News
2024 Property Updates
Gardens — Once again, our wonderful gardening team has kept our courtyard and perimeter gardens looking beautiful. At the close of 2024, we have started to refresh the gardens in the parking lot area.
2023 & 2024 Business Excellence Awards for Non-Profit & Volunteer Services
A sincere thank-you to the community of Sooke and surrounding area for selecting Ayre Manor as the recipient of the Sooke Region Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Award for the Non-Profit & Volunteer Services category, two years in a row!
Also, thank you to the District of Sooke who sponsored this award. We are very pleased to have been honoured with this designation and thank the staff, board and volunteers for their efforts and dedication to Ayre Manor. We pride ourselves in safe, reliable, high quality care for our residents, continuous improvement and a warm family atmosphere.
Testimonials received by the Chamber of Commerce:
- “Ayre Manor is a great facility. Their staff showed my Mom kindness and love while she resided there and at the end of my Mom's life, they cried alongside me.”
- “Ayre Manor is dedicated to providing the best possible care to Sooke elderly residents.”
- “A true gem in the Sooke Community providing excellent care to our seniors.”
- “It is an incredible group of people who truly care about their residents.”
- “They take great care of our elderly!”
- “They are so kind and caring.”
- “Exceptional senior care.”
- “Ayre Manor is dedicated to helping our seniors live their best life.”
- “They have created a wonderful space for Sooke’s aging community members, providing them with a new home in their hometown so that as they require different levels of care they can still stay in their community with their friends and family.”
- “They truly care about their residents.”
2023 Property Upgrades
Cottages — Upgrades were started last year with amazing results! Patio fences have been replaced, as well as upgrades to exterior finishing, new windows and doors, roofs over the patios and a fresh coat of paint.
Gardens — Our wonderful volunteers have once again kept our courtyard gardens looking beautiful! Our gardener has been sprucing up our perimeter gardens. The results are fantastic.
Convenient On-Site Services for Residents
We are happy to report that we have located a dental hygienist who has been regularly assisting our residents with oral health. We have also arranged for a mobile hearing aid clinic that will regularly provide our residents with hearing tests and maintenance of hearing aids.
Music Therapy Program
$8200 was raised by Philip Hulme, who was our Board Treasurer at the time. He pitched Ayre Manor and the benefits of music therapy to a group called 100 Men Who Care, to which he belonged. We are very fortunate to have music therapist Maryann Burrows providing this valuable program to our residents.
Gazebos at Ayre Manor
We partnered with the Rotary Club of Sooke to build two 100 sq.ft. gazebos with picnic tables and heaters. Since completion in June 2021, residents, guests and staff regularly enjoy this new sheltered space that is wheelchair accessible and located a short distance from the front doors for visitations, gatherings and more.
A HUGE THANK YOU to the Rotary Club of Sooke, Anderson General Contracting, Butler Concrete & Aggregate and Sooke Home Hardware for support building the project through means of materials and services.
