September 2025, Issue 210
Writers: Your Schooner Family | Editor: Sue O’Brien
🍂 The month of September, brings a hint of Autumn…
Let’s all welcome the crisp Fall weather, featuring blue skies and falling leaves. We won’t let summer end without one more outdoor gathering with your friends and neighbors!
📝 In This Issue:
- Oktoberfest BBQ
- Welcome
- Word Search
- Tenant Profiles
- Fall Health Tips
- Thank You Note
- Favorite Pictures
🍻 Oktoberfest BBQ
Get ready for our last outdoor feast of the summer season, – while the weather is still warm, we will BBQ! Our “Oktoberfest” BBQ will be held on Wednesday, September 10th.
☀️ Labor Day
Monday, September 1st
📸 A Few of our Favorite Pictures
- A wonderful day in Cape Elizabeth, at the Lobster Shack!
- Our Seafood BBQ was amazing!
- Good times were had this summer at the Poland Springs summer concerts.
- Check out the beautiful plants on our grounds. A thank you to Polly Glavine for keeping our courtyard flowers in perfect bloom!
👋 Welcome to our Community
- Conrad Conant, C105
- Bunny Frost, A101
Schooner Tenant Profiles
Please give these folks a warm Schooner welcome!
Note: Some of our profiles do not have photographs included – it all depends on a tenant’s preference.
Bunny Frost, studio A101
- Before moving to Schooner, her home was in Poland.
- Sadly, her husband passed away in July.
- They have two daughters, three step-children, and one stepson in Florida.
- Her family wanted her to move to Schooner for safety reasons.
- Bunny worked for Lewiston for 25 years. Anytime they needed help, she was first on the list!
- Her hobbies include golf, cooking, sewing, playing cards, and Bingo.
- She is excited to meet people and make new friends.
- We are so happy to have her here!
🌡️ Fall Health Tips
Tips for staying healthy as the weather changes to Fall:
- Get enough vitamin D by spending time outside in the sunlight.
- Take a brisk walk.
- Stay hydrated.
- Check your calorie intake.
- Be vigilant about handwashing.
Fall is the start of flu season , and influenza can be unpredictable and serious, even if you’re healthy. Prevention is the best way to protect yourself and your family , so make sure to get your flu shot and to stay home and alert our nursing team if you suspect signs of sickness. The new season is a fresh start to healthy habits…
🙏 Thank You Note
A wonderful thank you note from one of our tenant charities, Camp Dragonfly , offered by Andwell Hospice.