Category: Juniper Village at Lebanon

Juniper Village at Lebanon residents were halfway through a two-step art project with instructor M.J. McFalls when the stay-at-home orders were implemented.  Not wanting the residents to be disappointed, M.J. took the half-finished mosaic tiles home, and she completed the grouting process.  The residents were pleasantly surprised to receive the finished tiles a few weeks…

During World War II, all over Europe, American GI's left behind a cartoon image and the words, "Kilroy Was Here". Recently, our volunteer Ron Woleslagle re-enacted his own version of Kilroy, complete with a mask! He and his wife Marsha miss the residents of Juniper Village at Lebanon so much that they made a big…

Several times a week resident Gloria Houser has a lunch date with her daughter Dannie, who lives in Harrisburg, without ever leaving Juniper Village at Lebanon!  Through the miracle of technology (specifically Facebook Messenger), even though they are physically 35 miles apart, they can still enjoy friendly conversations over lunch.  Dannie works mostly from home…

The residents at Juniper Village at Lebanon all know that we are in some unusual times right now, and they want to help out in any way that they can.  Resident JoAnn Rager is no exception, and she recently helped out by sharpening dozens of pencils that were donated by a staff member.  We have…

We are encouraging the residents of Juniper Village at Lebanon to stay in touch with their families and friends in any way they can.  Of course, some people are comfortable with technological solutions such as FaceTime, Facebook Messenger and other social platforms, but many prefer the good old-fashioned, tried and true methods, such as sending…

We were all surprised and thrilled when we found out that Juniper Village at Lebanon won the recent Linked Senior Chalked Words contest. Chalked Words is a game where teams come up with the most words using seven letters in only two minutes. The competition was between all thirty Juniper communities using Linked Senior, to…

Meet Juniper Village at Lebanon’s Healthcare Warrior, Brenda Smith.  Brenda was an avid walker before we were all asked to stay inside, and she and her friend Ruth could often be seen walking to the edges of our campus.  But now she can be found walking up and down the halls, helping to wipe off…

You might remember that we recently featured resident Beatrice Kreider for making blankets for Third World countries. While that is certainly a worthy activity, recent events have caused her to switch gears and make “ear savers” for our Juniper Village at Lebanon staff and other residents, who find wearing face masks to be uncomfortable sometimes…

This picture of Juniper Village at Lebanon resident Arlene Leonard says it all! Arlene was the last one finished at our Zen Coloring class, because she wanted this to be just right. She also knew what message she wanted to put on top of her page: "thank you for your patience."  Her message was then…

There are some activities that we were used to doing that for now we can't do in order to stay safe and maintain social distancing.  But luckily there are still some things that we can continue to do, and one of them is keeping in touch with our pen pals at Phoebe-Berks Adult Care Center…