Springhill Senior Living

10/16/2025

Autumn at Springhill! Residents have such beautiful decorations. 🍁

10/10/2025

As part of Active Aging Week, we want to focus on all areas of wellness that keep residents active, not just physical wellness. Vocational Wellness is a big piece of the puzzle for many residents who still want purpose and have goals to attain in the larger community through their vocation. Ann DiTullio loves her work with EUMA and at ForestView with residents. We asked her to tell us about her work and how it helps her stay active and fulfilled, this is what she had to say:

I help out at ForestView every Friday. I take a book cart around to everyone that would like a book to read. Sometimes even if they don't want a book, but just want to talk, I enjoy those moments of just connecting with them to learn about their stories. We reminisce together. I love being with Forestview residents and staff. The staff works very hard in providing a warm and welcoming environment for everyone. It gives me a sense of wellbeing that I am able to help in some small way to bring a little ray of sunshine into their lives.

My job on the board of the Erie United Methodist Alliance (Euma) is as their development person. I work with the development staff person (Tracy, pictured below) on fundraising activities. The Board's goal is to make homelessness rare in Erie and Crawford Counties. Our missions include the overflow shelter in the winter, a home for homeless families (the only one that keeps mother's and fathers together with their children) called the Refuge and eventually gets them into a home of their own with wrap around services, a home for veterans called Liberty House helps veterans with counseling, job placement and permanent housing and homes for children who have aged out of foster care and have nowhere else to go. I love working with a very dedicated Director, Kurt Krays, and staff who not only want to make homelessness rare in our community, but consider it a calling. The rewards of this job are great when you see a family safe and warm in their new home, veterans who have found a job and are now living on their own and homeless folks who have a warm safe place to stay during our cold winter months. There is still much to do, the challenge is great, but it is more than a volunteer position, it's a labor of love.

Thank you for all you do, Ann! You are an inspiration to many and such a wonderful, caring human being!

10/10/2025

Springhill associates supported the McKean Food Pantry through Friday Jeans Days during the 3rd quarter- thanks to all involved in helping with this great cause! ❤️

10/09/2025

THANK YOU to today's Springhill/Forestview volunteers! We cleaned up Hershey Road from Rt. 99 to Peach Street - 5 bags of trash. The next volunteer opportunity will be our spring cleanup - likely April or May. Shown left to right: Susan Sherwood, Emily Hill, Pam Urso, Judy Wade (Devin Cutright not pictured).

10/09/2025

Gina Trace from Interim Healthcare,
Certified Senior Fitness Instructor, held a class on Cardio Drumming today for Active Aging Week. This is an excellent brain/body
activity following choreographed and rhythmic movements. And some great tunes to keep the beat! 🎶🥁

10/08/2025

As part of Active Aging Week, we want to focus on all areas of wellness that keep you active, not just physical wellness. Vocational Wellness is a big piece of the puzzle for many residents who still want purpose and have goals to attain in the larger community through their vocation. Herm Weber is an excellent example of vocation wellness at work here at Springhill. When we asked him to tell us about his work and how it helps him stay active, this is what he had to say:

I work in acrylic on canvas, representational work, figurative and landscapes.

I show my work regularly at the D' Hopkins Denniston Gallery and Glass Growers Gallery in Erie, occasionally at the Kelly Run Gallery in Cambridge Springs, and regularly in juried shows throughout the region and in Sarasota, Florida.

I won the Erie Art Centers prodigious regional annual Spring Show two years in a row.

I have local showings several times a years.

I have 200 paintings on my website hermanweberpaintings.com and have sold about 80.

I spend several hours daily painting, more in Spring, Fall and Winter. A full size painting takes approximately one month to finish, and I complete about 12 a year.

Painting gives me much of the pleasure I had in designing buildings throughout my career, without schedules, budgets, committees.

Thank you, Herm, for sharing how you continue to stay active through vocational wellness and plan to for many years to come!

10/07/2025

Great coverage of the resident rock climb today at ASCEND Erie! Thank you for shining the spotlight on the importance of staying active at any age. Springhill residents are unstoppable!

Just because you’re getting up there in age doesn’t mean that you can’t take your fitness to new heights. To celebrate Active Aging Week, one retirement community challenged its r…

10/07/2025

The first of many climbs! Today’s rock wall climbing session at ASCEND Erie was a huge success!

Springhill is looking into a partnership with Ascend Erie to offer scheduled climbing sessions in the future.

10/06/2025

Springhill residents kicked off Active Aging Week with a literal ascent at ASCEND Erie today! ASCEND Erie is a 25,000-square-foot indoor rock climbing and fitness facility. Residents pushed themselves out of their comfort zones to try something new and exciting. Only 13.9% of U.S. adults age 65+ meet both the federal aerobic and muscle-strengthening guidelines. This event spotlights what’s possible and why accessible, brain-and-body movement opportunities matter. Everyone did so well climbing today and many achieved “top-outs”! Our almost 100 year old WWII veteran hooked up and took on the wall too! We hope to make this workout part of Springhill’s Kinnections Brain Health offerings on a regular basis. Thank you Kerrie Ellen, Chris and Jenny of ASCEND Erie for showing us the ropes and getting everyone up and down the wall safely! On to the next adventure!