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DOINGS AT THE LODGE
Dunmunkle Lodge Newsletter
January 2018
RESIDENT BIRTHDAYS
Ellen Niewand and Rosie Ball celebrated their birthdays at the end of December last year, while Ruth Neylan celebrated hers earlier this month. We hope you all enjoyed your special day and wish you all the very best for the year to come!
EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT
It is with much delight that Dunmunkle Lodge welcomes Sharon
Taylor as our new Executive Clinical Care Manager.
Sharon is a Registered Nurse with 14 years’ experience in Aged
Care, Acute, Emergency, Community, Education and Management
including Aged Care Project Management. She is currently studying
her Masters of Business Administration.
You might recognise Sharon from her previous places of
employment including East Grampians Health Service, Stawell
Regional Health, and Rural Northwest Health. She is most excited
to be working at Dunmunkle Lodge and can’t wait to get to know
you all.
NEW STAFF UPDATE
We would like to welcome the following new staff member to our team:
Jessica Zhao – Personal Care Attendant
We are pleased to have you onboard and hope you enjoy your time here at the Lodge!
ILU FRESH PRODUCE
Many of our Residents like to keep an active lifestyle. Following are some photos of recent outings… Left
are Betty Sanders, Rosie Ball, Evelyn Cornell and Pauline Harper shopping in Horsham. Centre; Pauline
Harper, Phyllis Sudholz, David Collard, Allison Stacey, Betty Sanders, Chelsie King, Ann Lowe and Betty
Barry having a cuppa at Emma’s Café. Right; David Collard, Stuart White and Robert Smith check out the
new fishing platform in Warracknabeal. A change of scenery is sometimes a welcome change.
Dr Wimbury
Is now seeing patients from the wider community for appointments. He visits DUNMUNKLE LODGE every Tuesday. If you would like to make use of this wonderful service, please call Tania or Penny during office hours to make an appointment. Office hours: 9.00am to 3.00pm
1 McLeod Street, Minyip VIC 3392
p 03 5385 7463
e [email protected] web www.dunmunklelodge.com.au
The recently installed Independent Living Unit vegetable garden beds have been well received and well used over the last few months. Olwen Cowan is pictured below with a giant zucchini grown by Jim Brady… wowsers, truly impressive!
RESIDENT OUTINGS
RESIDENT ACTIVITIES
Below left Evelyn Cornell and Betty Sanders lend a helping hand with food preparation, and right Allison
Stacey and Don McKenzie enjoy a game of ‘Snakes and Ladders’ with the kids.
To express their gratitude to the school children who visited The Lodge and sang Christmas carols, our
Residents made beautiful bright lollie bonbons. Below Betty Barry, Annia (Lifestyle Coordinator), Don
McKenzie and Betty Sanders are busy at work making them up. Such a clever idea, they looked fantastic!
A game of ‘Balloon Bop’ enjoyed by several Residents is pictured below left. Right; Pauline Harper has a
look at some of the beautiful items available for purchase from ‘Bev’s Baubles’ who came to The Lodge
just prior to Christmas. We would like to extend a huge thankyou to Bev for taking the time to visit and
provide the opportunity for our Residents to do a little Christmas shopping.
SPECIAL THANKS
THE HISTORY OF QUOITS
Over the past few months our Residents have thoroughly enjoyed the entertainment provided by Clarry Golder. It has been wonderful for them to sing along to toe tapping songs and reminisce of days gone by.
Sadly Clarry’s time with us has come to an end as his busy schedule will no longer allow him to visit every second Friday, but we wish him well and hope to see him back here again soon.
Thanks Clarry, it’s been an absolute pleasure!
The history of quoits is disputed. One theory often expressed is that the sport evolved as a formalized
version of horseshoes, which is a sport that involves pitching a horseshoe at a spike in the ground. A
more likely explanation, however, is that horseshoes evolved from the sport of quoits, which in turn has
its origins in ancient Greece. On its website, the United States Quoiting Association explains that poorer
citizens in ancient Greece, who could not afford to buy a real discus, made their own by bending
horseshoes - which in those days weighed as much as four pounds each. The practice was adopted by
the Roman army and spread across mainland Europe to Britain. The aim of the sport remained as a
competition to see who could throw the object the furthest, until "at some later, undocumented point
in history, perhaps around a few centuries A.D., the idea of using a wooden stake or metal pin driven
into the ground, to use specifically as a target to throw at, totally redefined the pastime from a game of
distance to a game of accuracy.” Source: Wikipedia.
Below left Gladys Krause (pictured with Chelsie King, Lifestyle Assistant), and David Collard (pictured on
the right with Annia) try their skill, and luck, at this age-old game.
KEEPING CONNECTED
A lovely photo of Ruth Shepherd and Personal Care Attendant Lynne Wyllie (below left). Our staff always
do their best to go above and beyond when caring for our Residents.
WE LOVE LUCY
Lucy is our Resident cat who is much loved by many here
at The Lodge. In early December representatives from
Australian Hearing came to meet with a few of our
Residents. It was at this time that one of our Residents
said the sweetest thing, something that we think
deserves mentioning…
“The only reason I am getting hearing aids is so I can hear Lucy purr.”
– Dennis De Costa
Lucy can often be found curled up at the foot of Dennis’ bed.
CAKE TIER STANDS NEEDED
Given that we often host High Teas at Dunmunkle Lodge, we are seeking donations
of cake tier stands… if you have any you don’t need or use, we would be happy to
put them to good use. Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Above right Rosie Ball keeps connected with her mum in between visits via Skype. For those of you who
don’t know, Skype is a telecommunications application software product that specialises in providing
video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices etc.
