By Peggy Qualls, Sales and Community Relations Manager — October is National Disabilities Employment Awareness Month and our final story features one of our youngest employees. Granville High School senior Eli Davis was looking for a summer job and found a spot working as a dishwasher in the kitchen at Kendal at Granville. He’s been […]
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We DO Wash Dishes, and More!
By Peggy Qualls, Sales and Community Relations Manager — As October is National Disabilities Employment Awareness Month, this is the second in a series of stories recognizing the often-unsung contributions made by special Kendal at Granville employees. A lifelong resident of Hebron, Ohio, Dana Palmer has worked as a Utility Aide with Kendal at Granville […]
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Kendal Residents Know How to Have Fun
By Resident Reed Browning — In the last week of September Kendal at Granville staged an aptly-named Fun and Activities Fair. The man who organized the event — its impresario, as it were — was Larry Murdock, who in his pre-Kendal life had served as Registrar of Denison University. It had seemed a shame to […]
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Recognizing Staff with Special Abilities: Abby Butt Offers Service with a Smile
By Peggy Qualls, Sales and Community Relations Manager — A longtime, active member of Kendal at Granville’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Abby Butt made a point of noting that October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). Abby states, “This is important, to make others aware of the need to hire people with special needs, […]
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The Festival of Sukkot
By Resident Steve Katz — For almost 35 years, we lived in the Village of Granville, in a big historic home with a large lot, and we never put up a sukkah. So, this year, ironically, now that we live in a much more modest cottage with very little yard, my wife decided she wanted […]
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Richards’ Shared Vision Leads to Creation of Kendal at Granville
By Peggy Qualls, Sales and Community Relations Manager — For folks who love their life here at Kendal at Granville, Dave Richards is a humble and mostly unsung hero. However, he deserves at least one-fourth of the credit for the fact that there even IS a Kendal at Granville! “Once upon a time” there were two couples, […]
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Residential Self-Government in Action: The Role of ‘The Annual Meeting’
By Resident Reed Browning — On Thursday, Sept. 20, the residents of Kendal at Granville, directed by their bye-laws, convened in “The Annual Meeting” to make the decisions that allow our system of self-governance to move into a new fiscal year. (As an explanatory note, I’ll add that, somewhat awkwardly, the fiscal year of the […]
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