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Coffee Connections

09/08/2025

Sun Health Foundation’s Coffee Connections events are a unique opportunity to engage in insightful conversations and learn from experts in health, wellness, and active aging. These events bring together community members to discuss topics that inspire healthy living and well-being in a casual, friendly atmosphere—often with a cup of coffee in hand. For those unable to attend live, Sun Health Foundation offers a video library of previously recorded Coffee Connections events, allowing you to access valuable health tips, expert advice, and inspiring stories at your convenience. Whether you want to revisit a favorite topic or catch up on a missed session, the video library is an excellent resource for ongoing learning and wellness support. Click below to view past recordings. Preventive Surgery: Taking Action Before It Becomes an Emergency –

“An Investment in Good”: Why Stan and Christine Chose to Leave a Legacy

08/25/2026

Stan Rubinstein grew up in the Bronx, New York. His wife, Christine Sevcik, was born half a world away in a displaced persons camp in postwar Germany. Their paths crossed decades later in Sacramento, and from that meeting grew a partnership that has taken them across deserts in a Jeep, through years of world travel, and more recently into a shared decision about what they want their lives to mean after they’re gone. “Early draftees were canaries in a coal mine,” Stan reflects on his service in Vietnam, where exposure to Agent Orange would, years later, cost him his health. Having learned firsthand how vulnerable life can be, he and Christine deeply understand the difference compassionate support can make when hardship arrives. Two Lives, One Road Christine and her first

A Lifetime of Service, A Legacy of Purpose

08/17/2026

When Leonard and Peggy Kirschner met in Madrid in 1971 while both, coincidentally, were shopping for cars, neither could have guessed how far their partnership would travel. Over the next five decades, it would carry them through a career in the Air Force, a career in education, a career in public health policy, and finally, to a home at the Orchard at Sun Health’s La Loma Village, where they’ve spent the last several years doing what they’ve always done best — showing up for the people around them. “We’re outgoing, and we’re willing to take risks,” Leonard says, explaining why he and Peggy so often find themselves at the center of community life, wherever they land. It’s a modest way of describing two people whose careers and volunteer lives share