The Mountain View Seniors’ Housing Foundation received a very generous donation last week from a Mountain View County resident.
MVSH President Alan Miller highlights the fact that the $20,000 from Debora Rice-Solomons will support the initial planning and design of a secure Memory Garden – “a safe haven for reflection.” He says “just acknowledging this donation from Debora. It is huge, you know, for people to come forward and step up and help better our community. It will go to benefit all the residents within our community. Hopefully, once this takes off maybe we can step out and enhance some of the other lodges that we have within the five municipalities.”
The Memory Garden project will be for residents living with dementia at the Aspen Ridge Lodge in Didsbury. According to Miller, it is a 22-year-old facility in Didsbury so they need to modernize it and make it more accessible for their residents. As for the Memory Garden, he says “there will be a 6 and 8 foot tall fence all the way around the perimeter – which we currently do not have. Then on the inside, you come from the inside through a locked gate or locked door and then you would have access to a garden path. Conceptually, the one we have is a figure eight with planters on the outside and then benches that will go every so many feet around the perimeter. We’d also look at landscaping and putting in different types of trees. Everything you’d put in there would be, ideally, low maintenance.”
On September 10th, MVSH will have its annual fundraising golf tournament at the Carstairs Community Golf Club. Learn more and sign up for it here.
