Claire grew up in rural Saskatchewan, traveled to England for a long vacation at age 17, and eventually returned to Canada five years later having completed nursing training and having met future husband, Bob.

One of the things I most treasure about our Wolf Creek Lodge community is the fun we have getting together, whether for our monthly potluck dinners or for informal events, such as hiking or wine tasting

Conviviality This beautiful word shows up in our vision statement. How do you experience conviviality? You pick a nice, cool Sunday morning in Grass Valley, climb up to the deck of Butch and Virginia, where you can smell the tantalizing aroma of waffles and bacon. You place your contributions of fruit, syrup and butter on […]

The day after Wolf Creek Lodge’s monthly meeting in June, Suzanne Marriott and I decided to play tourist at Grass Valley’s gorgeous and historic Empire Mine State Park, a gold rush era processing gold mine.

Now Grass Valley’s Wolf Creek Lodge, with 30 residences designed for older adults, is on track to open next summer. It will be the country’s fourth elder co-housing complex, but according to the Co-housing Association of the United States, another dozen are in the planning stages.

Bob Miller is currently a ski bum, both downhill and cross country, in Truckee, California

In June, some of the Wolf Creek Lodge Bay Area contingent met for lunch at Horatio’s on the San Leandro Marina. The group included, Mike and Terry Preston (closest to the camera), Amy Robbins (right, by window) and Suzanne Marriott (left, by window).

By noon today, the crew had poured our first real building foundation concrete for Wolf Creek Lodge Cohousing–the footings for the columns and walls of the concrete, underground garage. The word went out on the Lodge member email listserve, and you can see they’ve never been “so excited over concrete.” See this morning’s emailss emails […]

Why did I join a co-housing community? By Magdalene Jaeckel For me it was the most natural decision I have made in my life, except the decision to get married, 64 years ago. We raised four wonderful children, but none of them lived close by, and now I witnessed my husband in the last stages […]

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