Pleasant Meadow Manor resident Grace Patterson selects a resident's wish from the home's wishing well, along with Life Enrichment Supervisor Chris Charlebois, dressed as Oprah.

It has been months since Grace Patterson dropped a wish into the wooden wishing well at Pleasant Meadow, requesting to meet the famous talk-show host. Staff at the home and members of the Norwood and OMNI communities launched a letter-writing campaign in the fall to the icon in hopes of sending Grace to Oprah or vice versa. Since nothing has come about since, Pleasant Meadow employees decided to bring their own versions of Oprah to the home last week. Five employees donned wigs and expressed their impressions of Oprah to Grace and playfully asked her to decide just who was the real Oprah.

Grace settled on Shari Bertrand, environmental services manager for Pleasant Meadow Manor. Shari then had the honour of crowning Grace with a tiara, wand and flowers and notifying her she would treated as ‘Princess for a day,’ a contest Oprah ran on her daytime show.

“We had to fulfill her wish of (meeting Oprah) somehow,” says Connie Garden, administrator of the home. We held “an Oprah look-a-like contest. We had Grace be the judge.”

Connie says Grace enjoyed the look-a-like contest. “She thought it was hilarious. She laughed her head off.”

Grace has chosen to fulfill her ‘Princess as a day’ with breakfast in bed consisting of French toast and syrup, a spa bath, lunch at Marty Moos restaurant, a massage and an afternoon nap. She received the royal treatment Tuesday.

Stay tuned to the OMNIway for an interview with Grace about her special day.