Category: Juniper Village at Lebanon

Juniper Village at Lebanon staff member Becky and resident Betty A. are best friends through Juniper's Best Friend Program. This unique program pairs residents and staff together to create lasting bonds and increased connection. Best Friends participate in organized as well as impromptu events as often as they choose. For Betty’s upcoming birthday, Becky, who…

During the pandemic, birthday celebrations have taken many new twists and turns. From car parades to Zoom gatherings, birthdays aren't what they used to be. Here's a new twist on a pandemic birthday celebration - a birthday party on wheels! Behind this is Betty Albert and her thoughtful family. To celebrate Betty’s birthday, her family…

Sometimes it can be difficult to round up all of the materials needed for a craft project. Emily found a great craft idea on the Internet:  creating our own aquariums. Most of the necessary ingredients could be found at the local pet shop, all except for the main item, which is the fish!  The Juniper…

Right now with certain restrictions in place, we are thankful that we can still see our loved ones in person over our courtyard fence.  Here are Gloria and her daughter Stevie enjoying a conversation over the fence at Juniper Village at Lebanon.

With everything being different this summer due to health concerns, even if the Lebanon County Fair is open to some degree, we will not be going. So Chef Bob decided to take matters into his own hands and give everyone funnel cakes for the snack one afternoon. Everyone was quite happy with this, especially the…

“Who is that behind those Foster Grants?” If you are old enough, you will remember that commercial from decades ago, but the question is very timely for today! In this case, it’s Juniper Village at Lebanon's own Betty Albert, doing laps in the Courtyard and admiring the flowers.

We found these bubble wands on sale at our local craft store, and they worked amazingly well. The breeze really helped create some special effects, like much bigger bubbles than usual, and lots of bubbles without even moving the wand! Here is Fred becoming quite the expert at making large bubbles in the breeze! Juniper…

While we were outside enjoying our courtyard and vegetable garden, we got a surprise visitor at Juniper Village at Lebanon. It was a female Black Swallowtail butterfly! We later found out that the Black Swallowtail is the state butterfly of New Jersey, our neighbors to the east, so it is not unusual to see Black…

Palma’s window garden is spectacular this year, and the funny thing is we can’t even take credit for half of it! Our Environmental Services team planted the tomatoes and petunias, but the gigantic sunflowers grew up on their own from birdseed that fell onto the ground from Palma’s bird feeder! Can you spot Palma looking…

We have all been watching our Juniper Village at Lebanon raised garden plot closely for any signs of produce, when suddenly we noticed one ripe cherry tomato!  There weren’t any other tomatoes on the plant, not even green ones, so we were all excited to actually be able to harvest a tomato!  Here is Arlene…