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Programs & Activities

Upcoming Events Each month, Richmond Woods Retirement Residence organizes several events and activities designed to encourage seniors and their family members to experience the Sifton Retirement Lifestyle. You are invited to join us at one of our upcoming events!

Simple Pleasures Life is more than preparing meals and doing chores. Richmond Woods offers a varied selection of dining experiences, social engagements, stimulating activities, excursions and more. Enjoy good friends, good food and good times. Mayfair Dining Room The Mayfair Dining Room offers home cooked, healthy daily features as well as a la carte menu selections in a formal dining room setting. Restaurant style seating allows you to enjoy good food and good times with friends. The Rosedale Court The Rosedale Court offers a Private Dining experience for those special occasions. A double sided fireplace with adjoining Living room offers an elegant space to enjoy a delicious meal with friends and family that creates a sense of being right at home. Black Friars Pub Enjoy a fully licensed Pub which offers an informal opportunity to gather with friends for a glass of wine or beverage before dinner or while enjoying our vast array of entertainment. Sweet or savory snacks are always available! The Black Friars Pub is also open for all day coffee and tea to enjoy while visiting friends and family. Snacks are always available to enjoy with your hot beverage.

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• September 29, 2019:  Open House of Retirement for Tenants
  Sifton - Richmond Woods, 200 North Centre Road, London, Ontario
  Join us Sunday, September 29 from 01:00 pm to - 04:00 pm
  Join us for our Honey Fest Open House.  We’ll be sampling some amazing food made with local Honey from Richmond Woods’s Beehives.  Also sample “Mead Honey Wine” – The Romans and Greeks called it “the drink of the gods.”  Great music, great fun!  Don’t miss out!
  
  
  

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• October 01, 2019:  Journal Cafe
  Richmond Woods Retirement, 200 North Centre Road, London, Ontario
  Join us Tuesday, October 01 from 09:30 am to - 11:30 am
  Tuesdays, October 1st - November 19th  9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
  
  Join Richmond Woods for an  8 week course of self expression and journaling. Where self-expression becomes self discovery.  This program is designed to use various writing techniques that will empower the emotional, spiritual, mental, physical and social self and enhance your ability to harness the magic of pen to paper.
  Each week new creative ways will be explored to discover the world of journaling - dialogue, list making, gratitude, vision boards, colouring, self-improvement and more...
  
  Registration is required for this program
  
  Please contact Rebecca Gee @ 519-850-6131.  Brought to Richmond Woods by Third Age Outreach, St. Joseph's Health Care of London.
  
  
  
  

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• Feels like coming home
  

  Before calling Richmond Woods my home, I lived in Kingston, Ontario. Following the passing of my husband, my son and daughter in law wanted me to live closer to them in London. They did most of the research and thought that Richmond Woods was the nicest of the retirement residences that they toured; I was pleased to be closer to my family.

  I would definitely recommend Richmond Woods to friends. I love the location, situated with some surrounding forest, and I really like the staff members. My advice to those searching for a new home is to weigh the things most important to you. For example, when I first moved in I Iived in a spacious suite upstairs, but I decided I’d prefer ground level with easier access to the outdoors because I love to go on walks and spend lots of time on my patio.  And bring along the sentimental things and let everything else go.  I have a desk that I purchased at an auction with my husband. I secretly bid on it and he did not find out the highest bidder until it was delivered at our home!

  One of my favourite parts about living here is the bus trips that take place through the recreation group. I love being able to get out and the arrival back at Richmond Woods always makes me feel like I’m coming home.

• The Bowl

  The Bowl Some people move homes very little, some move very often. I am one of the latter. As we move to our second home here in London, I pack up the fragile items from the hutch, the one that belonged to my Aunt Jennie (Quarrie) who also happened to live here in London, and wrap them carefully in the moving paper. As I pick up a large “V” shaped glass potato chip bowl, I see the 1950’s patterned paint slightly faded in some spots, and there is the matching yet smaller bowl, that attaches to hold the dip. I think about packing it carefully so it doesn’t break. My mind drifts to the future, and I think about the type of comments my teenage daughters’ friends will have when they see it out at our house parties. Realistically they won’t appreciate its history, but “Retro” does have the chance of coming back….again. It could be cool, it could just be odd, or even go unnoticed. Then my mind drifts off to think about how many moves this bowl has survived. With my mother, it would have been from London, to the States, and back to Ontario again. St. Thomas, Owen Sound, Guelph, Windsor, back to, and a few more times around Guelph. I don’t remember exactly when she handed it down to me, but it has survived at least four moves with my own family, including our move here from Cambridge a few years ago. I read an article once, about not just carefully displaying special items, but using them with joy and celebration while you have them, as memories do not need to be replaced if it breaks. The chip bowl will sit out proudly in the next house, and hopefully will survive not too many more moves, until I am retired, relaxing with a movie, and my chips and dip.

Richmond Woods is a spectacularly well-appointed, award-winning London retirement home that encourages a carefree lifestyle and improved wellness in its residents. The environment is full of astonishing features ranging from a theatre to a beauty salon to a health and wellness centre, where residents encourage each other and exercise together. The centralized piano lounge is a great space where people get together, have impromptu sing-alongs or simply meet and greet and chat.

Care features include recreational events as well as onsite help with personal care and medication management. The indoor swimming pool is a bright, active gathering place, with wide windows to let in the sunshine. Activities include fitness classes as well as recreational swimming. Every day activities include billiards, games, entertainment, a library, bingo, Bible study, bocce ball, and the list goes on.