Attn: Re-roofing Closes Parking Stalls
Please be advised that Hospital W2 reroof will be starting tomorrow (Tuesday). The South side of C-wing, along the building will be blocked off for the trades and the bin until Wednesday. See attached map for parking stall closures. Thanks for your patience. Bas
Mary’s Marathon
Mary and Marvin Wiebe live at Menno Place, and as a community we are partnering together with the Wiebe family to participate in the Walk for ALS on June 9th.
NAOSH WEEK – May 6-12
Safety Scrambles will be posted in each staff room/lounges for you to decipher starting May 6th!
Stop! Clean Your Hands – HAND HYGIENE DAY – MAY 14th
Have you washed your hands yet?
Marshall Entrance Construction – May 3
To facilitate the installation of overhead cables between the Terrace West Apartment and the Pavilion Apartment, there will be a planned single lane blockage at the Marshall entrance to Menno Place. This will take place on Thursday, May 3. There will be a brief road closure of both lanes while the overhead cables are being […]
Walk for Alzheimer’s 2018
Join the Menno Place Walk for Alzheimer’s team! Together we make memories matter.
An initiative of the Health and Wellness Committee.
COR is here – May 1st to 5th
This week – April 30th – May 4th – we will be participating in an audit of our Occupational Health and Safety Program. Much like Accreditation, there will be auditors who will be inspecting all levels of Health and Safety on the Menno Place campus. Auditors will be looking at the Management and Leadership Commitment to […]
Stress Management: Positive & Healthy Strategies
Can stress be managed in a positive and healthy way? Yes, it can! Most of us would like to find better ways to manage the stress in our lives. Our bodies and brains are designed to respond effectively to a certain amount of stress, but while some stress can be a positive motivator of […]
National Day of Mourning – Work Related Deaths
Last year, 158 B.C. workers died from a workplace injury or disease. Now, families and communities are left to mourn. Across Canada, April 28 has been designated the Day of Mourning. As workers, families, employers, and communities come together at ceremonies held around the province to remember those who have lost their lives to work-related […]
Crazy Hat Day Winners!
AND THE WINNER IS… Olga Lehman – Menno Home Roxanne Carlisle – Menno Hospital Please see Reception for your free lunch coupon.
We have an Accreditation Winner…
Thanks to those who entered the Accreditation Quiz. The Quiz question was “What is the definition of RFCC?” The lucky winner is Ursula from M. Home. Congratulations! What is the definition of Resident and Family Centered Care? Menno Place has adopted the following definition of RFCC : “Providing resident and family centered care means working […]
#JerseysForHumboldt – The MennoPlace Team supports the Broncos
Today, the Menno Place team joined together in solidarity to support the Humboldt Broncos and the loved ones of those who lost their lives. Download Hi-Res Version of Above Photo: Click Here Download Hi-Res Version of Above Photo: Click Here After the photos, we sang O Canada and had a prayer for the Broncos, the […]
Hymn Stories – May 2024
/in Important Update, NewsFew hymns paint such a vivd picture of God’s love as this one by Samuel Trevor Francis. Find out more about the hymn, O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus, and how its author experienced the mercy of God.
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Hymn Stories – April 2024
/in Important Update, NewsThis poem, written by an Irish woman named Jean Sophia Pigott, became the favorite hymn of J. Hudson Taylor, the great missionary to China. Find out how the hymn Jesus, I am Resting, Resting helped strengthen the faith of an overwhelmed man near breakdown.
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Hymn Stories – March 2024
/in Important Update, NewsThe authors of the this month’s modern hymn are committed to creating a more timeless musical style that every generation can sing. Find out more about In Christ Alone by Keith & Kristyn Getty and Stuart Townsend.
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Hymn Stories – February 2024
/in Important Update, NewsThis month’s hymn is Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty penned by English minister, Reginald Heber, in the early 19th century. Heber was a gifted poet and hymnist who faithfully served his small congregation. After his death, his widow discovered he had written over 50 hymns. She succeeded in publishing his work and brought them to the forefront of the Christian community.
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Hymn Stories – January 2024
/in Important Update, NewsJanuary’s hymn is Trusting Jesus. This textually and musically simple expression of child-like trust in Jesus has met the daily spiritual needs of many of God’s people to the present time.
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Nominate a Team Member! Team Appreciation!
/in Important Update, NewsJanuary 25th will be a celebration of Service Awards and three categories of awards for staff members who are nominated for three awards recognizing Outstanding Contribution – click here to find out more
Hymn Stories – December 2023
/in Important Update, NewsJoy is the keynote of the entire Advent season, especially for the Christian, who realizes its spiritual significance – God Himself invading this world and providing a means whereby sinful man might live eternally. Joy to the World is generally considered to be one of the most joyous Christmas hymns in existence, not in the sense of merry-making, but in the deep and solemn realization of what Christ’s birth has meant to mankind. Find out more about this hymn by Isaac Watts.
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Hymn Stories – November 2023
/in Important Update, NewsI am Trusting Thee, Lord Jesus is one of the child-like, but beautiful expressions from the soul of the esteemed English poetess, Frances Ridley Havergal, often referred to as “the Sweetest Voice of Hymnody.” Find out more about this hymn!
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Time Change Sunday November 5
/in Apartments, Events, HOME, HOSPITAL, Important Update, NewsDaylight Savings ENDS on Sunday November 5 at 2am.
Hymn Stories – October 2023
/in Important Update, NewsThe writer of Count Your Blessings, Rev. Johnson Oatman Jr., was one of the important and prolific gospel song writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Find out more about this gospel song!
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Hymn Stories – September 2023
/in Important Update, NewsThe Love of God, written and composed by Frederick M. Lehman by 1919, has its roots in a Jewish poem, written in Germany in the eleventh century. The Jewish poem, Hadamut, in the Aramaic language, has ninety couplets. Find out more about this gospel song!
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Hymn Stories – August 2023
/in Important Update, NewsThe beloved gospel hymn, All The Way My Savior Leads Me, written by Franny Crosby was the expression of gratitude to God after a direct and peculiar answer to prayer. Find out more about this hymn!
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Hymn Stories – July 2023
/in Important Update, NewsWritten and published in 1833, O Worship the King, is considered one of the finest hymns from the early nineteenth century Romantic Era. It has often been called a model hymn for worship. Find out more about this hymn and its author, Robert Grant.
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Hymn Stories – June 2023
/in Important Update, NewsIt was in 1912 that C. Austin Miles was asked to write a hymn text that would be “sympathetic in tone, breathing tenderness in every line; one that would bring hope to the hopeless, rest for the weary, and downy pillows to dying beds.” Find out more about In The Garden.
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Hymn Stories – May 2023
/in Important Update, NewsJoyful, Joyful We Adore Thee, which is sung to the music of Beethoven’s “Hymn of Joy”, is generally considered by hymnologists to be one of the most joyous expressions of hymn lyrics in the English language. Find out more about this hymn inspired by the Berkshire mountains!
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COR Audit starts Monday!
/in COR, Important Update, NewsAre you ready if the auditor speaks to you? Review the Health & Safety Audit questions and answers! The audit takes place May 1 – 3, 2023.
Stop and Think – Managing Your Mood
/in News, Not Myself TodayCORky’s Back! – The COR Questions & Answers
/in COR, Important Update, NewsOn May 1 – 3, 2023, Menno Place will be having our annual COR Health & Safety Audit. You may be asked to meet with the auditor. Let’s all be ready! Watch your email over the coming weeks for review questions and answers to strengthen your COR knowledge.
SAFETY IS NO ACCIDENT – THE COR QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
/in COR, News“You’re going to fly through this!” – CORky, the SAFETY HERO May 1-3, 2023 If you don’t know the answer, say, “I would ask my supervisor” Review the key COR questions: RESPONSIBLILTY Can you describe your health and safety responsibilities? Protect my health and safety and the health and safety of others Follow established safe work […]
Hymn Stories – April 2023
/in Important Update, NewsChrist the Lord is Risen Today was written by Charles Wesley in 1739 for the first chapel service held in a deserted iron foundry in London, England, which later became known as the Foundry Meeting House. Find out more about this hymn!
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