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Redefined Dining Enhances Senior Living
Incredible Dining Venues Earn Crane’s Mill Residents Boasting Rights
by Lorraine Seabrook

Crane’s Mill Continuing Care Retirement Community in West Caldwell showcases the latest trends in senior living with the unveiling of the community’s newly reinvented dining spaces. “We wanted to elevate our dining venues to reflect the beauty, warmth and vibrancy of our residents while offering them special places to socialize and enjoy a meal,” says Executive Director Craig Karczmer.

Borrowing ideas from top restaurants and cruise lines, Karczmer, working with Director of Food Services Sue Knapp and other professionals from dining vendor Morrison Dining, embarked on an ambitious plan to redefine the community’s restaurant, marketplace, and cafe venues. The results of the $1.7 million reinvention are impressive. Capitalizing on the soaring wooden beam ceilings and arch windows that define the town square’s grand foyer, the dining spaces are open, warm and inviting.

Center Stage features a huge stone hearth oven where diners can gather round to watch Executive Chef Peter Day prepare meals and conduct televised cooking classes. Candleberry Dining Room offers full nightly table service. For special occasions, residents can make reservations at the upscale 4Five9. The sleek design and open layout of Heartwood Café complements the marketplace’s nutritious select-your-own choices. At Cherry Blossom Lounge, key club residents can snack on hors d’oeuvres and enjoy drinks in a pub atmosphere.

Thanks to careful planning and flawless execution, the elevated dining venues at Crane’s Mill nourish both body and soul.

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Crane’s Mill Continuing Care Retirement Community is a program of Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jersey (LSM/NJ), a faith-based, statewide not-for-profit provider of compassionate, quality senior care services dedicated to helping older adults successfully age and live their lives to the fullest potential. Crane’s Mill Continuing Care Retirement Community offers independent living, assisted living, memory support and skilled nursing care on a 43-acre campus in West Caldwell, NJ. For more information, call (973) 276-6700 or visit www.cranesmill.org.

Lutheran Care at Moorestown is a program of Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jersey, a faith-based, statewide not-for-profit provider of compassionate, quality senior care services, as well as community programs such as adoption, immigration & refugee resettlement, community residences for developmentally disabled women & affordable housing for seniors and families. For more information, visit our website at www.lsmnj.org.

Contact: Heather Kato
Marketing Manager
(609) 699-4139
hkato@lsmnj.org

Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jersey
Welcomes New Executive Director

BURLINGTON — Monday, September 19, 2011 — Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jersey (LSM/NJ) is proud to welcome Mary Ann Conway as our Executive Director of Fund Development. In this brand new position, Mary Ann will focus on developing new fund raising initiatives and partnering with all programs and departments in LSM/NJ to support growth of our organization and fulfillment of our mission.

Mary Ann brings over 25 years of experience in the non-profit sector to the organization. In her most recent positions as Director of Development at Drexel University’s College of Engineering and, earlier, the Goodwin College of Professional Studies and the College of Information Science, she rejuvenated their dormant major giving programs, surpassing fund raising goals by 45%.

Beginning her career at the Lutheran Home at Germantown in Philadelphia, Mary Ann then worked as a consultant to The Philadelphia Protestant Homewhere she managed a newly purchased personal care residence in the Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia and later served in a similar capacity at the Lawndale campus. Soon Mary Ann was made Director of Admissions focusing on occupancy targets in Assisted Living and then promoted to Vice President of Marketing. In her next role as Executive Director at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bucks County, she expanded organizational capacity with the addition of new and diverse funding streams, making it possible to serve twice the number of children.

Mary Ann is a Board Member of the Community Design Collaborative in Philadelphia, a community focused non-profit organization. She earned a Bachelor of Science at Temple University and a Master of Science at St. Joseph’s University. Mary Ann is a resident of Huntingdon Valley, PA

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Lutheran Care at Moorestown is a program of Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jersey, a faith-based, statewide not-for-profit provider of compassionate, quality senior care services, as well as community programs such as adoption, immigration & refugee resettlement, community residences for developmentally disabled women & affordable housing for seniors and families. For more information, visit our website at www.lsmnj.org.

Contact: Heather Kato
Marketing Manager
(609) 699-4139
hkato@lsmnj.org

Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jersey Breaks Ground
for New Corporate Office

Pictured above from left to right: Clayton Keeler, Witherspoon Construction; Jason Konek, LSM/NJ Executive Director of Project Development and Plant Operations; Keith McWhirk, Mandracchia & McWhirk LLC; Peg Bucci, LSM/NJ Senior Vice President of Housing and Community Services; Dave Waddell, LSM/NJ Board of Trustees; Robert Stout, Stout & Caldwell Engineers, LLC; Jerry Nugent, LSM/NJ President and CEO; Tammy Schiavo, Kitchen and Associates Architects; Brian Carlin, Burlington Township Mayor; Joseph Donnelly, Burlington County Freeholder; Monica Kanopka, Thrivent Financial; Geno Schiavo, Kitchen and Associates Architects; Francis Kardos, LSM/NJ CFO and Vice President of Finance; and Domenic Braccio, Witherspoon Construction.

BURLINGTON — Tuesday, August 23, 2011 — Jerry Nugent, President and CEO of Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jersey (LSM/NJ) was joined by Burlington Township Mayor, Brian Carlin; Burlington County Freeholder, Joseph Donnelly; and others as they broke ground on construction of the LSM/NJ new corporate office building on Elbow Lane in Burlington, NJ.

Click here to view the full article.

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Lutheran Care at Moorestown is a program of Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jersey, a faith-based, statewide not-for-profit provider of compassionate, quality senior care services, as well as community programs such as adoption, immigration & refugee resettlement, community residences for developmentally disabled women & affordable housing for seniors and families. For more information, visit our website at www.lsmnj.org.

Join us in support of New Visions Homeless Day Shelter in Camden, New Jersey. Beginning Thursday, September 15, Crane’s Mill will be hosting its annual Bountiful Harvest Food Drive that will benefit the shelter’s food pantry. In addition to canned and non-perishable food, monetary donations to New Visions are also welcomed. Last year, 453.9 pounds of food and $830.00 were donated by members of the Crane’s Mill Community and their family and friends. All contributions can be placed in the decorative bins that are located in the Towne Square area of Crane’s Mill at 459 Passaic Avenue in West Caldwell. All are welcome to participate!!. Food Drive ends in November.

Donations will be accepted from Thursday, September 15 to Thursday, October 27.  Please feel free to drop donations off between the hours of 8:30 am and 5:00 pm in the Towne Square Area.

For questions, please contact Meredith Wu at 973.809.4099 or at mwu@lsmnj.org.

Songs from the Heart

Join us for lunch and an afternoon filled with some of the classic sounds of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett and more in Hinman Hall, located at Towne Square. RSVP to 973.276.3001 by September 14th.

Crane’s Mill Continuing Care Retirement Community
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
12:00pm – 2:00 pm

Come to the Crane’s Mill Health Fair and get all the up to date information on your health from professionals in the field. Get your blood pressure checked, learn what your bone density is, find out the best way to get a good night’s sleep, and much more! 

Saturday, September 17, 2011
10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Crane’s Mill Continuing Care Retirement Community
459 Passaic Avenue, West Caldwell, NJ 07006