Resident’s Corner

Contributed by Marian Alymer from our August Newsletter. Read our full newsletter now! I was 14 years old and living in an agricultural community of 10,000 mostly Germans in southern Minnesota as WWII raged. My parent’s friends owned a grocery store in the thriving...

Team members at La Costa Glen distributing orchids from Westerlay. Visits to retirement communities in San Diego county have been restricted due to the pandemic, making it difficult to celebrate holidays in the usual ways. But at La Costa Glen and the adjacent health...

Written by Dave Dana  On July 2, Woody McAndrew will be 100 years old. A small-town veteran, Woody spent his working life in Ypsilanti, Michigan, outside Ann Arbor—named in honor of Demetrios Ypsilantis, a hero of Greek independence. No doubt a typical small-town...

Wishing you all a Happy 4th of July. Enjoy our latest edition of The Glen Tidings, July 2020 Newsletter. Download a pdf of our latest newsletter!

A new year is upon us, and area seniors are joining in on the fun of those yearly resolutions. Residents at La Costa Glen will strap on their shoes and cycle into virtual reality in 2020 with a new CyberCycle. The community received its first CyberCycle just four...

By Dave Dana January 25, 2020, begins the Chinese New Year, a celebration of the Spring Festival. The day is the 23rd day of the 12th Lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Year of the Rat. It varies from year to year. A new moon will appear to herald the Lunar new...

By Les Besser Have you ever used the facilities at Scripps Clinic or Hospital in Encinitas? Our regions is lucky to have access to such high-level health care, and you may be surprised to find out that one of our residents, Dr. Dwight Cook, was one of the early...

By Michele Chaffee It was a morning filled with a large dose of camaraderie, an invigorating session of great exercise and a little bit of silliness and fun. That describes our first annual La Costa Glen/Glenbrook On Campus Walk to End Alzheimer’s. Approximately 175...

After reading this paragraph, cover your eyes and imagine your life without any sense of sight. Imagine you’ve grown up without light or colors. You have no idea what anything in the world looks like. Then one day, you are introduced to a furry four-legged creature...