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Doing It for the Kids! JUNE / JULY 2019 JUNE / JULY tidings 2018 DECEMBER/JANUARY Doing it for the kids! Meet Radio Lollipop's Glenice Sanders Rose-Pruning Advice COMPUTER TIPS Australia's Biggest Morning Tea Success INSIDE THIS ISSUE CEO’S COLUMN | GENERAL NEWS | WHAT’S COMING UP | NOTICES 26 Plantation Drive Bentley WA 6102 Phone: (08) 6250 0000 Fax: (08) 9470 2017 www.swancare.com.au facebook.com/swancare Johanna de Graaf 102 years young - See Page 22 twitter.com/swancare Tidings Magazine is a bi-monthly publication produced and printed on behalf of the residents at SwanCare. Material deadline for advertising is the 7th of the month preceding each bi-monthly edition. To book advertising or for SwanCare development update - See Page 6 information regarding rates please contact SwanCare on 6250 0032. Please supply editorial contributions as a Word document electronically CEO’S COLUMN to [email protected]. Hard copies of articles can be handed to 4 From Graham Francis reception in the main Administration offices at Bentley Park and Australind Rise Any supporting photographs may SWANCARE HAPPENINGS be supplied electronically or as 4 Reports straight from hard-copy prints. SwanCare to you Disclaimer In good faith SwanCare accepts articles, a small selection of AUSTRALIND SNIPPETS advertisements, and other content A mammoth Biggest Morning for Tidings. However, the opinions 8 Tea success and claims expressed in articles and advertising materials presented in Tidings are those of the authors and the advertisers respectively, VILLAGE HAPPENINGS and do not necessarily reflect the views of SwanCare, unless stated. 9 Happenings close to home No responsibility is accepted by SwanCare for the accuracy of information contained in the articles or advertisements. WHAT I KNOW 13 'A Natural' by Cecil Cahill Cover image: SwanCare resident Glenice Sanders 2 SwanCare Johanna de Graaf 102 years young - See Page 22 Meet Don Pederick - See Page 18 SwanCare development update - See Page 6 How to help a VIP (vision-impaired resident) - See Page 12 Rose pruning - See Page 27 QUIZ NOTICEBOARD A crossword and word search all General Notices 14 24 in one by Sue Lewis RECIPE & BOOK REVIEW RESIDENT STORY Scrambled tofu by Teresa Strelley. Glenice Sanders 16 26 Penny reviews 'On a Beautiful Day' by Lucy Diamond RESIDENT STORY GARDENING UPDATE 18 Don Pederick 27 Rose pruning RESIDENT STORY LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 22 Johanna de Graaf 28 Your questions answered RESIDENT STORY IN THE AREA 23 A chat with Chris Holden 30 Local area happenings Tidings Magazine 3 CEO’S COLUMN SwanCare News SwanCare Wins Silver in Employer of Choice Awards Some of you may know that I recently experienced quite a challenging illness. Fortunately, I am in recovery and counting my lucky stars. In times like this one really gets a true appreciation of what is important and valued, and right SwanCare has been awarded Silver, in the HRD now I am feeling so blessed to be Employer of Choice Awards in the category for 100-499 working for an organisation that employees, as well as a top performer in the Training and has such an amazing community, Professional Development, Access to Technology, and consisting of staff and residents Health and Wellbeing categories. who are caring, considerate and genuinely supportive of each other. The annual awards, run by Human Resources Director magazine (HRD), seek to identify employers of choice I write this on National Palliative based on a survey of anonymous employees across Care week, an annual event to raise Australia. From January to February 2019, staff rated awareness and understanding about their organisation in areas such as career progression, palliative care in the Australian diversity, inclusion and recognition. community. This year's theme asks the question - What Matters Most? SwanCare General Manager of People and Culture Fiona At SwanCare we are fortunate Miller said the award has come at an important time. to have the ability to offer our “For us at SwanCare, achieving Silver in the Employer residents palliative care services. of Choice Awards is a recognition of our tireless efforts This enables comfort over time, - not only over the years, but particularly over recent as people receive end of life care months, as the Aged Care Inquiry has cast a shadow over in familiar surroundings with our industry,” she said. “This award is really significant supportive staff and in the company to us because it’s based on anonymous survey responses of friends and family. from our employees. Our goal is to be recognised by our own people that this is a great place to work, because if What matters most, to you? we get that right, we are going to be making our residents For me, I feel that having connection happy too,” Fiona said. and support around you is fundamental. I am so proud to be “We are so proud of our employees as they are the reason part of SwanCare community and that SwanCare is such a fantastic place to work. It’s fortunate to be surrounded by such wonderful that we are recognised not only within our a great bunch of people. immediate circle, but also nationally.” Graham Francis, Fiona praised the Training and Development and the SwanCare CEO People and Culture teams for their hard work, which is so appreciated that staff report a 94.6% satisfaction rate. 4 SwanCare Why is my Internet slow when I turn on my computer? By Colin Manes, SwanCare ICT Manager Imagine, you’ve just found a spare half hour during the day, made your favourite cup of tea and are just sitting down in front of your computer, ready to get online and catch up with family across the world. Except, your Internet is frustratingly slow! You eventually give up and decide to come back sometime later, and find your Internet is now much faster. This is a regular occurrence that the SwanCare IT team is experiencing with our residents. The good news is that most of the time, it’s something that’s easily solved. What we’re finding is that most of our residents are beginning to use Windows 10 on their computers. When you first turn on your computer, Windows goes onto the Internet and checks for updates, downloading any that might be there. If you regularly use your computer (ie. daily), this would only occur every now and then. However, if you only turn on your computer every few days to use it, this means every time your computer will be busy trying to download the latest updates. This then causes the frustrating, slow Internet speeds until the updates have finished downloading (typically 30 to 60 minutes). So how can you avoid this? We’d recommend a few ways to tackle this issue: • Turn on your computer ahead of time from when you plan to use it. For example, you might turn on your computer in the morning when you plan to use it later that day. • Leave your computer on for a few hours every week. You might plan to make it a habit to turn it on every Wednesday and Swan Grocery Store leave it on during the day or overnight. New phone number: 9470 6021 OPEN 8AM-4PM MONDAY-SATURDAY • Use your computer daily – this will mean most days the Internet will run at normal (closed Sundays and Public Holidays) speed, and only about once a week will you Tien and Phoung notice slow Internet. welcome you! • And as a last resort, consider upgrading • Home deliveries available across your Internet plan to a faster speed. Faster Bentley Park (minimum $15) speeds will mean that the updates will • Range of freshly prepared download faster and also more easily allow salads, fruit and vegetables. your own Internet usage to work alongside the updates downloading. • Everyday products at a great price. Tidings Magazine 5 SwanCare News SwanCare Developments Boulevard SwanCare’s major development project is • Adie Court carpark structure 90% progressing nicely with the Leisure Precinct complete, asphalt works to be completed and new care facility, SwanCare Ningana, • Footings for Shade Structure (Porte taking shape. Cochere) to Adie Court pickup area Here’s a quick summary of the latest complete development news: • Power substation complete and energised • Sound Pavilion steel erected Leisure Precinct • Light Pavilion footings completed Project tracking to schedule – completion expected October 2019. Remaining works yet to commence: • Community Pavilion (Bowling Green Multi-Level Carpark Pavilion) • Two upper levels open to residents who • Parking off Wootliff Way have temporary reserved bays • Landscape and hard surface works • Lower level expected to open at project completion (October) Maintenance Workshop Leisure Centre • Siteworks due to commence • Structural steel for Leisure Centre roof • Project scheduled for completion 6 to 8 being installed, roof cover to follow weeks following commencement • Fitout of Lower Ground of the Leisure Centre underway Ningana Project slightly behind schedule – November/ Cultural Centre December 2019 completion expected – opening early 2020, • Cultural Centre fitout 70% complete, currently used as site offices for builder • Concrete structure complete • Structural steel for roof to be installed Mavis Cleaver Court • Fitout on lower levels commenced • Mavis Cleaver Court – Demolition of four apartments 90% complete, fitout to commence. Services install commenced. 6 SwanCare Multi-storey car park Leisure Centre - Level 1 Boulevard – Sound Pavilion Tidings Magazine 7 Australind Snippets A Mammoth Biggest Morning As always, our event this year was a true Tea Success! team effort. Thank you to everyone from our community for the many willing hands who By Margaret Robinson, SwanCare Australind Rise helped out across the morning. It was another mammoth effort from our I am happy to say, for 2019 the SwanCare Australind Rise community in May, which Australind Rise Community has raised just over hosted its fifth successful Australia’s Biggest $7,765 to give to the Cancer Council towards the Morning Tea for the Cancer Council.
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