As executive director of Canaan Childcare Center Fran Chapell has worked hard to create a caring and stimulating atmosphere for those at the beginning of life’s arc. She hires the best people she can find, helps them develop as professionals, sets standards for the center’s functioning, sees her organization as part of a larger connected […]
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Nina Mathus has been part of the Noble Horizons volunteer community since the early 1980s when her mother came to live here. Back then, Nina worked a high-powered job in New York City and spent weekends in Salisbury at her husband’s family’s cottage on Twin Lakes. In the 1990s, her aunt came to reside at
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As we move through these surreal and challenging times, we are grateful for the close bonds that nourish us, now more than ever. We draw strength, succor and friendship from each other and hope that you and your family are staying safe and healthy. Like you, we yearn for the end of this siege, for
Ask Norma Baker about her early years at Noble as a young, single mom with three small children aged 8, 5 and 4, and she recalls, “My coworkers were like family in those days when I really needed the support.” Twenty years later, Norma is one of the most beloved members of the Noble family,
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Originally published in Main Street Magazine on February 23, 2020. Violence can breed many things: anger, hatred and perhaps most frighteningly, more violence. Two World Wars brought bitterness, dissidence, genocide and a perpetual sense of xenophobia throughout Europe and across the globe. Two Civil Wars over the course of 12 years had similar effects on Liberia.
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Throughout their 65-year journey together, Dr. John Gallup, affectionately known as Bill to locals in the community, and his wife Jean have lived in locales throughout the world, raised a family, traveled and given tirelessly to their local communities. “We still share the same core values after all these years,” says Jean, who raised the
Guests of acclaimed baker and cookbook author, Jessie Sheehan enjoyed tips and treats on Saturday, February 1 when Noble Horizons hosted Jessie for a live baking demonstration. Chocolate lovers were wowed by the ‘easy peasy’ preparation of three tantalizing recipes sure to win the heart of any Valentine! In less than an hour, and using
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“When we talk about memory, and the ways in which we wish to keep our overall memory strong, we are talking about brain health,” says Jennifer Labrie, Resource Coordinator for Hartford Healthcare’s Center for Healthy Aging at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington, CT. Researchers agree, when it comes to adults aged 65 years and older,
As the Holidays Approach, Healthy Eating still an Option According to Nutrition Counselor Roufia Payman DT, CDN Nutrition Counselor Roufia Payman DT, CDN, supervisor of outpatient nutrition education at Nuvance’s Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhinebeck, is a veritable wealth of knowledge when it comes to healthy food strategies. This should come as no surprise considering Mrs.Payman’s thirty-eight
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“This place has been the best surprise of my adult life,” shared Jean O’Connor, a recent rehab patient at Noble Horizons. Although Ms. O’Connor’s stay at Noble may not have been long, the impression Noble’s staff and the level of care provided during the course of her rehab will stay with her for years to
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