Honor Prompts Visit from Rep. David Price Fred DeJarnette, a SearStone, resident and semi-retired professor at N.C. State University, has received a Commendation of Excellence Award from NASA for his great leadershipand excellence in aeronautics and space exploration. Although the award was announced in January, U.S. Rep. David Price paid a special visit to SearStone on March 12 to officially [...]
The Emerging Issue Forum was launched in 1985 by Governor James B. Hunt to focus attention on critical questions facing North Carolina. In order to put the ideas generated at the Forum into action, the NCSU Institute for Emerging Issues was established to connect people and resources from all areas of North Carolina to ensure the state’s future economic competitiveness. [...]
SearStone Earns Recognition for Print Ad and Mobile Website SearStone, a distinctly different continuing care retirement community in Cary, has won two 2014 National Mature Media Awards from the Mature Market Resource Center, a national clearinghouse for the senior market. The achievement recognizes components ofSearStone’s overall marketing campaign in just its first year of operation. SearStone was honored in the [...]
Profit and non-profit agencies from Cherokee to Currituck convened at the Supercharge conference in Kernersville recently to learn how to apply business model practices to offset shrinking funding from federal, state and local resources. They were not disappointed. It was “one of the best, if not the best, one-day conference I have ever attended!” is how Mark Hensley, North Carolina’s [...]
The folks at Galloway Ridge at Fearrington don’t stop at just taking care of their residents. They go well beyond with such programs as the radio show they recently launched to inform and entertain seniors in the Triangle area. The program, “Seniors 2.0: Your Life Redefined,” hosted by Heather Rusnak and Pat Richardson, is broadcast on WCOM 103.5 FM out [...]
Originally published in the Raleigh News & Observer While North Carolina has refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act and many politicians continue to complain about the federal health exchange, the roll-out of Obamacare in N.C. tells a far more positive story. North Carolina is enrolling uninsured people at a rate at least twice that of any other [...]
Golf legend Arnold Palmer delivered the five millionth meal of Winston-Salem’s Meals-on-Wheels program, on behalf of Senior Services, to senior Juanita McBride on Friday, October 18. Delivering the meal in a golf cart, he was accompanied by Dan Kinney, a long-time M-O-W volunteer. (The lunch consisted of pork loin, lima beans, mandarin oranges, sweet potato casserole, dinner roll, and milk.) [...]
Businessmen in China know that American consumers might eschew products “MADE IN CHINA,” so they prefer not to reveal the country where it is made. However, if the first three digits of the barcode are 690, 691 or 692, the product is MADE IN CHINA. If the first three digits are 00 – 09, the product is made in the [...]
Morgan Lamphere is director of sales and marketing for SearStone (www.searstone.com), a continuing care retirement community in Cary. She can be reached at mlamphere@searstone.com. For older adults considering selling their homes and moving to a retirement community, all indications are that now is the right time to do it. The financial implications of moving to a new home are always [...]
Construction on Springmoor Life Care Retirement Community’s new Wellness Center has begun in South Village where residents watch daily as cranes lift beams and workers scurry to move equipment into place. Some residents have been snapping pictures as the construction progresses. The Wellness Center will feature a 25-meter salt water lap pool with a hot tub and sauna, enhancements to [...]
