{"id":91751,"date":"2015-06-15T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/91751\/gcn-shares-some-love-at-the-avril-elizabeth-home\/"},"modified":"2015-06-15T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T08:43:57","slug":"gcn-shares-some-love-at-the-avril-elizabeth-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/06\/15\/gcn-shares-some-love-at-the-avril-elizabeth-home\/","title":{"rendered":"GCN shares some love at the Avril Elizabeth Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

The only word to describe our afternoon at the Avril Elizabeth Home is awesome.<\/p>\n

The GCN team visited the home on Wednesday, as part of our community project, \u201cCity News Caring for the Community\u201d.<\/p>

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We were greeted by the friendly staff and residents and made to feel at home at once.<\/p>\n

The team visited the stimulation centre where we got to interact with a number of residents, chatting and playing with them.<\/p>

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During our tour of the home we also got to meet Garth, the home\u2019s resident baker.<\/p>\n

Garth has been a resident at the home for many years and he bakes all the bread needed for the home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI bake 48 loaves a day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also enjoy baking raisin bread, hot cross buns and of course birthday cakes for the residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

The GCN team got to sample the bread and it was delicious.<\/p>\n

We then went to the workshop, where the residents who live in the home\u2019s cottages work.<\/p>\n

The residents come to work every day and assemble various important items, for example battery terminals.<\/p>\n

They were excited to have us as part of the \u201cwork force\u201d and we were delighted to be there.<\/p>\n

As a little fun for them, staff made icing and we got to help the residents create Marie biscuit masterpieces, as our assembly skills for battery terminals were not really up to scratch.<\/p>\n

It was a most enjoyable afternoon, with the team having lengthy conversations with residents and getting to know a bit about them.<\/p>\n

Every resident seemed happy to chat and to build \u201cmasterpieces\u201d with us and it was a day that will live in our memories for a long time to come.<\/p>\n