Toys for Tots!

Alameda Elder Communities is proud to be an official drop off location for Toys for Tots! We will be accepting donations of new, unwrapped toys for Toys for Tots, from today through Sunday, December 18! Please stop in at Waters Edge Lodge, Elders Inn on Webster, or Waters Edge Nursing Home to make your donation and help make Christmas a little brighter for a child.

Boy Scouts and Seniors working together

The Canned Food Drive at the Waters Edge Lodge and Elders Inn was a great success.  Residents, Staff, and family members all helped out by donnating food to the collections bins.  We had several full grocery bags of canned and other non-perishable food that will help out those that are less fortunate during this holiday season.  

On Wednesday the 23rd local Boy Scouts, Evan  Lum an Eagle Scout from Troop 3 and Sam Rausser an Eagle Scout from troop 11 came to our facilities to pick up the food drive donnations and drop them off at the Alameda Food Bank.   It was great to have mulitiple generations and organizations helping out the local community.

Happy Thanksgiving From All of Us At AEC

Thanksgiving is here and in the spirit of the holiday we will be thankful for Thanksgiving and take to look back on how this day became an American tradition.

The Thanksgiving we know and celebrate today comes from the harvest feast that the Native Americans and Pilgrims shared at Plymouth in 1621.  Both cultures had their own version of a harvest celebration, and the feast took portions of both and combined the European and Native Americans traditions.  

The tradition was celebrated thereafter as an anniversary for the Plymouth colony.  Until 1863, Thanksgiving was celebrated on different days in different states.  President Abraham Lincoln made a presidential proclamation that Thanksgiving should be celebrated on final Thursday throughout the United States in an attempt to create unity throughout the nation. This remained in affect until 1941 when President Franklin Roosevelt moved the celebration one week earlier to the fourth Thursday of the month, as well as proclaiming it an official national holiday.

 For many of us Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks,  catch up and break bread with family, and also loosen our belts a little.  Every family's feast is unique, but there are of course several items without which we could hardly consider it a real Thanksgiving dinner, these include:  Turkey, Mashed Potatoes and Gravy, Cranberry Sauce, Biscuits, and of course Pumpkin Pie.  But even if we gourge ourselves with food to the point where our stomachs feel like they're going to burst we remember that Thanksgiving is most importantly  a time for us to be with family and friends, and to look back on the year and realize all the things we have to be thankful for in our lives.

Last Week for the Food Drive!

 

Today we enter the last week of our annual Fall Food Drive for the Alameda Food Bank! Please stop by either the Waters Edge Lodge or Elders Inn to make your donation of non-perishable food items before the Boy Scouts come to pick them up tomorrow!

Alameda Hospital Meets With AEC to Better Serve the Senior Community

The Alameda Hospital public relation committee met last Tuesday with Chris Zimmerman to discuss how Alameda Elder Communities continuum of care works to service the Alameda community.  After the presentation the hospital committee and AEC discussed how both entities could work together to better serve the community of Alameda seniors.  Committee also discussed the benefit of the two new programs that AEC is creating, which are Elders Village social network and Phoenix Commons.