join us for this fun and healthy
exercise class.
Tour St Louis Holocaust Museum
The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center houses a 5,000 square foot core exhibition that
provides a chronological history of the Holocaust with personal accounts of Holocaust
survivors who emigrated to St. Louis. Photographs, artifacts, text panels, and audio-visual
displays guide visitors through pre-war Jewish life in Europe, the rise of Nazism and events
during the Holocaust between 1933-1945.
The Willows will take this trip on Tuesday, April 21st at 10:00
am We will have lunch on the way home at Yellow Stone Café.
Once again our own Treva is
bringing her choral group to
entertain us. Don’t miss this
wonderful group on Monday,
April 27th at 7:15 pm in the
Theater.
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April 15 at 1:30 we will have the April Showers Tea. We are asking Willows residents to help low-income seniors served by St. Andrew's by bringing household
cleaning items and paper products such as glass cleaners, Mr. Clean, toilet paper or
other helpful items. We are trying to serve 60 seniors through your generous
donations.
On April 23, the bus will leave The Willows at 9:30 a.m. for a visit to learn about the
Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes Hospital. We will return about 1:00 p.m.
The Derby Brunch is St. Andrew's second largest fundraiser and this year will be held at The
World's Fair Pavilion in Forest Park on May 3. Tickets are $75 each and include drinks and food
from 15 different restaurants or caterers. Come join us for this very special event to help
low-income seniors served by St. Andrew's. The bus will be available to take guests to and from
Forest Park.
Thank you for all you do for St. Andrew's. If I can help you in any way, please call me at
314-456-2257,
Lu
March Fun
The St. Andrew's Foundation has several events coming up that should be very interesting,
enlightening and fun. I hope you will join us for some, or all, of these upcoming events.
On April 8, Dr. Ira Kodner will again join us for another in his medical series regarding
ethics at 9:30 with a continental breakfast and 10:00 a.m. presentation. We will be serving
hot breakfast at alternating events.
April 14 at 9:30 the bus will leave The Willows for a tour of some of St. Andrew's other
senior facilities starting with our newest partner Cape Albion, then to St. Andrews at
Francis Place. Next we will tour Tower Grove Manor, enjoy lunch there and return to The
Willows by 2:00 p.m.
To provide those little extras you want, Senior Solutions is bringing back our Preferred Personal
Services program, which is designed to give physical and emotional support to residents. Some
residents may wish to receive supportive services, but do not need three or four hours of help.
With the Preferred Personal Services, residents will have the opportunity to receive services in as
little as 15 minutes when our caregiver is available. By taking advantage of this program, residents can create a cost-efficient, supportive package to fit their needs without time restraints. In
addition to nursing services such as medication set-up, blood pressure, and glucose testing, residents can now also take advantage of supportive services. Under this program, Willows and
Brooking Park residents can have our caregiver, Tawana Ball, help with meal preparation, medication set-up, pet assistance, or just a companion to escort you to your medical or non-medical appointments. Tawana has been a caregiver with Senior Solutions for three years, and she’s excited
to spend more time at The Willows and Brooking Park.
We know you will love the Preferred Personal Services program. To learn more about this exciting program, please feel free to call us at (314) 726-5766.
I enjoyed seeing some of you at the Tea last week, and I look forward to getting to know you all
better!
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Amy McFarland - Senior Solutions Executive Director
St. Andrew’s Charitable Foundation, Serving Seniors Across St. Louis,
Lu Green, Philanthropy Director