On Tuesday, September 20, Shangri-La honored the Salem Fire Department with a quilt pieced together from individual squares designed by Shangri-La community members. Each square was an individual thank you in a collective effort to show our appreciation to the Salem Fire Department for their dedication, bravery and service to our community. Along with [...]

Shangri-La welcomed 17 Corban University students and faculty on August 30, for a day of volunteer service. Volunteers spent the day sorting clothes at Le Closet, building bird houses with the participants in LEAP, and helping landscape the yard at one of our homes. We are so appreciative of their service and thank them for [...]

  It was a bittersweet farewell. Shangri-La’s Life Enrichment Activity Program (LEAP) took a few minutes on Monday to wish a volunteer both farewell and good luck. Shaffer, a volunteer at LEAP for past few months will be graduating from Willamette University on Sunday, May 15, and will begin the next chapter in his life. [...]

April 10 – April 16 is National Volunteer Week. HandsOn Mid Willamette Valley celebrated the special occasion by hosting a Community Celebration at Clockworks Cafe and Cultural Center in downtown Salem. Shangri-La was in attendance to engage volunteers in making peanut butter and pine cone bird feeders to hang at Shangri-La homes and various work [...]

Tom Hyde begins each class he teaches at the Oregon State Correctional Institution (OSCI) with a game of UNO. “People learn language when they are children by playing. It is no different as an adult,” replied Tom when asked why he uses UNO as a means of teaching English to English Second Language (ESL) learners. [...]