Rose VillaAn Active Senior Community

Campus wide Wi-Fi for 2012

Rose Villa’s Wi-Fi capabilities are growing! Laptops, smartphone’s and tablets are quickly becoming a necessary part of everyday life for many of us. The ability to stay connected, to have access to important information, the latest news or even to a good friend is a becoming less of a luxury than it is a new standard. Rose Villa is filling that need by offering campus-wide wireless access. Residents, staff and guests will be able to move freely about the campus, confident that their wireless needs are being met. In the home, for a small monthly fee, we will offer a complete wireless experience that will allow for broad customization. In addition to laptops, net-books, tablets and smartphone’s having complete and protected wireless access, with the help of a small modem-like device, home desktop PC’s may also be connected to the wireless network.

Students celebrate Black History Month at Rose Villa

Each week, students from Oak Grove Elementary school visit Rose Villa as a part of a fun and educational after school program. Every session is filled with students and seniors coming together to work on projects that really speak to the greater good. In January, we embarked on a journey into the wide world of ancestry by researching our family trees and examining pieces of our family histories. Residents and students found common ground and celebrated differences.

Rose Villa’s diversity celebrated on OPB news

We’re excited to report that two of our residents – and Rose Villa – were recently featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting! In a piece on retirement options for gay and lesbian seniors, reporter Chris Lehman talked with Rose Villa residents Pat Matthews, Carol Bosworth, Rod Dolan and Michael Stotts, highlighting our community’s strong tradition of diversity.

“[Another community we visited] didn’t say we couldn’t come,” Matthews says. “But they said that we would best off there if we were sisters…

…When the pair told their story to Rose Villa CEO Vassar Byrd, she said “I couldn’t believe that in this day and age that that would happen. I was absolutely shocked beyond belief.” Byrd not only welcomed the couple but she set about making sure Rose Villa was as hospitable as possible.

Thanks, OPB News! For more, and to listen to the full on-air report, click the link below.

Building Bridges with Music

In a time when many public elementary schools music programs are being cut back or eliminated, Rose Villa has partnered with Riverside Elementary School to help students get to experience the world of music. Instructed by Priscilla Lightbourne, a 4th grade teacher at Riverside Elementary and aided by a grant from Berklee College, Rose Villa residents and her students are learning to play a variety of percussion instruments and having a FUN time to boot!