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The Current September 1, 2019 ISSUE #9 Subscription Price: FREE A Physician led 501 (c)(3) federal income tax exempt public charitable organization with a mission to improve the health of our A Monthly Publication of the Oshkosh Seniors Center supported by The Friends of the Oshkosh Seniors Center, Inc. local community. Join us for a Brain Fitness Fair Wednesday, September 11 10 am to 1 pm * Breakout Sessions Keynote Speaker: * Memory Screening Stephanie Garland, APNP Neurology * Expert Vendors * Brain Healthy Cooking Demo * Door Prozes * Free Samples and tokens To see the newsletter on-line go to: www.ci.oshkosh.wi.us/Senior_Services/ 920-232-5300 Newsletter Folding (S) Wednesday, September 18, 1 pm Please join us in folding our newsletters. Choice Bank provides refreshments. The newsletter will be ready for delivery on Thursday, September 19. If you are unable to deliver your route, please call Sara at 920-232-5310. Thank you volunteers for your commitment to newsletter folding and delivery! Not registered as a volunteer? Please see a staff member. OSC will be closed Monday, September 2 WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE? Classes are listed alphabetically by category and then by date order. Volunteer Opportunities Page 2 Social and Educational Page 19-25 Support Opportunities Page 3 Other Available Services Page 26 Enrichment Page 4-7 Upcoming Page 27 Fitness Page 9-11 Friends of OSC Page 28 Wellness Page 12-16 Winnebago Senior Tours Page 29-31 Senior Expo Page 18 2 How Can YOU Support the Center? It has been another successful year of Food Truck Fridays. It’s the Friends of the Oshkosh Seniors Center that runs these successful events. These events are becoming quite the summer tradition in Oshkosh. A great deal of hard work goes into running these events and OSC can’t thank the Friends enough for their dedication to raising funds for the Center! Each year the Center is challenged with finding nearly 50% of our operating budget through fundraising, grants, and user fees. Please thank the Friends of the Oshkosh Seniors Center for their hard work and extend a thanks to these community sponsors for their generosity. 3 Enrichment Basket Weaving (S) Art Studio Open Hours (S) Autumn Glory Basket Cost: R $1.50 /NR $2.25 Per Visit Monday, September, 9 am-4 pm OR purchase a Monthly or Annual Instructor: JoAnn Lewis Creative Expressions Pass Cost: $40 to Instructor + R $1.25 / NR $1.75 Tuesdays 8 am-Noon (Art Studio East) Max: 12 Wednesdays 8 am-3:30 pm Register by Friday, September 6 Everyone is welcome to use the Art Studio. We This adorable Autumn Glory basket will be encourage participants to paint in watercolor, started on a round, 6” base. You will learn to acrylic or oil. Come explore drawing or shape your basket as you weave. The working with clay. Create your own artwork circumference will be about 33” in the center and while in the company of friends! 25” at the top. You will learn 4-Rod Wale and a continuous weave. The finished basket will be 11” high with a top diameter of 7”. Embellishments are added. Experienced Wine Glass Painting weavers only. Bring a bag lunch. Thursday, September 26 10-11:30 am Cost: R $8 / NR $9.50 Beginner Basket Weaving (S) Instructor: Kayla Fox Autumn Door Basket Registration Monday, September 23 Tuesday, September 10, 11 am– 4 pm Come paint a wine glass with your Instructor: JoAnn Lewis friends. Ideas will be available or Cost: $20 to Instructor + bring in your own creative thoughts. R $1.25 / NR $1.75 Wine glass will be provided. Max: 6 Register by Friday, September 6 Ceramics (S) This cute Autumn Door basket can hold a posy Tuesdays, 8-11 am of your fall flowers. It can be hung on a door or Instructor: Linda Baerwald on a wall. It is 7” wide and 8” high. Cost: $1.25 to Instructor + With the handle it is 14” tall. Weavers R $1.25 / NR $1.75 will also learn to make a bow for the Max: 15 basket. Embellishments will be added. Some greenware & bisque pieces are available Supplies needed are a scissors, a at little or no cost. Brushes, paints and straight-tip screwdriver, an ice-cream glazes are supplied. pail container for water and 12 spring-tip clothespins. Bring a sandwich for lunch. Hands on Clay (S) Tuesdays, 12-3:30 pm Instructor: Kathy Dittmer Cost: $7 per session to Instructor + R $1.25 / NR $1.75 Max: 10 Join us for creative fun! 4 By their side so they can stay at home. Matt & Lisa Mokler Love-Care-Comfort & Secure Dog Boarding 920-589-2430 | www.curvecrestkennels.com Welcome to Fox Valley Hearing Center, Inc. Providing Hearing Care for Life! Fox Valley Hearing Center has proudly served the Oshkosh & surrounding areas for 30 years. 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WE CAN HELP! 375 City Center, Suite G Oshkosh, WI 54901 Shelly A. Squier Seniors age 60 and older ride GO Transit buses for the lowest fare in the City. 920-527-0292 *not affiliated with GO TRANSIT any government agency 926 Dempsey Trail, Oshkosh, WI 54902 www.rideGOtransit.com Small Jobs by Bob ▲ Handyman Call (920) 232-5340 for info. about your mobility options • Carpentry • Painting in the City of Oshkosh and Rural Winnebago County. ▲ • Odd Jobs Subsidized taxi service within the City is also available with an ID Card provided by the Oshkosh Seniors Center. (920) 527-0340 For ad info. call 1-800-950-9952 • www.4lpi.com Oshkosh Senior Center, Oshkosh, WI A 4C 01-0984 Enrichment Building: North (N) South (S) Woodshop Open Hours (N) **Please See Safety Training All class fees must be paid at Requirements, Below** time of registration to hold your Cost: R $1.50 / NR $2.25 Per Visit place in class. OR purchase a Monthly or Annual Creative Expressions Pass. Limited supplies of burning and carving tools Tuesdays & Fridays Noon to 2:30 pm available. Please reserve when registering for class. Wednesdays 8 am to 2:30 pm Please Note: The woodshop is not open for general use outside of the times Teal Duck Carving Intermediate/Advanced (N) listed above. Thursdays, September 5 -November 21 If you have a project you need assistance with, or an item 8-12 pm in need of repair, visit the OSC Woodshop for help. There Instructor: Keith Melzer & Richard Christensen will be a Woodshop Volunteer to assist you on equipment Cost: : R $55/NR $60 or strategies with your project. Min/Max: 5/14 Register by Thursday, August 29 The green-winged teal duck will be Machine Safety Training (N) carved in multiple pieces and then Fridays, September 6 & 13, 9-11:30 am assembled. The duck will be Instructor: Jeffrey Becker life-sized and made out of basswood. Cost: R $5/ NR $7.50 Min/max 15 Register by Thursday, September 5 Woodburning-101 Fundamentals (N) All participants wanting to use the woodshop Thursdays, September 5-26, 12:15-2:30 pm during open hours are required to attend the Instructor: Cedric Richeson machine training class. The two class requirement Cost: R $20 NR $25 for all participants must be taken in consecutive Min/Max: 5/14 weeks. Once you have completed the training you Register by Tuesday, September 3 may use the designated machines in the shop. Class will focus on woodburning fundamentals Materials provided for training. including safety, equipment, pattern transfer, burning straight lines, curves, circles, Seasonal Ladder Stand (N) shading and skills such as stippling, crosshatching. Practice drawing Tuesdays, September 3- 24, 9-11:30 am grasses, a wood postage stamp and Instructor: Jeffrey Becker mallard duck in flight. No prior Cost: : R $35/NR $40 experience required. Min/Max: 5/7 A limited number of wood burners are available, Register by Tuesday, August 27 please reserve at registration. Come build a seasonal ladder stand. This stand will have an interchangeable plaque displaying all four seasons. Change your decorations to match the seasons. 6 Enrichment Building: North (N) South (S) Carving Class (N) Woodshop Open Hours Mondays, September 9-October 28, 8 am-12 pm We are proud to offer Senior Center participants a Cost: : R $25/NR $30 well-equipped woodshop. As a reminder, the Min/Max: 5/14 pre-requisite of attending Open Hours is Registration opens on Monday, completion of “Woodshop Machine Safety August 26, 8:30 am Training”.