Arbor Oaks cooking up fun with new cookbook
Recipes can be submitted via Facebook or dropped off at facility
Arbor Oaks always has something fun cooked up for their residents, and that surely is the case with their next tasty project, which gives the community a chance to collaborate with the residents on a fun and helpful fundraising project.
“Our Residents has decided that they would like to create a cookbook,” said the facility’s Activity Director, Kathy Florence, on a flyer created for the announcement.
“If you would like to help them out, please bring any recipes that you would like to share and have published in their cookbook. Our residents would really appreciate that.”
Recipes can be submitted by direct message on Facebook or dropped off at the care facility, located at 105 Russellville Rd. in Malvern. Florence said they have a few recipes collected but are in need of many more to compile a cookbook worthy of sharing with those interested.
Proceeds from the cookbook will go toward planned activities for the residents, as well as a Christmas fund the facility applies toward the holiday celebration each year, treating their residents to gifts, goodies and good times all through the winter holiday season.
“We’ve been doing this for quite a while, we just haven’t really got a lot of recipes,” Florence shared. The cookbook project is in addition to numerous fundraisers the facility will conduct this year in their mission to make residents at Arbor Oaks feel welcome and comfortable. It’s one of many ways the staff show the residents that they are valued members of the Arbor Oaks family.
Florence works often with the Arbor Oaks dietary manager, Bobbie Michelle Walker, to put a lot of stuff together for the residents. Their most recent fundraiser had them offering Valentines Day gift packages with stuffed bear, candy and balloons to the public.
The sweet surprise surrounding the Valentines packages was the fact that even though Florence and Walker expected the gifts to be purchased by citizens for their loved ones outside the facility, most of the gifts were actually bought for the express purpose of giving them to current Arbor Oaks residents.
“Most people that bought them, bought them for the residents,” Florence shared. “Every resident will get one [on Valentines Day].”
The people who wind up under Arbor Oaks’ roof for temporary assistance or ongoing residency will find themselves attended by loving, caring, compassionate, skilled professionals who not only attend to their physical needs, but also strive to enhance their daily lives and show how much the residents mean to them.
For more information about the facility or any upcoming events, or for more details about the proposed cookbook, please call 501332-5251.