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2009 Calendar T H E L O N G T E R M C A R E A S S O C I A T I O N O F M A N I T O B A
M A N I T O B A S E N I O R S A N D T H E I R S T O R I E S C E L E B R A T I N G T H E S P I R I T O F S E N I O R S
About the Calendar For our 50th anniversary in 2009, the Long Term Care Association of Manitoba presents:
Celebrating the Spirit of Seniors’ Calendar.
The “Spirit” envisioned for this project has blossomed from an initial estimate of 1,000 calendars to the current distribution plan of over 6,000. Complimentary copies are being provided to members of the media, community leaders, numerous health related organizations, facilities and residences across Manitoba to raise awareness for seniors and to highlight our Association’s 50 years of advocacy.
This beautiful calendar tells compelling stories of Manitoba seniors. It is a reminder of the values and strengths that our friends, neighbours and relatives bring to their lives everyday, and have contributed to the development of our communi-ties.
The seniors you will learn about in this calendar are from a variety of backgrounds and cultures. They are currently living in rural and urban Manitoba; however, some of these people arrived in Canada as young adults. Some of these seniors live on their own; some have chosen Assisted / Independent Living or Supportive Housing accommodations.
The process of finding, interviewing and photo-graphing the seniors has been a wonderful experience. It has reinforced for all of us life can, and should be, full, rich, active and exciting at every age. As one person on the project said: “there’s not a wallflower in the bunch.”
We wish to extend our sincere thanks to all the seniors who participated in this year’s calendar and to those we’ve met and talked with, who have agreed to participate in the 2010 calendar.
The Long Term Care Association of Manitoba Celebrating 50 Years of Advocacy The Long Term Care Association of Manitoba was incorporated in 1959 and is a not-for-profit corporation with 50 members, representing 4,000 suites and beds. In 1959, our founding members consisted of a few private “nursing home” owners. Today, our members include private, public and not-for-profit: assisted/ independent living facilities, suppor-tive housing residences and personal care homes spanning four regional health authorities acrossManitoba. Membership has grown by 40% in the last two years alone, and has become much more diverse. Our primary objective is to advocate on behalf of seniors in Manitoba and the staff at the facilities/residences who serve them, throughout the long term care continuum.
The Future Our website www.ltcam.mb.ca will soon feature an interactive provincial map allowing the user to “scroll” over our member facility/residence names and view profiles of each, arranged in a consistent manner. There will also be links to these facilities/residences’ websites if available. If your facility/residence is not a member, the name only, will appear. There will also be “tools” that families can print and use to discuss in private, their loved one’s care needs. One such tool will consist of a list of questions families can use to reach consensus on their priorities; another will assist families in assess-ing their current cost of living compared to living options with service components.
Corporate Identity As we embark on our 50th year celebrating long term care, the Board of the Long Term Care Associa-tion of Manitoba has made it a priority to review and “renew” our Strategic Plan and Corporate Identity. Look for more exciting news on this early in 2009!
The Long Term Care Association of Manitoba continues to work on initiatives such as this calendar, to raise awareness for the association, its members, the current issues, and future trends that will not only affect seniors, but all of us, as family members, in some way.
A special thank you:The LTCAM would like to thank all our of sponsors found in this calendar. As well the LTCAM would like to take this opportunity to thank our generous sponsors from the May 2008 conference: Attends Healthcare, Bayshore Home Health, Canadian Footwear, Complete Purchasing Services Inc., Canadian Union of Public Employees, Extendicare (Canada) Inc., Maxill Inc., National Industrial Communications Inc., Rexall Specialty Pharmacy, Revera Long Term Care Inc., Rona Inc., SCA Personal Care, Smith Carter Architects & Engineers Inc., and Toronto Dominion Bank.
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Margaret Ateah Morphy Born the youngest of ten into a family considered almost royalty in Lebanon, Margaret Morphy’s grace and charm shine through from the first time you meet her. “It’s funny that no matter how old I get, I feel like I’m 25.”
Margaret enjoys living in Heritage House Supportive Housing, but she lights up when the conversation turns to Victoria Beach. That’s where she spent much of her childhood, met her husband and developed her love of animals – or more precisely, where they were charmed by her. “Let’s see, I’ve had a pet bear, a pet deer, 4 turtles, a mink and of course dogs and cats.”
A pet bear? “He lived at our house in Winnipeg. He was very gentle most of the time, we would feed him with a bottle. If he was hungry, he’d chew your hand off, though. As he got older he couldn’t stay, so we sent him to City Park to make sure he was well looked after.”
But animals weren’t the only ones charmed by Margaret. “My brother introduced me to my husband John. “Right from the start, he liked me so much, I was dancing with another airman and John went up in the rafters with a flashlight and shone it on me the whole time.”
One day on the pier, he held my hand and asked me to marry him. I had had about 20 marriage proposals. For some reason, the boys liked me. But I liked him, he was so handsome, such a nice, gentle man.”
Margaret and John were married for 55 years. Margaret’s son iscoming back from Geneva to take his Mom out to Victoria Beach over Christmas.
“Animals are so clever, many people don’t realize how clever they are.”
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Harry Paine For Harry Paine, music has always been more than a catchy tune. A political activist since his days in London after the war, Harry brought his passion for the people to Winnipeg. One of the most effective ways, he says, was through the Winnipeg Folk Festival.
“Music has always been a political state-ment,” says Harry. “In the early 50s, I was into pop culture and classical music, then I met a musician friend who was very inter-ested in how different forms of music reflect social values in society.”
Although he never played a note, Harry loved the power of music, especially when it wasn’t created for profit. “Folk music is one form that has a lot of integrity, it really reflects the loves, hates and experiences of
human beings."
So without a musical background, how did Harry Paine have such an influence in the early days of the Folk Festival? Food. At a time when other show organizers were treating artists to old bologna sand-wiches backstage, Mitch Podoluk, the Folk Festival founder asked Harry Paine, amateur cook, to feed the musicians well. This, they rea-soned, would bring them back. They were right. The Winnipeg Folk Festival became famous in the Folk
music world and so did Harry’s Eats. There’s even a song written about that food.
“All music is Folk Music, ‘cause I ain’t never heard no horses singin’ it”
Pete Seeger
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Marie Guerrero Most Saturdays, Marie Guerrero is at the Philippine Centre in North Winnipeg welcoming newcomers. It’s a natural fit for Marie, who has been helping others since she came to Winnipeg by herself in 1980.
Her first job here was working in the garment industry, but she knew she wanted to work in health care, particularly with seniors. Marie began volunteering at Fred Douglas Lodge and enrolled in the Health Care Aide Program at Red River College.
In 1984 she was hired to work at the Maples Personal Care Home, where she helped seniors and their families for twenty years, until she retired. “I enjoy working with older people, be-cause of my love for my own parents and grandparents.”
Now, Marie is busy with volunteer work and active living. Through the Catholic Women’s League and the Legion of Mary, Marie visits people in hospitals, helps welcome newcomers, helps with youth programs, but mostly, she works with seniors in her church. A member of the Manitoba Society of Seniors, she can
often be found in their offices labeling and mailing their newsletter, The Journal. She also volunteers with Age
and Opportunity – and goes line dancing there on Tuesday nights.
“It’s good exercise and we have fun,” adds Marie. “It helps me stay young. I don’t look my age and I’m proud of that. I don’t drink, smoke or have late nights. It is my
religion and helping people that have always been important to me.”
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Michael Tarapacki After 20 good years working on the DEW line and then 20 good years of working for Manitoba Hydro, Michael Tarapacki now gets to do something he’s been wanting to do for a long time—play baseball.
“I played a bit of baseball in high school, and I wanted to keep it up, but my job took me away and I was on-call all the time.”
Michael’s making up for lost time by playing for two slo-pitch teams. Now he’s on the diamond four times a week through spring, summer and fall.
“I play with the Manitoba 55-Plus All Stars (the 2008 Seniors Champs) and the South Winnipeg Seniors.” But on the day we caught up with him, it was a pick-up game for senior men and women.
“This is a good group. We don’t keep score, we just make up teams, head out and horse around.”
When there’s snow on the ground, Michael is still busy. He volunteers with the Mani-toba Society of Seniors helping people complete their income tax returns during February, March and April. He also helps MSOS mail their monthly newsletter.
“When the occasion presents itself, I play bridge and enjoy social and pattern danc-ing,” adds Michael. “I fix things around the house, so people I know just call me up. I do a bit of weightlifting and walking, but mostly, I’m just on the go all the time.”
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Jean Chaboyer The first time Jean Chaboyer pitched horseshoes in a tournament he won the C Class. Then he noticed that all the other competitors had different horseshoes than he did.
“I was getting the ringers, but they weren’t holding,” recalls Jean. “Right after that, I got professional horseshoes and started practicing and getting better. Then, I beat the Manitoba Champion three times.”
Playing horseshoes has been good to Jean, his wife Margaret, a champion in her own right and their children. Since the 70s, when Jean started, he has won six provincial, a provincial mixed and two provincial mixed doubles championships. Their five children have also played, and won, over the years.
Together, the Chaboyer family has accumulated over four hundred horseshoe toss related trophies. Mostly, though, they are stored away because they take up too much space.
“This has been a good pass-time for me and good exercise,” adds Jean. “We’ve met lots of great people from across Manitoba, other provinces and the US and we’ve spent time together as a family.”
For a while, interest in the sport in the Province was dropping, but a few years ago Jean took it up again in seniors’ tournaments. “I’ve had two knee replace-ments and now I’m playing better than ever. Next year, the Provincial Champi-onship is in St. Laurent, our hometown. So I’m keeping up with my exercise and practice and I hope and pray to be in good shape to compete.”
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“In my running group, there are people in their 30s or 40s who say I inspire them. That makes me smile, because I know people from the Seniors Games who are 80, 85 and
90, who are swimming, biking and running.Those are the people who inspire me.”
Not that she needs inspiration.Marilyn has ridden the Habitat for Humanity Cycle of
Hope, a thousand mile bike ride, seven times. She has run ten full marathons in cities all across North America.
She works out for an hour or two every day and has started a fitness class in her condo complex.
“People always ask if I’m tired after exercising, but it’s just the opposite. When I do an activity first thing in the
morning, it energizes me for the whole day.”
More energy isn’t the only reason Marilyn keeps moving.“The benefits of being active are amazing. I hardly ever get sick, and if I do, I recover really quickly. But mostly, I’ve
made great friendships and I’ve had great adventures.”
Marilyn Whyte
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Bernice Muir As the eldest of four girls living in Newfoundland in 1942, Bernice joined the R.C.A.F., following her father's (W.W. 1 veteran) example. She was stationed as a wireless operator at Bomber headquarters in Lord Mow-bray's estate in England; where she lived in a Nissen hut with others, working in the castle, sending pilots their bombing winds over their targets using Morse code. “We could send it, repeat it, but they couldn t reply,so we just prayed like hell that they got it.
It was there that Bernice met her future husband Ian, a navigator on a mosquito, responsible for clearing the way for the bombers. They were married in the 11th century church on the estate, attended by her wartime friends and co-workers, Ethel and Margot. Together they en-joyed fun and difficult times, including the night that while working, Bernice realized that Margot's husband, Bud, a pilot, was shot down in a night raid and would never return. After the war, life took them on different paths, but the three women stayed in close contact.
Bernice and Ian settled in Winnipeg and raised their children, David, Ruth and Jim, enjoying summers at the cottage in Ponemah Beach. In 1983, they made Ponemah their retirement home.
In 1989, Bernice faced acute leukemia. She opted to be part of a diffi-cult research chemotherapy regime at Health Sciences Centre. As with everything else in her life, she took this on with her remarkable positive spirit and has now been cancer free for more than 15 years.
Bernice still lives her cottage lifestyle, though Ian passed away in 1996. She loves swims in the lake, pier visits, gardening,cycling and visiting with her children, four grandchildren, three great grand children and extended family and friends.
Ethel has since passed away, but Bernice visitsMargot every year on her trips to Victoria.
“People need to have fun and to live every day. I have a good life here. I’m very lucky.”
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enhancing lives If you are considering Long Term Care for your loved one please call and arrange a personal tour.
Beacon Hill Lodge (204) 942-7541Charleswood Care Centre (204) 888-3363
Kildonan Personal Care Centre (204) 334-4633Heritage Lodge (204) 888-7940
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“The truth is, you don’t dilute a culture, you only enrich it.”
Born in India, raised in Uganda, Africa and living many of his young adult years in England and Scotland, Prem Bhalla and his wife Pratibha certainly bring a multi-cultural perspective to their lives.
It was a natural fit, then, that once they were settled in Winnipeg with a young family and Prem was working for Uni-sys, he got involved with Folklorama and the Hindu Society of Manitoba among other volunteer activities.
“I have made so many wonderful friends from other cultures through my involve-ment with Folklorama,” says Prem. “Some of these couples and families are from very different cultures and we have stayed close friends for decades. When you get to know people, you forget what they look like and learn who they are.”
In just one year as President of the Folk Arts Council, Prem attended almost 250 meetings.
“I couldn’t have been so involved with-out the support and involvement of my family,” says Prem. “Our daughters took Indian Classical dancing, along with tap and ballet that all their friends were tak-ing. Our youngest went on to become a qualified teacher of Indian dance.”
Folklorama is marking its 40th anniver-sary this year, celebrating their unique history of bringing people together and sharing culture.
Prem Bhalla
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Brenda SkulasonAdministrator/DOCRed River Place
133 Manchester Ave. Selkirk, MB R1A 0B5Tel: (204) 482-3036 Fax: (204) 482-9499
Gwen JohnstonAdministrator/DOC
Vista Park Lodge144 Novavista Drive, Wpg. MB R2N 1P8
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Michael and Irene Baron
The Barons have lived and worked with seniors for most of their lives, as founders of one of the first personal care homes in Winnipeg and eventually as the owners of many more.
“We got into this unexpectedly,” says Michael. “After I left the air force, my brother and I were building houses. We started building the house Irene and I were going to live in. Irene wanted lar-ger windows and a few other features. A fellow drove by one day, saw the house and said he wanted it. He said he had a nursing home to trade.”
With Irene being a Registered Nurse, it seemed like a good opportunity, so the couple gave up their home and moved into the basement of Arcadia House on the riverbank—near where the Donald Street Bridge is now.
Michael had a job with CN Rail, working on the dining and sleeping cars, so he was gone for a week at a time. Irene stayed at the house with their young daughter Colleen and looked after the residents.
Through the years, the Baron’s owned Arcadia House, Ocean View Intermediate Care Home in White Rock BC, they built the Maples PCH in 1981, then River East PCH and most recently, the Baron Estates life lease and the Irene Baron Eden Centre, offering Supportive Housing.
“I’ve always loved working and living with seniors,” says Irene. That was clear when we caught up with her, playing the piano for a group of residents in the dining room and having them ask her to play on.
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In 1988, when Family Services and the Provincial Psychiatrist threatened to put their son Derek, who has autism, into an institution the Nobess family immediately went into action. They applied for the right to make decisions for their son and with the help of the Manitoba Association of Community Living (MACL) and Legal Aid Manitoba, the family challenged the Province’s power to place people in institutions.
It was a long hard battle, but in the end their challenge created the ‘Vulnerable Persons Living with a Mental Disability Act’. This legislation enhanced the rights and improved living conditions for more than 2,600 people in Manitoba and has since been enacted all across Canada. Judges, lawyers and police forces across the country were educated and retrained on working with mentally chal-lenged people.
“It’s a big sense of accomplishment,” says Ron. “This started with our own child and has expanded to affect so many people.”
The couple was called to act on behalf of their son again in 1995, when questions arose about the levels of care and respect while Derek was living in a group home. With the support of the MACL and Family Services, they were asked to establish a not-for-profit agency as a pilot project and a prime model for other agencies.
Arcane Horizon, Inc., named by Ron, was established that summer after countless hours of meetings and hard work. “We set up new philosophies that other agencies have since followed,” adds Ron. “It was important that everyone understood and agreed that we were building a home that offered our son and others happiness, security, respect and trust.”
“When you get backed into a corner and it involves your child, you’ll do anything”
Ron and Jean Nobess
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Denise Kotowich Travel and adventure have been a part of Denise’s life for many years, but these days, she's seeing more of the world than ever before.
“We have gone to Ireland via Iceland and Scotland, Aus-tralia, New Zealand and Costa Rica. We took in the Friendship Force International Conference in Brazil and on to Rio de Janeiro. We are looking to Indonesia next.”
While raising her family in Windsor Park during the 50s and 60s, Denise had a world view that seems, today, like the latest trend. Long before the celebrities were doing it, she was fundraising through her church to support missionaries in Africa. Thirty years before the ad cam-paigns, she was reducing, reusing and recycling. “Like many of my generation, I grew up to believe that it’s wrong to be wasteful and I hold a deep love and respect for nature.”
So when Denise heard about a group that was making the world more friendly by meeting people face to face, she had to join in.
“With Friendship Force we travel in groups from Winni-peg, anywhere in the world and we stay in people’s homes in other countries. When exchanges come to Canada and they include Winnipeg, we heartily wel-come them at the airport and into our homes, then show them interesting sights of the city and province. A fare-well dinner is always enjoyable, and then off to the air-port to resume their journey. I’ve met wonderful new friends in Winnipeg that I travel with and we’ve had great times with other cultures in the world.”
“Friendship Force is a wonderful organization, but it’s not for everyone,” adds Denise. “You have to really en-joy meeting people and because you stay in people’s homes, you have to go with respect and a sense of ad-venture. If your idea of travel is a five star all-inclusive, this may not work for you.”
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Olga Lewicki Learning, teaching and learning more has been the source of many gifts for Olga Lewicki and her family.
“As a young woman, I taught school in the North End. But once I got married, I had to stop. There was a rule that married women weren’t allowed to teach.”
Because of the war, she was allowed to return to teaching and continued as she and her hus-band Walter raised their daughters. The girls were 13, 10 and 3 years old when their father passed away and Olga became a single mother.
“These were busy times, teaching part time, being in school myself and raising the girls. But it was always important to me that they complete their education.” They all have and each are successful in their chosen field.
Some of Olga’s former students also stay in touch. “I started a program in Winnipeg teach-ing visually handicapped children. Until then, they had to go to London, Ontario for the school year and that was hard on the children.” Each week, one or two of those children, well they’re adults now, stop by for a visit.
Even after retirement Olga couldn’t stay out of the classroom, going back to University to study her native language—Ukrainian and last year, she completed a Palliative Care Course. Now, she volunteers at Holy Family Home.
Like many life long learners, Olga has made traveling the world a priority. “I’ve been to every continent, now. I’ve always been lucky to have good health. So when an opportunity comes up I plan ahead and I go, regardless.”
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Who We Are The Long Term Care Association of Manitoba is a membership based not-for-profit organization that has represented health care providers since 1959. We are incorporated under the Companies Act of Mani-toba and have recognized bylaws.
Our volunteer membership-elected Board of Directors provides direc-tion to the governance of the Asso-ciation while full-time professional staff manage the daily administra-tion.
We foster long term care leadership through membership growth, devel-opment and support. Our member-ship is growing. Currently it repre-sents almost 4,000 of the 9,600 long term and continuing care beds and suites in Manitoba.
Together, we enhance respect and understanding of the benefits and needs of Long Term Care among government, Regional Health Au-thorities, allied health agencies and the community. We represent the needs of the consumer and provide a strong forum for private, not-for- profit and public ownership catego-ries.
Our Members Include:
Private and not-for-profit corporations or public organizations that own or operate a facility associated with the Long Term Care Continuum. Partnerships, associations or commercial entities that are committed to the promo-tion of the Long Term Care Continuum. People with an interest in promoting Long Term Care Continuum initiatives.
Categories of Membership: Active Members enjoy full membership privileges including the right to vote at meetings and to hold a position of Direc-tor or Officer of the Association.
Associate Members can attend all meet-ings of the Association but are not enti-tled to vote or hold office.
Commercial Members receive an Asso-ciation membership list, can attend the AGM, but are not entitled to vote or hold office.
Individual Members can attend the AGM, but are not entitled to vote or hold office.
All members receive notice of educa-tional sessions and other related corre-spondence.
The Long Term Care Association of Manitoba Our Forecast Statement for the Future captures some of our strengths today and our vision for the future. It acts as a guide for our strategic planning:
The Long Term Care Association of Manitoba is the industry leader in the province. We promote and support high quality care and services. We define and share best practices. Through coaching, peer review and information sharing we help our members meet or exceed expectations. Our members are supported in becoming and staying ‘employers of choice’.
The Long Term Care Association of Manitoba is the definitive voice for issues affecting our membership and the people we serve. We are innovative and proactive. We are financially sound and sustainable.
The Long Term Care Association of Manitoba includes a broad base of mem-bers and partners, made up of organizations and individuals associated with long term care who choose to join because they share common interests. All our members are represented equally and fairly. Members and potential members see value in their involvement. Education, support, problem-solving and other services help members to achieve their goals. Members have a voice in issues of interest and feel they are represented.
Our visibility and public communication benefits the industry as a whole. Networking and partnering bridges silos in care delivery and across the industry. The organization is a main resource for the people we serve and their families. We are open, honest, transparent and accountable.
The Long Term Care Association of Manitoba Suite 103, 1483 Pembina Hwy, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2C6
Phone: (204) 477 9888 Fax: (204) 477 9889
Email: [email protected] www.ltcam.mb.ca
If you would like to volunteer to be in our 2010 Calendar, please contact us.
