April 19

APRIL

2019
NEWSLETTER

In This Newsletter KAREN’S KORNER
Karen’s Korner
Calling 999 Thank goodness Winter is out of the way, I hate it! Roll
St Patrick’s Day on Spring and Summer :)
Would You Believe It!
Kepplegate Family News Keep your eyes open for our
Relatives’ Rendezvous exciting new initiatives and ideas that
Nutrition & Hydration Week we will be implementing to benefit
All About Dogs the day to day lives of our family.
Community News
Entertainer Don’t forget feedback and
Dates for Your Diary suggestions are very much
welcome, without them we can’t
ST PATRICK’S DAY continue to develop and grow.

The care home was Did you know?
decorated with shamrocks
& leprechauns and on If you can’t speak when you phone
Sunday, 17th March the
Kepplegate family 999
enjoyed making
sourdough bread together. This was baked 55Press
and eaten with an Irish stew as a special St
Patrick’s Day treat. The photos show Harry, To be TRACKED
Derek and John tucking in! From Your Dialling Location

WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?! 2

During the weekend of 23/24 March there KEPPLEGATE FAMILY NEWS
were two hurricanes reported in
Congratulations to Sandra who celebrated a
Australia. They both hit on the same day special birthday last month.
and were named Hurricane Trevor &
Birthday wishes in advance to Tori on our
Hurricane Veronica. Here are our own housekeeping team.
Trevor and Veronica!

A warm Kepplegate welcome to Elaine in the
care home and to Gillian, our new Assistant Cook.

It’s goodbye and good luck to Tracy and Helen from our
domiciliary team, both of whom cared with Kepplegate for over
four years.

As an Ambassador for
John’s Campgain, Adam
gave a talk at an NACC
seminar in Manchester

Lilia, Sarah G & John in good voice!

Deep
concentration
for a game of
dominoes!

Here is Agnes having a little cuddle
with Stacey’s baby, Scarlett.

Relatives’ Rendezvous

Many thanks again for supporting these quarterly get-togethers...we get some
fabulous feedback. This time the subjects covered were the electric trial that is
currently ongoing, and our new activity plans to be known as “What’s Going On”
We also discussed the trial starting at the beginning of April of the team ,both in
the care home and in the community, not wearing uniforms for a month. We
really do need you to use our suggestions box on this one, so please let us have
your comments and observations as to how well you think it is working.

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NUTRITION & HYDRATION WEEK
We had a full schedule during Nutrition & Hydration Week.
On the Monday we delivered free teas to our meal clients, as well as sending out “HY5”
leaflets which contained information on identifying and preventing
dehydration.
Here’s Mark ready to go out with the leaflets, which were
provided by Lancashire Country Council.

On Tuesday we had a special tea of
sandwiches and lots of fruit, all washed
down with Bucks Fizz!The photos
show Derek and Olga about to
enjoy their glass of bubbly and
Milly busy helping cut up fruit in
the kitchen. John was outside

with James bringing in some
rhubarb.

Wednesday was Swallowing
Awareness Day and we’ve just
received some special food moulds
that were ordered to make pureed food look more appealing and

appetising.
We had a
‘Dip Day’ on
Thursday
when the
family
enjoyed

vegetables and toasted fingers with
some dips Sarah had made.
Friday was “Big Breakfast” day and the family
settled down to a wonderful cooked breakfast.
Next was Ice Cream Saturday when (among
others) Sandra and Margaret enjoyed delicious
ice cream sundaes, and Sunday was St Patrick’s
Daywith the sourdough bread and Irish stew,
reported on earlier.

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Community News ALL ABOUT DOGS

We were delighted to agree to a The latest news
request from the local Beaver on Milo, our
Scout Colony to come to sponsored guide
Kepplegate one evening and dog, is that he is
interact with the family, loving being out
achieving an Activity Badge at & about which is
the same time! Everyone had great fun as the boys good for his
did some arts and crafts and jigsaw puzzles with the training and he is
family. being introduced
to different types
We were also very happy to be invited to Carte’s of surroundings
Primary School as they launched their own and animals (even pelicans!)
defibrillator, now in an outside case, so allowing Below, John and Sandra enjoy a visit from
the community to make use of it even when the Carole’s dog one evening.
school is closed. Lilia & Pauline took John & Jessie
to represent Kepplegate and the headmaster told Finally, how cute is this little one?!! Felix,
how it was our defibrillator launch & donation to the robotic cat, has been such a success
the school that had kick-started their own that we now have a robotic dog! As with
fundraising for the outer casing. the cat, we’re asking for suggestions for a
name both online and in the care home.
Entertainers

The family continues to enjoy our visiting Dates for Your diary
entertainers. The photos show Rachel
Mercer with Derek & Albert and Brian & Hazel 22nd Apr: Amanda
dancing away to Brian Brodie and Lilia! Kelly

7th May: Christie
Charles