Pella —
Welcome!
I’m always looking for tips and ideas to make my life better. How about you? Making life more enjoyable is a worthy pursuit, as is making a task more productive or finding a better way to handle a situation. That said, I am hoping that this new column, Ouder en Wijzer, will help you find some better way, or a few new ideas, which will enrich your life and make it better!
Let me introduce myself. My name is Kathi Gross and I am the Activity Director at Vriendschap Village, an Independent and Assisted Living facility located in Pella. I am a teacher, a writer, a wife, a mother (3 teenagers!), a friend, a woman of Faith, and a preacher’s daughter. I’m an Arizona native but have claimed Iowa as my own. Since I married an Iowa boy, I’m allowed to do that! I love planning activities for our residents and I tend to look at my job as . . . well, just too much fun. I see this column as a way to share some of things I’ve been learning from the senior citizens who live here at Vriendschap Village and what I’ve gleaned from my years of listening to and learning from the seniors in my family and in my life.
So, here we go! Look for this column each month. If you have comments or ideas to share, please feel free to contact me by email at kathigross@vriendschapvillage.com or at 641-628-8260.
Opinion
January 27, 2011
Ouder en Wijzer
(Older & Wiser)
- Opinion
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Capital Commentary
Social Welfare and the Pluriformity of Authority
- Changing the culture is part of transforming the aging experience
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Pella: Top notch schools? Check. Top notch facilities? Not so much.
All Pella wards will vote at the Memorial Building
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A note from the publisher
Help us with “Acts of Kindness”
- Living with a Loved One with Alzheimer’s Disease
- Seven ways you should be working out in 2013
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Capital Commentary
Questions onChristians and Politics
- Increasing Awareness and Understanding of Alzheimer’s Disease
- Special Thank You from Tripp
- Vote for change
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