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specific goals to work on. They not only met but exceeded these goals. They are a great team who work well with each other, other staff members, residents and fami-lies. We feel the kitchen staff has gone “above and beyond” and de-serves this special recognition.

For being Employee of the

Marilyn Skowronski

Marilyn

Marilyn moved in on March 19th, 2010. She worked at a hospital as a housekeeper in the ICU for 15 years. She just loved her job. Marilyn lived in Minneapolis before she moved to Waterford a few years ago to be closer to her family. Marilyn has 2 children: Thomas who lives in Texas and Jean who lives in

Waterford. She has 2 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. Marilyn is such a friendly lady. She loves to visit. She is a big Twins and Brewers fan and a Vikings and Pack-ers fan. She likes to keep track of the scores. Marilyn goes to St Thomas Church every Sunday with her fam-ily and then goes out for breakfast. She says that is her favorite day.

Meet Your Neighbors...New Resident Profiles

Diana

Employee of the Month-March

For the month of March we decided to name the entire kitchen staff, Jenna, Ryan and Connie, the Em-ployees of the Month. The reasons were many, but among the main reasons they were chosen is because the kitchen staff were given a list of

Vi Halbach

Vi

Vi moved in on February 18th, 2010. She worked at St Mary’s Parish in Burlington as a business administrator for 10 years. She also did the books and ordering for the family farm and worked in the office at Waterford HS. Vi has been married to Harry for 63 years and they have lived in Water-ford for ever. Vi has 4 children. 2 sons: Jeff in Wa-terford and Patrick in . 2 daughters:

Christine in—and Laura in --. Vi has 8 grandchildren and 1 great grand-child. Vi loved to be busy. She was very active at St Thomas Church on Parish Council, finance committee and through the Catholic Knights. She liked to crochet and read and she likes old movies. She likes the Brewers, Bucks and Bret Favre. Through her farming she became very knowledge-able in poultry. She loved to help the FFA and 4H kids with their poultry projects.

Employee of the Month-April

Diana was chosen for our April Em-ployee of the Month. Diana can be found at WSL on various nights and on most weekend evenings. Diana is one of our newer employees, but has excelled at getting to know our rou-tine, other staffmembers, and most importantly, our residents. Diana has

such a cooperative, upbeat spirit. She is such an asset to our facility and deserves to be Employee of the Month.

For being Employee of the Month, she gets to park in a special parking spot and gets a paid vacation day. Tell her thanks for the great job she is doing.

Month, the kitchen staff got to park in a special parking spot and got a paid vacation day. Tell them thanks for the great job they are do-ing. Thanks

Waterford Senior Living ~ 301 S. Sixth St. ~ Waterford, WI 53185 ~ 262-534-4800

Director’s Message

March/April

Service Anniversarys

Virginia-3 years

Renee-1 year

Cristen-1 year

WSL HAS TRANSPORTATION!

We have a car! WSL now has a car that we can transport residents to doctor appointments, errands, and other destinations. It will be $30/hr and a mini-mum of ½ hour. We need to poll the residents to see what days of the week would be best to designate. The car will also be used for activities on the oppo-site days. More detailed information will come soon. Ask Meghan for more details. Burlington Area Senior Shuttle Service will start stopping at WSL and giving rides to area places within Waterford and Burlington for a nominal free. This will be about once a week. Ask Cindy L for more details.

WSL Remembers

Jerome “Bud” Vogt 10/27/1917-2/27/2010

Spring is in the Air

Meghan with the Italian Sausage

Waterford Senior Living

Birthdays for March/April

• 3/4 Marie

• 3/11 Mary M

• 3/17 Pat

• 3/30 Joe

• 4/3 Kathleen

• 4/16 Evelyn M

• 4/18 Doris

• 4/23 Joan

March/April 2010

Volume 4, Issue 4

Inside this issue:

Volunteers 2

Easter Dinner 3

Tailgate Party 4

Easter Egg Dying 5

Egg Watch 5

New Residents 6

Upcoming Events 5

Wish list 5

Employee o/t Month 6

Spring is finally here!! As is our tradi-tion, we held our 10 am stretch outside on the first nice day. Oh how lovely it was to be outside without our coats and breathing in some new spring air. I think the first nice days of spring bring the sweetest air. Now that it is nice we can start doing more activities outside. Many have gone for walks already. It is so good to get outside after the long winter.

Spotlight on:

Our Volunteers

April is National Volunteer Month. Here at Waterford Senior Living we are blessed to have lots of volunteers. These people come faithfully to perform any number of duties here at WSL. These people enrich our lives in ways they will never know. A big THANKYOU to all of them from all of us. If you see any of these people in our building or in the community please thank them. They deserve it 100 fold.

Abby Korb Alexis Wells Amelie Beland Angie Pavlovich Anita Blatnik Ashley Reuter Austin Hough Ben Jolliffe Bob Ludtke Brandon Bergersen Caitie Callahan Carl Mahnke Carrie Mittelsteadt Chelsy Mausur Collin Rohner Courtney Walsh Debbie Weis Doloris Rehn Frank Meyer Hunter Hough Ione Ketterhagen Jeanne Schultz Jenna Nimmer

Jill Andre Jill Ardis Jim Ardis Joan Blatnik Joe Huelskamp Judy Bergersen Katheryn Sandaval Lorraine Ketterhagen Lorraine Rudolph Marge Mahnke Marilyn Schultz Martha DeGraves Megan Moneta Megan Walsh Millie Luhmann Pastor Bischoff Peggy Liginski Ray Ladewig Rebecca Weiser Shayla Wells Sue Anton Toni Ketterhagen Valerie Ladewig

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We have also started an Adopt-a-Grandparent program here. People from the community come one a week and visit 1 resident. We have paired them up based on interests, hobbies or past history. Our residents that are involved right now have grown to enjoy the company and look for-ward to their visit. One gentleman comes and plays his button box in the dining room after his visit for all to enjoy. It is a reward-ing experience for all involved. Our resi-dents have gained a new friend and our Adoptee’s have gained an insight into the interesting lives of our residents. Lots of fun for all involved. Please thank these wonderful volunteers who have made this commitment to our residents.

Kathy Leaf Joan Weiler Martha DeGraves Jackie Kastengren Carolyn Pluta Hella Goering Kathy Ryan

Rebecca David Harriet Thompson Joyce Wright Erwin Goering Jim Wright Donald Leaf Heidi Bergersen

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Easter Egg Dying On Good Friday we dyed Easter Eggs. What a surprise when we took them out of the dye and they all had our names on them. Bright, colorful eggs are a sure sign of spring. It was nice to see them on the tables on Easter Morning.

WSL Activity Wish List

Each month we will let you know of some things that we are looking for to do some upcoming activi-ties. This month we are looking for: • Lace and ribbon scraps to decorate our Derby

Hats • Puzzles that are 300 pieces and large format

pieces. • Help on planting day. If you can help with any of this please call Cindy L at 262-534-4800.

Upcoming Events

Here are a few things that will happen at WSL in the next month. All are always welcome to come and participate. We will let you know if an activity is for residents only: • April 29th-Entertainment– Tichigan 2 • April 30th-Waterford Derby • May 6th– Mother’s Day Lunch– Fine Dining

Residents only • May 12th– Planting Day • May 16th– Miss Burlington Chocolate Fest Pag-

eant

For a while in March we watched momma and daddy duck scouting out a place to build a nest. Wouldn’t you know that they built it in the same spot as last year, right under the living room window of room 301. It must have been a good spot. Marie has been keeping an eye on the nest for us. Momma duck laid 11 eggs. We talked to Vi, who is a poultry expert and she said they should take 28 days to hatch. Based on our cal-culations, we are all anticipating the arrival of the babies the weekend of April 23rd. Last year, they hatched and left the nest almost right away. Hope-fully we will get to see them waddle down to the pond. We’ll keep you posted.

Duck Eggs

Nest with 11 eggs outside Marie’s window.