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Bartley Healthcare Celebrates Their Fourth Annual Family Fun Day

The Bartley Healthcare campus hosted its fourth annual Family Fun Day on October 2, 2004. Each year this event is free to the public. Despite the intermittent rain, more than 800 children and their parents attended the event. You knew there was something special happening at Bartley Healthcare, as you drove down North County Line Road and saw the large inflatable rides, carnival food and games, pony rides and petting zoo, as well as other attractions. Residents from both The Orchards at Bartley Assisted Living and Bartley Healthcare Nursing and Rehabilitation mingled among the community and enjoyed watching children playing on a variety of rides, coloring pumpkins, eating cotton candy, snow cones and popcorn, creating sand art, riding a pony or shaking hands with a costume character.

During the event, Bartley Healthcare welcomed donations for the Jackson Food Pantry, which is managed by The Jackson Women of Today. The event raised over $400 in monetary donations. Bartley’s has matched the contributions and presented the Jackson Food Pantry with a check for $1,000 at their general membership meeting on Monday night.

Non-perishable food items were also collected at the event. “We collected over six grocery carts of non-perishable food items”, said Elizabeth Stelevich, Director of the Food Pantry for The Jackson Women of Today. “We are very grateful to Bartley Healthcare for offering this wonderful event to support The Jackson Food Pantry. They have been generous contributors to the Pantry since we moved into the building on 65 Don Connor Boulevard three years ago. I was truly amazed at the large quantity of food that was brought to this event. It shows that the Bartley and community spirit of helping those in need is widespread throughout the community.”

The Jackson Kiwanis Club ran a concession stand at the event and all proceeds were also donated to The Jackson Food Pantry. A Bartley Healthcare staff member reported that one little girl brought a small bag of coins totaling ten dollars from her piggy bank to donate to “feed the hungry people.”

Bartley Healthcare sponsored this free event as part of their continuing commitment towards community support. While the population they serve are seniors, Bartley Healthcare also supports children programs such as The Jackson High School Scholarship Fund, Baseball, Soccer and Cheerleading sponsorships and each year is a drop off site for the Toys for Tots Program. They are also sponsors of the Alzheimer’s Associations annual Memory Walk. “We are grateful to the Jackson community for supporting this event with their generous contributions for the Jackson Food Pantry”, said Trish Mazejy, VP of Business Development, “ This is a great way for the kids to have fun, while helping to feed their neighbors with their food contributions.”