Posts by Mountain Shadows
Fontana Foundation Story
December 21, 2021 The Fontana Foundation of Hope Supports Mountain Shadows – Riverside by Sheryl Wilde It all started with a popsicle. “In 2014, Jack Long went into Cardenas Market in Fontana to buy a popsicle,” says Eric Goodman, President/CEO, Mountain View Services, Inc., and Board Member, Mountain Shadows Foundation. “On his way out, on…
Read MoreA Library of Things
November 8, 2021 Mountain Shadows Outreach Services to Launch New Library of Things by Sheryl Wilde Exciting Things are coming soon to Mountain Shadows Outreach Services! In fact, a whole new Library of Things will be introduced in early 2022. According to Wikipedia, a Library of Things is any collection of objects that can be…
Read MoreBirch House Tree Planting
October 20, 2021 Kiwanis Key Club Plants New Tree of Hope at Birch House by Sheryl Wilde While there’s been no official election, everybody knows Kenny Lewis is the Mayor of Mountain Shadows. For as long as anyone can remember, Kenny could be found sitting in his wheelchair, under a lovely shade tree, in the…
Read MoreStacy’s Return
October 8, 2021 Coming Home Again – to Mountain Shadows – is a Beautiful Thing by Sheryl Wilde “When COVID hit, we just didn’t know what was going to happen,” says Portia Bibb. “Was everybody going to die? COVID was just so fearful. “When Mountain Shadows called at the beginning of the lockdown and asked…
Read MoreLove is an Action: Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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…
Read MoreFor Mountain Shadows Residents, Love Grows Here
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…
Read MoreUCSD Team Offers Engineering with a Touch of Love
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 MoreAlternatve Outreach
April 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 MoreIntroducing the Legacy Society
March 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 MoreOutreach & CSUSM Virtually
March 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…
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