QC Family Focus: November 2015
In this issue: A Teen's Perspective on Volunteering; 5 Tips for Helping Your Baby Develop; Reading with Infants and Toddlers; Text Neck: It's a Real Deal; Putnam Museum Boosts Holiday Offerings; Your Child's First Dental Appointment; Kids and Savings; The Importance of Music Education; Shoveling without Damaging Your Spine; The Facts About Fats; Senior Lifestyles; Learn more about QC Family Focus Magazine at our website: www.qcfamilyfocus.com Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/qcfamilyfocus
In this issue:
A Teen's Perspective on Volunteering;
5 Tips for Helping Your Baby Develop;
Reading with Infants and Toddlers;
Text Neck: It's a Real Deal;
Putnam Museum Boosts Holiday Offerings;
Your Child's First Dental Appointment;
Kids and Savings;
The Importance of Music Education;
Shoveling without Damaging Your Spine;
The Facts About Fats;
Senior Lifestyles;
Learn more about QC Family Focus Magazine at our website: www.qcfamilyfocus.com
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Growing Older Doesn’t Mean Going Dormant<br />
Mary Huebbe<br />
Marketing Consultant, Ridgecrest Village<br />
A few years ago, I thought I didn’t want to<br />
get much older. I thought aging was a bad thing. I<br />
had worked at senior communities and it felt to me<br />
like they were just giving up. There were only a few<br />
people who would get involved in the activities and<br />
they really didn’t seem happy. Their comments were<br />
usually, “The Golden Years really aren’t golden!”<br />
Since then I have taken a job at Ridgecrest<br />
Village, and my thoughts have changed. I can’t wait to<br />
grow older! I want to move into a senior community<br />
that thrives. I have been able to do so many things with<br />
my residents, and they make me feel alive. They have<br />
formed a family out of their community. If someone is<br />
hurting, they all hurt. If there is joy, they share their joy.<br />
There are no exclusions like in high school. Everyone<br />
is welcome, and everyone is invited to everything.<br />
A small group put together a social activity<br />
in our Gazebo. In the beginning there were about<br />
five people involved, the next week there were about<br />
ten, and last week when I was heading home, it was<br />
standing room only. One of the residents had to go get<br />
extra chairs from her cottage because so many people<br />
came out. It is amazing to see so much community.<br />
They want to be active and they want to have fun. I<br />
believe that is what makes our residents stay younger.<br />
That is what I want for my future!<br />
When I was younger, my parents<br />
used to take me to different places such as music<br />
programs, sightseeing trips and football games. As I<br />
watch my senior community enjoying their lives, I see<br />
them doing the same things my parents took me to do.<br />
They go to Hawkeye games, to music programs, trips<br />
to a dairy farm and so much more. It brings back all the<br />
joy from my childhood, and I see the joy in their faces<br />
when they talk about the events. They have shown me<br />
that growing older doesn’t have to mean getting old.<br />
Our residents at Ridgecrest Village still love<br />
life. They go out and live it to its fullest. When I get to<br />
their age, I hope I can follow their example and enjoy<br />
my golden years as much as they do. They have given<br />
me even more to look forward to.<br />
If you’d like to see what I’m talking about,<br />
stop out on a Wednesday evening while it is still warm<br />
and look at our Gazebo area, or give us a call and set<br />
up a lunch tour with Bob Morrison at 563-388-3431<br />
or Bmorrison@Ridgecrestvillage.org, or myself<br />
(Mary Huebbe) at 563-388-3215 or Mhuebbe@<br />
Ridgecrestvillage.org. See what our community is<br />
really like! Our residents at Ridgecrest Village make<br />
us a home as well as a family.<br />
We have fun and<br />
interesting activities<br />
on our calendar<br />
every day at<br />
Ridgecrest Village.<br />
Our Trivia Night<br />
provides the perfect<br />
opportunity to come<br />
and discover the<br />
lifestyle of fulfillment<br />
that can be yours at<br />
the Quad Cities’<br />
Premier Senior<br />
Living Community.<br />
Put yo<br />
Thursday,ur thinking cap on a nd join us!<br />
<strong>November</strong> 19<br />
from 5 to 7:30pm<br />
Ridgecrest Village<br />
Koning Activity Center<br />
The cost is $5 per person or $40 per table. Proceeds will go toward the<br />
purchase of new furniture for the Ridgecrest Village Arcade.<br />
Snacks and<br />
beverages will<br />
be served.<br />
RSVP by Friday,<br />
<strong>November</strong> 13.<br />
Call Bob or Mary at<br />
(563) 391-3430.<br />
Our continued care programs –<br />
u Independent Living<br />
u Assisted Living, including a memory-loss neighborhood<br />
u 24-hour Nursing Care<br />
4130 Northwest Boulevard, Davenport, IA • www.ridgecrestvillage.org<br />
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