Willowbend Retirement Community

02/25/2026

What a fun morning with the Peter Mennie Magic Show coming to Willowbend 🪄✨️

The room was full of laughter, lots of surprises and a few shy volunteers at the start but it was such a fun interactive show today!! A big round of applause to Peter Mennie - Comedy Magic - Serious Fun for making the trip to come see us and showing us all the tricks and jokes! 😆

02/24/2026

Our Dinner With Friends this month was themed Chinese New Year! 🐉㊙️

We enjoyed a delicious meal of Chow Mein noodles, dumplings and egg rolls made by our amazing kitchen staff! We had some traditional Chinese music playing and had some activity booklets made to end the evening with!

02/18/2026

02/18/2026

Riverstone Olympics has begun!! 🏆🏅🏒🎯🥅🥌🪓

Team Willowbend brought home a bronze medal in Shuffleboard with all their hard work and training! A big thank you to Stirling Park Retirement Community for hosting such a great event!!

02/18/2026

Today we celebrated Mardi Gras 🎊

We feasted on some snacks and Mardi Gras inspired mocktails, listened to some New Orleans Jazz music and got some snazzy pictures 💃

02/16/2026

Our Candy gram delivery staff were busy busy busy going door to door to give residents their cards and chocolate on Valentines Day 🍫⚘️

We also got a very beautiful surprise from Sobeys Trim Road who dropped off some gorgeous roses for our residents and staff-Thank you Sobeys 🥰

02/13/2026

Our Valentine's Day Willowbend Choir Show today was a wonderful treat. We are very proud of our choir group and all the hard work they've put in to rehearsing and singing with all their hearts 💝

Thank you to all who came to join us in singing along and showing lots of love and support! 😊

02/11/2026

A great morning spent decorating mini cakes for Valentines Day 💝

02/10/2026

We had the pleasure of having Giddy Up N Go Ponies come visit for a special Valentines Day Goat-Gram gift and we got to see the most adorable baby chicklets!!
There was so many big smiles and warm hearts today getting some much needed animal therapy time. Thank you guys so much for visiting us today, we cant wait for the next visit! 🐣🐐💘

02/04/2026

Today we got busy and creative making some Valentines day themed beaded pens which we got to use after to sign our home made valentines day cards 💘🖊

02/04/2026

Here are a few of the exciting events happening at Willowbend in February! Mark your calendars and join the fun. 🎉

Want to see the full calendar and RSVP? Visit our website! https://www.willowbendretirement.com/community

02/03/2026

We had a fantastic workshop today with Social-Ability here at Willowbend. Key topics that were discussed were visiting your loved ones with purpose and gaining a better understanding of Dementia. Thank you to Chris Baird, director of social-ability for your time and expertise. 😊🧠