Residents Council March 6

Greenhouse

Café March 13

St. Patrick’s Day Party March 17

Birthday Party

March 19

Family Council Meeting March 25

Spring Dance

March 27

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A Word From Carol The days are getting longer, the sun is getting stronger and the sap will soon be running. March is upon us. This month we will all be Irish for at least one day and I invite each of you to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and the lead up to it with our Recreation team. We hope residents and family members will share and enjoy these events together with us. We continue to make progress on our strategic plan and thank all team leaders and staff for your engagement in the process. There has been no news to report with respect to the changes proposed to Health and Long Term care with respect to Health Teams. We are monitoring the process and will share information as it becomes available. We have been in and out of Outbreak and I want to thank Nursing and all support teams for their effective containment of the illness and infection control practices. On behalf of all of the Senior Team I wish to thank you for your care and professionalism. Have a great March and a Happy St. Patrick’s Day! As always, thanks for all you do!

Carol

Volunteers/Auxiliary/Family Council/Students

The Auxiliary will be holding its AGM meeting on Wednesday, March 25 at 1:30pm in the Auditorium. All are welcome to attend, and refreshments will be served. The Auxiliary are a dedicated group most notably associated with the Strawberry Social and Fall Bazaar. They fundraise to augment our social programming and have had special bingos and numerous bake sales throughout the year.

Contact for The Auxiliary is Mary Smith maryls45@hotmail.com or

Auxiliary liaison staff person Deanna Archer at 705-743-4744 Ext. 3036

Staff Corner Employee of the Month: Paige McIvor

Winner of the Giant Hershey Chocolate Bar draw: Creekside Resident Hilda Collins

Costco Membership Sign Up – Staff Room Thursday March 12th 11am-2pm. New members only or if membership has expired for at least 18 months.

There were thirty lucky staff who won gift certificates donated by resident Penny Dalrymple-Alford. Penny generously does this every year. T4’s not picked up by March 2nd, 2020 will be mailed to the mailing address on file. To update your address or contact information, please submit a “Employee Change Notification” form (F10-40) to Natasha Firmage, Supervisor of Scheduling and Payroll. Leon’s Loyalty Program – did you know we belong to this? If not contact Natasha Firmage, Luanne Roy or Matthew Boyles for more details.

Education Opportunities:Communication at End of Life education March 25 & 26. Limited spaces and staff from all departments will be assigned to attend.

Don’t forget March 8

Auxiliary meeting

Spring Sale

Winter Bake Sale

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Culture of Support -Let’s talk about Mental Health!

The staff team at St Joseph’s at Fleming play a critical role in caring for the health and well-being of all our residents. It is just as important to recognize that some of our staff team members may also need help to sustain their own health and wellbeing or that of loved ones. It is the goal of St Joseph’s at Fleming to assist to the best of our abilities all of our staff team by ensuring they have access to support and counselling when they need it. Some issues are temporary and need a little TLC while others impact behaviors and may indicate an underlying mental health problem. St. Joseph’s at Fleming offers a Staff Employee Assistance Program FSEAP

Where can I get information on FSEAP? (strictly confidential)

Human Resources office and every Manager has information regarding FSEAP.

How can I contact FSEAP?

Regular business hours 705 742-4258 or 1800 274-1611

Toll Free: 1 800 668-9920

The Weekly Pubs and Bistro

Every Tuesday and Friday afternoon at 1:30pm, Hilltop dining room C becomes a lively social pub. Bar “staff” Gary, Pat and Bria provide this opportunity for residents and families to meet others in the building from different home areas. Snacks and drinks both hard and soft are on sale and conversation comes free of charge! Come on out and join the regulars. See Pub Chatter on page 4! Patrons mix and mingle Gary and Pat Tuesday afternoons has The Bistro in Woodland. Near beer, soft drinks and salty snacks combined with music make this a highlight of the week. Another Gary tends this “bar” along with Woodland staff on Side F. Some folks even make it to both events on a Tuesday! Volunteers are the “heart” of our home. Bistro regulars Bistro Gary

Practicing our Codes

For the next year we are building on our codes education by practicing a code each month. We have nine codes, each with a specific colour and meaning.

Red /Fire Green /Evacuate Black/Bomb Grey/Button Down Yellow/Missing Person Blue/Medical Emergency

White/Violence Orange/External Disaster Silver/Lockdown

February was Code Silver

On Wednesday February 26th, 2020 the first Code Silver training was trialed at the front Reception area. A Code Silver page means a lockdown is in progress. An event is occurring where there is a hostage situation, weapons or threat of weapons inside or outside on the premises of SJAF.

March Code is Grey

Code Grey Button-Down process is a shutdown of external air exchange into the building, in the event of an external air contaminant such as smoke from a fire or chemical gases in the air.

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Residents’ Council Highlights – Feb. 7, 2020 (For details see copies of minutes in the library)

Chairperson: Lisa Herr.

5. Residents’ Right # 7 – Knowing Your Caregivers “Every resident has the right to know who is looking after you no matter who they work for or how they are employed.” 8.1 Ministry Reports – 1 A complaint was investigated by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Inspectors in January. There were no Compliance Orders. This report is kept in the binder in the Library and is available for reading. 9.2 St. Joseph’s at Fleming’s Value - Integrity: What does integrity mean to you? Resident responses:

• Doing things with the best intentions.

• Positives of life.

• Doing the right things at the right time.

• A smile goes a long way. 9.3 TerraCycle Cigarette Waste Recycling Program: Would the Residents’ Council like to purchase a Cigarette Waste Receptacle for the residents’ smoking section? The waste receptacle costs $100.00 to purchase. When the waste receptacle is full, the home would ship the receptacle back to TerraCycle (there are no shipping fees). If there is over 3lbs of waste in the receptacle, the home would receive $1.00. The Residents’ Council does not wish to purchase the TerraCycle Cigarette Waste Receptacle. 11. Open mic: Penny: suggested that the home post signs in braille. Signs for things such as: washrooms, elevators and exits. Frank Benincasa: braille works on things such as buttons in elevators, computer buttons, phones, things that a person would feel, our elevators are equipped with braille. Having the braille signs posted would not benefit anyone as the visually impaired person would not be able to see it and therefore would not be a benefit. At this time, we will monitor the situation and if things change then we will address it. 12. Door Prize: Won by Penny.

Resident News and Views

I guess we better face it dear. Time to pack up and leave the Florida condo for the nest up north. Hope the snow’s gone!

See the story on page 6 The Birds of Spring

Illustration Kim Krenz

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A Look Back at February For More Photos see Blog on Website: https://sjfltc.com/category/blog/

Greenhouse Café Bingo and bingo prizes!

Valentine’s Day party goers

Bowling Social Hour

Around about the home

Carol and spring tulips Mask fitting Our special “Guy” visits Farewell February

Pub Chatter

Lots of laughter and talk make Pub days a delight for our residents. Here are a few snippets of conversation heard around the table. (See article on page 11.)

Valentines thoughts about Love

Caring for each other… respect…never going to bed angry ...marrying the boss…

sense of humour… a protective big brother…something you can’t do without…love is

forgiving… spending time with somebody ..friendship…being married for 66 years.

Some of our Valentine Couples

Bob & Jeannine Marg & Roger Elmer & Rose Marie Velma & Glen

Thoughts about Spring

Playing hide and seek while cleaning indoors… seeding the garden outside…seeing

and hearing the spring peepers, frogs and beavers… seeing the trilliums… hanging

rugs and blankets to beat with a broom…washing walls with a corn broom covered in

a cloth… remembering my dog eating Lever soap while we were cleaning!

Some early Birds in our parking lot trees

Singing robin Not sure? Cedar waxwing It was warm yesterday!

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Students at St. Joseph at Fleming St. Joseph’s at Fleming is fortunate to have a partnership with the nearby Fleming College. We benefit by offering the students in various departments the opportunity to gain real workplace experience in our home. I can personally attest to the advantages of having the massage students offering twenty minute sessions to staff every Thursday afternoon. It helps soothe my computer use aches and pains! They also visit residents as prescribed by our medical staff. Other students that are with us this winter are Social Service Worker students. This group is here on Fridays with their instructor Allan Reeve. They spend a half an hour in weekly visits with selected residents who volunteer for the program. Nursing students come in from Trent/Fleming School of Nursing and PSW’s from the Fleming program. Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Assistant students are partnered with our Physiotherapy Department and work alongside Jack and his staff. (see January newsletter profile online!) Individuals do their placements here and become regular faces on the floor. Roshni is a Fitness & Health Promotion student on a fourteen week placement. Bree is a Recreation student doing her volunteer hours. Tia is a student in the Community Integration Through Cooperative Education program. Her focus is recreation. Roshni Bree Tia on the floor

Evidence of the power of social media.

A post is circulating of Second World War veteran Fred Arsenault of Scarborough in his uniform, with his many medals, holding a sign that says: “I’m a WW2 veteran about to turn 100 years old on March 6, 2020 and would like to receive 100 birthday cards.” It’s made the rounds on Reddit, Twitter and Facebook. Even Toronto mayor John Tory gave him a mention on Twitter, encouraging people to send him a card. And that’s exactly what St. Joseph’s at Fleming is planning to do. Alex and Carley have gotten all our Veterans to sign a card for Fred and we’ll be sending it off! Happy Birthday Fred.

Our Vision Our Mission and Our values What does our value of integrity mean?

Doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reason. Following up with a family when you said you would. Sharing information with your fellow team members. Ensuring your teammates can depend on you.

What does integrity mean to you?

Please put your ideas into the box at reception and let us know what Integrity means to you! We’ll post responses in the next newsletter!

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Word Search St. Patrick’s Day

Birds of Spring

As winter gives way to spring, our bird-nerd minds cannot help but begin to daydream about the wonderful birding days soon to come! Here’s a rough guide as to when some of your favourite bird species arrive back to eastern Ontario. Late-February: The beginning of spring migration and the arrival of our first migrants here in eastern Ontario. Blackbirds such as Red-winged Blackbirds and Common Grackles are on the move north. “Prairie” (praticola) Horned Larks arrive and set up territories. Ring-billed Gulls are spotted hanging around in McDonald’s parking lots, eyeing kids as they walk by with french fries in their hands. Lots of robins stick around but some still make a show of returning. Robins base their migration on food supply not temperature. Lots of wild grape and there’s no need to fly south. Early-to-mid March: Birds of Prey come into focus around this time, with Golden Eagles, Bald Eagles, Northern Goshawks, Rough-legged Hawks, Red-tailed Hawks, and Turkey Vultures beginning to make their northbound push. On lakes and rivers, as the ice breaks up and open water appears, waterfowl numbers begin to rise pretty much everywhere (especially so on Lake Ontario). White-winged gulls, Iceland and Glaucous, begin to swell in their numbers along the north shore of Lake Ontario. Typically, the first Killdeer arrive along the north shore of Lake Ontario by mid-March. Third-to-fourth-week-of March: All sorts of birds arrive in good numbers, including Red-shouldered Hawk, Northern Saw-whet Owl, American Woodcock, Great Blue Heron, Eastern Meadowlark, and an abundance of waterfowl species. It is an exciting time of year for a duck lover, and indeed a great time of year for a goose lover! Greater Snow Geese are typically found in large numbers in extreme eastern Ontario during this time; their numbers continue to build to astonishing proportions over the following weeks. Rarer geese lurk among the thousands of common geese, providing a classic “Where’s Waldo?” challenge awaiting all those willing to accept it. Ross’s Geese and hybrid Ross’s x Lesser Snow Geese can be found among the Greater Snow Geese, and Cackling Geese are traditionally observed mixed in with migrant Canada Geese. https://eontbird.ca/?p=5525

A few Irish Jokes

O'Gara was arrested and sent for trial for armed bank robbery. After due deliberation, the jury foreman stood up and announced, 'Not guilty.' 'That's grand,' shouted O'Gara, 'Does that mean I get to keep the money?' An Irish lass, a customer: 'Could I be trying on that dress in the window?' Shopkeeper: 'I'd prefer that you use the dressing room.' Reilly is walking through a graveyard when he comes across a headstone with the inscription "Here lies a politician and an honest man." 'Faith now,' exclaims Reilly, 'I wonder how they got the two of them in one grave.