June Wood kicked off the grand opening of the new Smart Move Estate Liquidation Outlet on July 5 inviting friends and clients to enjoy a glass of wine and do a little retail therapy. The new location is at Hugs Mini Storage, 1824 Alberni Highway, Coombs. The store is filled with beautiful household treasures in excellent condition. June and her team have worked hard to organize the large inventory of items on display in their showroom. The new location will be open on Saturdays from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Oceanside Stroke Recovery is celebrating our third anniversary on the internet thanks to Smart Move Estate Liquidation and we would like to thank June for covering all of the costs of our website.
13 of our Oceanside Stroke Recovery members took part in the Canada Day Parksville parade and won third place in the Community category! The weather was perfect and thousands of people lined the parade route for this year’s celebration. Happy Birthday, Canada!
This bride and groom celebrated 50 years of marriage surrounded by their children, grandchildren and friends. Their grand daughter Raquenna shared a few photos of the celebration. Congratulations, Elaine and John!
Did you know that belly dance improves self-esteem, body awareness, flexibility, co-ordination, posture, stress reduction, confidence, balance, rhythm and creativity? Elaine De Rooy started Belly Laughs Navel Academy, a professional contemporary belly dance teaching and performance business in 2012. She brings laughter and a bit of silliness, to an otherwise serious dance genre, thru her musical selections. Three of the belly dance troupe “The Jingle Belles” from the Belly Laughs Navel Academy gave a sassy presentation and shared some of the Belly Dance history. Elaine invited our members to learn some of the dance moves. Several brave caregivers learned basic moves and simple combos. Even Annie Quad at 96 tied on a coin belt and did a few combos!
If you are looking for some unique exercise, the Belly Laughs Navel Academy is for you! Elaine’s email is
Our Occupational Therapist Shelagh Lamperson spent time showing our members some hand/finger exercises to help reduce tone and allow the stroke affected side to recover. Shelagh suggests doing these exercises three times a day. They can be practiced passively (by using your non-affected hand to assist your affected hand) until you can practice them actively (by performing them on your own).
Some of the exercises OT Shelagh shared are included in this FlintRehab link.
Wearing his Fish and Game Association hat, Bob Davenport presented Oceanside Stroke Recovery’s co-ordinator, Kathleen Falvai with a generous cheque to thank the 12 volunteers who prepared meals, served and cleaned up at VISC Championships held at the Fish and Game Dorman clubhouse. The Fish and Game Association is an active supporter to our society and it is especially appropriate to give back to those who help us.
Thank you to those who signed up for the KP duties! You did an amazing job!
Beautiful sunny day at Arrowsmith Golf Club and Oceanside Stroke Recovery members enjoyed time and lunch together at Micky J’s Bar and Grill for their monthly outing. Lots of laughter and story telling. Some may not be quite accurate! Lois Lane was there with her camera. Have a look!
Living in Oceanside you get to experience many wonderful people!
The Parksville Qualicum Fish and Game club once again stocked the Coombs Country Campground lake with good size Rainbow Trout and invited folks from Oceanside to come out for a little fishing. The PQFG members thought of everything. Rods were set up. Worms were on hand. Coffee and muffins were available. Their members were out in full force to help get people fishing. And brown bag lunches were served to everyone. The Coombs Fiddlers were on hand to provide the musical entertainment.
26 Oceanside Stroke Recovery members enjoyed this amazing outing on the banks of the Coombs Country Campground lake! Thank you to all the Parksville Qualicum Fish and Game people who helped at this year’s Fishing Forever. It was a wonderful excursion.
Thanks also to the Coombs Fiddlers for entertaining us!
Grand Knight Rum Hykaway of Knights of Columbus Ascension Council 7991 presented Kathleen and Marie a generous cheque to Oceanside Stroke Recovery. Several other local charities were also presented with cheques from the Knights of Columbus. OSRS is very thankful for this continued support and will use this gift to provide exercise, speech, art and music therapies for our members.
Oceanside Stroke Recovery Society members welcomed Brian Wiese, Mayor of Qualicum Beach. Kathleen Falvai gave Brian a full tour of what we do! Brian witnessed the exercise, speech, art therapy, visited with the caregivers and enjoyed lunch with our members. Thanks to Kathleen for initiating the visit and making the Qualicum Beach mayor aware of our programs.
Benefits of Membership
As a member of Oceanside Stroke Recovery you will receive:
Ongoing therapy (Exercise, Speech, Art and Music)
Peer support
Caregiver counselling
Entertainment
Educational guest speakers
Social occasions
Opportunities to form new friendships
Membership fees are $45.00 per person (2018 season).
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