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Carrie Reese: PVE Resident, World Record Holder

In 2016, PVE resident Carrie Reese captured five world weightlifting records, four state-level world records, and Best Lifter honors at various West Coast weight lifting championships.


Termite Talk from the PVE Woodworkers Association

The Paradise Valley Estates Woodworkers Association has just concluded the first of its semiannual general membership meetings.


What Marriage Teaches You

Most of what I really needed to know about life happened after I got married: how to act, what to do, and how to live.


Experiencing History at California Maritime Academy

To understand the heritage and history of any school is to understand that such institutions do not automatically pop up fully-grown and completely functional.


It All Starts with Exercise

It’s been said that most of what people call aging and dread about getting older is actually the natural decline or decay of our body.


Deer Creek Memory Care Enhances Quality of Life

Back in the 1980s, the widely accepted treatment for cognitive impairment was sedation and psychotropic drugs.

Culinary Adventure

A Middle Eastern Culinary Adventure

Seven PVE residents joined Jennifer de Leon, PVE’s executive administrative assistant, and our bus driver, David Oliver, on a wonderful bus trip to San Francisco.


Store Team Members are Residents of the Year

At our recent Town Hall meeting, Lynn Ridgway, Marianne Siembieda and Cathy Thomson were named 2016 Residents of the Year.


Remembrance of Things Past

The construction of the PVE Memory Care Unit has been an astonishingly rapid one.


Pilates Comes to Paradise

You may have been watching Oprah and have seen actresses like Gwyneth Paltrow or Jennifer Aniston raving about this fitness routine, but there’s great news: Pilates (pəˈläˌdēz) is not just for Hollywood celebrities!