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April 2012
In This Issue
Announcing Our 2012 Sunset Soirée!
Welcome Daisy, Our Newest Resident
Save the Date: Art Walk Show
David and Zach's "Quest to Sacramento".
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Greetings!

I want to see Hillside House continue indefinitely into the future, and I believe you do too.

For many years, we've been working on a Community Plan to create that future because Hillside House cannot continue much longer in our current facility.

In the next few weeks I'll be asking for your help in furthering our Community Plan. We're at a critical juncture right now where we really need our community to express support for the Plan to the City of Santa Barbara Planning Commission and the City Council. Votes that decide the future of the Plan and the fate of Hillside House are coming soon.

Please watch your email inbox for an email from me about this vital issue.

We really need your support. We cannot do this without you.

  

Pam Flynt Tambo, Executive Director  

 

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Announcing Our 2012 Sunset Soir�e!     

Rachel Simon
Spend a delightful early summer evening in El Mirador Estate's famed gardens in Montecito and help support Hillside House.

On Saturday, May 19, from 4:30 - 7:00 p.m., Hillside House will host its 9th annual fundraising event. Held in the exquisite setting of El Mirador's gardens, the Sunset Soir�e will include catered dinner, local wines, a live and a silent auction, and live music. (You can get a head start on the auction at our auction website: https://hillsidehouse.dojiggy.com. Find out what amazing items we have this year, and place an early bid.)

We will be regaled and inspired by best selling author Rachel Simon, whose memoir Riding the Bus With My Sister about life lessons learned from her developmentally disabled sister, became a New York Times bestseller and was made into a movie starring Rosie O'Donnell and Andie McDowell

In addition to Riding the Bus With My Sister, Rachel Simon is the award-winning author of five other books, including the novel The Story of Beautiful Girl and The House on Teacher's Lane: A Memoir of Home, Healing, and Love's Hardest Questions. Her writings have been adapted for the theater, NPR, Hallmark Hall of Fame, and the Lifetime Channel.

 

Simon is a sought-after speaker and has been featured at major organizations, universities and medical clinics across the country. Her awards include the School Library Journal Award for Best Nonfiction of 2003, the Secretary Tommy G. Thompson Award for Contributions in the Field of Disability from the U.S. Department of Health Services, the TASH Image Award for positive portrayals of people with disabilities, and the Media Access Award from the California Governor's Committee for Employment of People with Disabilities.

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At the Soir�e, Hillside House will also honor Tita Lanning, owner of El Mirador Estates, with the 2012 Person of Purpose Award for generously donating the use of the gardens for Hillside House events for the past eight years.

 

Tickets to the Sunset Soir�e are $175 per person. Business sponsorships are also available. To attend the Sunset Soir�e and help make a difference for Hillside House, visit http://bit.ly/sunsetsoiree2012 or call Curt Lauber at Hillside House at (805) 687-0788 ext. 15. We would love to spend this occasion with you.  

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Welcome Daisy, Our Newest Resident              

Daisy 

Daisy has recently joined us at Hillside House. A fun-loving, playful, young woman, Daisy loves to listen to music and to dance, to make colorful art, and to watch movies. She enjoys our weekly cooking class and often goes to the weekly Women's Group at Hillside House as well. She has also had a wonderful time swimming in our aquatic therapy pool.  

 

Because her family lives here in Santa Barbara, Daisy has continued with the same day program, Alpha, and has made the transition to living at Hillside House incredibly smoothly. She is well-liked among her peers here and enjoys their company. 

 

She is an independent, capable, young woman, and we are encouraging her abilities, helping her to express her needs and desires and to do things on her own. Welcome, Daisy!  

 

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Save the Date: Art Walk Show              

 

PaintingOn Thursday, May 3 from 5:00 - 7:30 Art Walk will host a reception for its show "Open Doors - the Art of the Possible" at the Faulkner Gallery at the Santa Barbara Public Library. Beautiful framed art works by artists with disabilities, including Hillside House residents, will be on display at the reception and for the entire month of May. Light refreshments will be served. Come out and join us to see this marvelous show and support the work of our artists.

 

Art Walk for Kids/Adults teaches a weekly art class at Hillside House that is one of our popular offerings. Residents take delight in seeing their work framed and displayed at the annual shows, and the work is varied, imaginative and beautiful. 

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David and Zach's "Quest to Sacramento"    

David and Zach

An amazing father and son team just completed a 300-mile odyssey from Bakersfield to Sacramento in five days. What made it such a feat is that the father, David Mensch, a 52-year-old man who has cerebral palsy, made the entire trek in his powered wheelchair, sometimes on difficult roads and in unforgiving weather. His 15-year-old son, Zach, accompanied him by bicycle.     

 

On the first day David set a new world record for the longest anyone has ever gone in a 24 hour period in a power wheelchair, 170 miles in 23 hours. The two arrived at the steps of the State Capitol on Tuesday, April 3 where they met with a staff person of Governor Brown to share "how budget cuts effect real people."   

  

David works for Kern Assistive Technology Center  (K.A.T.C.) in Bakersfield, a non-profit that helps people with disabilities find the assistive technologies they need to achieve greater independence. The purpose of the trip was to to raise money for the non-profit and "to raise awareness that disabled people can do anything," as David described it, as well as to bring awareness to the real costs of state budget cuts to people with disabilities.

 

"I feel amazed, I'm so proud of my dad, he's an awesome dad," said Zach Mensch to a reporter.       

To learn more about the Quest, you can visit their Facebook page   www.facebook.com/davidandzachsquest or http://www.kernatcenter.org/david-and-zachs-quest-to-sac/     

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