Hello Residents,

Regency is full of festivities for the month of December. We have a calendar full of groups that will be coming to Regency to share Christmas carols with the residents. The community will be filled with music and decorations for this holiday season.

The residents are looking forward to another door decorating con-test. The judging will take place on December 17. A prize will be given to the winner.

Our traditional Christmas Dinner will be on Wednesday, December 18th from 5:00-7:00 p.m. We will need a head count for seating, so please RSVP by Friday, December 13, 2019 by calling 731-661-9888. We are looking forward to seeing everyone.

Please take this opportunity, if you haven’t already, to meet our new Administrator, Carol Wright. She comes with hard work ethic and has spent the last 17 years in the plasma industry, with the last three in a management role. Her goal is to continue to make the residents and staff at Regency proud to be a member of such a wonderful community.

From our family to yours, Happy Holidays!

DECEMBER ‘19 NEWSLETTERDecember 2Cyber Monday

December 3Giving Tuesday

December 6FUNtastic Friday:

Ugly Sweater

December 7Pearl Harbor

Remembrance

December 12Fine Arts

December 17Door Decoration Contest Christmas Lights Bus Ride

December 18Friends & Family Dinner

December 21Start of Winter

(Winter Solstice)

December 22-30Hanukkah

December 25Christmas

December 26-January 1Kwanzaa

Jennie Spraggins,Executive Director

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Residents, staff, and the community enjoyed doing our first Trunk or Treat. There were games, food, and lots of candy for everyone. The residents really enjoyed all the children dressed up for the holiday.

Regency Community Trunk or Treat — October 30th

Residents enjoyed an amazing lunch at Cracker Barrel. After the great food, they enjoy time to shop in the adjacent gift shop. This is a place we will need to all go to again.

Lunch Outing to Cracker Barrel — November 4th

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Residents got to enjoy an amazing violin performance by the wonderful members of the Jackson Symphony.

Jackson Symphony — November 12th

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Family and Friends are invited to join us for a Christmas Dinner. Our Dietary team will prepare an amazing meal for this event. We would love for everyone to join us for an afternoon of great food and music. Please RSVP by December 13th by calling 731-661-9888. We look forward to seeing everyone.

Family and Friends Christmas DinnerDecember 18th at 5:00 pm

This date is designated as Ugly Sweater Day. Residents and staff are encouraged to wear their ugliest holiday sweaters. Photos will be taken of all participants. A prize will be awarded for the ugliest sweater.

FUNtastic Friday: Ugly Sweater DayDecember 6th

The residents love to see this group of ladies perform. The Tip Top Tappers are a group of retired ladies that volunteer their time performing for the elderly. They come ready with tap shoes and different outfits ready to perform. It’s about a 30 minute show, but it’s worth your time watching them. The residents are encouraged to join them.

Tip Top TappersDecember 9th at 10:00 am

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The residents and staff will be putting together boxes for Operation Christmas. These boxes will provide churches around the world to reach out to the children in their communities. For many children, this is the first gift they will ever receive.

Operation ChristmasDecember 9th

It’s not Christmas without a trip around town and to the ballpark to see the community’s amazing Christmas lights. Residents will enjoy a bus ride in Jackson to view the light displays.

Christmas Light Bus RideDecember 17th at 5:45 pm

Once again we will be having a Christmas door judging contest for the residents. Family and friends are wel-come to decorate the doors of their loved ones. You can start decorating immediately.

The judging will take place on December 17th. There will be a 1st place winner from both Assisted Living and Remembrance Village.

Christmas Door DecoratingDecember 17th

Save the Date

January 3rd

FUNtastic Friday

Congratulations to Ms. Crews for being selected for the resident spotlight. Ms. Crews was born and raised in Madison County. She started school at Whitehall, and later moved to Alexandra School. She ended up graduating from Jackson High School.

After high school she attended nursing school in Memphis, TN. She became so home sick she came back to Jackson and worked at WTBC for a while. Ms. Crews ended up finding her own job at The Metropolitan Insurance Company as a Senior Clerk. She worked there for about five years before taking a job at Southern Supply.

She has one child and two step-granddaughters. In her spare time she loved crochet-ing, gardening, and woodworking. Mrs. Crews has the most charming personality. Her favorite activity at Regency is Bingo.

Angeline Crews

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FUN FACTS

» The Statue of Liberty was gifted to the US by the French on Christmas day in 1886. It weighs 225 tons and thus you could con-sider it as the biggest Christmas gift in the world.

» It’s believed that the origin of Christmas dates back to ancient Egyptians and Romans, who marked the winter solstice with ever-greens as a reminder that spring would return soon. But it wasn’t until Prince Albert of Germany introduced the tree to his wife, Queen Victoria of England, that the tradition really took off.

» In 1647 Oliver Cromwell, English Puritan leader, banned the fes-tivities of Christmas for being seen as immoral on such a holy day. Anyone who was seen celebrating was arrested! The ban was lifted in 1660.

» Bicycle, the US playing card company, manufactured cards to give all the POWS in Germany during World War II as Christmas pres-ents. These cards, when soaked in water, revealed an escape route for POWs. The Nazis never knew.

» “Jingle bells” was composed in 1857, and not for Christmas – it was meant to be a Thanksgiving song!

» Kwanzaa was introduced in 1966 and named for the time of year when African tribes traditionally celebrated the first harvest of their crops.

» Saint Nickolas, who would eventually be called Santa Claus, was originally the patron saint of children, thieves and pawnbrokers!

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COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

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1. A religious folk song or popular hymn.

4. First US state to officially recognize

Christmas as a holiday.

6. An accessory or detail used to

beautify the appearance of something.

8. A Jewish holiday that commemorates

the dedicating of the second temple in

Jerusalem.

9. Type of tree used for Christmas.

2. Name of one of the ships that sunk

during the Pearl Harbor attack.

3. Rain that freezes as it falls.

5. Poinsettias are native to ______.

7. Candle holder used at Hanukkah.

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CHIMNEY

GINGERBREAD

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MENORAH

MISTLETOE

NATIVITY

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EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH

Elizabeth “Liz” James

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Thank You, for your outstanding service & care!

Congratulations go out to Elizabeth James for being selected Employee of the Month! Liz has been with Regency since May 2019 as a Memory Care Activity Director and Caregiver. She is willing to help out when-

ever she is asked. She goes the extra mile for her co-workers and is an awesome employee. Residents love her energy, and enjoy all the exciting activities she sets up. Thank you, Liz, for being an exceptional employee. We appreciate you!

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EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR

Sherry Overton

Congratulations to Sherry for being selected as Employee of the Year. This is well deserved. We really can’t say enough about what a wonderful job Sherry has done. Sherry is always on time and always does whatever she’s asked to do.

If you need her to come in, Sherry will soon be com-ing through the doors. That’s how dedicated she is. If she sees something that needs to be done, she does it. Sherry is very compassionate and loving to the resi-dents. We are very proud to have Sherry as an employ-ee of Regency. She definitely goes above and beyond her duties assisting the residents with their activities of daily living.

420 Cheyenne Dr. Jackson, TN 38305 | (731) 661-9888 | jspraggins@regencyretirementjackson.com