GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS - "My project preference for Adult Living"

 

I have noticed something increasingly prevalent in the face that looks at me when I shave every morning. It is familiar but it seems to be maturing more and more. My myopic eyes of youth are becoming hyperopic and I can see better without glasses, that there are distinct changes in that man who looks back at me.

 

And so it is with my thoughts of all the places that I have lived throughout my itinerant life and I focus on my residence of choice. Do I want to make new friends in a strange place again or do I want to be where faces are familiar and smiles of recognition add to the elation of the place I can call home.

 

Should I drive around and shop for a place that Marilyn and I can tour, inspect and then select and pay the market price in a community where we don't know anyone or should we get together with our friends to find a location that best suits our interests and then build what we design for ourselves and perhaps even save some money.

 

Grandview Heights is a grass roots community being designed by adults, built by adults for the very adults that will occupy them. There is a whole bunch of us!

 

We are planning for a time when we may need help with Care and are reserving a central location for this so that we may move within this community for those needs. We have bungalows, townhouses, duplexes and apartments to suit the preferences of our cooperative members. For those that prefer to build on an independent residential lot; we have allocated an area for that too.

 

Oh yes, the view! We are facing the East as the first settlers to Canada sited their residences so that they could greet the rising sun. With the sunrise we can see a bustling Highway 22 that connects Trail and Castlegar and across the River, we see Highway 3 winding its way East. Did I mention a River? Yes, the Columbia River is below us and its majestic waters flow on South and settle our thoughts like all moving waters do. Did I mention sun, well of course, there is sun. At Grandview Heights we have more sunlight hours per day than anywhere else in the Kootenai.

 

Was I just dreaming or did I really talk with that man in the mirror. No it is not a dream, it is reality. Marilyn and Elmer are moving to Grandview Heights in the spring of 2007.

 

Are you?

 

 

It took a little longer, but Elmer and Marilyn moved into their new home in the Grandville Heights community in April, 2009.

 

January 5th, 2010

 

Life, as one gets mature, becomes more meaningful and we realize that the hurry, in our youth, was caused because of our inexperience in not knowing what will happen when we get there.

 

Patience and a wise choice of words usually replaces the waste in haste and so it is with our "Life on the Ledge" where we all know that we are here where we want and need to be - amongst friends and quality neighbors. We do not hurry here but we enjoy each other.

 

Marilyn and I know that our decision to come to Grandview Heights was developed with our thoughts about being here where all of us enjoy dignity in an environment that is the best in Castlegar. Here we have sun, the view and the peacefulness that is deserving of a resident in the latter years of life.

 

We continue to work with our friends to better the life of the aging citizen in our community.

 

If you are still in doubt, come visit us and enjoy our hospitality at Grandview.


Elmer Verigin
145 - 4200 Grandview Drive
Castlegar, B.C. V1N 4X6

 

 

 

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