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Big Meadows 1000 Longmoor Ave. Savanna, IL 61074 Phone:
815.273.2238 Website: www.bigmeadows.biz Pinnacle Place 1125 N. 5th
Street Savanna, IL 61074 Phone: 815.273.2105 Website:
www.aheinc.biz/pinnacleplace
Inside this issue: Warming Hearts-Big Elkay Cares-P.Place
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Big Meadows Highlights
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Big Meadows Announcements
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Connections Unit Highlights
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Connections Unit Announcements
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Big Meadows Activity Calendar
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Pinnacle Place Announcements
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Pinnacle Place Menu
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Pinnacle Place Social Calendar
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A joint publication of Big Meadows and Pinnacle Place
January 2016
On December 14th, Big Meadows Warming Hearts took scarves to
West Carroll Primary School to give to the children. Pictured above
on the left are our nurses Jean Kehl and Mary Jane Jacobs with
residents Terry Mattison and Marlene Farrey. Pictured on the right
are some of the recipients of the Warming Heart Project. We thank
all of our residents and staff who participated in making the
scarves this year.
Several staff from Elkay came to Pinnacle Place for an afternoon
of Bingo, prizes, cookies and fellowship. We sure had a good
time!
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Savanna’s River City Reader Page 2
Big Meadows Highlights Choir Comes to Big
Meadows
On December 10th, the West Carroll High
School Choir came to Big Meadows and per-
formed for our residents.
Big Meadows has gotten into the Christmas spirit, we have 20
Christmas trees located around the building. Our TV area, therapy
room, nurses’ station, dining room, and all of our hallways are
decorated to keep us in the spirit of the season. Pictured above
and below are just a fraction of our Christmas trees and decorated
areas. Special thanks to our residents and activities director
Jaime Zastrow for all the beautiful trees and decorated areas.
Christmas Card Gifting On December 9th, the residents made
Christmas cards to send to a little girl named Safyre Terry. Safyre
has been in the national news early in December. She is an 8 year
old burn victim who lost her family in a fire. All she wanted for
Christmas was Christmas cards, so to help Big Meadows sent her
eight cards. Pictured to the left are the Christmas cards and to
the right is Joann Perez holding one of the cards she made.
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Big Meadows Announcements Savanna's River
City Reader Page 3
Reminders:
+Please make sure your loved one has a warm coat,
gloves and hat for winter outings, as weather permits.
+Please mark any new clothing a
resident may get for Christmas or
anything new brought in. Be sure to get an ‘Additional
Inventory Sheet’ paper from staff to fill out if you bring
in anything new. It is a 1/4 sheet of green paper and
can be turned in to the front office. Thank you!
January Birthdays Residents: 2 Dona Duhme 9 Mary Kelley 14 Ray
Eisfeller 15 Shirley Hadley 25 Eugene Reeser 27 Marlyce Yeager
Staff: 28 Hannah Shellhause 31 Dianne Miller
On December 2nd, some of Big Meadows residents and Jaime made a
Gingerbread village to show at the Festival of Trees. Pictured
above is (A) Cindy Backes and Janet Spoerl; (B) Ida Hebeler; (C)
Jaime and Ida Hebeler; (D) Marlene Farrey; (E) The beginnings of
the Gingerbread Village; (F) Jaime Zastrow; (G) The completed Big
Meadows Gingerbread Village.
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Big Meadows Highlights Continued……….
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Savanna’s River City Reader Page 4
Connections Highlights
On December 15th, our residents of the Connections Unit came
together and helped bake some delicious cookies. Above on the left
is Mary Kelley helping cut the cookies out; above on the right is
Joyce Wickler, Sandra Drury, and Lee Hernandez helping mix, and
Mary Kelley and Joyce Wickler.
On December 16th the Furry Friends Traveling Petting Zoo came to
visit at Big Meadows. We had some of the Furry Friends come back to
the Connections Unit. Pictured above are: (A) Fussy Remrey with the
rabbit; (B) Lillian Schmit with the Guinea Pig; (C) Mary Kelley
petting the chinchilla; (D) Violet Merryman is also pictured with
the chinchilla; and (E) Mary Yenney is cuddling up with the
rat.
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Savanna’s River City Reader Page 5
Connections Announcements
Big Meadows is collecting plastic caps/lids to make a bench for
the Connections Unit courtyard. We are going through a company
called Green Tree Plastics, LLC. You may have seen some of these
benches around. We ask that you start saving and bring what you
save to Big Meadows. We need 400 pounds! What does that look like?
The caps will fill approximately 10 55 gallon yard waste/trash
bags! What items are acceptable and what aren’t? Acceptable caps:
medicine bottle caps, milk jug caps, detergent caps, hair spray
caps, toothpaste tube caps, deodorant caps, drink bottle caps,
flip-flop caps (ketchup, mustard), spout caps (mustard), spray
paint caps, ointment tube caps, caps with Recycle numbers 2, 4 or
5. Acceptable lids: cottage cheese container lids, mayonnaise jar
lids, yogurt lids, peanut butter jar lids, ice cream bucket lids,
cool whip container lids, coffee can lids, cream cheese container
lids, butter container lids. Never acceptable items: metal or trash
of any kid: drink bottles, plastic ziplock bags, trigger sprayers,
fast food drink lids, food containers, soap pumps, lotion pumps,
grocery bags. If you have additional questions, please contact Stan
Schleuning at Big Meadows at 815.273.2238. Thank you and start
saving!
Big Meadows Announcements continued………...
The Connections Unit has got the holiday spirit. Pictured on the
left is the Christmas tree in our living room area, and pictured
right is our fireplace where all the stockings are hung with care
hoping St. Nick will soon be there.
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Pinnacle Place Announcements
January Birthdays
Jeanette Watson 01/07
Shopping Trips are scheduled for January 12 & 26 at 9am.
Please let the C.N.A. know if you would like to shop on these days.
We make stops in Savanna where needed i.e. Sullivan’s, Shopko,
Dollar General, Post Office, Barber, etc. Bring us your list &
we can shop for you too.
Rides are scheduled for January 12 & 28 at 1:00pm. Tenants
choose where we go. Please let the C.N.A. know if you would like to
go along
SHOP
RIDE
Pinnacle Place SUPPORTIVE LIVING FACILITY CARE * COMPASSION *
COMFORT * COST
Christmas Open House was held December 9th. Thanks to the family
& friends that joined us!
Tenants Pictured Left to Right: Top: Eunice Daggert, Muriel
Buck, Fern Irwin Middle: Mona Bradshaw, Jim Lawson, Ruth Chastain
Bottom: Paula Kelsey, Marolyn French, Shirley Marlette
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Big Meadows 1000 Longmoor Ave. Savanna, IL 61074
Pinnacle Place 1125 N. 5th Street
From the residents and staff at Big Meadows and Pinnacle
Place
