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President's Message
Over the past couple of months, the Board of Directors has been busy planning our budget and events for 2025. By the time you read this message, it’s likely our 2025 annual meeting has taken place. Regrettably, we were not able to make the meeting available on Zoom this year. We will work hard to present next year’s meeting on Zoom. If you were not able to attend, please sign onto our website to review the outline of what was talked about. This will offer some insights into what you missed. You are encouraged to speak with any of the Board members to learn more on any of the topics that were presented.
Every time I sign onto the TVSD events calendar, I am amazed at all of the activities taking place. The fact we have only one part-time employee reminds us how important it is our members volunteer their time and talents to make it all happen. Volunteering by our members plays a crucial role in our success. “Volunteering promotes social inclusion by bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds, which fosters mutual understanding and cooperation” * Volunteers benefit as doing so contributes to personal growth by increasing self-esteem, providing a sense of purpose and boosting one’s mental health.
It’s been my experience that TVSD members work well together as we share a common goal. We care about one another and want each of us to remain socially connected, physically strong and emotionally stable as long as possible, while remaining in our homes of choice.
March 7 happens to be Employee Appreciation Day. As important as it is to have our many volunteers, we would be lost without Cassandra’s care, creativity, energy and effectiveness in her important role. Please take a moment to let her know how much we appreciate her commitment to our Village.
March 1 is known as World Compliment Day. While you are in the mindset of thanking Cassandra, why not offer a few compliments to the people surrounding you?
On February 27, the Board will be reviewing the recommendations being presented by our ad hoc committee. They will offer a set of guidelines to define what we can offer for events and services to members who live outside Tierrasanta. I will be sending out an email blast to bring everyone up to date on this topic.
Quote by the author Leo Buscaglia, also known as Dr. Love: “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
*Quote from a ChartGPT search
Ken Ross
TVSD Board President
|  | | Tierrasanta Village welcomes SYNERGY HomeCare as a new Supporting Partner!
SYNERGY HomeCare is led by husband and wife, Greg and Uyen Enrique, two dedicated professionals with a shared passion for making a meaningful impact in people’s lives. Uyen is a healthcare professional with over a decade of experience who is close to earning her bachelor’s degree in nursing. Greg has worked at a Fortune 500 company for over 20 years. Together, Uyen and Greg are devoted to helping people live with dignity and comfort, while also offering much-needed support to their families.
The Enriques and their team of caregivers are committed to providing a comprehensive range of short and long-term care options. These include companion care, personalized in-home assistance, child care and specialized support for individuals managing chronic health conditions or recovering from illness or surgery, ensuring that all care needs are met.
Additional information is available on their website where you can also find helpful caregiver support guides. Village members will also have a chance to meet SYNERGY HomeCare staff at the TVSD Senior Resource Fair on April 23rd 9-12PM. Stop by their table and say hello! |  | | Calling all TVSD Crafters, Artists, and Bakers...
Our Village is once again participating in this year’s Tierrasanta Patriot’s Day Celebration on Saturday, May 17. We are not only walking in the parade, but we will have a table at the craft fair to display and sell craft items (such as jewelry, cards, quilts, knitted items), art pieces, and homemade baked goods. We are looking for donations from our many talented members as this will be another of our fundraiser efforts. In 2023, we made over $500 at our craft fair booth!
We are letting you know about this event two months early so that you have ample time to prepare your handiwork. If you would like to donate an item or two or 3 or 4, please contact Marilyn Bente (cinqavenues5@gmail.com) to arrange drop off or pick up. We appreciate all of your efforts and donations! Thank you! | | Annual Donor Drive
Our Year End Donor Drive raised a total $14,300! These generous donations help ensure that TVSD can continue to provide the events that help older adults in Tierrasanta to age well! Thank you to these additional contributors:
Anne Hoffman
Ann Lasdon
Trish Newbill
Dick & Linda Rees | | |  | | Wednesday, April 23rd
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Learn about the latest in health and wellness for seniors!
- Free event
- Breakfast goodies
- Presentations
- Health screenings
- Opportunity drawings
- Community, health and lifestyle resources
This event is brought to you by Tierrasanta Village of San Diego. Like the 300+ villages across the country, the mission of Tierrasanta Village is to help its older adult members remain in their current homes safely and independently by connecting them to the support services necessary to do so.
The fair will bring critical aging-well resources to older adults, connecting them to city, county, nonprofit, and private resources. Older adults, their families, and caregivers are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Registration is required for:
Healthy Living Senior Resource Fair
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church, 11260 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., San Diego, CA 92124
Register online here, call 858-569-9119 or email tierrasantavlg@gmail.com
Thank you to our event sponsors!
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TVSD was granted $3340 from the city of San Diego to use towards our first senior resource fair. Most of those funds can be used towards event advertising which will greatly increase TVSD's awareness among Tierrasanta community members.
As part of the grant agreement, Tierrasanta Village must prove that the event was beneficial to attendees. In order to do this, we will conduct a survey at the resource fair to gather attendees’ opinions as well as suggestions for future TVSD resource fairs. To encourage survey completions, TVSD will be raffling off gift baskets as prizes. The completed survey will act as the attendee’s raffle entry.
TVSD is currently accepting contributions for these gift baskets. Donations can be made via cash, check, or Venmo. Cassandra Hanrahan at the Village Front Desk will be handling all raffle basket purchases so please make any checks payable to her. Her Venmo is @Cassandra-Hanrahan and the last four digits of her phone number is 0330. Contributions can be made at the Annual Meeting held on March 3rd at the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the large fellowship hall beginning at 3:00 PM. Donations can also be made at the clubhouse 9:30 to 12:30 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. Or, you can contact Cassandra at the Front Desk to arrange for pickup of your donation.
There are many ways to help support the first TVSD Resource Fair! In addition to raffle basket donations, we need bakers to provide breakfast goodies that attendees can enjoy at the Tierrasanta Village event check-in tent along with a cup of coffee. There will also be other opportunities for members to donate their time by helping to direct attendees from the main Fellowship Hall to the smaller room where we meet for the Monday meetings. The smaller room will be used for the two presentations offered during the fair.
Thank you so very much for contributing and helping to make our first senior resource fair a huge success! | Honor Flight Letter Writing
One of the highlights of the Honor Flight is “Mail Call” where there is a surprise distribution of cards and letters showing appreciation for all that these veterans have done for our country.
Our Village is going to hold a letter writing campaign to add to the hundreds of letters needed. We are asking you to come and spend some time writing messages of appreciation. The cards and stationary will be provided, we just need lots of volunteers to generously give of their time to pen some thank you notes.
This is an opportunity for some of our “one time” volunteers! Join members at the VMC on Wednesday, March 12, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Please register here and thank you for supporting Honor Flight! | Care Committee Corner
Have You Heard of CaringBridge?
I had not heard of CaringBridge until a recent Care Committee meeting. Doing a little research online, I discovered that it is a non-profit organization that provides a place online for caregivers to update family and friends on the health journey of the one they’re caring for. Not only that, but the person cared for can share their story.
With CaringBridge (and that’s how they spell it, no space between “Caring” and “Bridge”), the caregiver, person cared for, or anyone else concerned creates a “Page”, or online platform, much like a FaceBook page. This allows updates about someone’s health journey to be posted, and all friends and family can see the updates at once. You can imagine the benefits for the caregiver: Less calls. Less emails. Less texts to answer. More time to devote to their loved one, and more time to recharge. Sounds like a great solution to caregiver stress!
Whether you are the caregiver or person on the health journey, you may be interested in checking out the CaringBridge “bookshelf” on their website. They list books by authors who have shared their health journeys, and how using CaringBridge added to their support system.
Some reassuring facts about CaringBridge are that group Pages can be set up as a private page, so only the concerned group can see the posts. In addition, CaringBridge is a Better Business Bureau accredited charity. Find out more on their website, www.caringbridge.org.
- Joan McGeachy, TVSD Care Committee |  | | Supporting Partner Update
The TVSD Board of Directors is happy to share the news that Jonathan Schwartz of Partner in Aging has taken on a larger Supporting Partner role. Partner in Aging was one of TVSD's first supporting partner relationships and we are grateful that Jonathan will not only continue working with TVSD in the year ahead but will also support additional programming, including our Senior Resource Fair. Be sure to thank Jonathan for his ongoing support, knowledge and expertise when you see him.
On Friday, March 21st 1-2:30 p.m., Jonathan will join us at the Seventh-day Adventist Church to help us understand how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will benefit seniors. This event is open for registration here. Hope to see you there! |
Hello Dolly!
Great turnout for the group lunch and the Hello Dolly performance at the San Diego Musical Theater on February 22nd. Attendees reported that the performance was fantastic. If you didn't get a chance to attend, but wish you did, the Hello Dolly show runs through March 9th. Find out more at https://www.sdmt.org/. | TVSD Book Club
The Village Book Club meets on the second Thursday of each month and new attendees are always welcome. Here's the book line up for the remainder of the year:
March - The Stolen Child, Ann Hood
April - The Book of Charlie, David Von Drehle
May - The Diamond Eye, Kate Quin
August - Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt
September -The Liar's Dictionary, Eley Williams
October - The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt
November - Signal Fires, Dani Shapiro |  | | Ellen Steadman |  | Janelle Harris | | |
 | | Mira Milovancev |  | | Mika Milovancev | | |
Social Committee Update
Here's news you can use from the Social Team:
Social Focus Groups Meeting
Friday, March 7 from 1:00-2:30 at the VMC
The social committee has formed 4 focus groups to share ideas related to Day Tripper, Oasis, Theatre, and Walking! If you’d like to share and give input on any of these focus groups, sign up now!!! Bring information related to favorite theatres and/or if you have an Oasis or Day Tripper catalog, bring ideas from those catalogs. Walkers, come with an idea of a group walk you'd like to take at some point during the year. Teamwork is fun!
St. Patrick’s Party
Monday, March 17 from 11:30-1:00 at the Tierrasanta Lutheran Church
Sign up here and read about what food is needed. Contact Patty Mudd, at pattymudd2@yahoo.com or 619-894-7774 (cell), to let her know what you can bring. This always proves to be a fun social event and a great opportunity to visit with other villagers. Deadline for registration is Wednesday, March 12.
PuzzleMania
Friday, April 11th at the Tierrasanta Lutheran Church 5:00 – 8:00 pm
Come and enjoy a light dinner before being puzzled. Bottled water will be provided, but if you’d like a different beverage, it’s BYOB. This event is a fun, social time to laugh and work with others to figure out paper and pencil puzzles about word phrases, sports terms, picture clues, etc. Be aware. Other nearby tables might try to overhear your answers. Prizes are at stake! Cost: $12/person. Guests (and potential members) are welcome! Please register here by April 7th.
| Understanding Hearing Loss
April 4th
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Dr. Nick Faillace of ChEARS Hearing Center will speak to our group about the serious effects of uncorrected hearing loss in seniors and the importance of getting proper care and counseling. He has specialized in diagnostic testing, tinnitus counseling, hearing aid programming, and vestibular evaluations. He will offer advice about hearing aid care and maintenance and the importance of consistent use. There are many professionals who treat hearing loss and he will define those specific roles. There will be time for questions and answers. Many seniors are reluctant to commit to hearing aids. Dr. Faillace may help ease some of those concerns. Please register. | Volunteer Appreciation Brunch
Volunteer Appreciation Brunch on April 30th beginning at 10:30 a.m.
YOU ARE INVITED …………..
TO HONOR AND THANK YOU, OUR TVSD VOLUNTEERS,
BECAUSE YOU MAKE OUR VILLAGE THRIVE!
Please join us at our VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION BRUNCH
When? Wednesday, April 30th 10:30 am
Where? Fellowship Hall, Tierrasanta Lutheran Church
What? A light morning brunch, fun drawings, time to socialize,
and an opportunity to show our volunteers how
grateful we are for their time and energy
TVSD is a member-run organization, and as such, we rely on our volunteers to create programs, to care for each other, and to build community. We are grateful for each and every volunteer! Thank you all who make the Village -- and Tierrasanta -- a vibrant place to live. Let’s all come together to recognize our volunteers. And if you have not been able to volunteer this year, for whatever reason, please join in the celebration to applaud and to personally thank those who have volunteered. Registration required before 4/26.
| | Golden State Scenic Excursion
Save the date of Saturday, May 10th and join members for an excursion train ride departing from the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum in Campo. More details coming soon! | | | | Tuesday Lunch Bunch
Tierrasanta Mexican
March 18th, 11:30 a.m. | | ROMEO
Admiral Baker Club
March 11th,11:30 a.m.
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Solo Network (SNAP)
Yani's Greek Restaurant
March 15th, 11:30 a.m.
| | TVSD Dinner Fundraiser
Help Support Our Village and a Local Business! The Submarina #2 Sandwich Shop, located in the Town Center at 10645 Tierrasanta Blvd., is sponsoring our next fundraiser during the week of March 10-14. This family-owned business has been a fixture in Tierrasanta for over 40 years! A percentage of the total sales will be donated back to TVSD for every sandwich and deli order placed during that week. They not only have delicious sandwiches, but they also sell their meats and cheeses by the pound.
No flyer needed; just mention the TVSD fundraiser when placing your order. Please visit this local business at least once during the fundraiser week and help support it and our Village!
Hours of operation are:
Mon - Fri 10:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Saturday 10:15 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
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March 2025 Village Events
Check out the full Event Calendar for all of the upcoming events, classes, and activities!
| | | Vegas Casino Night
The Tierrasanta Foundation is hosting a Vegas Casino Night fundraiser on March 29th. As you have likely heard, the Tierrasanta Foundation has been busy with wonderful upgrades throughout our community, not just at the pool, but at the basketball (and new pickleball!) courts as well. Plus, they continue to fundraise, working on plans to renovate the Firehouse. So, come out on March 29th and have some fun while raising money for a great organization. Get your tickets here. | Tierrasanta Library
The Book Sale is Saturday 3/1 9:30-5:00 and Monday 3/3 11:30-6:00. | | Thinking about joining Tierrasanta Village?
Attend the next Informational Happy Hour! This event is an excellent way to meet our members and learn about the Village Movement.
Every 3rd Wednesday 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Let us know you'll be there with a Call/Text to 858-569-9119 or email tierrasantavlg@gmail.com. | | | Tierrasanta Village
Clubhouse Address:
5275 Rimpark Lane
San Diego, CA 92124
858-569-9119
www.tierrasantavillage.org
Mailing Address:
10601 Tierrasanta Boulevard, G-405
San Diego, CA 92124 | |