“Throw for a Healthy Heart” on National Wear Red Day! Friday, February 5th was National Wear Red Day to support the American Heart Association. Every year at Brightmore, we plan a “healthy heart” activity and healthy raffle baskets, so we can raise money for our own “Heart Healthy” activity in the spring. This year our . . . Read More
What better pie to try out for our 3rd annual pie bake off than Gene Autry’s famous peanut butter cream pie! Creamy peanut butter, graham cracker crust and hot fudge topping made this pie absolutely delicious. We whipped it together in no time and spent the morning thanking Gene Autry for this tasty recipe. This pie . . . Read More
Brightmore University’s “Armchair Traveler’s” Series opened with its first out of three presentations for the semester with, “Iceland: A 2015 Photographic Journey” presented by Les and Patty Conner, photographers and members of the Cape Fear Camera Club. We thoroughly enjoyed an afternoon of their photos from a professionally guided tour they took in May and . . . Read More
Brightmore University held its 2nd class, Up to Date with “A Century of Dining at Wrightsville”:1870-1970, presented by Elaine Hensen, a Wilmington historian. Elaine presented the history of Wrightsville Beach’s culinary past: where visitors have eaten, from the late 1880’s in hotels and guest houses, to the 1970’s in restaurants like The Marina, Faircloth’s, Crystal . . . Read More
Many residents gathered in our Country Kitchen for the “Healthy Eating Social”; I think all our minds were thinking alike since the holidays and after eating all our holiday favorite foods we all over indulged in. Our residents were served vegetables such as carrots, broccoli, celery, snow peas, etc., along with some fresh fruits like watermelon, pineapple, . . . Read More
The Kempton at Brightmore of Wilmington had our first book club meeting, and it turned out wonderful; several of our residents gathered around our Country Kitchen table and received the first chapter from the Book, “The Bartered Bride” collection. The Activity Director, Jennifer Alaimo, read aloud as the residents listened and read along. The discussion following . . . Read More
Let it snow! We might have not had any snow yet this year in Wilmington, however for some of the residents at The Commons that all changed. We made our own personal snow globes. Snow globes full of trees, snowmen, ice, and flowers now can have a beautiful snowfall with just a shake of the . . . Read More
This past Sunday, we kicked off our Spring Brightmore University Series with the Cape Fear Chorale Conducted by Jerry S. Cribbs. It was a beautiful concert that included the “Magnificat in D and Deetingen Te Deum” from their previous fall concert plus several patriotic songs that will be included in their spring performance that we . . . Read More
Residents joined together to be a part of Brightmore’s 4th Annual Charity Bazaar Donation which was presented to Mary Heath with “HeartsApart.org”. Mary is the coordinator of over 100 volunteer photographers throughout 40 different states which supports local military families with photography. HeartsApart was founded in 2010, in NC and has over 300 submissions for . . . Read More
Gigi Hickley, cousin of Brightmore Resident, Carol Doniere, and her husband, Bill Hickley, joined Brightmore on Saturday to share a very rare and special piece of WWII history and the story behind it. The story began in 1940, in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, when Gigi’s mother married Morris “Pete” Henrickson. In 1942, Pete enlisted into . . . Read More
