The Wolf Creek Lodge Marketing team continues to search for opportunities to spread the word about (senior) cohousing and Wolf Creek Lodge.

The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Tuolumne County invited Claire and Bob Miller to spend a weekend in Sonora, CA talking about senior cohousing. First on Saturday Bob Miller, with Claire’s help, presented to an engaged audience in the local library. The Fellowship hosts a series “Choices and Connections”. Bob talked about making a deliberate choice as to where to live for the latter part of your life and about the importance of community.

Then on Sunday Claire gave a talk to the Fellowship’s congregation during their service that related the Unitarian Universalist seven principles to senior cohousing.

The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Tuolumne County presents a series of summer talks entitled “Choices and Connections” .  Bob and Claire Miller will be presenting “Senior Cohousing” on Saturday, June 30th.

The presentation is from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm in the Community Room of the Tuolomne County Library, Sonora

On the next day, Sunday, Bob and Claire will be leading the service at UUFTC.  The theme will be “Community and Senior Cohousing”.  Again all members of the public are welcome at this Unitarian Universalist service starting at 10:00 am.

Of course we all knew that, but it was nationally confirmed on June 16 at the 2012 National Cohousing Conference award dinner in Oakland. Our very own project manager Kathryn McCamant and her husband (our architect) Charles Durrett won the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Cohousing Association of the United States for outstanding contributions to the development of cohousing.

12 members of Wolf Creek Lodge attended the National Cohousing Conference in Oakland during the weekend  of June 16th.  This conference is organized by The National Cohousing Association.  Over 300 people attended.  They were residents of cohousing communities and people seeking information.  They were interested in cohousing as a life style choice and in the various communities.  The Wolf Creek Lodge participants all sported bright green T-shirts.  We had a booth promoting Wolf Creek Lodge and a reception room on the Sunday afternoon.

The workshops included sessions on many cohousing topics including “Forming new communities”, “How to get the work done”, “Resales strategies”, , “Singing in Community”, “Senior Cohousing” and many others.

At the banquet on the last night the architect and project manager of Wolf Creek Lodge received Cohousing Life Time Achievement Awards.  Congratulations to Katie McCamant and Chuck Durrett.

Creating Sustainable Neighborhoods; learning from the cohousing experience.

The National Cohousing Conference is from Friday, June 15th to Sunday June 17th in Oakland.

The Conference Chair is Wolf Creek Lodge’s project manager – Katie McCamanat.

Several Wolf Creek Members plan to attend.

See here for more information and let us know if you plan to be there info@wolfcreeklodge.org 

June 14, 2012 | Edit

NARFE (The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association) is hosting a presentation on Senior Cohousing in Roseville on Thursday, June 14th at 11:30 a.m..

Members of Wolf Creek Lodge will explore the concept of cohousing with a special emphasis on senior cohousing.

The presentation is open to active or retired federal employees and their guests.   Pre-registration is required.  Lunch is available.

For further information please send an email to info@wolfcreeklodge.org with “NARFE – ROSEVILLE” in the subject field.

Truckee Home & Building Show

May 26 to 27
10:00am to 5:00pm

Truckee High School
11725 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, CA

Wolf Creek Lodge will have a booth in the Health and Wellness building, and WCL member Bob Miller will be one of the speakers in the Healthy Living Forum at 11:00 am on Saturday.  His topic is “Senior Cohousing: Pro-active Adults Creating their own Sustainable Communities.”

The Truckee Home Show has been at the forefront of the move toward renewable and sustainable living education in the home construction process for many years. The Show is filled with exhibitors providing the latest in green building concepts and technology.

May 24, 2012  1:00-3:00pm

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
UC Davis, Davis Art Center (Studio F)
1919 F. St, Davis, CA

Contact: Lorraine Townsend
530-752-9695   Ext 1
email:  Lorraine Townsend – lstownsend@ucdavis.edu

Public welcome!

Presentation by Katie McCamant ~
Katie will discuss her 25 years of experience designing and building award-winning, sustainable communities throughout the United States.  She is presently developing Wolf Creek Lodge, a pro-active cohousing community under construction in Grass Valley, CA.  The project has recently been awarded the prestigious California State 2011 Governor’s Environmental & Economic Leadership Award for sustainable communities.

Wolf Creek Lodgers are active hiking the trails around Grass Valley and Nevada City.  For variety the great hiking trails close to Donner Summit are less than an hour’s drive from Wolf Creek Lodge.  At this time of the year hikers are asking if the trails are open or are they still obstructed by the remaining snow from winter.   We think most still have snow.  However, if you travel further towards Reno and the Mount Rose area there are great trails that are free of snow.  The picture below was taken today and shows the future resident of Home 9D pausing above Dry Pond with Slide Mountain (aka Mt. Rose Ski Area) in the background. The Dry Pond trail is one of several in the Jones, Whites and Thomas Creeks area.

For all our of state readers: not only does California have sun, sand, beaches and whatever but also poppies.  They are looking good in Grass Valley at the moment: