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PAGE 2 AASE HAUGEN HERALD THE LATEST NEWS Aase Haugen Auxiliary The Auxiliary’s Annual Salad Luncheon Fund-raiser was held May 3rd at St. Benedict’s Church. They sold 159 tickets and raised $1,075.50 toward the replacement of the Chapel carpeting! With so many wonderful salads and desserts, the event was certainly a treat for all attendees, with a great cause to go with it! Many thanks to Salad Luncheon co-chairs Mary Pat Jensen and Emmarene Smock! Shortly after the main freezer/cooler was replaced, an auxiliary 3-door freezer in the dietary department stopped working! In true form, the Auxiliary members immediately moved to donate $2,500 toward the purchase of the replacement freezer! Many thanks to these ladies for all their support when Murphy’s law hits our equipment! This summer, Ann Naslund and Glendalu Wuest will be busy as co-chairs of the Ice Cream Social fund-raiser, scheduled for Sunday, August 19th, from 3-6 pm. Proceeds from the Ice Cream Social will also go toward replacing the carpet in the Chapel of AHH. For more information, contact President Ann Naslund, at (563)382-3394. Cooper Retires Our resident dog, Cooper, has officially retired. After over 5 years of dedicated service to AHH, we sadly say, “so long.” Cooper made so many friends while at AHH and has touched so many people’s lives, that we are truly blessed to have been able to count him among our family. Lately, however, the stimulation of so many people seemed to overwhelm him and he would more frequently bark at visitors. He has found a lovely new home with one of our long-time team members, Linda Root, CMA. Linda will bring Cooper back for occasional visits, but he can now enjoy his retirement in the peace of a single-family household. Cooper was a rescue dog, saved from being “bait” in dog fights. He came to AHH and saved us from being lonely, sharing love and companionship wherever he went. He got many rides on scooters, wheelchairs and welcoming laps and the Aase Mercantile even stocked dog treats for those who loved him. Many thanks, Cooper, for your years of service to us! Salad Luncheon Co-chair, Mary Pat Jensen,(l) shares the event details and infuses Aase Haugen Auxiliary members (l-r) Sandra Kittelson, Mildred Jacobsen and Phyllis Green with enthusiasm right before opening the doors at the May 3 Salad Luncheon Fund-raiser. Through the Auxiliaary’s hard work, wonderful salads and bright smiles, they chalked up another successful event! The Aase Haugen Herald is published quarterly in the interest of its many friends and family by Aase Haugen Homes, Inc. 4 Ohio St., Decorah, Iowa 52101. Aase Haugen Homes is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit, faith-based corporation. To subscribe to this free publication, available in print or email version, write to the above address, call (563)382-3603, or email marketingkate@earthlink.com. Aase Haugen Homes, Inc., under the auspices of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and governed by the leadership of 23 local corporate congregations, was founded to provide a ministry of Christian service to fulfill the physical, spiritual and psycho-social needs of the residents regardless of race, color, creed, or ability to pay. The entire staff recognizes the value of personal dignity and individual rights as they endeavor to furnish quality care and services based on Christian love and compassion for those residents who must depend on others to care for them. In accordance with Federal Law and the U.S. Department of Agriculture policy, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin , marital or family status or disability. We are an Equal Opportunity Provider/Employer.
FROM THE AHH TEAM AASE HAUGEN HERALD ECO team celebrates1 year of doing good At AHH, we care for all our Aase Family, but we also care for our community, locally and globally. Our ECO (Environmental Care Options) Team members have invested considerable time and energy into finding new and improved ways to recycle, reduce and reuse resources in our daily operations. We have utilized information from Energy Audits to find ways to reduce our usage of electricity. This has lead to a facility-wide lighting retrofit to energy-saving T8 fluorescent bulbs and ballasts this Spring. We are proud to report that this change, in addition to the replacement of the walk-in freezer/cooler, has saved us about 8.1% of our total electricity usage at AHH! Basically, we’re saving almost as much every year as we would use in one whole month! Our individual departments have established several new initiatives for increasing their recycling of plastics, tin and paper. The Dietary Department has reduced the amount of disposable waste we produce by going to real dishware and silverware in our employee break room and providing full gallons of milk for our neighborhoods instead of individual 1/2 pint cartons (wax-coated cartons are not recyclable). Very recently, our Laundry Dept. started hanging sheets out to dry on a clothesline to reduce the electrical use of our dryers. As a new program, it was suggested, planned and put into action by the staff who work to implement the changes. They are excited to be able to utilize the fresh outdoors to dry the sheets and the residents are looking forward to it as well! They are anxious to sleep on sheets with that fresh from the clothesline smell! We have also been looking into water usage reduction at Aase Haugen Homes. At Aase Haugen Homes, a direct care giver may wash their hands 50 times or more each shift, which leads to a lot of water being used. The ECO Team is in the midst of a low-flow aerator test to determine which flow is still effective for hand-washing, while saving the largest amount of water. If we can cut our flow per minute rates in half, each public faucet could save almost 38,000 gallons a year! Our dedicated ECO Team continues to plan and assess new initiatives to make our community a better place for future generations by reducing the amount of resources we use and the amount of nonrecyclable waste we produce! In addition to reducing waste, we have also been trying to utilize locally produced foods in our menus. A couple of weeks ago, Pam Vick, Dietary Supervisor, brought along some residents for her PAGE 3 Anita Ryan, Linda Fretheim and Jolene Wenthold of our Laundry Team are excited to use the clothes lines to dry linens during the warmer weather months! They get such a nice, fresh smell and drying in the sun saves electricity! Many residents have voiced their appreciation for this new initiative, and can’t wait for their fresh sheets! trip to the 1st Winneshiek County Farmer’s Market of the season to see what they could use at AHH. They had a wonderful time browsing the stands and looking over the fresh produce and planning future menus utilizing produce from Farmer’s Market Vendors. “We’re trying to look for produce that we don’t have growing in Aase’s gardens,” notes Pam. She noted that spaghetti squash and bok choy are two veggies they were looking into. Pam adds, “The residents really enjoyed the market and ran into several people they knew! We will being doing it more in the future.” Pictured below, l-r: Virginia McClain, PamVick, Dorothy Magelssen; Dorothy Sanders and Jon Aske.
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