168 Red Schoolhouse Road • Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977 • (845) 620-0606 September 2021 www.PromenadeSenior.com

Welcome Nancy Rutulante, In her role as Community Sales Community Sales Director Director, she will be supporting all prospective residents and their families as well as our professional colleagues. During her interview Our Management Team at process, Nancy immediately felt Promenade Chestnut Ridge at home at Promenade. She saw Executive Dir. Gail Spencer first hand what a dedicated staff Marketing Nancy Rutulante we had in our communities. She Wellness RN Lauren Wieder was amazed at the longevity of Wellness Karin Greenberg our staff. She loved the smiles on Case Mg Karlene James our residents’ faces after the year Maintenance Al Herrera we all experienced with Life Enrichment Nilly Landa COVID-19 and wanted to be part Food Service Michael Logan of our PROMENADE PRIDE! Office Mg Alexandra Falciano Nancy looks forward to meeting everyone and making a Promenade Senior Living is difference in our communities. proud to welcome Nancy Please join us in welcoming her. Rutulante to our family. Nancy is no stranger to assisted living. She has worked with residents, families and professionals for over 25 Welc me years providing organizational business development with a special focus & passion on geriatric care.

VISIT US ONLINE! To view our activities calendar online or for more information about Promenade Senior Living communities, please visit: www.PromenadeSenior.com If you’d like to receive our calendars by mail, please call Nancy Rutulante at (845) 620-0606. mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, LONGEVITY sisters, and brothers could not physically be together, caregivers became family. And even when things Congratulations seemed impossible, essential assisted to our amazing, living staff continued to deliver the dedicated staff who “Compassion, Community, Caring” highest quality care. have been working is this year’s theme for National Join us in thanking our hard working here for Assisted Living Week. This year’s theme staff for all they have done to keep our highlights the incredible care provided residents safe. They not only came to 20+ Years: by essential caregivers in assisted living work each day but they remained safe facilities across the country. while not at work so as to keep the Edmonde Z. 11/6/96 The COVID-19 pandemic has been virus away. We count our lucky stars for Fern L. 11/11/96 an enormous, unprecedented our staff. Lenes H. 8/21/99 challenge. But it has also brought Watch our activities calendar for Amonce P. 8/8/2001 together assisted living residents, staff, special events planned during National and everyone in these communities in Assisted Living Week. For these and a way unlike before. When times got 15+ Years: other great events, sign on and like our tough, staff members were there to Facebook page at Promenade lend an ear and their hearts. When Iris Q. 5/7/2002 Senior Living. Karin G. 8/12/2002 Marie J. 5/21/2005 In Remembrance of 9/11 The damaged pear tree was found Described as “a tribute to the past during the cleanup at 10+ Years: and a place of hope for the future,” and rehabilitated. the 9/11 Memorial in City The memorial was dedicated in Mosezella H. 1/2/2007 honors all who lost their lives on 2011, on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Donna B. 1/27/2007 Sept. 11, 2001. In 2014, the underground 9/11 William D. 5/19/2007 Built on the site of the former World Memorial Museum opened and Gail S. 6/11/2007 Trade Center complex, the memorial’s displays thousands of artifacts and Marsha W. 7/4/2007 focal points are two reflecting pools multimedia exhibits. Michael L. 7/22/2008 that sit where the north and south Another powerful memorial that Jolaine G. 8/18/2008 towers once stood. Water cascades commemorates the historic date is Carmella T. 30 feet over the pools’ black granite ’s annual Tribute in Light. 11/11/2008 walls, creating massive waterfalls. From dusk to dawn on Sept. 11, dozens Louise J. 4/19/2010 Inscribed on the bronze railings of are used to create two Nilly L. 7/12/2010 surrounding each pool are the names beams of light that resemble the Priscilla B. 2/20/2011 of the 2,983 victims of the 9/11 terror former twin towers standing within the attacks and the Feb. 26, 1993, city’s skyline. WOW! bombing of the World Trade Center. A park with over 400 trees surrounds 2021 marks the the memorial and includes a special 20th anniversary of 9/11 symbol of resilience, the Survivor Tree. McKnight’s Senior Living Features Gail Spencer in Their CELEBRATE! July 29, 2021, Issue Editor’s Note: McKnight’s Senior September Living and McKnight’s Long-Term Birthdays Care News are profiling the In astrology, those McKnight’s 2021 Women of The Arts at Promenade born from September Distinction honorees daily July 6 Who says all we do is play bingo? The 1–22 are Virgo’s through Aug. 9. arts are alive and thriving at Virgins. Virgos pay Gail Spencer was featured in the Promenade. Our knitting, crocheting, attention to details July 29th issue. and beading are back as well as our and like to keep inner Picassos in our art classes. things organized. Their Meet Gail Spencer, Veteran VIP If you would like to see more pictures deep sense of Gail Spencer’s 35 years as a of our residents in action, feel free to humanity and love for leader in assisted living embodies her visit and LIKE our Facebook page at others makes them dedication to the field. Promenade Senior Living. defenders of justice, In 2007, she started her current role We are always posting pictures from goodness, and purity. as executive director at Promenade all of our Promenade communities. Those born from at Chestnut Ridge in Chestnut Ridge, Keep up with all we are doing each September 23–30 NY, where colleagues say she and every day and don’t forget to click balance the scales of displays compassionate leadership. that you like what you see. “Gail always makes herself Libra. Peaceful and available to address any situation. fair, Libras value Her dedication is simply amazing.” balance and For Gail, no task is too small. She symmetry. For this can be seen doing everything from reason, they often helping residents participate in virtual champion justice and bridal showers or birthday parties equality. Using tact over Zoom. and calm, they Outside of work, she is an active resolve conflicts member of her synagogue, Beth among family and Haverim Shir Shalom in Mahwah, NJ, friends. having served in many roles, Happy Birthday including sisterhood president, To our Staff: membership and programming Fern L. - 22nd chairperson. She is also a member of To our Residents: the adult choir. Arnold B. - 2nd The McKnight’s Women of Rosalind W. - 3rd Distinction program is jointly Anne Marie H. - 12th administered by McKnight’s Senior Harriet F. - 17th Living and McKnight’s Long-Term www.facebook.com/ Care News. PromenadeSeniorLiving The Promenade at Chestnut Ridge 168 Red Schoolhouse Road Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977 (845) 620-0606 www.PromenadeSenior.com