{"id":3034,"date":"2021-06-25T12:14:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T16:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verveseniorliving.com\/news-events-blog\/?p=3034"},"modified":"2022-10-03T15:34:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T15:34:03","slug":"a-goodbye-song-for-retiring-staff-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verveseniorliving.com\/news-events-blog\/a-goodbye-song-for-retiring-staff-member\/","title":{"rendered":"A Goodbye Song for Retiring Staff Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verveseniorliving.com\/courtyard-gardens\/\">Courtyard Gardens Retirement Residence<\/a> staff member Linda Jones, who works as a Life Enrichment Assistant and has done so for 12 plus years, decided to retire and get to more golf and pickle ball.&nbsp; She is an energetic and engaging person with a talent for music and trivia. Our resident, Roger is visually impaired and also has a keen ear for music and trivia and the two hit it off from the start.<\/p>\n<p>Roger was sad to hear that Linda would be retiring as he enjoys all of her programs, so he decided to sing a song to her for her last day. It took several takes to get it right and he was very nervous. It was played for Linda and she is a tough cookie, but it made her cry. This is why we work here- the relationships that are made are what is most important to us!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Linda for your dedication to Courtyard Gardens Retirement Residence in Richmond, BC.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1920px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-3034-1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/verveseniorliving.com\/news-events-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/06\/COURTYARD-video3.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/verveseniorliving.com\/news-events-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/06\/COURTYARD-video3.mp4\">http:\/\/verveseniorliving.com\/news-events-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/06\/COURTYARD-video3.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtyard Gardens Retirement Residence staff member Linda Jones, who works as a Life Enrichment Assistant and has done so for 12 plus years, decided to retire and get to more golf and pickle ball.&#038;nbs  &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-residents-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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