Meet Mike Mankenberg, SVL Director of Nursing

Mike Mankenberg is a Glendale resident and was named Director of Nursing at Sun Valley Lodge in January of 2012. Mike was born in northern Minnesota and grew up in Mitchell, South Dakota. He attended Northern State College for 1 ½ years before transferring to the University of South Dakota where he graduated with degrees in Nursing and Psychology.

After graduation, Mike moved to Omaha for a year before relocating to Phoenix where he was employed at St. Luke’s Medical Center and at Scottsdale Camelback Hospital. Following his father’s death in 1983, Mike returned to the northern Midwest and began his work with the elderly. He served as a nursing supervisor at Ah-Gwah-Ching Nursing Home, a state facility for the elderly, and at the Minneapolis Veterans Home in Minnesota for 11 years before getting the itch to return to the Valley of the Sun.

Mike’s first job after resettling in Phoenix was with the State Hospital, but it was not long before he returned to serving the elderly. Since 1995 Mike has worked at various long-term care facilities across the Valley doing staff education and holding assistant director of nursing, director of nursing, and infection preventionist positions.

Mike’s Glendale home is a “mini-farm” where he grows vegetables and raises a variety of animals including chickens, ducks, dogs, and cats. He says that his new job matches his laid back lifestyle. “I was looking for a place where people live rather than just pass through. The Lodge is homey, slow paced, and focused on what is best for residents. It feels like home … like a place where people take the time to visit and do nice things. It is also a place where employees are committed to their jobs and stay for a long time.”

Zumba!

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Open House

We had a great time at our open house and enjoyed showing off our new memorial garden.  Please consider supporting Sun Valley Lodge by leaving a legacy gift.  Contact Mike Kloberdanz at (623)933-0137 or mike@sunvalleylodge.org for more details.

Help Us Unveil Our Memorial Garden!

Schedule Change: Desperado Trails: Outlaws on the Arizona Frontier

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact:

Michael Kloberdanz

Sun Valley Lodge

Phone (623) 933-0137

Fax (623) 933-5846

mike@sunvalleylodge.org

www.sunvalleylodge.org

  

Schedule Change: Desperado Trails: Outlaws on the Arizona Frontier

Sun City, Arizona –Wednesday, April 11, 2012 – Sun Valley Lodge rescheduled the Discover Arizona program entitled “Desperado Trails: Outlaws on the Arizona Frontier” originally scheduled to take place on April 11^th. to Wednesday, April 18^th at 10:00 AM.  The event will be presented by award-winning author, historian, and lecturer Jan Cleere.

The program will feature stories of some of Arizona‘s more notorious citizens, bringing to life a time when massacres, mayhem and mischief ran rampant throughout the territory. Outlaws were so prevalent in Arizona Territory in the 1800s that then Gov. Anson P.K. Safford proclaimed in 1877 they were “a scourge to civilization, a disgrace to humanity, and all should be swept from the face of the earth as remorsely (sic) as the most ferocious wild beast.”

Outlaws from across the country knew that if they could escape into Arizona they would be relatively safe from the law since no one was eager to follow their trails across the desert, and the law here often looked the other way as they rode by. Ms. Cleere relishes detailing the sordid details of desperadoes such as cattle/horse rustler and murderer Augustine Chacon, cattle thief Cecil Creswell, everyone‘s darling stagecoach robber Pearl Hart, and more.

Jan Cleere writes extensively about the people who first settled in the desert southwest. Her work reflects her love of the west and her knowledge of western history. She is the author of Levi’s & Lace: Arizona Women Who Made History, Amazing Girls of Arizona: True Stories of Young Pioneers, and Outlaw Tales of Arizona. She speaks to organizations across the state detailing the stories of historic people from a variety of lifestyles and occupations that she has discovered through her extensive research.

The Discover Arizona series is free and open to the public.  The presentations are made possible through a grant from the Arizona Humanities Council.  Sun Valley Lodge is located at 12415 N. 103^rd Avenue in Sun City.  For more information please call (623) 933-0137.

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Sun Valley Lodge is a nonprofit organization and has been providing independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing care in Sun City, Arizona for over 40 years.

April 2012 HCC Activities

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Desperado Trails: Outlaws on the Arizona Frontier

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact:

Michael Kloberdanz

Sun Valley Lodge

Phone (623) 933-0137

Fax (623) 933-5846

mike@sunvalleylodge.org

www.sunvalleylodge.org

Desperado Trails: Outlaws on the Arizona Frontier

Sun City, Arizona –Wednesday, April 04, 2012 – Sun Valley Lodge’s second installment of its annual Discover Arizona series will take place on Wednesday, April 11^th at 10:00 AM with a program entitled “Desperado Trails: Outlaws on the Arizona Frontier.”  The event will be presented by award-winning author, historian, and lecturer Jan Cleere.

The program will feature stories of some of Arizona‘s more notorious citizens, bringing to life a time when massacres, mayhem and mischief ran rampant throughout the territory. Outlaws were so prevalent in Arizona Territory in the 1800s that then Gov. Anson P.K. Safford proclaimed in 1877 they were “a scourge to civilization, a disgrace to humanity, and all should be swept from the face of the earth as remorsely (sic) as the most ferocious wild beast.”

Outlaws from across the country knew that if they could escape into Arizona they would be relatively safe from the law since no one was eager to follow their trails across the desert, and the law here often looked the other way as they rode by. Ms. Cleere relishes detailing the sordid details of desperadoes such as cattle/horse rustler and murderer Augustine Chacon, cattle thief Cecil Creswell, everyone‘s darling stagecoach robber Pearl Hart, and more.

Jan Cleere writes extensively about the people who first settled in the desert southwest. Her work reflects her love of the west and her knowledge of western history. She is the author of Levi’s & Lace: Arizona Women Who Made History, Amazing Girls of Arizona: True Stories of Young Pioneers, and Outlaw Tales of Arizona. She speaks to organizations across the state detailing the stories of historic people from a variety of lifestyles and occupations that she has discovered through her extensive research.

The Discover Arizona series is free and open to the public.  The presentations are made possible through a grant from the Arizona Humanities Council.  Sun Valley Lodge is located at 12415 N. 103^rd Avenue in Sun City.  For more information please call (623) 933-0137.

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Sun Valley Lodge is a nonprofit organization and has been providing independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing care in Sun City, Arizona for over 40 years.

April 2012 Independent/Assisted Living Activities

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