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Dear Parents and Members of the Logwood Family Logwood Staff It is with sadness that I advise you of Irene’s resignation from her position as Nursing Manager. The impact Irene has had on our residents and assisting parents and potential parents with challenges their resident faces at Logwood over the past seven years has been invaluable. We wish Irene well in her future endeavours and look forward to seeing her as a Parent at our Logwood functions. With the resignations in the Medical Department it has been necessary to restructure to accommodate the needs of our residents. We have been fortunate to recruit Sue Copeland a Registered Nurse with vast experience to assist us. Sue will be on duty from 7am to 4pm Monday to Friday. For those of you who have not already met her Sue will be at the General Meeting of Parents on August 3rd. The other staff in the de-partment remain unchanged and they continue for now on their relevant shifts. Presently we are running a trial of having a Nurse on duty from 7pm-7am to assist with the Woodpeck-er residents. Obviously, this is a costly exercise and will need to be debated by the Logwood Board. Lennon Chikumbirike, our Social Worker has decided to broaden his horizon and is taking up his new position in early August. We are currently seeking a suitable candidate to take over the reins of this important part of Logwood and will keep you advised.

WELCOME

TAKING YOUR RESIDENT HOME? CONTACT :

Vumile—reception@logwoodvillage.co.za /

011-659-0480/0510/0586 NB: Please do not use Staff members personal cell phones

for communications.

SUPPORT “MY SCHOOL” Thank you for all who support Logwood

Village by swiping their cards. Kindly continue using your card at participating

stores. Every little bit helps.

Plot 100, Sunset Drive, Nooitgedacht, 1739 Tel: 011-659-0480/0510/0586

PO Box 110, Muldersdrift, 1747 Fax: 086-512-2960

Website: www.logwoodvillage.co.za Email: info@logwoodvillage.co.za

Facebook: Logwood Village

Nurses 24X7 —076-066-0820 Team Leaders 24X7 —076-423-1540

ON-CALL THIS WEEKEND

Concern Masimbani 072-608-7662

Anna Kabengele 072-720-3681

Logwood Village NPC / Reg. No. 1996/003780/08 / NPO No.: 006-467 Board of Directors: P. de Smidt (Chairperson); S.H. Clunie (Vice Chairperson); A.A. Carrazedo (Treasurer);

M.M. Mabeba (Secretary) (Directors) M. Gennrich; K.A. Hinde; ; M.C. Manitshana; I.E. Pretorius; N. Whitecross; J.A. Wolhuter

Mandela Day Mandela Day was celebrated on Friday, 19th July and every resident and member of staff gave their 67 minutes of service by doing a job different to their own. Fun was had by all. General Meeting of Parents The General Meeting of Members is going ahead as planned on August 3rd at 10am and we anticipate a good attendance. We are presently following up on members who have not re-plied or who cannot attend and we urge you to appoint a proxy on your behalf. If you haven’t received a proxy form and wish to ap-point one kindly contact Dawn at info@logwoodvillage.co.za. It is important for any decisions or resolutions to be voted on that we have a membership quorum in attendance. Recycling Programme Our recycling programme is up and running and is situated in the stalls adjacent to the driveway as you enter Logwood. Although the initiative is only in its infancy, beginning with recycling of our own waste and recyclable waste dropped off by family and friends we are earning a small income and hon-ing our recycling skills. We at present have one large commer-cial client in the area who we service on demand and we are going to commence with the weekly collection from farms in areas adjacent to ourselves that don’t have a refuse collection service. In conjunction with this programme the residents are involved in making “eco bricks”. These are two litre plastic bottles filled with clean, dry, non-degradable plastic which we will use for

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“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” - Jane Goodall

RESIDENT NEWS

Wednesday, 17th July 2019 we said goodbye to a dear friend, a long standing Resident of Log-wood Village, Jimmy Luesley. Jimmy was resident at Logwood since 2003. At the ripe age of 71 we bid him farewell. Jimmy was someone who spoke his mind, always asking for a lighter (when he used to smoke…….), watches from Michelle Voges, he loved watch-es, and if he didn't have at least 6 or more calendars in his room he wasn't happy. Pratley (as he called it) to put these calendars on his wall...... The list is endless. Jimmy had his moments with many a Resident but he was a dear soul. Always polite to staff members in the office. He made a couple of wedding proposals to some of us lol, but that was Jimmy's sense of humour. He had a great sense of humour. We will miss you Jimbo. May you rest in peace and know that you will always be in our thoughts. A memorial service will be held for Jimmy on Friday, 26 July 2019 in the Logwood Hall. Time to be confirmed. Anyone is welcome to attend.

STAFF NEWS

Nonhlanhla Nxumalo, our Enrolled Nurse for the past 7 years left the employee of Logwood at the end of May to spread her wings. She will be attending a 2 year course at the Clinix Health Academy. We wish her all the best and know that you is going to make a success of her career. The empathy that she showed towards the Residents and her determination to give them the best possible care, will always be remembered. Please don’t be a stranger to Logwood and once you have qualified, come and brag a little. We know you can do it!

BEANIES, BEANIES, ORDER A LOGWOOD BEANIE!

Chantal de Peers approached the office and requested that she start making beanies and sell them to gen-erate some sort of income Logwood. Chantal has already sold 6 of her beanies to her fellow Residents and staff, and they are very happy with her handy work. If you would like to order a beanie contact Dawn on info@logwoodvillage.co.za and your request will be forward-ed to Chantal. Choose a colour of your choice, Chantal loves working with different colours. Beanies are going for R50 each.

MANDELA DAY BLANKET DRIVE

Logwood Residents have dropped off their squares (for pro-cessing). Thank you to KO Bazaars Krugersdorp, who are in-volved in this initiative, as a drop-off point for the

Mandela Day Blanket Drive. Our Residents worked many hours in completing these squares.

We are sooooo proud of them all!

insulation, colourful furniture, benches, water features etc. The brick should weigh approximately 400g on completion and it can bear the weight of a person without indentation. It is our intention once we have sufficient bricks to build some furniture to put in our eco friendly Sensory Garden which is presently under construction next to the vegetable gardens. We invite you all, when you come to Logwood to take a stroll and see the ‘Work in progress” Sensory Garden. The “Hundreds for Logwood” campaign has not gotten off the ground as anticipated with 5 staff members and 5 parents contributing to the fund. We will continue to campaign for this small monthly donation at events and social media.

Kind regards Jean

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ROYAL JOHANNESBURG AND KENSINGTON GOLF COURSE—THANK YOU

The Royal JHB and Kensington Golf Course have their annual Festival of Gold tournament and each year the proceeds go to three charities i.e. Cup Cakes of Hope, Els for Autism and Logwood Village. A Huge big Thank you goes out to Mr. Christopher Bentley for the wonderful donation of R20 000-00. Thank you to everyone at the golf course, the staff, the golfers that participated in this Festival and everyone that was involved with all the arrange-ments on the day. We at Logwood appreciate what you do. We would also like to mention Mrs. Sue van der Riet, who is a member at the Royal JHB and Kensington Golf Course. Thank you Sue. We appreciate your involvement to secure this donation for us every year.

VOLUNTEERS DAY—bearing the fruits

As with everything in life, Rome was not built in a day. Our Volunteers Day that happens annually was attended by a great group of Family members, Parents, Volunteers that arrived with Parents and Logwood Staff Members. Below are pictures of our vegetable garden that our Volun-teers helped us with on Volunteers Day. Hard word, manual labour and a hot sun, was the order of the day. Our garden is slowly but surely starting to take shape and all our Volun-teers that worked on it can be proud to have been part of this project. Thanks to everyone. This couldn't have happened without your hard work and dedication.

“Embracing People Embracing Life”

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” - Niels Bohr

GRANNY B’s—THANK YOU

As mentioned before Granny B’s is supplying Logwood Village Resi-dents with work by way of packing stencils into packets. Not only has this been a great project for some of our Residents, they have taken it a step further and they are do-nating all sorts to Logwood. Wayne, who works for Granny B’s, has assisted Residents in painting a table with stencils. If you follow our Face Book page you would have seen Granny B’s assisting Residents to each paint their own place mat. They also donated paint and stencils to Logwood so that we could paint number on our Floor hockey pull-overs. We are so grateful for the work and appreciate all the art donations that the Residents love doing.

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“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” - Cynthia Ozick

LIQUID MOVERS

Liquid Movers is challenging all Parents/Siblings/Guardians and Companies to assist Logwood Vil-lage in any way possible. Not only for the Mandela Day initiative but throughout the year. As mainte-nance is an ongoing project we welcome you volunteering your time and service and any donations.

Liquid Movers is assisting Logwood in starting a long overdue dream, and that is to create a sensory garden on our proper-ty. This garden is not a money absorbing project as we aim to use recycled and second hand material wherever possible. We have a Horticulturist, Sue Frye, assisting with the design and layout of the garden. We managed to get a water fea-ture donated thanks to Roeleen Cronje, and this will be the centre part of our garden. Plants and trees were also donat-ed for this project.

Liquid Movers have done so much already. They supplied boxes in which we will be planting flowers. They arranged for our swing to get new chains and seats. The whole Liquid Movers Team is assisting with this initiative and this they are doing as part of the Mandela Day initiative.

Thank you Cliff and Gail Topper for all you do. We appreciate everything you do for Logwood and we appreciate your team at Liquid Movers. There isn't an opportunity that goes by that Liquid Movers don’t support. So Thank you to everyone!

LIQUID MOVERS

With permission from Gail Topper at Liquid Movers, I have copied their Facebook ad pertaining to the Mandela Day initi-ative. Although we are posting this a little late, it doesn't stop you from getting involved, donating something for the gar-den, give of your time and help us grow this garden together. This will be a work in progress, we know, but its going to be worth every minute spent on creating this garden in the long run.

Liquid Movers Facebook advert:

Sensory Garden for Individuals with Disabilities

To mark Mandela Day 2019, Liquid Movers is excited to be assisting Logwood Village with the start of their Sensory Gar-den project.

One way we're preparing for this project, is by building Eco Bricks that will be used to construct pathways, walls and benches. Our aim is to do our bit in helping people whilst saving the environment.

We're calling on all companies and individuals that would like to collaborate with us on this initiative by either donating time, skill or monetarily to contact us on 011 708 0600 or marketing@liquidmovers.co.za.

Learn more about the benefits of a sensory garden: https://www.sacare.com.au/…/8-cool-benefits-of-a-sensory-ga…

In preparation of the birth of our Sensory Garden

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“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” - John Lennon

“EMBRACE OUR WORLD” RECYCLING

Logwood Villagers are going green……

Logwood Village ‘Embracing People Embracing Life’ is now ‘Embracing our World’ to minimise the effect that waste is having on our environment.

We have done some in-depth investigation and have had meetings with various recycling companies to see how ex-actly one goes about running a programme like this. This initiative was also suggested by some of our parents and we appreciate your input.

This process is not only going to teach our Residents how to save our planet, but its also going to give them a chance to be hands-on, and reap the benefit of being part of making a change in our environment. This programme also allows them to be outside and not stuck indoors all day.

We have started recycling our own waste and have thus far done an amazing job.

A request to all Parents to join us in this venture, bring us your waste, separate it into the various categories and Log-wood will do the rest. We will have a drop-off point close to our main entrance gate which will be marked appropri-ately and all you do is drop it off.

And this is not where the buck stops……..

One Planet, One Dream, lets go green together

“Turning Plastic pollution into Plastic solutions”

We were introduced to the concept of Eco bricks which en-tails filling 2L cooldrink bottles with non-biodegradable waste and once filled, and we have enough bottles, we will be making benches or the like, out of this. This is a journey that we are really looking forward to as we can become very creative and our Residents will be part of the creations.

We urge you all to join the “Embracing our World Recycling” Programme and become part of the solution to save our environment

Samples of Ecobricks

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“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.” - Mark Twain

1. All paper (in its whole form and not shredded)

2. Newspaper 3. Magazines 4. Pamphlets 5. Junk mail 6. Circulars 7. Office scrap 8. Envelopes 9. Books

1. Glass bottles 2. Glass Jars

1. Cooldrink bottles 2. Water bottles 3. Household

cleaning agent bottles

4. Ice cream containers

5. Bottle caps 6. Bubble wrapping 7. Thin plastic

packaging 8. Milk bottles 9. Plastic buckets 1. Cooldrink cans

2. Food cans

1. Cardboard boxes 2. Toilet roll inners 3. Cereal boxes 4. Egg boxes

EMBRACE OUR WORLD RECYCLING

We are very excited to let you know that this new venture has picked up some speed since the last time we wrote about it. We have 3 clients al-ready and the collection of their recyclable materials has gone very well. We are starting off small to ensure we are getting the process right. All the non degradable materials are being sent to our bottom workshop where we have Residents building eco bricks for our Sensory Garden.

Unity College, who visits us on a weekly basis, also jumped in and joined in the fun of making eco bricks. Watch this space, as our Residents are playing a vital role in assisting to save our environment.

We will be placing a recycling bag near the main gate to make your drop-ping off of your recycling materials easier. So Parents, lets all start being part of saving the environment and bring us your materials. No need to sort the material, we will do that for you.

One Planet, One Dream, lets go green together

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“The past has no power over the present moment” - Eckhart Tolle

MySCHOOL MyVILLAGE MyPLANET

John Guest, Brother of Rosemary Guest, has been driving the MySchool programme. With permission from John I have copied his plea as per be-low. For the month of June we received R1460.56.

Hi All. I am raising funds by being in contact with you and requesting, if you pur-chase from any of the listed companies below, then a small percentage of your purchase will then go directly to “Logwood Village 5097”, a registered beneficiary of My School and Woolworths Rewards program. Logwood Village is a special care needs facility that can really do with your direct or indirect help. Yes, the proceeds of your pur-chases do make a difference and my campaign target is to raise R 10 000.00 every month, so please, if you have time, register a new card or switch your current card to support Logwood Village 5097, Plot 100 Plot 100, Sunset Drive, Muldersdrift. Visit logwood Village, on-line: https://www.logwoodvillage.co.za/ If you have an existing MySchool, My Village, My planet card, just call 0860 100 445 and request your beneficiary be updated and changed to “Logwood Village 5097”. Kindly share this with your partner, close friends, colleagues, sports club, book club or any other special group. Every contribu-tion is appreciated. Woolworth stock application forms and will issue you with a card there and then. Be sure you receive month-ly contribution report of your spend.

By making purchases at any of the listed stores below and on presentation of your card, a small portion of your sale will automatically be forwarded to your chosen beneficiary linked to your card. · Woolworths · Flight centre · Bidvest Waltons · loot.co.za · Netstar vehicle recovery · power24.co.za

Dear John Guest, family and friends.

Thanks to people like you, MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet is able to raise funds every month for schools and charities. If only we had more

supporters, we could raise even more for these worthy causes.

That's where we need your help. We'd like to ask you to encourage others to join too.

All you have to do is click on one of the buttons below to invite your friends to join as supporters.

Every member counts!

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“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend” - William Blake

Physical address: Plot 100, Sunset Drive, Nooitgedacht, 1739 Postal address: PO Box 110, Muldersdirft, 1747 Tel: 011-659-0480/0510/0586 Fax: 086-512-2960 Web: www.logwoodvillage.co.za Registration no.: 1996/003780/08 VAT no.: 4720162686 NPO no.: 006-467 Banking details: Name: Logwood Village Bank: FNB Branch: Northgate Branch no.: 256 755 Cheque Account no.: 5631 0031 764 Account type: Current Fund raising Account no.: 6205 1930 884

LOGWOOD VILLAGE COMPANY DETAILS

RESIDENTS WEEKLY ACTIVITY SCHEDULE

DAY ACTIVITIES

MONDAY Swimming / Gardening / Retirement Programme Dance / Gym / Golf / Soccer practice

TUESDAY Gardening / Gym / Knitting / Soccer / Bocce /

WEDNESDAY Horse Riding / Ice Skating / Car wash / Gym / Gardening /

THURSDAY Swimming / Music / Arts and Crafts / Gym / Ipad training

FRIDAY Yoga / Swimming / Volleyball

SATURDAY Ten-pin Bowling / Floor hockey

SUNDAY Church / Hygiene awareness

AUGUST BIRTHDAYS

1 Mpumi Mgwenya 5 Tyron Araujo

11 Lesley Freeman

Trevor Armstrong

12 Piet Kemp

8 Oral Meyer 12 Piet Kemp

16 Marc Donachie 26 Micheala Bell

29 Faith Nkosi 30 Louis le Roux

31 Roshanti Moodley

JULY BIRTHDAYS

2 Mabale Motaung

Thabank Oldjohn

7 Peter Goodman

14 Joanne Cowley 16 Sally Anne Adams

27 Andre Mulder 30 Adam Frost

CALENDAR JULY 2019

DATE EVENT

27 Floor Hockey (Logwood)

31 Soccer (Boys) - Cresset House

CALENDAR AUGUST 2019

DATE EVENT

7 Table Tennis and Chess

8 Forum Meeting at Abraham Kriel

12 Gala

14 Bocce—Cresset House

17 Floor Hockey—Logwood

28 Basket Ball and Soccer