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MORE INFORMATION
ON CUMBERLAND
CROSSINGS
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Permit No. 208
Harrisburg, PA
www.diakon.org/CumberlandCrossings
1 Longsdorf Way
Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17015
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Cumberland Crossings
Attn: Marketing
1 Longsdorf Way
Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17015
Cumberland Crossings
Resident makes cross-country move
to Cumberland Crossings
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The Cumberland Crossings marketing department
works in close association with future residents, their
adult children, real estate agents, movers, auctioneers,
decorators, and bankers as requested and appropriate
to make residents’ move as stress-free as possible.
Independent Living Homes
Personal Care
Nursing & Rehabilitative Care
VA Benefits Assistance Service
Lifestyles
FALL 2016
ON OUR CALENDAR…
For more information on any of these events, or to rsvp,
please call (717) 462-7199.
Trunk or Treat
Saturday, Oct. 29 | 2 p.m.
Join us for Halloween festivities and get a
jump on the treats! Grab your best costumes
and bring along the kids for a safe, fun and
festive event.
Christmas Open House
Saturday, Dec. 3 | 2 to 4 p.m.
Annual open house for the
community, including visits with
Santa, holiday music and hors
d’oeuvres.
Bethlehem Christmas Tour
Thursday, Dec. 8 | 9:45 a.m.
Veterans Day Event
Friday, Nov. 11 | 11 a.m.
Community Veterans Day event,
featuring flagpole ceremony and luncheon.
Travel with us to see “Bethlehem: The Christmas
City” film. The $147 cost includes admission to
Christkindlmarkt; Moravian Putz dinner including
tax and tip; guided Bethlehem by Night Light driving
tour; guide gratuity; and round trip motor coach
transportation.
After 20 years of retirement living
in Arizona, Patricia Singley decided
it was time to move back East.
When her house sold,
Cumberland Crossings was the
first to have an opening.
“I wanted to go back to my
roots,” Singley says, even though
she admits she had never lived in
Pennsylvania. “My parents were
from Pennsylvania and I had
visited, but I spent most of my life
in New Jersey and Connecticut.”
“I love my particular cottage,”
she says. “It is an end unit
that overlooks the farm that
is adjacent to Cumberland
Crossings. When I saw the
setting, I said, ‘this is the one.’”
She also wanted to be closer to
family.
Singley and her husband, who
passed away 10 years ago, had
originally moved to Arizona for the
warm weather and to be near her
son’s family. However, when the
family moved out of the country for
a job opportunity, she decided to
relocate near her younger daughter,
who works at Gettysburg College.
“I looked at continuing care
communities in the immediate
area,” she says. “When I decided
that I definitely wanted to move, I
put my name on the wait lists for
both Cumberland Crossings and
another facility in Gettysburg.”
With her daughter’s family
nearby, she enjoys regular visits
with them.
“My grandson was here
for the recent Civil War
encampment and saw the
re-enactors with me,” she says,
adding that before she moved to
Cumberland Crossings she was
unaware of the variety of activities
available.
“I didn’t know all of the things
that were offered here. I haven’t
moved that often but, as always, I
wanted to become involved in my
new home.”
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In this issue...
• Message from the
Executive Director:
Celebrating 25 years
• New cooking contest
meant to cultivate friendly
competition
• The perfect fit for this pair
• On our calendar
Executive Director’s Message:
Celebrating 25 years
Twenty-five years after the
first cottage was built as a model
home at the former MJ Mall,
older adults continue to enjoy retirement living at
Cumberland Crossings.
In fact, many of our residents were excited to
join staff in our recent anniversary celebration and
share their pride in the community. With nearly
200 people in attendance, our independent living
residents provided celebration entertainment,
including a play and performances by our bell choir,
choral and ukulele groups.
From each resident’s introduction to the Resident
Association to shared meals in the dining room, they
truly see each other as an extension of their families.
To that end, they have started a program called
“Neighbors Helping Neighbors” that uses a phone
tree to check in on one another during emergencies
such as a snowstorm or power outage.
It is this way of living that underscores why 15
older adults have chosen to make Cumberland
Crossings their home this year, why our personal
care community is at capacity and why the nursing
care center is frequently filled.
Why not schedule a tour and see for yourself why
residents at Cumberland Crossings say, “This is the
way to live!”
I look forward to meeting you.
– Ann-Marie Boyne
Executive Director
New cooking contest meant to cultivate
friendly competition
“Everyone always wants to share
their favorite recipe,” says Sally
McClintock, director of community life
for Cumberland Crossings. “With that
in mind, I came up with the idea to hold
a cooking contest in the hopes it would
develop a friendly competition between
staff and residents.”
“Extra tickets were sold to provide the opportunity
for more votes and there was a silent auction
running at the same time,” McClintock says. “There
were seven entries, featuring everything from beef
burgundy to mini crab cakes.”
The competition took an interesting turn when the
top prizes went to three members of the same family:
Mike Steinmetz, Melissa Wood and Gail Steinmetz.
“Mike and Gail are Melissa’s parents as well as
residents,” says McClintock, explaining that Wood is
Photos from Cumberland Crossings’
25th Anniversary celebration.
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Singley serves on the benevolent care and Auxiliary
committees, as well as enjoys fitness classes and
water aerobics.
Cumberland Crossings allowed her to check off
many of her “decision boxes” when contemplating
the move, she says.
“I also volunteer every week at the Cumberland
County Historical Society and help with bingo in
skilled nursing,” she says. “Usually twice a month
there is a trip to a restaurant and outings to the
symphony and other concerts. There are plenty of
things to take advantage of, and the residents are
very warm and welcoming to newcomers.”
“The first criterion was to be close to my family.
I liked the idea of a college town, and I wanted the
option of continuing care,” she says. “I love the idea
of having a cottage and being independent. It is
perfect for my dog and me.”
“I gained confidence and that’s
something you need as a new nurse,” she
says. “We depend on one another. I feel
like I’ve become part of the team.”
Cumberland Crossings’
sales and marketing
manager. “Mike’s
beef burgundy had the most votes. Melissa received
second for her Italian stuffed mushrooms, and her
mom took third for puff pastry with bacon, tomato
and mozzarella.”
McClintock expects the event to return next year
and attract more participation.
“I think these types of events bring life to
Cumberland Crossings,” she says. “The residents
enjoy the opportunity to be competitive with the staff
and one another and to have the chance to have fun
together.”
The perfect fit for this pair
Resident makes cross-country move to Cumberland Crossings
Leanne Hoover (left) with
Tabitha Sherer (right).
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Hoover began working for Diakon in
mid-2015 and says she immediately felt
welcomed by her staff colleagues, from
administration to nursing to everyone else.
Any time she had a question, she says, she
knew she would receive the guidance she
needed.
A friendly competition between staff
and residents raised nearly $1,500 for
Cumberland Crossings’ benevolent care
campaign this summer.
“Savor the Flavor and Spice of Life at
Cumberland Crossings” debuted in July
this year to the enjoyment of everyone who attended.
At $25 each, tickets gave entry to the event and the
opportunity to vote for the best dish and best chef.
The perfect fit for this pair
Before long, Hoover felt so much a
part of the team that she believed other
new LPNs she knew might find a home
at Diakon. In fact, she has successfully
referred three other recent staff members
to positions at Cumberland Crossings.
Tabitha Sherer is one of them; she has
been working as an LPN since early 2016.
Sherer was in the LPN class that graduated
the year after Hoover did at Harrisburg
Area Community College and the two had
become friends.
“We had a whole year of ‘clinicals,’
working in different settings,” Sherer
explains. “After that, I knew I wanted to
work with older adults. They stole my
heart during clinicals. This opportunity
fell right into place.”
As a little girl, Leanne Hoover played a special game with her “Pap,” a
game she called “Nursing Home.”
“I knew Cumberland Crossings was
looking for an LPN for the 3-11 shift and
I knew that, for a new LPN, Tabby would
get the support she needed,” Hoover
explains. “I felt she would fit right in.”
“I would carry a stethoscope and write things in my notebook,” she
says, laughing.
Sherer says she was “welcomed with
open arms.”
Today, the situation she played is for real, because she now works as
an LPN at Cumberland Crossings, a Diakon Lutheran Senior Living
Community in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Her grandfather, who passed
away in 2005, would undoubtedly be proud.
“I got a lot of training and never felt like
I was on my own,” she says. “I really like
the place and the people here.”
And while her daily care routine includes checking on vital signs
and taking notes—today electronically rather than on paper—her
motivation has grown as well: “I want to be helping others, to raise
them up,” she says.
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Both Hoover and Sherer eventually want
to continue their nursing education to
become RNs. But for now, the two believe
that caring for residents at Cumberland
Crossings is where they are meant to be.