LATEST NEWS - Winter 2011
Metzgers Celebrate their 60th Wedding Anniversary
Centegra Volunteers join in Christmas Activities at Hearthstone
Members of the senior management team of Centegra Health System spent a morning at Hearthstone with our children and older adults. Their first immersion into our culture was a gingerbread house decorating adventure with the children from Woodstock Early Learning Center. This was followed by the creation of books of remembrance through question and answer periods with Hearthstone residents. Centegra representatives had a wonderful morning and even set up repeat meetings with residents to finish their projects together. For details, click here to see the article in the Northwest Herald.
Christmas Party for Jesus
The Early Learning Center was full of families on December 16th enjoying the music of the Woodstock High School Madrigal Singers, the great food and crafts. Wish lists with our children's names were then distributed to the attendees. Over the next two weeks, gifts arrived daily from Hearthstone staff, residents and employees from Silgan Tubes. This outpouring of love for our children help everyone celebrate this season of love begun at the birth of Jesus.
Construction Kick-Off Event
Speakers included Mayor Brian Sager (pictured at left), Terry Egan, CEO of Hearthstone Communiities and Janet Smith. Smith and her husband Stephen welcomed members of her family including her mother, Mary Mueller, for whom the new unit is named along with her father Carl Mueller.
Pictured (l-r) are Terry Egan, Janet Smith, Mary Mueller and Stephen Smith
3rd Prairie Home Under Construction
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Joseph
and Elizabeth Metzger celebrated their 60th wedding
anniversary surrounded by friends and family at Hearthstone
Communities where the couple resides. The couple met in Germany
after being displaced from their home country of Hungary. Elizabeth
came to the United States in 1950 and Joseph followed her in 1951.
The couple married on January 26, 1952, at St. Mary’s Church in
McHenry. Joe, a brick layer and plasterer, along with Elizabeth
raised three children: John, Maria and Paul. They are currently
members of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Johnsburg.
Board
Members, Donors, Friends and Staff of Hearthstone Communities
gathered on Monday, November 28, 2011, to celebrate the Kick-Off of
construction of the Mary & Carl Mueller Rehabilitation Center at
Hearthstone Communities.
The footings
and pad have been poured for the 3rd Prairie Home duplex on the
Hearthstone Communities campus. Commitments have been received from
the future residents of these units who hope to move into their new
homes in the early Spring of 2012. One additional duplex remains to
be constructed on the site at Christian Way and Route 47. For more
information on these and other living options at Hearthstone
Communities, contact Beth Burg at 815-321-4078 or
