Balloon Volleyball Though the weather outside is frightful, that hasn’t put a damper on our fun here at the Jeanne Jugan Center. There may be sleet, snow, ice, and frigid temperatures on the other side of the window, but everyone had visions of playing on a summer beach during today’s […]

March for Life As you know, respect for life is a major tenet of the Little Sisters’ beliefs. We are involved in end-of-life issues daily, but Catholic reverence for life runs the gamut – from conception to natural death. Recently our home’s Chaplain, Father Phil, traveled to Washington, D.C. for […]

Sister Pauline turns 100 The weekend of December 30 was a special one here at the Jeanne Jugan Center. We celebrated our Sister Marie Pauline’s 100th birthday. The festivities started with a party with the craft volunteers on Friday. Many of them have worked with her the 30 years she […]

Dell’s Elves For the second year, ten employees from RSA Security, a division of Dell Computing, recently came to the Jeanne Jugan Center to help the Little Sisters wrap Christmas gifts for our Residents. We fondly call these volunteers Dell’s Elves, and they certainly worked like elves, wrapping 75-80 gifts. […]

Breakfast with Santa Saturday was our second annual Breakfast with Santa. Everyone had so much fun, that this is bound to be a new yearly tradition. Mark Durkin graciously returned this year as Santa, and spent the morning visiting with Residents and posing for literally hundreds of pictures. The halls […]

Visitation Volunteers Last month we were “visited” by a great group of teachers and staff (about 40 in all!) from Visitation Parish School. And they arrived bearing gifts – boxes and boxes of toiletries that the school had collected for us. Just as precious as these much-needed items, was the […]