Maplewood Retirement Community
340 Industrial Ave. K1G 3Z6 Ottawa, ON, Canada

Looking back on this year, here are some of our favorite pictures! It has been a difficult year but we are so grateful to our wonderful residents, staff and families Happy New Years from our Maplewood family #HappyNewYear2021

This morning every resident will wake up to a Christmas stocking! The stocking is filled with a maple lollipop, candy cane, Riverstone scarf, orange, hot chocolate donated by Simply Seniors, beautiful hand-made ornaments donated by a resident's family, a Maplewood coaster & a special card from Maplewood as well as a card made by members from the community Thanks to our fabulous team for delivering the stockings! We hope every resident wakes up this morning feeling extra special! Merry Christmas

Gingerbread houses, Christmas hats, and festive sweaters! We have had a wonderful time celebrating the holiday season at Maplewood! We are excited for the residents to wake up to a surprise tomorrow morning!

The elves worked hard to create a Winter Wonderland for the residents to enjoy all their Christmas movies in!

Today we had our first annual Soup contest! Our residents made two different types of soup that were judged against two soups made by the Food Service Team! It was a close race but here are the final results! 1st Place - Creamy Broccoli (45 votes) Residents soup! 2nd Place - Lentil & Vegetable (40 votes) Residents soup! 3rd Place - Apple Carrot Ginger (32 votes) Food Service Team! 4th Place - Beef Barley (27 votes) Food Service Team!

We couldn't have our normal Christmas party so we spoiled the staff with a luncheon! All the managers prepared delicious baked goods, we ordered in Chinese food, and had a draw from so fabulous prizes!

Melvin took advantage of the nice weather and got all his lights up! He had some help from maintenance, activities, and marketing but got the job done! We can't wait to have them on from dusk till dawn starting December 1st!

Seasons Greetings from all of us at Maplewood! We wish you a safe and healthy holiday!

Food service manager Jason Eden showing residents how easy it is to make a couscous salad in their suite

If you weren't able to join our Facebook live check out the video! Our chef Jason did a Live Food Demo for a quick and healthy meal our residents could prepare in their room! They followed along over zoom!

We had many happy shoppers today as we took our Vendor Cart around with pieces provided by Beaded Elegance!

We are starting a new pilot program called the Happiness Hunt! It is an intergenerational program with a nearby school! This week we will be sharing letters of what makes us happy we passed around beautiful pages for residents to begin writing a letter!