Libby Bortz Assisted Living Center

Emma Mallory— Executive Director Jeff Mahony — Food Services Colleen Dennis — Office Manager

Mandy Pacheco, Heidi Hill & Sarah Leon — Care Coordinators Russell Nokes —Maintenance Gaby Root —Life Enrichment Coordinator

Patrice Spring — Marketing Director

Resident Council President — Dave Steck February 2021 5844 South Curtice Street

Littleton, Colorado 80120

303-347-9755

5844 South Curtice Street

Littleton, Colorado 80120

Groundhog Day

Groundhog

Day is a popular

North American

tradition observed

in the Untied States and Canada on

February 2nd. It derives from the

Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a

groundhog emerging from its burrow on

this day sees its shadow due to clear

weather, it will retreat to its den and

winter will persist for six more weeks;

but if it does not see its shadow because

of a cloudy day, spring will arrive early.

A popular movie based on this day

is called, you guessed it, Groundhog Day,

staring Bill Murry and Andie MacDowell.

On February 2nd we will have a fun chat

about the movie and Groundhog Day

history.

Chinese New Year Celebration

Many countries around the

world that have ethnic Chinese people

celebrate Chinese New Year including

America, Canada, many European

countries, India, Pakistan, Indonesia,

Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philip

pine’s and more. We look forward to

making Chinese Lanterns during our

craft times, enjoying Chinese Fortune

Cookies, talking about the Chinese

New Year’s history, and a finale

Chinese Lunch celebrating the Chinese

New Year on February 12th!

Via Bus Service has now

replaced our Omnibus. All

that is needed is for you to register

with Via by calling this number:

303-444-3047.

Where can you go?

Medical, therapy & personal ap-pointments

Senior Centers

Grocery Stores and other shopping destinations.

Social and recreational events and worship services

New Games & Fun

A new game of Categories is catching

on. It is a word game by which a

letter is chosen and a category. For

instance a category could be animals

and you name all animals that start

with the letter “A” such as aardvark,

alligator, anaconda, alpaca and so on.

It’s not as easy as it looks, but the

resident’s who have played laugh and

show off their smarts!

Black Jack has begun and

it’s really fun! Residents

are excited to show their

card skills and poker faces.

So join us on the second floor

Wednesday, February 10th.

Rosa Parks

Ronald Reagan

Johnny Cash

Elizabeth Taylor

February

Birthdays!

Hugh Heggen 2/02

Gene Taylor 2/03

Stephen Westerberg 2/03

Goldie Pizel 2/10

Trish Crossman 2/19

Rita Gordon 2/27

Attention Family Members!

We need candy donations and

plastic eggs for our Easter activities.

Please bring Easter store

candy that is individual-

ly wrapped and new

plastic eggs that are

unopened. We need

them by March 19th.

You can drop them off at

the front desk. Thank You!

Beauty Shop Hours

The Salon is now open:

Tuesdays & Wednesdays—9:00-3:00

Thursdays & Fridays—9:00 to 12:00

General Store Information

The General Store

Hours/Days

Mondays 10:00 am—

11:00 am &

Thursday 1:30 pm— 2:30 pm.

Store guidelines are as follows:

1. Only one residents allowed in the store at a time

2. Use hand sanitizer

3. Social Distancing

4. Wear masks at ALL times.

This month our theme is China. Our

Destination is Hong Kong. Below are

some interesting facts that you may want

to read.

Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong

Special Administrative Region of the

People's Republic of China, is a

metropolitan area and special

administrative region of the People's

Republic of China on the eastern Pearl

River Delta of the South China Sea. With

over 7.5 million residents of various

nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre

territory, Hong Kong is one of the most

densely populated places in the world.

February 15th

* Men’s Sport Time

February 16th

*Lunch– Piano Music by Barbara

*Mardi Gras History

February 17th

* Bingo

* Dietary Meeting

February 18th

*Trivia

February 19th

*Aging With Kindness-

Kawaii drawing

*Popcorn Social

*February 22rd

*Category Game

February 23rd

* February Travel Destination

* Outdoor Visits (weather permitting)

February 24th

* Bingo

* Resident Council Meeting

February 25th

*Pictionary Game

February 26th

* Birthday Treats

A note from Emma:

Hello!

We have been integrating back to

some normalcy with our activities. One

new activity is that we are enjoying some

intergenerational activities with Girl

Scout troop 60678.

The Girl scout troop

made valentine cards for

residents, and we are

responding with some hand-

made cards to give back to them. We

hope to set up a correspondence that

will connect the girls and residents that

would enjoy participating.

Covid 19 update:

The surveillance testing will start

back up on Tuesday, February 2nd in the

Library at 9:30am. The Health depart-

ment made some changes with the lab

that was processing the testing. It will

be up and running.

On January 29th, Walgreens came

to administer the 2nd COVID 19 dosage

to those who received their first dose on

January 8th. The Walgreens team will

be back on February 17th to administer a

2nd dose to any of the residents/staff

who received their first dose on January

29th. They will start at 9:30 in the

Library.

Thank you for your continued ef-

forts to keep us all safe!

Emma

Up and coming events: Mystery Dinner in March

It’s California Country and where there is

wine tasting...there’s also a Murder Mystery.

On March 25th & 26th we are asking our

residents to dress up like an eccentric wine

enthusiast for our Wine Tasting Murder

Mystery Dinner. To help our

residents to dress up and

have fun, we are asking the

families to help dress your

“eccentric” loved ones for

this event. Please communi-

cate with your loved ones to

see what they may need for

this event.

We are also asking for donations of any

kind of “eccentric” accessories for those

residents in need of such items. Examples

would be hats, boa scarves, dresses, shirts,

etc. Anything “eccentric” will do! We have

plenty of jewelry so please do not donate that.

Thank you!

~March Events~

The Taste of California

Not only will you find mys-tery and intrigue, but wine tasting and grapes, art with sea shells, Ocean flippers and the destiny of Califor-nia Wine country with a

Sunkist mystery meal

~April Events~

New Life Fun is celebrating things like, April Fools day, Easter, Earth Day and April Showers. We will be doing variety of fun activities. Such as making bird houses, plant-ing a garden, taking nature

walks and enjoying the wildlife!

February 1st

*Short Stories

February 2nd

* Groundhog Day History/Movie

February 3rd

* Bingo

* Arts & Crafts—Chinese New Year

February 4th

*Arts and Crafts continued

February 5th

Popcorn Social

February 8th

* Ladies Hand Nail Spa

February 9th

*Pencil Art with Rose Ann

*Outdoor Visits(weather permitting)

February 10th

*Bingo

*Black Jack Poker Time

*Cookie Social-fortune cookies

February 11th

Chinese New Years History

February 12th

*Lunch: Chinese New Year Music

* Happy Hour

February Calendar Recap

February 2021 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1. Short Stories

* 9:30 2W & 3rd Floor

*10:30 2S & 1st Floor

General Store 10:00 - 11:00

Exercise/Balance

* 1:00 2W & 3rd Floor

* 2:00 2S & 1st Floor

2. Resume Surveillance

COVID 19 Testing

Groundhog Day

History

1:30 3rd Floor

* 9:30 2W & 3rd Floor

* 10:30 2S & 1st Floor

Arts/Crafts

Chinese Lantern Activity

2:00pm. 2nd floor library

4 Exercise/Balance * 9:30 2W & 3rd Floor

* 10:30 2S & 1st Floor

Arts/Crafts

Chinese Lanterns Continued

General Store 1:30—2:30

5

Exercise/Balance

* 9:30 2W & 3rd Floor

* 10:30 2S & 1st Floor

Popcorn Social 2:00-3:00

In the Lobby

6

Feature Movies: Anchors Away

Fury 9 to 5

Movies are held in the common area on the resident’s floor.

7 Feature Movies:

Anchors Away

Fury

9 to 5

Movies are held in the common area on the resident’s floor.

8 Ladies Hand Nail Spa

* 9:30 2W & 3rd Floor

* 10:30 2S & 1st Floor

General Store 10:00 - 11:00

Exercise/Balance

* 1:00 2W & 3rd Floor

* 2:00 2S & 1st Floor

9

Pencil Art

with Rose Ann

* 9:30 2W & 3rd Floor

Held in the activity-2nd Floor

10 Exercise/Balance

* 9:30 2W & 3rd Floor

* 10:30 2S & 1st Floor

Black Jack Poker Time

1:00 2W & 3rd Floor

2:00 2S & 1st Floor Fortune Cookies 3:15

11

* 9:30 2W & 3rd Floor * 10:30 2S & 1st Floor

General Store 1:30—2:30

Chinese New Year’s History

2:00—2nd Floor library

12 Exercise/Balance * 9:30 2W & 3rd Floor * 10:30 2S & 1st Floor

LUNCH: Chinese New Year Celebration

Happy Hour 2:00-3:00 In the Lobby

13

Feature Movies: A Hole in the Head Heaven is for Real

The Pistol Movies are held in the common area on the resident’s floor.

14 Valentine’s Day

Feature Movies:

A Hole in the Head Heaven is for Real The Pistol

Movies are held in the common area on the resident’s floor.

15 Men’s Sports Time

9:30 on the 3rd Floor

General Store 10:00 - 11:00

Exercise/Balance

* 1:00 2W & 3rd Floor

* 2:00 2S & 1st Floor

16. Lunch- Piano

Music by Barbara

Mardi Gras History

* 1:00 2W & 3rd Floor

* 2:00 2S & 1st Floor

17

* 1930 2W & 3rd Floor

* 10:30 2S & 1st Floor

Dietary Meeting

*1:30 1st & 2nd Floors

*2:00 3rd Floor

18 Exercise/Balance

* 9:30 2W & 3rd Floor

*10:30 2S & 1st Floor

General Store 1:30—2:30

Trivia

2:00—2nd Floor library

19 Exercise/Balance

* 9:30 2W & 3rd Floor

* 10:30 2S & 1st Floor

Aging with Kindness

1:30 In the Library

Popcorn Social 2:00-3:00 In the Lobby

20

Feature Movies: Swiss Family Robinson

Blue Hawaii FireProof

Movies are held in the common area on the resident’s floor.

21 Feature Movies:

Swiss Family Robinson Blue Hawaii

FireProof

Movies are held in the common area on the resident’s floor.

22 Category Game

* 9:30 2W & 3rd Floor

*10:30 2S & 1st Floor

General Store 10:00 - 11:00

Exercise/Balance

* 1:00 2W & 3rd Floor

* 2:00 2S & 1st Floor

23 Pencil Art with RoseAnn 9:30 2S & 1st Floor Held in the activity-2nd Floor February Travel Destination Hong Kong 1:30 2nd Floor Library

24 Exercise/Balance

* 9:30 2W & 3rd Floor

* 10:30 2S & 1st Floor

Resident Council Meeting

* 1:30 1st & 2nd Floors

* 2:00 3rd Floor

25

* 9:30 2W & 3rd Floor

* 10:30 2S & 1st Floor

General Store 1:30—2:30

Pictionary Game

2:00-2nd Floor Library

26 Exercise/Balance * 9:30 2W & 3rd Floor

* 10:30 2S & 1st Floor

Birthday Treats 2:00-3:00

In the Lobby

27

Feature Movies:

Beverly Hills Chihuahua The Bourne Identity

Runaway Bride

Movies are held in the common area on the resident’s floor.

28

Feature Movies:

Beverly Hills Chihuahua The Bourne Identity

Runaway Bride

Movies are held in the common area on the resident’s floor.

February Birthdays!

Hugh Heggen 2/02 Goldie Pizel 2/10

Gene Taylor 2/03 Trish Crossman 2/19

Stephen Westerberg 2//03 Rita Gordon 2/27

Outdoor Visitation Day

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Activity KeyActivity KeyActivity Key

1W — One West only 1S — One South only 2W — Two West only 2S — Two South only 3 — 3rd Floor only

*MEET IN THE

LIBRARY

2ND FLOOR

Outdoor Visitation Day

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm