Previous Community Events at Rose Villa
While living at Rose Villa, there are many community events scheduled each year open to residents, families and friends. In addition, noteworthy speakers are invited on campus to present and discuss their topic of interest.
Check out what happened at previous events.
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Rose Villa Holiday Fling BazaarSaturday, November 8, 2008 Another successful Holday Fling Bazaar raised approximately $4500 for our Rose Villa Foundation. Many thanks to all our vendors and attendees. Here are a few sample photos of the fun.
Recycling Center VisitTuesday, September 30, 2008 Have you ever wondered what happens to your recycling after it leaves your home? Members of Rose Villa’s Green Committee (GC) wondered and decided to find out. Friday, September 5, 2008, three GC members, Charlotte Robinson, Ralph Willingham, and Don Siddall, took a fact-finding tour of K&B Recycle Depot on Clackamas Road, near Camp Withycombe. On September 30, 2008, seven more GC members took the same dusty, dirty, amazing tour. Gary Rowe of K& B Recycle led Bob Bennett, Walt Garvin, Dick Lakey, Bud Robinson, Don Siddall, Ben Stickney, and Jacqueline Clement through the 60,000 square foot facility where 116 employees work around the clock in 6-hour shifts. At the huge, two-level facility semi’s and garbage trucks off-load on concrete floors then heavy-duty equipment pushes the material onto a conveyer belt that moves it to the upper level. Looking to the upper level from the main floor, one’s vision is obscured by dust which hangs heaviest near the ceiling, then sifts slowly downward past workers stationed every 4 foot on each side of the conveyer belt sorting the recyclables.
As the material is sorted—cardboard, paper, plastics, glass, metal, wood—it is dropped to storage areas below and is called clean material. Clean material is bailed and shipped to end users. Cardboard and newspaper goes to local paper mills to be made into newsprint. Metal goes to McMinnville, glass to Seattle, plastic all the way to China. Telephone books are sent to Yakima, Washington, to be made into dividers for apple boxes. Most of the recyclable “raw material” comes from the Greater Portland area with some coming from as far away as Bend and Southern Oregon. Most of the wood comes from construction and remodeling scrap and is sorted by hand. It goes out to make Hog Fuel. Now enquiring minds want to know what is Hog Fuel? Thanks to Jesse Fox, Director of Maintenance who looked it up on the Internet. Hog Fuel, so named because a "Hog" machine is used to grind the scrap wood into coarse chips, is used for temporary road surfacing, erosion and mud control and animal bedding. Factoids: Amounts of Materials Sorted (Facts furnished by Gary Rowe of K&B Recycle) Cardboard 5.5 million tons/month Newsprint 5.5 million tons/month Metal 15 tons daily Wood 200 tons/month Plastic 1 million tons/month Phonebooks 112.5 tons/month Paper 70,000 to 80,000 tons/month Glass millions of tons/month
Memory Walk 2008Sunday, September 28, 2008
Fifteen Rose Villa residents, staff and families laced up their sneakers, put their best feet forward and raised $940.00 for
Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk® 2008, the nation's largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer care, support and research.
"Push Paint" Art KickoffFriday, September 26, 2008
The finished product will be hung in the Recreation Hall for the next few weeks--a colorful, warm and heart-felt community hug.
Harvest Festival 2008Thursday, September 25th Though the weather couldn't decide what to do, we decided to enjoy ourselves at Rose Villa's Harvest Festival 2008. With canopies providing protection from the passing showers, we were cheered by Octoberfest-flavored music of Haldeman's Oom-Pah Boys and wowed by homemade chicken and pork sausages, sweet and sour cabbage, German potato salad and delightful apple struesel turnovers provided by our new chef, Brian Quinn. Music, food, German beer, a little dancing, a little singing, old friends, new friends...we could hardly have asked for more.
Thai DinnerThursday, September 18, 2008 Are we fortunate here at Rose Villa to have two excellent cooks from Thailand working in our Housekeeping Department! Lott Wilson and Pranee LaPlante designed a menu, purchased, prepared and served a delicious Thai dinner for Rose Villa residents, with take-out boxes available for employees. Prior to the dinner a display of Thai art and a video of Thai dance introduced residents to the culture whose cuisine they were about to sample. Thank you Lott and Pranee for a memorable and delicious evening.
Mid-Summer Eve ConcertWednesday Evening, August 27th We spent a lovely evening reminiscing and dancing to musical hits of the 1940's and 50's performed by Anthony Choice and Daniel Crothers. The weather was perfect, the appetizers and wine were delicious, and the music brought back many wonderful memories. We look forward to another Anthony Choice concert of Christmas hits in December! Thanks Anthony and Daniel!
Clackamas County Adopt-A-Road Clean-UpAugust 13, 2008
The Clackamas County Adopt-A-Road Program was started in 1993. The Program is designed to encourage and facilitate involvement of volunteer groups in litter clean-up work, with each group working on a specific section of road. Rose Villa volunteers Ann, Betty, Dan, Don, Rachel, Rita, Fran, Betty, Helen, Dick and Andrew (behind the camera), tended Rose Villa’s section of River Road on August 13, 2008 and made... ahem... a clean sweep of it!
Rose Villa's Second Annual Hawaiian LuauTuesday, July 29, 2008
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