This week marks six months of a favorite broadcast of our residents - Cookie's Connections! Congratulations to Cookie and her team of regular guests: Stacy Kissamis (LCSW), Andrew Rosencrans (Chaplain), and Stacey Schmanski (Asst. Director of Dining Services)!
A fun snippet of Cookie's Connection - a live broadcast that residents can call-in to speak to Cookie or her guests while friends and neighbors tune in on our internal television channels.
Residents, Charlie and Calvine Bowen, showing their Scottish pride at our Lake Forest Place and Lake Forest Open Lands Association end of summer bagpiper event.
Lake Forest Open Lands Association's bagpiper transported our residents, temporarily to Scotland without their having to leave campus. 🏴
Historian Krista August took our residents on a fascinating virtual tour of Northern Illinois historical markers and their historical significance with 'Signposts on the Prairie."
https://giantsinthepark.blogspot.com/p/krista-august-holds-mathematics-and.html#:~:text=Giants%20in%20the%20Park%20is,seventeen%20portrait%20statues%20in%20all.
This week's live broadcast of Coffee with Cookie featured Dr. Bill Cape.
Chef Mike kicked off a month celebrating gourds with a cooking demonstration of chai spiced butternut squash, orange glazed pork chops, wild rice and with deep fried strips of beets. Delicious!
September 30th was National Women's Fitness Day! As a part of our focus on women's fitness, Lake Forest Place fitness trainer, Dave Hull, was featured on Cookie's Connections to talk about women's specific fitness needs and how to maintain fitness for women of all ages.
Behind the scenes of our Armchair Listening series curated by resident, Don McInerney, and broadcast for our community through our internal television stations. In keeping with our Oktoberfest theme, this Armchair Listening episode featured Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #2.
Pianist Frederick Moyer, a frequent performer at Lake Forest Place plays a video-recital from his home in Dover, New Hampshire, especially for the residents of Lake Forest Place broadcast originally live on Lake Forest Place internal television channel. Through Fred's unique tech, you will hear him play solo classical repertoire and jazz standards with bass and drums and you will see his hands (and images related to the music) displayed on the underside of the lid of the piano.
Last week's Coffee with Cookie broadcast featured resident special guest and host of her own popular broadcast, This is Your Life, Marge Howard. ☕️
It is never to soon to let the Oktoberfest celebrations begin! We kicked off a month of fall fun with an Oktoberfest themed Cookie's Connections. Prost!
This week's broadcast of Coffee with Cookie featured a chat with special guests Sheryl Martinez, Business Office Manager, and, resident, Tom Toser.
What better way to broadcast one of our many live exercises classes than to use our spooktacularly decorated stage! 🎃
Lake Forest Place kicked-off our Halloween celebrations with a Halloween Cookie's Connections and Chef David's Mummy Coffin Meatball Sandwiches that residents will have the opportunity to savor next Tuesday for Dinner & A Movie with “The Mummy!"
Our SPOOKY staff submitted their very own jack-o'-lanterns for our staff pumpkin contest. Cast your vote for your favorite pumpkin in the commentS! 🎃 👻
Cookie and Andrew featured a perrenial late night staple, The Tonight Show, and it's most famous host with their live broadcast, The Johnny Carson Hour!
Residents shared what they were grateful for with Giving Trees, in preparation for Thanksgiving. What do you feel more grateful for this year? 🍂🍁
Political science and foreign policy analyst, Gary Midkiff, spoke to our residents via Zoom about America's emergence onto the world stage guided by presidents William McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt.
Via a docent-led Zoom tour, our residents learned all about Sue, the famous Field Museum Tyrannosaurus rex - one of the largest, most extensive, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever found!
Happy Veteran's Day to our resident Veterans! 🇺🇸 In lieu of a breakfast buffet for our Veterans, special breakfast boxes were delivered to all of our veterans and our Veteran's Day program was held over our internal tv channel. Residents John Rosenheim, Don French, and Jim Conner shared stories from their service.
Halloween Wheel of Treats, spooky ginger bread houses, and delicious treat creation demonstrations! Our Cookie's Connections' Halloween special was a scarily, delightful treat!
Stacey Schmanski, Assistant Director of Dining Services,, in her Confection Connection segment making“Spooky Bark” and other Halloween treats!
Our most recent broadcast of Coffee with Cookie that our residents watched on our in-house television channels featured an interview of Lake Forest Place's Health Care Administrator, Tony Rizzato.
Lake Forest Place's tradition of remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. brings Dr. King to the residents through his own words accompanied with songs and prayers for courage, justice, brotherhood, and peace. This year, the residents watched this video of Dr. King interviewed on Meet the Press in 1965.
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MLK: Interview on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ in 1965 (Courtesy: NBC News Archives)
Thank you to Chicago History Museum for this curator-led event where our residents learned about Martin Luther King Jr'.'s activism in Chicago.
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Coffee with Cookie introduced our new Fitness Center Manager, Bill Pavelec, to the community. Welcome, Bill, to the Lake Forest Place family!
Lake Forest Place is proud to announce that the COVID-19 vaccine distribution started in our community this week for long-term care residents and the staff who serve them. We would like to especially thank the Walgreens team of clinicians who gave the vaccines and our Lake Forest Place healthcare administrators who made sure that the process went as smoothly and as quickly as possible!
