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It is often said that how we deal with challenges defines us. The interview that follows, with Ted Brown, Mountain Shadows Foundation Board of Directors, shares his family’s story of the challenges they faced during the pandemic and demonstrates that truly, love is an action. Sheryl: Let’s go back to the beginning of the pandemic. Can you…
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Mountain Shadows Residents, Love Grows Here by Sheryl Wilde “A garden is the grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.” Gertrude Jekyll As a fragile seedling begins to emerge from the soil, so too have traces of new life begun to surface at Mountain Shadows…
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UCSD Team Offers Engineering with a Touch of Love by Sheryl Wilde Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world. ~Isaac Asimov Most of you already know Mountain Shadows is a heaven-on-earth kind of place where angels dwell and miracles happen daily, but we must admit sometimes we…
Read MoreApril 14, 2021 Mountain Shadows Outreach Continues to Thrive with Alternative Day Programs by Sheryl Wilde Leah and Claire, 31-year-old identical twins with Mowat-Wilson Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder, attended Mountain Shadows Outreach Day Program 5 days a week – until March 2020, when the pandemic began. “They LOVED going to Day Program,” says Andrea…
Read MoreMarch 31, 2021 Because I Care. This is Mountain Shadows’ motto, and it influences the way we care for our residents and program participants. It is because we care that we are establishing Mountain Shadows Legacy Society, a special group of individuals who are committed to ensuring Mountain Shadows will continue to provide uncompromised care…
Read MoreMarch 17, 2021 CSUSM: Discovering New Ways to eM:POWR Connection by Sheryl Wilde If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on where there is…
Read MoreMarch 1, 2021 Mountain Shadows Foundation Welcomes Ann Kinsey Schu to the Board of Directors by Sheryl Wilde Although there are many things of which Ann Kinsey Schu (“Annie”) can be proud, she says, “What I am most proud of is my relationship with my husband, Aaron, and the life we have created together with…
Read MoreFebruary 25, 2021 Mountain Shadows Foundation Welcomes New Board Member Ruth Hill by Sheryl Wilde “I’ve always had a heart for the disadvantaged, for people who don’t have a voice,” says Ruth Hill, RN, BSN, PHN, and retired RN Health Care Coordinator for Mountain Shadows Community Homes in Riverside. “That’s where my heart is.” Ruth’s…
Read MoreMOUNTAIN SHADOWS HOLDS FIRST COVID-19 VACCINATION CLINICS by Sheryl Wilde“A well-oiled machine,” that’s how Wade Wilde, Executive Director/CFO, Mountain Shadows Support Group, describes the first COVID-19 vaccination clinics at Mountain Shadows, San Diego and Riverside.“It was a major, major event,” adds Stacy Sullivan, Director of Operations, Mountain Shadows Support Group. “On January 11th, we saw…
Read MoreJanuary 26, 2021 Mountain Shadows Foundation Welcomes Rosemary Gatto to the Board of Directors By Sheryl Wilde These words, by Michael Neill, are a guiding force for Rosemary Gatto: “The most important choice you make is what you choose to make important.” Overwhelmingly, for the past two decades, Rosemary has chosen to make family her…
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