Winning Wheels

Winning Wheels has established a fine arts woodshop in the Therapy Annex. Up to 15 residents are kept busy sanding, staining, painting and building birdhouses, feeders, and picture frames. They are also refinishing furniture and wood doors.

Future plans are to build and market small pieces of furniture, hanging planter boxes, trellises, and bat houses to make the woodshop a self-sustaining enterprise. Several items have been sold at silent auction and a few tools have been donated, enabling the woodshop to run on a limited budget.

Let's Get Creative!

For over four years, R.J. Tolley has hosted the party for residents who have spent five one-hour days in the Station, although many residents come in daily. A local restaurant delivers the pizza. The party is funded with money made selling items made in the woodshop at silent auctions. These items include benches, stools, plant stands and Adirondack chairs. Items are often made and donated to charities or used around the facility.

Up to 26 people have attended the Creation Station in one day. Almost 50% of Winning Wheels residents participate on a monthly basis.

Other activities include putting puzzles together or playing checkers. There is always music playing and singing is often heard coming from the room. The purpose of this department is to teach learning and memory strategies and interpersonal and organizational skills, but it's also a really fun place to hang out!

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