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| Pleasant Meadow Manor resident Chris Jones beats
Sylvia Sanders, office manager, hands-down in a recent arm wrestling
contest. |
Resident challenges others to arm wrestling match
Jones wins hands-down
Tuesday February 10, 2004
When employees put their elbows on the table for an arm wrestling contest
recently, they knew they didn’t stand a chance against resident Chris
Jones.
But when Chris requested the match-up to measure the power
of their biceps, staff members figured they would give it their best anyway.
In three clean sweeps, Chris defeated Pleasant Meadow Manor Administrator
Connie Garden, Life Enrichment Supervisor Chris Charlebois and Office
Manager Sylvia Sanders.
“We knew he would beat us hands-down,” says the
life enrichment supervisor.
“Chris has very strong upper arms.”
Chris, who lives at the Norwood long-term care home, suggested
during a recent meeting of Pleasant Meadow Manor’s residents’
council, the home hold an arm wrestling contest. When residents make a
request at the meeting, staff attempts to honour it, notes Chris Charlebois.
She scheduled the arm wrestling match on to the home’s calendar
for February.
Chris and a fellow resident, Doug Blakely, signed up for the
activity. “We basically did it for Chris’s benefit (given
he had made a special request),” says Chris Charlebois. “He
had a ball,” she says. She notes Chris laughed and joked, asking
employees if they had sore arms throughout the duration of the day.
Connie says the exercises at Pleasant Meadow Manor “are
really working for our residents.”
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