Summer isn’t slowing us down — from whipping up inspiring recipes for our future residents to continuing to grow community partnerships, we are having a blast!
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Alzheimer’s Support Group
Are you caring for someone with dementia and have questions about the disease or the day to day challenges you may be experiencing? Our Sales Director, Christine, has been facilitating an Alzheimer’s support group for over 8 years and has experience caring for a family member with the disease.
This is a virtual support group which makes it easy to participate from the comfort of your own space. ➡️
Wednesday, August 9 at 10 am
Please contact Christine at ccavanaugh@vineyardjohnscreek.com for logon information. Check out this informative post we included in last month’s social media — providing insight on Alzheimer’s symptoms to look out for in yourself or loved ones. Watch below!
Summer Burgers
Chef Aldin has been truly inspired lately! Closing out culinary month, he created not just one, but three, tasty burger options for those summertime backyard barbeques.
Check it out below, delish!
Celebrating Sunset Week
Our Sales Director, Christine, captured a week of beautiful sunsets while on her vacation in celebration of last week’s Capture the Sunset week. We hope everyone is having a wonderful summer and relishing the summer nights.
National Lighthouse Day
We are so excited to highlight our future resident Dianne on National Lighthouse Day! Dianne was instrumental in getting the Florida Trust Historic Preservation to recognize the Pensacola Lighthouse for their restoration. It took five years and $2.5 million to do it. Dianne is a wealth of information and she and her husband have left a legacy that many will be able to enjoy for generations to come. The Pensacola Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse in Florida. It was the first lighthouse on the Gulf Coast of Florida and is still an active aid to navigation. The first lighthouse was built in 1824 and was located about one-half mile east of the present lighthouse. It was a wooden structure with a whale oil lamp. The present lighthouse was built in 1856 and is made of brick with a concrete fill. It is 159 feet tall and has a first-order Fresnel lens. The lighthouse was extinguished during the Civil War but was restored after the war. It was automated in 1965 and is now tended by the Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team. The lighthouse is a popular tourist destination and offers stunning views of Pensacola Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Blue Angels.
Interesting facts about the Pensacola Lighthouse:
- The first keeper, Jeremiah Ingraham, faithfully trudged up the tower to refill the whale oil lamps and every two hours to pull up the weights that rotated the clockwork mechanism until his death in 1840.
- His wife Michaela succeeded him and continued as the keeper until her death in 1855.
- The lens has 344 prisms set in a beehive design.
- The 1000 watt bulb appears to flash at 20 second intervals and can be seen for 27 miles. -The light’s focal plane is 191 feet above sea level and is the highest focal plane in Florida. -The lighthouse is still an active aid to navigation and is tended by the Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team. Learn more or plan a visit here: https://www.pensacolalighthouse.org/
Community Involvement
To take a break from the summer heat, we thought it would be fun to share a little collage of the partnerships and community we have been building up in anticipation of our community’s Grand Opening.
We cannot wait to serve our residents and we will continue to support and build our community for the better.
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