On September 14, ACC Care Center hosted “Celebrating Our Centenarians” at Sacramento Asian Sports Foundation in Elk Grove. More than 500 people showed up to honor those in our community who are 100 years and older. The Centenarian honorees included ...
Sadie the Therapy Pony Visits ACC Care Center
It’s Monday afternoon in mid-November. The residents at ACC Care Center are waiting eagerly in the lobby for a celebrity to arrive. It’s pretty quiet except for the sound of resident Gloria playing “You Are My Sunshine” on her harmonica. It’s a very fitt ...
Vicki Beaton, Storyteller and Community Organizer
Vicki Beaton has lived at ACC Greenhaven Terrace Independent Living for four years. News clippings and magazine articles about her are strewn throughout her apartment. She pushes them aside and reaches for a pile of books, “Here’s a book of short stories ...
New Appointments at ACC Greenhaven Terrace
ACC is pleased to announce that Brittany Yamada is the new Life Enrichment Manager for ACC Greenhaven Terrace. She will be responsible for activities of daily living including recreational and social activities. Prior to this, Brittany was the Activities ...
ACC Strategic Planning Retreat Sets Five-Year Goals
ACC held its Strategic Planning Retreat on Saturday, August 17. More than 45 ACC volunteers and staff met to chart the direction of ACC for the next five years. “We’ve had these types of retreats since our founding,” says ACC President and CEO D ...
Celebrating Our Centenarians
This month, ACC is honoring Sacramentans who are 100 years old and older. We found 22 of them. Actually, they found us. As soon as we announced “Celebrating Our Centenarians” as the theme for ACC’s 33rd Annual Care Center Fundraiser, the calls started co ...
A Look Back on 100 Years
By Rev. Patti Oshita and Rev. Bob Oshita We are grateful to have our Uncle, Toshio Fukuda, an ACC Greenhaven Terrace resident, as one of the Centenarians being honored by ACC Senior Services. It is amazing to consider what our Centenarians have liv ...
Janet Sakata and Wayne Shimizu Receive Special Recognition Award
Each year at the Care Center Fundraiser, ACC recognizes individuals and partners who have made exceptional contributions to the ACC Care Center. The recipients this year are Janet Sakata, Wayne Shimizu, and Medline. Janet Sakata ACC owes much of i ...
Celebrating Our Centenarians: Sally Taketa
“Friday is my busy day. I go to the hair dresser. I go shopping and go to the restaurant to have lunch,” says Sally Taketa who turned 101 in July. “I enjoy eating almost anything.” Sally Taketa was born and raised in Sacramento. She lived at 2017 5th ...
Celebrating Our Centenarians: Chang Hou
Chang Hou, aged 100, is a resident at ACC Care Center. She raised two boys and four girls in Hong Kong. Her husband was a businessman who imported and exported garments. She often traveled with him to Japan and other places for business. In 1974 ...