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Pottery Painting Class with Barbara
August 3rd, 2019Barbara from the Pottery Nest dropped in for a fun afternoon of pottery painting with our residents. Pottery painting is a fun activity our seniors enjoy several times each year. Thank you Barbara!
We have several activities at Somerset each week (year-round) to make senior living fun all year. In the summer (June through Sept) we also have 1 to 2 field-trips/outings each month, and one field-trip in October to the pumpkin patch. Our goal is to make senior living fun and exciting.
Come join the fun at Somerset Retirement Home and Assisted Living in Longview WA. You are invited for a tour. We’d like to meet you!
Longview Knitting Gals – Young Member Wins at Cowlitz Fair 2019
August 2nd, 2019Lisee, a young member of the Longview Knitting Gals club, won two ribbons at the Cowlitz County Fair 2019 for this stocking hat she made. The club makes 1,000 hats a year and gives them to charity.
Senior members of the Knitting Gals club taught Lisee how to knit (very well). Knitting Gals of all ages have great fun Tuesdays from 1:30 to 3 PM at Somerset Retirement Home and Assisted Living in Longview WA.
The public is invited. All ages are invited. If you don’t know how to knit, the Knitting Gals will happily teach you.
Comfort Kid Knitting with Knitting Club
July 25th, 2019The comfort kid in the photo below is Lisee the daughter of one of Somerset’s administrators. She’s also a member of the Longview Knitting Gals Club that meets at Somerset (Tuesdays from 1:30 to 3 PM).
Lisee enjoys learning to knit with the Knitting Gals club. She’s getting good at it and has entered a stocking hat she made in the Cowlitz County Fair. Good luck Lisee! We hope you win!
Longview Knitting Gals club membership is free. The public is invited. All ages are invited. Members range in age from kids to seniors. If you don’t know how to knit, they’ll happily teach you!
Here are some of the hats the Knitting Gals made in 2019. They give away 1,000 hats to charity each year.
Comfort Kids Like to Visit Somerset
July 21st, 2019Comfort kids are kids who come to Somerset to visit with residents for the mutual enjoyment of kids and seniors.
In the candid photo above, they’re dancing to Hawaiian music.
They enjoy visiting Somerset, especially during parties for all ages. Residents enjoy socializing with the kids. This is good for seniors enjoyment and morale, and the kids have a good time too! Residents’ grand-kids also have a good time visiting grandparents, especially at our parties for all ages events.
Here some comfort kids are taking a break from visiting. They’re playing soccer in Somerset’s backyard. Residents get a kick out of them. In the candid photo above, their soccer game turned into a wrestling match. They clearly don’t understand the rules of soccer!
These kids love to visit Somerset! It’s a good time for them because they like free drinks and visiting with residents. The residents like visiting with kids. These kids have a standing invitation to visit. Sometimes a staff member picks them up from their home and brings them over for a visit. In the photo above, the kids are taking a break and resting while petting a resident’s dog.
Somerset is Pet Friendly
July 20th, 2019Do you or a loved one have a pet and want or need a senior apartment in a retirement home in Longview WA? If so, Somerset is an excellent choice because pets are welcome, and we offer large senior apartments for independent living with optional assisted living services as needed, customized to your needs. So you can keep your pet, enjoy a comfortable life style, receive good customer service, and have the assisted living services you need, and none you don’t. We want you to enjoy senior living.
Cats and small dogs are welcome at Somerset (if friendly and well behaved). Residents who have a cat or small dog are welcome to have their pet live with them (with manager’s prior approval).
A resident is walking his cat on his porch.
This is one of Somerset’s two beautiful backyards. Residents, pets, grand kids, and other visitors to enjoy our backyards.
Between our backyards is our pond, which is enjoyed by residents, visitors, pets, frogs, fish, wild ducks, geese, pigeons, and during stormy weather – seagulls.
Wild ducks (and occasionally geese and seagulls) like to visit, swim, and eat tadpoles and baby fish; which is fine because they prevent over population of fish. They don’t bother the medium and larger fish. The ducks and geese add to the wildlife fun and entertainment. One particular duck has a lot of babies and is mostly tame. She leads her babies around the pond and backyard, and sometimes the sidewalks.
Ducks enjoy swimming and fishing in Somerset’s pond. Here you see a duckling mid-air as she jumps in.
Mom walking her ducklings across the parking lot. They commute between our pond and a local canal a block away. These wild ducks are city ducks. This duck mom is a street smart urbanite.
Comfort Dogs Like to Visit Somerset!
July 19th, 2019Comfort dogs visited Somerset. Residents love it! Dogs love it too! In this photo it’s a comfort puppy!
You are invited to come to Somerset Retirement Home and Assisted Living for a tour or a visit! If you have a well behaved, friendly dog on a lease, dogs are also welcome to visit (with manager’s prior approval).
Seniors who have pets and want their pets to live with them are welcome. Their pets (cats or small dogs) are welcome too (with manager’s prior approval).
Fireworks Show at Somerset
July 8th, 2019In celebration of the 4th of July, residents decorated their walkers, wheelchairs, and scooters; and we had fireworks in the parking lot in the evening.
Staff and Residents Decorated for 4th July.
We celebrated with fireworks in the parking lot.
Fireworks above Somerset parking lot.
Somerset Senior News Volunteers and Staff
July 7th, 2019Each month staff member Mariisa Bond Jimenez (alternate administrator) works hard creating our monthly Somerset Senior News Letter on her computer with input from Denise (activities director). The news letter is printed and posted online.
Mariisa is our alternate administrator.
Most residents read the Somerset Senior News in paper-print form. Many of their families read it online at Somerset’s website, or Somerset’s Google Local Business listing, or on Somerset’s Facebook site.
Printed pages are assembled into finished Somerset Senior News letters by senior volunteers.
Senior volunteers assembling news letters.
Volunteer paper girls deliver Somerset Senior News and Calendar to each resident’s apartment door.
This volunteer paper girl delivers.
Employee of the Month – July 2019
July 7th, 2019Denise is our activities director at Somerset. She adds energy and excitement to our residents lives. Residents love to exercise with her and appreciate the fun entertainment and activities she provides. She organizes and hosts many activities and events at Somerset for residents and their families. You can see a list of these activities and events in our monthly Somerset Senior News Letter.
Denise is our employee of the month for July 2019. Here is a picture of her with her $25 bonus and certificate for her achievement and our appreciation.
Senior Calendar July 2019
July 1st, 2019Somerset Senior Calendar Longview WA
We have several senior activities and senior events in Longview Washington.
Many of our events at Somerset Retirement Home and Assisted Living in Longview WA are open to the public. We serve Longview WA, Kelso WA, surrounding cities, and Cowlitz County WA. All are welcome!
We look forward to meeting you!
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