OUR MISSION: To provide quality housing and residential healthcare for seniors in our community, reflecting our Danish history. OUR VISION: Dania Home To be leaders in providing comprehensive care through innovation and outreach ensuring we are News the first choice for clients in need of service and to Issue Date: February 1, 2021 expand and enhance our Homes and Manors to the changing needs of the community. Birthdays This Month Ronald J. Feb. 16 Dragomir D. Feb. 08 Dorothea K. Feb. 06 HENNA PARTY Maddalena L. Feb. 20 Mirza M. Feb. 22 John H. Feb. 28 Orlando R. Feb. 16 Susan H. Feb. 11 Gurjit S. Feb. 29 Dania is one of a few care facilities in Canada to have earned Accreditation with Exemplary Standing from Accreditation Canada for 2018 - 2022. Accreditation Canada certifies that Dania and its contractors meet the national standards of quality for health services set by the Council. In Denmark, there is a tradition called Fastelavn. Fastelavn is celebrated seven weeks before Easter Day. Therefore, Fastelavn this year falls on Sunday Feb- ruary 14. But what is Fastelavn? Fastelavn is a carnival of sort, where kids dress up in costumes and go trick-or-treating. It is celebrated in daycare institutions, schools etc. While Fastelavn is mostly for children, as few adults dress up, you can experience that the students at the university also will celebrate Fastelavn by having Fastelavn Par- ties. This year though it is advised not to go trick-or-treating due to Covid-19. Some say that Fastelavn is the Danish equivalent of Halloween, but while there are simi- larities, like kids dressing up in costumes, there are also many differences between the Danish Fastelavn and Halloween. Fastelavn is an old tradition and has deep cultural roots. It is based on the Roman Catho- lic tradition of celebrating the days before Lent. At Fastelavn, kids “knock the cat out of the barrel” with a bat. Or in Danish, "Slå katten af tønden". In the old times, a black cat was literally put in a barrel as a symbol of evil and beaten to death. This was done to ward off evil. Around Dania Home .