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Southgate Village residents are always 'puzzling'
How completing puzzles have become a favourite activity among residents
4/28/2025
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Deron Hamel
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If you visit Southgate Village on any given day, you are sure to find a puzzle on a table in the activity room in some stage of completion.
Valerie Judas, the Kingsville, Ont. seniors living community's fun co-ordinator, says residents are always “puzzling” – and the more challenging the puzzle, the more the residents enjoy it, Valerie says, adding it's not just puzzles residents love when it comes to cerebral activities.
“I'm always challenging them with word games and trivia which many of the residents enjoy,” she tells S&R Today.
Southgate Village even has what Valerie refers to as its own “house puzzler.” Resident Anka has completed more puzzles than any other person at the Village, Valerie says.
Recently, Valerie found what she calls a “very challenging” puzzle in a local shop and decided to buy it and bring it to the residents.
She brought the puzzle, which is a colouring puzzle that features a picture of an owl, back to Southgate for residents to complete, and they were up for the challenge.
Valerie put the puzzle on a separate table from another puzzle to encourage residents to put it together and not to disturb the other one.
“It slowly began coming together with Anka, Lydia and John working on it regularly,” Valerie says.
Every morning Valerie says she would hear, “oh, Valerie,” from frustrated residents as they tried to complete the difficult puzzle.
“I would snicker and say, 'but you love me anyway,” she laughs.
Finally, after two weeks of working on this puzzle, it's completely done and residents have begun colouring the puzzle.
“We now have to decide if we are going to save it or take it apart and do it again at some point,” Valerie says.
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