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training or high-impact sports are not ideal. It can also improve balance and reduce neck pain. It’s a total body workout that’s The Friends of the Boxford COA (The Friends) have launched their fun and that encourages a sense of adventure since it can be new interactive website for all to view. The new website is de- done everywhere from parks and roads to hiking trails. signed to make it easier for you to see what ongoing events are scheduled in our active senior community. One of the main fea- The COA has purchased 10 sets of Nordic Poles which you can tures on this site will be their interactive calendar. You will be able borrow if you are interested in learning Nordic Pole Walking. to see a visual display of events for the day, a description of each After the class is over and you are sufficiently adept at Nordic event and all event details, including time, location and cost if any. Pole Walking — you can still borrow the poles the COA has. It will also reflect events as they are planned, i.e., last BBQ, Holiday Luncheon (December), etc. — long before you would see it in our monthly newsletters. This new initiative is an important catalyst for keeping us all connected. The season is over and this will be our last BBQ this year. Can’t make too many comments on the BBQ season as it’s still June The Friends are excited to bring this to you and hope you can ben- when this article was written but if we go by previous years — it efit from the information contained at their website. was a great season. For those who attended — hope you all enjoyed yourselves. See you next year on the COA lawn. You can access it at: https://www.ouractivecommunity.com/boxford-ma In September we will be resuming the Tuesday and Thursday Congregate lunches, Art Classes, Zumba — exact day and time 188 Washington St., (Rt. 133) Boxford yet to be determined, World of Science, movies, and The Great Thursday Nights 6-7:30 PM Group — at Four Mile Village. Free Concerts! Music for all ages! Bring your lawn chairs and blankets, sit back and enjoy July 5: The Budds Band July 12: Evan Jamieson July 19: Sweet Escape The Boxford Apple Festival will be held on Saturday, September July 26: Maury Covino 15th from 10 AM to 3:30 PM. As usual, the Boxford COA will have their table in front of our building at the Apple Festival. This year, we have been given permission to sell handmade craft items along with our regular food contributions. Nancy Taylor will start a 6 week course on Nordic Pole Walking starting on Monday, August 6th at 9:30 AM. There is no cost asso- So — for our crafter donors, it’s time to put your thinking caps on ciated with this class. and decide what you would like to make/donate to the COA ta- ble. Need help? Well for those who knit/crochet — baby items Nordic pole walking is a wokout that, when done properly, exercis- always sell extremely well. Mittens are another good selling item es 80 percent of your muscles. It’s low impact by nature, it’s fun to — both adults and children. If you are uncertain — just give us a do, and it keeps you outdoors, making it an ideal form of exercise. call. Nordic pole walking uses both the lower and upper body muscles. The lower body gets the benefits of traditional walking or speed walking, and the poles work the upper body. It improves cardio- respiratory fitness, especially in older adults for who resistance
plies. If you have any questions, please call the The Great Group, sponsored by The Boxford COA. The Art Class is taking a summer hiatus and Classes are held on Thursday mornings between Village Garden Club meets the 3rd Friday of will return in the fall. the hours of 10:00 – 11:00 AM. The cost is the month at Four Mile Village but not limited to $3.00 per class. Four Milers. There are openings for seniors All Ages and Walk-ins Welcome All Ages and Walk-ins Welcome 80+ who would like to join the group. The group is active October thru June. Call Doffy Mary VanAbs, our regular yoga instructor, has Falk at (978) 887-8495 for more information. The COA Board meetings are usually held on the taken over the Chair Yoga Classes which are now All 80+ Seniors Welcome second Wednesday of each month. Tentative date being held on Tuesdays at 9 AM. The cost is is July 11th 9:30 AM and August 15th at 9:30 AM. $3.00/pp. Our handyman is willing to help with small jobs All Ages and Walk-ins Welcome around the house — fixing light switches or All welcome changing locks. If handyman needs to replace Classes are held on Tuesday from 10 to 11 AM an item, you will be responsible for the cost of and Thursday from 12:30 to 1:30 PM. The cost is the replacement and travel time. Please call the News and Views meets most Tuesdays at 9:00 AM. $3.00 per class. COA for info. Come and meet with your peers to discuss current All Ages and Walk-ins Welcome events, town issues and whatever else is put on the table. It’s a fun time and many different topics are discussed. Wednesday mornings at 9:15. This is an indoor class. Cost per session is $3.00/pp. Richard Curran’s next meeting will be on Tues- All welcome All Seniors welcome day, July 24th and August 21st, between the hours of 1:00 to 2:00 pm. No reservations Classes are held on Wednesdays at 10:15 AM. required. The Wonders of Science is usually the third Tues- The cost is $3.00 per person. Please call the All Are Welcome day of the month starting at 9 AM. The next Won- COA for more information. ders of Science will be held in September. Please All Ages and Walk-ins Welcome Joe LeBlanc, our VA Rep is usually here on the refer to the September Newsletter for more infor- mation. first and third Wednesday of each month. Ap- All welcome pointments can be made but walk-ins are also Classes are held every Wednesday from 1:30 to welcomed. He can be reached at (978) 688- 2:30 PM. Classes are $3.00 per person. Zumba 9525. will be taking a summer hiatus and will return in All Vets and/or families of Vets Welcome Facts and Figures is usually the second Tuesday of September. the month starting at 9 AM. The next Facts & Fig- All Ages and Walk-ins Welcome The Boxford COA has a volunteer who can ures will be held on July 10th—topic will be Burkina help you with your PC woes — whether it be Faso, August 14th—Chao. hardware or some various types of software. If All welcome We have Rummikub, Scrabble, Yahtzee, Monop- you need help and would like to set up an ap- oly, Checkers, Cribbage, Mahjongg and much pointment — please call the COA. Thursday mornings from 10 to 11 AM beginning on more. Video games — we have Wii. All are welcome April 5th. In Wildcat Conservation there are 4 major All Ages and Walk-ins Welcome trails plus minor side trails. Each week a different Basics covered — Maggie will now be trail will be monitored at an easy pace for one hour available on a one-to-one basis, appoint- or less. Please car pool as parking is limited Our SHINE Rep is Mary Lou Fierro. If you ment only to help you with your problems. (Herrick Rd entrance). Walk leader: Nancy Merrill. need to meet with a SHINE Rep — call the COA So, if you need help please call the COA to Walks weather permitted: rain/snow cancel walks. to set up an appointment. Mary Lou will be avail- setup your appointment. able by appointment only on the third Tuesday of All Seniors welcome All are welcome each month starting at 10 AM with a maximum of 3 appointments. The next available day is Tues- day, July 17th and August 21st. All seniors are welcome Nancy Taylor will kick off the Nordic Pole Walking group with a 6 week course on the techniques. Both Watercolor and Acrylic Art classes are The COA has 10 sets of poles for the class at- held together on Mondays from 10 AM to tendees to borrow. After the training sessions, around noon. The cost is $10.00 per class. the poles will still be available to borrow. Materials needed are the responsibility of the All seniors are welcome student — we have a list of suggested sup-
Price is $69/pp which includes lunch, or baked schrod. Cost is $92/pp which in- show, tax & gratuity — no transportation. cludes transportation, lunch, show, tax & A deposit of $20/pp is due upon reserva- gratuity. A deposit of $20/pp is due at time tion and final payment is due August 1, or reservation, balance due by Oct. 1, 2018. 2018. Take part in one of Boston’s most beloved traditions — a Holiday Pops concert at his- toric Symphony Hall. The Boston Pops will #1—November 10—12, 2018 perform their signature Sleigh Ride, as well #2—November 9—12, 2018 as other Holiday classics and new arrange- #3—November 8—12, 2018 ments of seasonal favorites. But before you (Prices vary - see flyer) get to enjoy the Boston Pops, you will have a wonderful lunch at the Venezia Waterfront Experience the Country Music Capital of Restaurant where you will have a choice of — the World in Nashville, TN along with chicken parmesan or baked schrod. Cost is Highlights of this trip; Tuscan Estate, Flor- seeing our New England Patriots, with $149/pp which includes transportation, ence, Choice on Tour, Siena, Tuscan Win- Tom Brady, play the Tennessee Titans in lunch, tax, gratuity and Boston Pops Show ery, Lucca, Pisa, Italian Riviera, Cinque Nashville. Complete schedule will de- Tickets. A deposit of $20/pp is due at time Terre, Portofino. This is an 8 day, 10 pend on your choice of schedule — you of reservation and balance by October 20th, meals (6 breakfasts, & 4 dinners) trip. must pickup the brochure on this one to 2018. Itinerary at a glance: Day 1 — overnight review your options and prices. A depos- flight, Days 2-4: Hotel Paggeria Medicea/ it of $600pp plus insurance fee (if select- Borgo di Artimino, Tuscany, Days 5-7: ed) is due upon registration. Final pay- Grande Albergo Sestri Levante, Italian ment is due no later than September 1, Riviera. On some dates, alternate hotels 2018. This trip has always sold out and met with may be used. Book by November 5th and rave review from our many seniors. So if save $200/pp. Current discounted rates you missed out in the past and are interest- are : double occup. $3,899/pp, Single ed, we suggest you sign up early. We still $4,199/pp and Triple occup. $3,869/pp. A — haven’t gotten dates and prices on this trip deposit of $500/pp is due upon reserva- A tribute to the music of Buddy Holly, yet but we have already a number of seniors tion. Final payment is due by March 4, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper and more who have signed up. Call for more info. 2019. Deposits are refundable up until by the Not Fade Away group. You have November 5, 2018. You can upgrade to a choice of stuffed breast of chicken or Elite Airfare — see brochure for more de- baked schrod. Cost is $92/pp which in- - tails. cludes transportation, lunch, show, tax & You have to see the flyer on this one. The . gratuity. A deposit of $20/pp is due at package includes roundtrip transfers to NY time of reservation and balance due by City, an 11 day/10 Night Cruise on board Sept. 1, 2018. NCI, Breakway. Many exclusive packages are included in this trip — see brochure for more detail. Early booking offer gets you a Free 1 Category Upgrade plus 2 extra en- Bobby Rydell, Live in concert — enjoy his tries in the Diamond Ring Raffle. Final pay- chart busting hits which span his many ment is due by November 1, 2018. years in the business. Cost is $99/pp Come and enjoy a tribute to Rod Stewart which includes transportation, lunch, show, by Rob Caudill. Rob Caudill is a dead-on tax & meal gratuity. Cost is $99/pp and a Rod Stewart Impersonator. He’s got the deposit of $20/pp is required at time of high-definition jawline, the shock of spiky reservation. Balance is due by July 12, blonde , but most importantly, he has the 2018. nose. Vocally, his distinctive, naturally- raspy voice sounds like the legendary Stewart and his range easily nails every high note from Stewart’s younger days. You have a choice of chicken parmesan
Paragon Carousel Free Fun Fridays offer visitors no-cost admission to many of the Aug. 10: Boston Harbor Islands most treasured cultural venues in Massachusetts. Every Friday Institute of Contemporary Art from the end of June through the end of August multiple sites are Jacob’s Pillow open for free. Cahoon Museum of American Art Nichols House Museum July 6: Boston Children’s Museum Museum of the National Center of Afro-Am. Artists Peabody Essex Museum Wenham Museum Cape Cod Maritime Museum Fuller Craft Museum Battleship Cove The Greenway Carousel Amelia Park Children’s Museum Freedom Trail Foundation Gore Place Aug. 17: JFK Presidential Library & Museum Falmount Museums on the Green Plimoth Plantation `Hancock Shaker Village Commonwealth Museum New England Quilt Museum Lynn Museum July 13: Edward M. Kennedy Institute N.E. Historic Genealogical Society Charles River Watershed Fort Devens Museum Larz Anderson Auto Museum Fruitlands Museum Chesterwood Old State House The Telephone Museum Berkshire Museum Ventfort Hall Mansion Gilded Age Museum of the First Corps of Cadets The Sports Museum Aug. 24: Harvard Museums Children’s Museum at Holyoke Buttonwood Park Zoo International Volleyball Hall of Fame MASS MoCA Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Heritage Museums & Gardens July 20: Museum of Fine Arts Cape Cod Children’s Museum Gloucester Stage Company Smith College Museum of Art The Gardens at Elm Bank The Old Manse Chatham Shark Center Emily Dickinson Museum New Bedford Whaling Museum Hull Lifesaving Museum Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association Museum of African American History Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History Aug. 31: Old Sturbridge Village Springfield Museums EcoTarium Discovery Museum Norman Rockwell Museum The Hall at Patriot Place Cape Cod Museum of Natural History July 27: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Chatham Marconi Maritime Center Boston Symphony Orchestra Tranglewood USS Constitution Museum Commonwealth Shakespeare Company Cape Ann Museum JFK Hyannis Museum Griffin Museum of Photography Fitchburg Art Museum Provincetown Art Museum Old Colony History Museum Boston Athenaeum Sandwich Glass Museum Ice House Pavillion — American Legion Park. Sunday Evenings Arnold Arboretum 5 to 7 PM. Museum of Russian Icons Aug. 3: Franklin Park Zoo July 1: Sara Sturdivant/Patriotic Tribute Cape Cod Museum of Art July 8: Rust Never Sleeps/Neil Young Tribute The Children’s Museum of Greater Fall River July 15: Windham Community Swing Band Davis Museum July 22: UCS/Classic Rock & Country. Naumkeag July 29: 4 Ever Fab/Beatles Cover Band Worcester Historical Museum Osterville Historical Museum Aug 5: Justin Panigutti Band/American Rock & Soul Historic Deerfield Aug 12: Byfield Parish Praise Band/Contemporary The Eric Carle Museum Aug 19: The Budds Band Aug 26: Liz Bills & The Change/The Kelly Girls
This is an untried recipe but I found it (handwritten) inside one of our cookbooks.
6 Tbsp butter (softened) 1 cup sugar 1 cup molasses 1 egg 2 Tbsp white vinegar 4 cups all purpose flour 2 tsp ground ginger 1 1/4 tsp baking soda 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp ground cloves 1/4 tsp salt 5 cups confectioner’s sugar 5-6 Tbsp fat free milk
In a mixing bowl, beat butter & sugar until crumbly, about 2 min. Beat in the molasses, egg, vinegar. Combine the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves & salt. Gradually add to the creamed mix- ture. Cover and refrigerate for 4 hours or until easy to handle (dough will be sticky).
On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut with 4 inch cookie cutters dipped in flour. Using a floured spatula, place cookies 1 inch apart on baking sheets coated with cooking spray.
Bake at 375 degrees for about 5 to 6 minutes or until set. Remove to wire rack.
From there — you can either chow out on the cookies or become creative and decorate them — your choice. Enjoy! ing the van. The cost of the meal or event is your responsibility. Seating is limited to 16 (unless you plan on using your own vehicle) The Congregate Lunches are now on summer hiatus and will and reservations are required. Trips may be canceled due to resume around Tuesday, September 18th. lack of interest or inclement weather. Call the COA to make your reservations. The “Lunch Bunch” is open to all seniors. The Boxford COA serves Congregate Lunches on most Tues- days and Thursdays throughout the school calendar year. The cost of the lunch is $2.00 per person and luncheon is served at 11:30 AM. The monthly lunch menu can be found on the Town We went there last year. They are best known for their seafood of Boxford’s website at www.town.boxford.ma.us. dishes but also have a selection of meat dishes. Prices are rea- sonable and I haven’t heard any disparaging remarks about the menu or food. Please call the COA to make your reservations. — The van will leave the COA around 11 AM. As stated on page 1 — the cost per person is $3.00. The first BBQ of July will be held on the 11th as July 4th is a holiday. The menu is flexible but we will always have hotdogs and hamburg- ers/cheese burgers. The rest of the menu will consist of salad(s), condiments (pickles and chips), dessert and whatever other dish- We’ve been there before too. They were mentioned on Chronicle, es we feel like adding to the menu. No “Doggie Bags.” a Channel 5 program, where they visited different restaurants and got high raves and prices are also reasonable. The van will leave Reservations are a must and should be made by the close of the the COA around 10:45 AM. Monday before the BBQ. The COA van is available to our Box- ford seniors who prefer not to drive to the BBQ. Please let us know at time of reservations if you want to use the COA Van. For those interested — grocery shopping will now be on Monday mornings, July 2nd thru August 20th. You must call the COA to sign up for this service and the cost is $3.00/pp. We usually go to Market Basket in Rowley. Most of the movies shown at the COA are available for our sen- iors to borrow and watch in the comfort of your own home. The “Thursday Movies” will be taking a summer hiatus and return in September. Unless otherwise noted, $3.00 per person covers the cost of tak-
WELLNESS CLINIC. The VNACare Network and Elder PODIATRY: Unfortunately, we haven’t had any luck Services will be holding their free Wellness Clinics on the first and in locating a podiatrist. Please be patient and we’ll let third Wednesday of each month from 9:00 to 11:00 AM at FMV you know when this slot has been filled. It will be front and the first and third Thursday from 11:15-12:15 PM at the COA. page news. Thank you for your patience in this matter. For an appointment, please call call Joan Fitzpatrick RN, at 888- 663-3688, Ext. 1326. Walk-ins are welcome.
SEATED MASSAGE. Renee Parent, a licensed massage therapist, has offered her gentle hands to relieve the stress and HEARING CLINIC: Tuesday, August 14th, starting tension of any senior interested. Sessions are 20 minutes of at 9:30 AM, Nicole Kalukiewicz, from Rogers Hearing relaxation in her massage chair for $10. Renee is available most Solutions, will be here to give FREE hearing tests. Please Monday mornings, by appointment only. To make an appoint- call the COA to make an appointment. ment, please call Renee at (508) 335-1675.
panic! The cards will be coming at different times as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services updates its systems. You can sign up for emails on the status of card mailings in our area on Senator Bruce Tarr’s office asked COA’s to pass on this http://Medicare.gov/NewCard. information concerning a notice from Congressman Seth Moulton regarding updated Medicare cards to your atten- As always, if you have any questions about the Medicare cards, tion as it may be useful to our community and seniors. Medicare coverage, or an issue or questions about any other gov- ernment agency, you can contact my casework team, and we will
be happy to help you find answers. My team is reachable at 978- You may have heard about the new Medicare cards going out to US 531-1669, or you can stop by at 21 Front Street in Salem. seniors in 2018. Congress passed a law to use new Medicare num- bers, in the place of the old numbers based on your Social Security Sincerely, Number, to help protect you from identity theft.
Seth Moulton New Medicare enrollees will automatically receive the new Medicare Member of Congress cards. If you are already enrolled in Medicare, you will receive your new card sometime after June 2018. 08 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515 Here’s what you need to do: Phone: (202) 225-8020
Fax: (202) 225-5915 1. Make sure your mailing address is up to date with So-
cial Security to make sure you receive your card. You 21 Front Street can update your address by using your mySS.gov ac- Salem, MA 01970 count, or by calling the Social Security administration at Phone: (978) 531-1669 1-800-772-1213 (TTY 1-800-325-0778). Fax: (978) 224-2270 2. Be aware of potential scammers: the new Medicare
card will be sent to you automatically — you do not ******************** need to pay for the new card or provide any personal information to anyone to receive it. If you receive a
phone call that you think may be fraudulent, please call You can also contact the Boxford COA if you have questions con- 1-800-MEDICARE to report it as soon as possible. cerning the new cards. We may not be able to answer your ques- (Also, call your local police to report the fraudulent call.) tion immediately but we can do a lot of the ground work to find the 3. Destroy your old Medicare card when you receive the right office/person to help you. new one to protect your information: you will still be
able to use your old SSN-based Medicare number until Also — when you destroy your old Medicare card — do it correctly December 31st, 2019, but to protect yourself from iden- so there’s no chance of reconstructing it for your Social Security tity theft, you should begin using the new number as number information for fraudulent use at a later date. soon as you receive the new card.
If your neighbor received his or her new card and you didn’t — don’t
The Rabbi looked at the Priest with a big grin, and said, “At your We, the COA, need your help so we, in turn, can help you! We wedding.” know most seniors read the joke page first so…… here we go. Volunteer drivers are needed for our N.E.E.T. (Northern Essex Elder Transportation) program. The Boxford COA uses this A young woman who submitted the following tech support message program strictly for medical appointments. How it works — a about her relationship with her husband presumably did it as a joke. senior needs a ride for a medical appointment and contacts the Then she got a reply that was way too good to keep it to herself. COA. We refer to our volunteer driver list and call to see who is The tech support people’s love advice was hilarious and genius. available to drive on that day/time. In selecting drivers to call, we do try to spread the wealth and call those who haven’t driven much first. You do not have to accept a request if we call — it’s OK to say no. You drive a little or as much as you want. When Dear Tech Support, a volunteer driver accepts the request, we give the driver the senior’s name, address and telephone number. The driver then Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and no- calls the senior to make arrangements of what time they will be ticed a distinct slowdown in overall system performance, particular- picked up, etc. The senior is responsible for paying tolls and ly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly parking fees as they are incurred. The senior is also requested under Boyfriend 5.0. In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many to make a donation of $.43/mile, so they might ask you for mile- other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal At- age. After dropping off the senior — you can either wait if it’s a tention 6.5 and then installed undesirable programs such as: NBA short visit or pick them up later if it’s a long planned appoint- 5.0, NFL 3.0 and Golf clubs 4.1. ment. At the end of each month, if you have driven, you submit your driver’s sheet with mileage and you will be reimbursed at Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and House cleaning 2.6 simply $.43/mile for your trips. You also have free supplemental car crashes the system. Please note that I have tried running Nagging insurance put on your vehicle. You’re not going to get rich in 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail. What can I do? money if you volunteer, but it is a proven fact that volunteering is good for your health and community. Signer, Desperate
Got free time on your hands? How about giving it a try? You The response that came weeks later out of the blue: can always quit if it’s not to your liking but you won’t know un- less you try it. Dear Desperate:
First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system. Please enter command: I thought you loved me.html and try to download Tears 6.2. Do not Father William, the old priest, made it a practice to visit the par- forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that application works as ish school one day a week. He walked into the 4th grade class, designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applica- where the children were studying the states, and asked them tions Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5. how many states they could name. They came up with about 40 names. Father William jokingly told them that in his day stu- However, remember that overuse of the above application can dents knew the names of all the states. cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0, or Beer 6.1. Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program One lad raised his hand and said, “Yes sir, but in those days that will download the Farting and Snoring Loudly Beta version. there were only 13 states.” Whatever you do, DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES IN- STALL Mother-In-Law 1.0 as it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources. In addi- A Jewish Rabbi and a Catholic Priest met at Albuquerque's an- tion, please do not attempt to re-install the Boyfriend 5.0 program. nual 4th of July picnic. Old friends, they began their usual ban- These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0. ter. In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have lim- “This baked ham is really delicious,” the priest teased the rabbi. ited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might “You really ought to try it. I know it’s against your religion, but I consider buying additional software to improve memory and perfor- can’t understand why such a wonderful food should be forbid- mance. We recommend Cooking 3.0. den. You don’t know what you’re missing. You just haven’t lived until you’ve tried Mrs. Warren’s prized Virginia Baked Ham. Tell me, Rabbi, when are you going to break down and try it?” Once, in the 1820’s, a little boy called San was playing in the yard behind his house. During his pretend fighting game, he knocked BULK RATE PRE-SORT U.S. POSTAGE - PAID Boxford MA 01921 PERMIT No. 123 Our mission is to improve the quality of life and encourage maximum independence for older adults by meeting their health, economic, social and cultural needs. Dick Taylor: Chairperson Richard Shaw: Vice-Chairperson Judy Andersen: Secretary Members: Suzanne Cox Steve Harvey Liz Murphy Vacant Pam Blaquiere: COA Director Elaine Spiro: Secretary Elaine Gould: Outreach Worker Jack Hawxwell: Van Driver
The Board usually meets at 9:30 on the second Wednesday of each month (see Page 2 for actual dates). All seniors and interested parties are welcome to attend. Only emergency meetings are held during the summer.
The July Birthday BBQ will be held on Wednesday, July 25th at noon and the August Birthday BBQ will be held on Wednesday, August 29th at noon. Please call the COA by Monday, the week of the BBQ to sign up for the birthday lunch. The lunch is free to our Boxford seniors who will be celebrating their birthday that month, compliments of The Friends of the Boxford COA. Guests are welcome but will be responsible for paying the nominal cost of their lunch. Past Monthly Newsletters are posted on the Town web. To ac- July/August Daily Observances Trivia cess these Newsletters — go to www.town.boxford.ma.us. Click Trivia Holiday Observances information is taken from the Funky Holiday on Departments and select Council On Aging from the dropdown menu. The current Newsletter is listed on the front page but you can access the older ones by clicking on “Monthly Newsletters.” July 2018 July 2nd — Second Half of the Year Day Points To July 4th — Happy 4th of July Ponder July 16th — Nat’l Get Out of the Doghouse July 23rh — Gorgeous Grandma Day
Think Less, Feel More August 2018 Frown Less, Smile More August 1st — Respect for Parents Day Talk Less, Listen More Judge Less, Accept More August 8th — Happiness Happens Day Watch Less, Do More August 21st — Senior Citizens Day Complain Less, Appreciate More August 30th — Nat’l Grief Awareness Day Fear Less, Love More