Royal Palm Strawberry Festival!

Over 250 people attended our annual Strawberry Festival held at Royal Palm Retirement Centre on Valentine's Day.

Attendees enjoyed:
• Delicious strawberry treats
• Live music performed by Bobby Hub Cat
• Prizes, entertainment and great company.












Virginia Roche won a large basket of Valentine gifts. Kenia Suber, Activity Director, dressed in a strawberry costume to celebrate the annual festival. Eugene Johnson and Mille Bacher were crowned King and Queen of the Strawberry Festival. Everyone had a wonderful time!

Grannies & Elves Win First Place Trophy at Christmas Parade!

The Royal Palm Grannies along with the Elves Unprecision Walker Drill Team won the First Place trophy in the Charlotte County Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade on December 1. There were 130 entries in the competition this year.

The Grannies are shown above with their gigantic trophy. Congratulations everyone. We're so proud of you!

RPC Featured on WINK TV

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PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. - The staff at the Royal Palm Retirement Centre in Port Charlotte is always coming up with ways to entertain the residents.

Their latest caper? Creating a drill team using extra walkers. The routine has been performed a couple of times already by the six-person team.

"We pretty much are willing to go anywhere and do anything," says nurse and drill sergeant Cindy Caillier, of the group's new routine.

"We semi-perfect it," she says, "Then we put it in front of the residents and if the residents like it, we go from there."

So how did they like it?

"Oh, they loved it. They fell off their chairs (not literally). The lobby was packed."

"We're going to perform it at the Christmas parade and then for an AARP meeting," says Caillier.

The Punta Gorda Christmas Parade is Saturday December 1st at noon on Taylor Street.