Richfield Hosts a "Doggone" Great Wedding!

 

Lady the bichon frise and Pookie the yorkiepoo were happily wed during a "dog days of summer" ceremony in the Joseph C. Thomas center at Richfield on July 16. Lady and Pookie are an untraditional couple: she is 12 years old and he is two, but true love seems to have made up the difference. Guests were treated to paw-imprinted wedding cake and the groom and his best man, Gizmo the shitzu, were the life of the party at the reception.

Also present was Lady's grandmother, Ann Fellows, and Pookie's mother, Beverly Adams who is also the life enrichment director at the Thomas center.

"It's all entertainment and totally to see the smile on the face of a resident," said Barry Lell, who is an associate pastor in the Church of the Nazarene in Hollins who also ministers at Richfield. His gift to the new couple: a portable turf strip.

 

by Miranda Adkins, Community Journalist for The Roanoke Times

http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/sosalem/2009/07/20/richfield-hosts-a-doggone-great-wedding/

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Ourhealth', Southwest and Central Virginia's Health and Lifestyle Magazine, has notified Richfield that in the category of Assisted Living, Richfield was chosen as the Gold (1st place) recipient! Additionally, Richfield received Honorable Mention in the following categories: Independent Living, Skilled Nursing, Nursing Home and Alzheimer's Care.

 

"Winners of the Blue Ridge Best of: Retirement Living Awards were determined through a public voting process. All total, more than 3900 votes were cast in Southwest and Central Virginia."

 

Congratulations to our staff for receiving this recognition!

 

 

 

Seniors At Richfield have their own prom, 'April in Paris'

 

Think the prom is just for high schoolers? The seniors at the Joseph C. Thomas Center at Richfield Retirement Community had their own prom on Thursday night, April 30, complete with a limo, fancy refreshments, and live music to the theme of "April in Paris." The students in Salem High School's Culinary Arts and Early Childhood Education classes came dressed to the nines, too: they catered, served, and danced with the residents.

Along with rides around Richfield's campus in a limo, the culinary arts class designed a cake and hors' de oeuvres to go along with the theme.

by Miranda Adkins, Community Journalist for the Roanoke Times

 

 

 

StoryCorps, a nationally known initiative to instruct and inspire Americans to record one another’s stories in sound, came to the Memory Care & Enrichment Center on October 8th to record conversations with six of our residents and their family member.  StoryCorps contacted Richfield as part of their initiative to reach out to people with memory loss.  The following text was taken from a blog on the StoryCorp website that was posted by Jeremy Helton, the Mobile Facilitator with StoryCorp that was assigned to this project.

 

Thanks For The Memories

Posted by Jeremy on October 16, 2008, from Roanoke, Virginia

Community Partners: Richfield Retirement Community

On October 8, MobileBooth East completed our first Door-to-Door recording in Salem, Virginia at the Richfield Retirement Community. We learned very quickly about the hard work the Door-to-Door team does on a regular basis and realized the challenges and rewards of taking the StoryCorps experience to people’s doorsteps. We met wonderful folks and recorded stories that were funny, poignant, and heartwarming. We heard the story of Eileen Dunnavent, who worked in a factory to support her two children. We listened to Erna Isler recall her days as an artist in Mexico, and we relived a moment with Dora Leigh and Dwaine Russell when they had their first conversation on a friend’s front porch. The European travels of Nancy Mutter, a.k.a. “The Countess of Sower, Virginia” made for quite a few amusing tales, and Elinor Bradford’s account of how Mole Hill got turned into a mountain had Nina howling with laughter!

 

We’d like to thank the staff of Richfield Retirement Community for making us feel so welcome and for caring enough to preserve the memories of their residents.

 

http://www.storycorps.net/blog/category/east-mobilebooth/roanoke-va/

 

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