Here is a fabulous video of Katie McCamant and members of Wolf Creek Lodge accepting the California State 2011 Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award for Sustainable Communities. You will also see a great thanks from Governor Jerry Brown himself. We are so proud!
WOLF CREEK LODGE SENIOR COHOUSING COMMUNITY WINS GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC LEADERSHIP
Wolf Creek Lodge Senior Cohousing Community, currently under construction in Grass Valley, CA, has been selected as the winner of the prestigious California State 2011 Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award for Sustainable Communities.
Established in 1993, the GEELA program is the state’s highest honor in recognizing individuals, companies and organizations that make significant contributions to the state by developing environmentally-friendly practices while contributing to the local economy. Read more
Katie McCamant and members of Wolf Creek Lodge attended the award ceremony last night. Stay tuned for posts.
A Holiday Christmas Party with the Christmas Jug Band
December 8th for KVMR Live at the Miners Foundry, 325 Spring St., Nevada City
Doors open at 7; show starts at 8.
The Stalwart purveyors of the jugabilly mystique help ring in the season at a lively holiday party for the second installment of KVMR Live at the Miners Foundry. The Christmas Jug Band is a tongue-in-cheek seasonal convergence of San Francisco Bay Area luminaries with their new release “On the Holiday Highway.” No-host food provided by The Old 5 Mile House. More info http://www.minersfoundry.org/c/upcoming-events/
Grass Valley, California “Cornish Christmas”
Friday Nights, Nov. 25 – Dec. 23, 2011 from 6:00 – 9:00pm
Music in the Mountains WinterFest 2011
December 9-11, 2011, Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley, Amaral Family Festival Center, 7:30pm Friday & Saturday, 2:00pm Sunday.
Don’t miss your chance to revel in the artistry of the Festival Chorale with these “don’t miss” holiday favorite concerts. Choral Director Ryan Murray joins with Artistic Director Gregory Vajda to offer up their favorites of the Season, from classic to pops. More info at http://musicinthemountains.org/events-tickets/concerts/winterfest/
Victorian Christmas Downtown Nevada City Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 5-9 pm
Victorian Christmas, the old-fashioned celebration held each year in this colorful California Gold Rush town, evokes holiday memories of an earlier era. During the event, Nevada City’s landmark historic district is closed to motorized traffic and transformed back in time. Christmas melodies and costumed characters remind visitors of another time and place. Holiday celebrants fill the streets, sampling the outdoor fare of friendly hawkers & vendors and food & goods offered by downtown restaurants and specialty shops. Victorian singers, bagpipers, a living nativity scene and visits with Santa Claus are among the attractions. Taste chestnuts roasted on an open fire and enjoy strolling minstrels, brass bands, carriage rides and much more. More info at http://www.nevadacitychamber.com/events/index.cfm#/?i=2
Seventh-day Adventist Church
InConcert Sierra‘s 60-voice Sierra Master Chorale holiday concerts will lift your holiday spirits on Dec. 17 and 18 under the direction of conductor Ken Hardin.
Are you and your friends interested in senior cohousing?
If you arrange a small meeting over coffee at your own home or in a coffee shop members of Wolf Creek Lodge will be happy to join you. They will share their experiences creating the Wolf Creek Lodge community. This can be anywhere in northern California but we may be able to visit some other locations.
To get the conversation started email info@wolfcreeklodge.org, with “coffee” in the subject line.
Members of Wolf Creek Lodge visited the site prior to their General Meeting on Saturday.
In the following pictures you can see the underground garage is in place providing the foundations for the McKnight Way wing. The foundation is there for the Freeman Lane wing with insulation in place ready for the hydronic heating tubes for the ground floor. Preparation work is under way prior to pouring the concrete for the common areas.
The Season is upon us, and we look forward to our annual Holiday party after our December meeting, where we will get together to exchange white elephant gifts, sing songs, eat and socialize. We honor the many ways we celebrate this season: Yule or Winter Solstice, Hanukah, Christmas, Buddhist Bodhi Day, Muharram or Al-Hijira (marking the Islamic New Year), Kwanza, and many others.
In most cohousing communities, each group also creates its own way of honoring the season together. For example, at Nevada City Cohousing they have an annual Advent Circle that usually takes place on the Common House terrace. According to Katie McCamant, “All the lights are turned off and everyone brings a candle stuck into an apple. One by one, people of all ages walk the spiral of pine boughs to the center candle, light their candles and then walk out, leaving the lighted candles somewhere along the spiral. When all the candles are lit, we leave again, in silence. It’s such a simple ritual, and yet so moving to share in the silence with my neighbors.” Soon all of our members will be together at Wolf Creek Lodge, and we look forward to creating our own winter ritual.
Once again a group of members from Wolf Creek Lodge in Grass Valley, CA set off for a Sierra hike. This is just over an hours drive from Wolf Creek Lodge. We hiked from Glacier Way above Tahoe Donner to the Donner Lake Rim Trail towards Drifter Hut. Then on towards Hawks Peak and then down to Ski Slope Way.
Magdalene took these two pictures of the hydronic tubes being laid on the ground floor of Wolf Creek Lodge. Sure looks likely to be cozy.
Not a future ladies downhill olympic contender but certainly a future occupant of unit 29C.
The first few turns of the 2011/2012 season at Squaw Valley, USA. One of the many Tahoe ski areas within easy access from Wolf Creek Lodge.
Members of Wolf Creek Lodge visited the site prior to their General Meeting on Saturday.
In the following pictures you can see the underground garage is in place providing the foundations for the Mcknight Way wing. The foundation is there for the Freeman Lane wing with insulation in place ready for the hydronic heating tubes for the ground floor. Preparation work is under way prior to pouring the concrete for the common areas.
Visiting members
