Join us for the Menno Place Butterfly Release on Friday, June 13 at 2:30pm, following our annual memorial service where we’ll be honouring those who have passed since June 2024. Click for details on how you can pre-purchase your butterfly!
Every year on Mother’s Day our campus is flooded with beautiful floral arrangements that bring joy to residents all over Menno Place. If you’re thinking about gifting flowers this year we wanted to remind you of a couple of guidelines.
Our 100 active volunteers have already contributed nearly 2,000 hours in 2025
Date: April 23, 2025
To: All Residents of Menno Apartments
Re: Air Conditioners
Dear Residents of Pavilion, Terrace West, Terrace East, and Primrose Gardens,
Warmer weather is just around the corner and it’s time to think about air conditioners. The common areas of each apartment building – the dining rooms, hallways and lounges – are air conditioned, but individual apartments are not.
Please note the following process for getting your air conditioner installed. (If you want to get an air conditioner, see below for the details.)
Installations are scheduled to begin on May 5th. Our plan is to complete this project before the May long weekend. Removals are tentatively scheduled for after Thanksgiving (approximately mid-October). We will communicate our disconnect plans closer to the date.
For any requests for installations received after April 30th, we will process them when our maintenance team has time.
Please contact the Life Enrichment Team at 604-851-4004 with any questions.
Leonard Klassen,
Manager of Community Enrichment
AIR CONDITIONERS AT MENNO APARTMENTS
Please note the following important information:
This is your chance to say thank you to the visitation hosts before the program ends at the end of April.
Fraser Valley Fire Protection will be on our campus April 11 – 17 to conduct our annual fire equipment inspection as required by code. For residents in the apartments a technician will need to enter each apartment. The technician will be wearing a uniform shirt with the Fraser Valley Fire Protection logo on it. Residents do not need to do anything during the test and can stay in their apartment while the test takes place. The test is brief but it can be loud. Residents are asked to remain seated during the test and keep out of the way of the technician.
Please note these tests will cause the fire alarms to sound briefly. They may also cause the fire panels to beep. The bells will turn on and off quickly. In the event of an actual fire alarm the bells would sound and keep ringing.
Announcements will be made in each apartment building at lunch to remind the residents. Each day that the technicians are here they will begin around 8am and work their way through each building floor by floor. We are not able to predict when they will reach each room. For the apartments the testing usually lasts most of the day.
The schedule for 2025 is:
If you have any questions for Menno Home and Menno Hospital please contact Garry Janzen. For the apartments please contact Leonard Klassen.
National Caregiver’s Day recognizes the incredible commitment, hard work, and heart of these caregivers. We see it on our campus every day.
Staff are no longer required to wear a medical mask in resident care spaces and places where residents gather. Masking may be required on a case-by-case basis if deemed necessary on the basis of a point of care risk assessment, as per Menno Place’s infection prevention and control policy.
Visitors are welcome in all buildings on our campus. They are asked to refrain from visiting if they are sick. Visitors must still sanitize their hands for residents and staff safety.
Thank you all for your commitment to our residents and their safety.
Greetings to all Long-Term Care family caregivers and family council supporters!
Fraser Association of Family Councils (FAFC) is hosting its next Family Council Forum and you* are invited:
Date: Thursday April 17 2025
Time: 7-8 PM
Place: Virtually
Click here to Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 861 9554 5047
Passcode: 029337
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Meeting ID: 861 9554 5047
Passcode: 029337
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* This forum is for families of residents in long-term care who are engaged with their family council or seeking to start one.
Each care home will have a chance to participate – bring your success stories as a council alongside issues and challenges you are experiencing. Come to share and learn about family councils in the Fraser Health region.
The forum is hosted by Lisa Dawson, interim Chair of FAFC.
Volunteer with FAFC! Help us with our core work of forming and maintaining councils in the Fraser Health region.
