MORGANTOWN — With all those festive lights and decorations filling space at Sundale Thursday night, it was beginning to look a lot like … an afghan.
The occasion was the 20th annual “Light Up Night” at the rehabilitation and long-term elderly care facility on J.D. Anderson Drive.
Residents and their families came to light luminaries in memory of loved ones long past and loved ones still very much in the moment. Donna Tennant, Sundale’s admissions and marketing director, put a bow on the evening.
“It’s a celebration,” she said, “of everyone who has ever been part of Sundale.”
It was also the launch of Sundale’s 2018 “Presents for Patients” campaign.
Crossword puzzles, personal care items, stuffed animal toys are among the suggested gifts for Sundale’s 100 residents, Tennant said.
Schools, churches and civic groups link up every year to purchase gifts for Sundale residents and others in elderly care across the region.
For more information, contact Sundale’s Diane Kisinger at 304-599-0497, or dlkiss02@yahoo.com.
“We’re the ‘Presents for Patients’ headquarters,” Tennant said. “And these gifts really do make a difference. Faces really do light up.”
Meanwhile, a choir from St. Luke the Evangelist Catholic Church was generating light-up power of its own.
Music director R.J. Nestor led the assemblage through hymns, Advent songs and bouncy Christmas favorites remembered from long-ago
AM radios.
Granddaughters and great-granddaughters showed up in bright Christmas dresses.
Grown children helped their parents living there make safe wheelchair and walker passage down Sundale’s hallways, as the singers of St. Luke decked
the halls.
