Helping Hands Home Support Services Ltd.

We are excited to announce a new program for Seniors in our community! HAPPY HEARTS Seniors Fitness & Recreation is a FREE weekly program offered in the communities of Morrin, Delia and Craigmyle. There will be a 1-hour session each week at each location. Everyone is welcome! Please contact our HELPING HANDS Office for more information. (Details outlined on the poster)

You've got questions! We've got answers!

We hope you are enjoying our staff's recipes! This week's recipe comes from Carmen, one of our cooks at the Manor Lunch Program in Hanna. Thanks for sharing Carmen!

Our HELPING HANDS Staff can prepare meals in client homes, based on their own tastes and dietary needs. Contact our office for more information!

This week's recipe is brought to you by Colleen. It's a favourite in her household. Enjoy!

Our HELPING HANDS Staff can prepare meals in client homes, based on their own tastes and dietary needs. Contact our office for more information!

HELPING HANDS is honored to be nominated for the 2024 Large Business of the Year with the Drumheller and District Chamber of Commerce! Established in 1999, HELPING HANDS, is proud to provide in-home support services to our seniors in this incredible community for nearly 25 years.

Please take a moment to show your support for local businesses, organizations and business professionals by voting. (Click on the link below.) Voting closes on Friday April 19th.

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Preparing meals and sharing recipes brings folks together and creates cherished memories. Whether it be making a family recipe that's been passed down through generations or bringing a meal to a neighbour in need, food helps to foster connections.

Every week we will be sharing a recipe from a HELPING HANDS staff member. This week's recipe comes from Kathy - thank you for sharing!

Our HELPING HANDS Staff can prepare meals in client homes, based on their own tastes and dietary needs. Contact our office for more information!

Happy Valentines Day Folks!!!

HELPING HANDS provides companionship and supports to those living in care facilities allowing them to maintain their highest degree of personal independence by facilitating them to go out to take part in their communities. Quite often families are unable to visit their loved ones as often as they would like. It can provide peace of mind, knowing your family member has regular companionship.
Contact us today for more information or to book a free, no obligation care consultation!

HELPING HANDS provides In-Home Supports for Seniors, with a ‘mix and match’ style offering of the services listed above. Folks who use our services, find comfort in know their HELPING HANDS service provider is coming to visit and helps to maintain their independence at home safely.
Contact us today for more information or to book a free, no obligation care consultation!

Hello Folks! New to our community? Or perhaps in need of a HELPING HAND? HELPING HANDS Home Support is family owned and operating in the communities of Drumheller, Hanna and Three Hills, Alberta since 1999. Our mission is to provide meaningful programs of care that promote a healthy lifestyle for seniors, their families, and their caregivers, allowing them to enjoy their lives and maintain their highest degree of personal growth.
Looking for more information? Please our Website @ https://helpinghandshomesupport.com/

As we all welcome in the New Year, may good health, good luck and much happiness be with you in 2024!

MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS PAST: When I was very little snowy winter days seemed chock full of exciting things to look forward to at this glorious time of year, and anticipation of the Season was more memorable than material gifts that were soon lost or forgotten.

Christmas Concerts were important for our small rural community and preparing for it to take place in our “one room” schoolhouse started very soon after Remembrance Day was over. When the excitement of starting a new school year evolved into a predictable and familiar daily routine, our wonderful teacher Mrs. Perrich would begin organizing us for that most important event.

Decorations for the school were never purchased, but rather carefully crafted by each student big or small. We meticulously “copied” a vast array of Christmas pictures to hang on the walls by cutting pages out of Christmas coloring books, tracing them up against the window and then coloring them carefully. Red, green, and yellow strips of paper were glued into long “chains” that were strung across the ceilings, and innumerable Christmas bells, holly leaves and berries were cut, colored and put together to be taped to each big window and tacked to the walls. Mrs. Perrich used her enviable artistic talent with colored chalk to create a lovely Christmas Nativity scene on the big blackboard at the front of the room. Once done, every one of us looked forward to arriving in our festive classroom each day.

Along with the excitement of decorating was the short daily practice for the Christmas Concert at the end of each day before our busses came to pick us up. The program always centered around the Nativity Play, where all students – big and small – were assigned a “part” and hours were spent with our dear teacher helping us practice our lines and playing her piano - leading us with her clear strong voice in singing familiar Christmas carols together. Our Nativity Play and our choir was interspersed with the older students reciting Christmas poems – some humorous - to complete the concert entertainment. The rest of the evening was then spent enjoying the potluck of goodies and visiting with neighbors. Each year, joy of joys, Santa Claus himself would arrive at the very end of the night ringing what looked exactly like our large brass school bell and calling each of us to his lap to share our Christmas wishes and receive a small bag of candy before we dispersed home to our own Christmas celebrations. These treasured memories for me have lasted far longer than those of any gifts I received back then.

On behalf of everyone at HELPING HANDS, myself and my family - may your Christmas celebrations be blessed and full of good times spent with those you love and making memories that will last a lifetime. Merry Christmas.

Helping Hands Home Support Services Ltd. Helping Hands offers a variety of services to seniors to best assist them in maintaining their indep

CASUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY in HANNA, AB

HELPING HANDS Home Support Services Ltd. is looking for a casual Home Support Worker to provide casual coverage for Over-Night Care to a client in her home.

This position can also include casual coverage with community clients who receive HELPING HANDS Home or Facility supports. These services include Light Housekeeping, Meal Preparation, Errand Services, Local Transportation, Companionship and Respite Care.

Successful Candidate must:
- Have experience providing personal care
- Be Dependable & Bondable
- Have a Kind & Compassionate Personality
- Provide 3 Quality References
- (HCA Certification an asset)

Job Type: Casual
Wage: Competitive Daily Rate to be discussed at interview
Overnight Care Shift : 8pm to 12pm Noon

Please email resumes to [email protected]

Visit our webpage at www.helpinghandshomesupport.com for more information.

Helping Hands Home Support Services Ltd. We provide a variety of services to seniors or chronically ill adults living independently, allowing them to remain at home for as long as safely possible vs moving into a care facility before they are medically required to do so.

Do you like to cook for others? Love working with Seniors?

The Manor Lunch Program and Meals on Wheels Program provides a full-course meal daily (Monday - Friday) in Hanna, AB to residents at Parkview Manor, and offers a meal delivery to community members.

We are looking for an individual to prepare lunch one day per week, as well as provide casual coverage for other staff. Menu planning and grocery shopping is completed ahead of time.

Successful Candidate must:

Be Dependable & Bondable
Have a Kind & Compassionate Personality
Have a Reliable Vehicle to Deliver Meals
Provide Quality References
Experience working with seniors is an asset
We Offer - On the Job Training, Competitive Wages & Flexible Hours

If you have questions or would like to apply please email [email protected] or call (403)364-2476.

IN MY EXPERIENCE living in rural Alberta opens the door to unfettered beauty regardless of the Season. You just have to pay attention.

On a "roadie" to Red Deer yesterday, we were treated to broad expanses of drifted wind swept prairies, stands of naked trees standing in stark contrast against the bright blue Winter sky, a myriad of animal tracks over the frozen ponds and sloughs, "diamonds on the snow" in the fields and ditches, and picturesque snow dusted river valley coulees. Beauty is everywhere you go if you just look for it. 🙂 I love our Alberta.

**this is a picture of hoarfrost on the trees and fences just coming down out of the beautiful Handhills just South of Delia.

Blessings.

Wishing all of our valued staff and clients the very best of health and happiness in the New Year!!

Wishing all of our valued staff and clients the very best of the Christmas Season and a happy and healthy New Year.

Another cherished tradition of Christmas in our small rural village of Delia, is the annual Christmas Concert. In the 1990"s - the Elementary Grades entertained the crowd of parents, grandparents and friends with the Christmas play, and the Junior and Senior High School choir "wrapped up" the event with traditional carols. When the carols were sung the school year was done and we all went home to enjoy our Christmas. My two oldest daughters are in this picture. Please feel free to share any pictures you may have of a Christmas Concert that is a wonderful memory for you.

Friday's FACES of HELPING HANDS will begin to spotlight our most wonderful Community Service Providers. Today we will get to know Sue Eggins, who is our most senior member of the team.

Sue started with HELPING HANDS in October 2006 and has been instrumental in initiating, managing and growing the Hanna service area. Sue is the type of employee that everyone would want: kind, compassionate, honest, with a huge heart and always doing what she feels is best for her clients. We are so grateful to have someone like her representing HELPING HANDS in the community.

"Hi my name is Sue and I've been employed with HELPING HANDS for 14 years. I am originally from Lloydminster and have lived in Craigmyle with my husband Dave for nearly 32 years. We raised two beautiful daughters who have since grown up and moved away and married. We have 2 beautiful grandbabies whom we enjoy so much. Whenever someone asks me what I like about my job, I always say 'the clients'. I love working with seniors and have met so many awesome people through my job. They are always so appreciative of everything you do for them. It is a very hard transition for some of our little people to release the reins and accept help, so I hope I can make the transition a little easier. Who knows, maybe I could be here another 14 years!! Happy holidays everyone and stay safe".

Right in the feels this Tuesday morning. 💓