Construction on the real retirement community Mercy Auburn Senior Community, a complex of 60 affordable senior apartments for the public began a few weeks ago just down the hill from the cluster of Spanish colonial buildings making up the Sisters of Mercy convent and retreat center in Auburn.
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Sister Eileen O'Connor, 76, who still remembers crowded conditions when she entered the Sisters of Mercy at age 18, has come back to the Auburn convent.
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Sister Margaret Walsh, 83, serves coffee at the Sisters of Mercy convent in Auburn. Walsh returned to Auburn from Redding in 2000, but continues to do volunteer work.
