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David Day’s Story

Long before making his move to St. John’s Meadows, David Day was helping shape the community he would someday call home. David’s history with St. John’s started in 2009, when…

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Gail Oliver’s Story

“I have seen so many changes,” says Gail Oliver, a medical team assistant at St. John’s Home, who began working here 32 and a half years ago in the former…

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Chava Redonnet’s Story

Chava Redonnet’s first day in the office as a St. John’s Chaplain was 13 years ago this coming St. Patrick’s Day and it’s a day she will never forget. Chava…

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Steve Sloan’s Story

Formerly the proud owner of a 230-acre farm and a large home about 18 miles south of Cobleskill, Steve Sloan says that “maintenance was becoming too much. I was slowing…

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Jan Proctor’s Story

“I always wanted to be a nurse—by the time I was in kindergarten I knew that was what I wanted to do.” Jan Proctor’s list of professional accomplishments from a…

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Stephanie Krebbeks’ Story

What initially started out as a way to leave Kodak, which was beginning its era of layoffs and downsizing in the early 90s, turned into a life-long career at St.…

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Annette Connick’s Story

Sitting in her new apartment in Chestnut Court at St. John’s Meadows in early December 2022, Annette Connick offers, with no hesitation, her assertion that it is because of two…

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Ashok Kumar’s Story

“It was new to St. John’s and new to us,” says Ashok Kumar, a full-time shahbaz at St. John’s Penfield Green House Homes,” of his earliest impressions of the model…

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Mildred Castillo’s Story

Formerly a nurse in Puerto Rico, Mildred Castillo was searching for a change when she began her professional employment in the United States. Mildred first applied to St. John’s Home,…

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Tracy Main’s Story

“If you touched my legs it was like sheer agony,” says Tracy Main, whose fall in the shower on Mother’s Day of 2022 thrust him into a whirlwind of hospital…

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