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July 21, 2005

Just like home

Charming, affordable housing alternatives for aging seniors

By Kymberli W. Brady
Staff Writer

While medical technology takes its bows for affording each generation a longer life than the last, in this day and age, it doesn’t come without a price.
For the first time, aging baby boomers have more to consider when entering their golden years than retirement, trips around the world, or impromptu visits with the grandkids. Many are instead assuming roles they never considered until an early-morning phone call summons them to the hospital to care for parents who are no longer able to care for themselves.
Within days or hours we Read more...

 


OUT of the PAST:
Pfeiffer family embodies
Almaden history

2002 family reunion drew 300 relatives to Club Almaden

By Jeanne Carbone Lewis
Staff Writer

The following is the first of a monthly column celebrating the history of Almaden Valley.

Margery Pfeiffer Calcaterra is more than a docent at the New Almaden Quick-silver Mining Museum. Her family tree tells the tale of long-ago mining and ranching and the operation of the Graystone Quarry Read more...

 


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