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The Wood Retirement NEWS
August 2021
Welcome to The Wood newsletter for August.
I can hardly believe it is August already!
A reminder The Wood AGM is coming up 25th August.
We warmly welcome all new residents and new staff
All residents with an ORA will be invited to attend.
that have joined The Wood family in July—Shona and
Maureen D, and new staff: Munesh, Rebecca, Megan, You will be aware the Trans-Tasman bubble has been
Joanna, Marguerite, Philippe, Athul, Mikaila, Brianna, popped for at least 8 weeks. This unfortunately means I
Fiona and Inés. won’t be having my holiday with my family in Brisbane
in September. Please remember if you have family or
July was an eventful month where we had our Mid-
friends visiting from Australia (or anywhere else in the
Winter lunch for residents. Everyone had a great lunch,
world) Arvida has guidelines for visiting the facility. Our
and we want to say thanks to our amazing kitchen
staff at reception can provide more information and
team for providing such a great meal to us. We did
COVID updates are emailed out to families with any
discover that we have no decent tablecloths and so the
new requirements for visiting the facility. Thank you to
kitchen team are looking into options to purchase
everyone’s continued support in keeping COVID out of
some before our next event.
our residents’ home.
Maria, Kay and Aleshia visited us from the Arvida
RSV has become a concern this winter as well.
support office in July and they were all impressed
Confirmed cases are in Nelson, with some of those
with our beautiful courtyard area and main entrance
being admitted to Nelson hospital. Because of the risk
area. Kay was involved in the refurb here at The
of transmission, we are asking that children under the
Wood two years ago but had not seen the finished
age of 12 do not visit our facility at this time. We will
product, so she was really pleased to see all the
update you all as this changes.
furniture she chose in reality! Harrie from the support
office visited us for a morning to see how our kitchens I encourage all our residents and families to attend our
run. We will see more of him I’m the future, I’m sure. resident meetings. This is your opportunity to let us
know how we can improve your experience and let us
We said a sad goodbye to Karen, our head cook, who
know what we’re doing well already! We really value
has worked at The Wood for almost 22 years. Karen
your feedback.
came here for a weekend to “help out” and never left!
She is retiring and very much looking forward to trips Katrina Strickett
around New Zealand with her family. We welcome our Village Manager
new Kitchen Manager Munesh.
156 Milton Street, Nelson 7010
Phone 03 545 6059
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Activities in August
Mondays at 1.30pm Quiz with Yolanda and 3.30pm Mindful Meditation
Mondays at 6.30pm Games Night upstairs
Tuesday 3rd and 17th Singing with Gillian
Wednesdays and Fridays at 11am Tai Chi
Wednesdays at 2.30pm Board Games
Wednesdays at 2.30pm Mystery Drives
Wednesday 4th, 11th, 18th Trip to the Shops
Thursdays at 10.30am Catholic Communion
Thursdays at 1pm Knitting Group
Thursdays at 6.30pm Wild Wood Games
Thursday the 10th and 24th Podiatrist at The Wood
Fridays at 10.30am Church Service
Monday 23rd August 2 pm Community Wellbeing Meeting
Monthly Community Accommodation News
We currently have studios
Wellbeing Meeting
and an apartment available.
2pm Monday 23rd August If you wish to come and have a look or would
All Residents, Friends, like to know more, please contact Sam Fraser
Family/Whānau are welcome
03 545 6059 or 021 489 524
sales@thewood.co.nz
Cheryl, the hairdresser is at The Wood on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Appointments can be made at Reception.
Podiatrist, Patricia Horlemann comes in to The Wood twice a month.
The cost is $52. Enquire at Reception for the dates.
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What you need to know when visiting The Wood
Please enter from the main reception area off Milton Street. The door at Halifax
Street will not be accessible from the outside.
Due to the current RSV outbreak, no children under the age of 12 years old are to
enter the facility until further notice.
Please do not visit if you have been in contact with any person in the past two weeks:
• with COVID
• in self-isolation
• who has been contact-traced for COVID and is awaiting a test or has been tested
for COVID and is awaiting results
• who has been working at the border (airport/seaport) or in a MIQ facility.
Visitors from Australia
No visitors from Australia must enter our Care Centre for 7 days from their entry date
in to New Zealand.
For days 7 to 14 all visitors from Australia must wear a mask when visiting.
International visitors
No-one from overseas must enter our Care Centre until 7 days after discharge from
MIQ.
For days 7 to 14 days after discharge from MIQ, all visitors must wear a mask.
If you have been in contact with anyone who has been overseas, please let reception
know before going through to the Care Centre.
It is important that you do not enter our facility if you:
• Have a cough, fever, shortness of breath, sore throat, sneezing, runny nose,
temporary loss of smell, or any of your household have any of these symptoms
• Are awaiting a COVID test or have been directed by the MOH to self-isolate
• In the past 14 days been to any places of interest identified by the MOH in either
NZ or Australia.
We welcome you to The Wood, and very much appreciate your consideration in
keeping our residents safe.
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Some of the staff enjoyed a well-earned Pamper Day
Karen is enjoying her hand massage
It looks like Sam has fallen asleep!
Could Trina be a bit ticklish? Hannah is enjoying hers too!
This looks very
relaxing for Elslit
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Robert has completed his tractors
and trailers—they look so colourful—
and fun!
You are so very talented Robert.
Have you lost any clothing?
You will find lost items of clothing in the Activities
room of the Resthome, or in the CCW main
lounge.
The Wood were very kindly
donated these colourful
bedsocks, knitted by the
Nellie Knitters Knitting Group.
Have you noticed the
wonderful mural that
Victoria, one of our
talented Wellness Partners
is painting on the wall in
the Kauri Lounge?
An autumn tree full of New
Zealand native birds.
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The Wood Garden
It’s been a very busy and productive Winter in our garden, with some plants bursting into Spring growth
already.
The annual load of 10m³ of compost is now on all of the gardens, with a big helping hand from the rain
to water it all in.
All of the roses have been pruned and they are budding up and producing
leaves already.
Our Mandarins at the front entrance (Satsuma) have had a great crop this
year, given that the trees are still very young. Our two-year-old Mandarin
Burgess Scarlett in the CCW fountain courtyard area has fruited for the first
time this year.
Our Coffee trees (Coffea Arabica) continue to do well and have survived
Winter so far. I just need to remember that they are sub-tropical plants and
not to overwater them.
I have planted more edibles, amongst the flowering shrubs. There are small
groups of Blueberry Centurion and Blueberry Tifblue in the main garden and
Strawberry Camarosa at the front entrance under the Mandarin trees.
Blueberry Centurion has firm, dark
blueberries and Blueberry Tifblue has
light blue fruit. Both are rabbit eye
varieties and do well when planted
together.
The Camellias, Rhododendrons, Pieris (Lily of the Valley) and
Azaleas are bursting into flower now. Take a walk around the
Village, there’s a great variety of colour including some beautiful
dark coloured Rhodos and Camellias in the CCW gardens.
The Spring bulbs have started flowering, with the lime green Gladioli first to flower, followed closely by
the Daffodils. The Crocus’, Muscari, and Freesias are up and ready to flower and the Bluebells (Scilla)
will flower last.
We’re currently doing a trial with Neem granules under our Viburnum hedges. Neem granules are the
residue left from the first extraction process, after the Neem seed kernels are crushed to extract oil.
Neem granules are a natural insecticide and soil conditioner and we are using them to deter thrip
infestations in our Viburnum hedges during Summer.
Lastly and not least – our worm populations in the gardens have increased
tenfold in the last year all around the Village. We now have a healthy number
of soil worms and a range of different species, all working hard in all of our
gardens.
Enjoy!
Louise the Gardener
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“Guess who came to lunch” in July
June Coffee Club
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Trip to Mapua in June Thank you to Carolyn for these
photos of the trip to Mapua
It looks like a glorious day!
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Main Driveway
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Age to Age Programme We went to Clifton Terrace School
to watch the children perform
And the children came to The Wood
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