Residents at West Park Crossing, along with some guests from the community, enjoyed a beautiful candle-lit dinner at the care home on Thursday, February 28.
With a beautiful décor, involving red hearts spread across the dining room and classical music playing in the background, West Park Crossing staged what they called their “Valentine’s Day Candle Light Supper” for its residents and invited the community to join them.
The evening included two seatings for the candle light dinner; one to accommodate residents and the other to accommodate people attending from the community. The supper menu included a seafood and French twist-inspired five-course meal. The evening also involved live entertainment from Elvis impersonator Jamie Gass, who was a big hit for the residents.
Moneek Randhawa, Community Relations Coordinator at West Park says events like the candle light supper is important for their residents because it helps them to feel a sense of community.
“When the community comes into our home, the residents really enjoy and appreciate it. It is good for them and they love having people come in. One of the things we want is a vibrant home here so we host a myriad of events to involve the community so that residents can feel a sense of belonging.”
She says the events also give the community a look at the services West Park has to offer.
“We always try to host in-house events that brings in the community. This event, a candle-light super is one of those events we saw fitting to invite the community to join us and our residents. The purpose of it is to get the community involved, see what we’re about and what we offer. This helps us to get the community engaged with us and see what services we offer in our personal care home.”
She added that, “West Park Crossing is a very unique care home in the sense that we have independent, assisted and memory care living available here. We have all the care available to accommodate residents in the best way possible. We also invite people to make presentations on pertinent information for our residents. It is their home, so we want to make it as accommodating as a possible and making the community part of our home is a way of doing that.”
