Nov 25, 2019 | Grace Ridge Blog Posts, Lifestyle, News
🔊 Listen to This Blog. With just over 200 residents and an intimate 52-acre campus, Grace Ridge has always been an open arms and inclusive retirement community where neighbors become friends and friends become family. Now, thanks to its recent accreditation as...
Oct 29, 2019 | Employee Spotlight, Grace Ridge Blog Posts, News
🔊 Listen to This Blog. Morganton native Chesley Mercado has always loved music and sharing it with others. Growing up, she played flute, violin and piano for patients at local hospitals, developmental centers and nursing homes. That passion for developing...
Sep 27, 2019 | Grace Ridge Blog Posts, Lifestyle, Residents
🔊 Listen to This Blog. Resident guest blog by Frank Juliano Bill Allman has dedicated himself to sports and to his community, but in the early 1950s he spent a week with the Cleveland Indians. “(Pitcher) Early Wynn had been married to my aunt Mabel, but she...
Sep 20, 2019 | Grace Ridge Blog Posts, Residents, Tips & Info
🔊 Listen to This Blog. The Department of Homeland Security and FEMA have designated September as National Preparedness Month to promote family and community disaster and emergency planning now and throughout the year. This year’s theme is “Prepared, Not...
Aug 13, 2019 | Activities, Grace Ridge Blog Posts, Lifestyle, Residents
🔊 Listen to This Blog. When it comes to exploring lifelong learning opportunities, Grace Ridge residents are straight-A students. “Our residents have a continuous desire to expand their minds, so we’re always promoting mental fitness and encouraging...
Jul 11, 2019 | Activities, Grace Ridge Blog Posts, Lifestyle, Residents
🔊 Listen to This Blog. Hanging in the kitchen of Mike and Debbie Cloy’s cottage is a display of 16 wooden hearts representing all the places they’ve lived over the last 27 years. The bottom heart reads “Morganton, NC,” and after living their best life the last...
