StoryPoint Chesterton and Addison Pointe host Harvest Block Party and community trunk or treat

StoryPoint Chesterton and Addison Pointe host Harvest Block Party and community trunk or treat

With fall settling in and Halloween just around the corner, StoryPoint Chesterton celebrated the season with their Harvest Block Party. Featuring food, pumpkin painting, and a trunk or treat session hosted by staff from StoryPoint, their neighbors Addison Pointe, and other senior service providers from the neighborhood.

StoryPoint Chesterton Harvest Fest Block Party

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The StorypPoint team crafted the event with a few goals in mind, the first and most obvious being to let their residents and visiting community members have a good time. The other key point was to highlight the strong continuum of care made available by StoryPoint’s next-door neighbors, being the accomplished experts at Addison Pointe Health & Rehabilitation Center.

“When you have great communication between a rehabilitation facility and a senior living community like us, no balls are ever dropped,” said Celine Najdeski, Business Development Specialist at StoryPoint Chesterton. “Once they’re done with rehab at Addison Pointe, we know everything that’s happened and what the next steps need to be to ensure they stay healthy. This block party is just a great way to bring these two communities together.”

A brief downpour disrupted the event’s initial plans, pushing the trunk or treat under the protective roofs of StoryPoint’s carport – but it did not keep away a good-sized crowd of local families and children dressed up in their Halloween costumes.

“We thought it’d be sunny and there’d be more mingling back and forth between us and Addison Pointe, but nature had other plans,” Najdeski said. “Still, it’s great to see people come out and it’s really showing how things come full circle with how much we work with Addison Pointe all the time.”

The two senior living communities are frequent event hosts, packing their schedules full of opportunities for their residents to get out meet with visitors from Chesterton – especially the kids that came by for the trunk or treat. Addison Pointe Regional Director of Public Relations Mark Stagge noted that getting residents out and engaged is particularly important for their long-term nursing residents.

“The elderly are almost a reflection on our children,” said Stagge. “They had to take care of their children when they were young, those kids become teenagers who become parents and then grandparents or great-grandparents. Seeing those kids at events like today gives them hope and energy to have a fulfilling life.  That’s the most rehabilitative thing we can offer our seniors, to get them out in this wonderful Chesterton Community.”

To learn more about StoryPoint Chesterton, visit www.storypoint.com/community/chesterton-in/.