The Messenger May 2021 Inside This Month’s I hope everyone is doing well. We have some good news M our Edition: Fitness Center in our Utica location at the Parkway Recreation Center opened April 19th!!! In order to ensure the health and safety of all our members as we have been authorized to reopen our fitness center, the following guidelines for use of Respect & InclusionN the facility have been developed with recommendations from the Oneida pg. 3 County Health Department and the CDC: Health & Community 1. When you first enter, you will be asked screening questions and have ServicesNpg. 5 your temperature taken. Anyone with a temperature 100 or above will HousingNpg. 6 not be permitted to enter, and will be asked to contact their health care Walking GroupNpg. 7 provider. 2. Appointments Only: You must sign up for an appointment slot as Social ParticipationN we are limited to 33% capacity. There will be (10) 45 minute pgs. 8 & 9 appointments per hour. In order to allow for cleaning in between Call to ActionNpg. 10 appointments, we will be strictly enforcing the 45minute limit. Consecutive appointments can be made either: Monday, Wednesday, & Civic EngagementNpg. Friday OR Tuesday, Thursday, & Saturday. To schedule an 11 appointment: Call 3152233973 TransportationNpg. 12 3. All members must adhere to all the health and safety guidelines: Communication & a. Face masks must be worn over the nose at all times InformationNpg. 13 b. Must maintain 6 feet social distance from other patrons. c. Must wipe down all equipment before and after every use. 4. All members must bring their own water. We will no longer have any for Contact the Parkway purchase at this time. Center 5. The Locker Rooms and Showers are closed until further notice. Patrons must use storage cubbies in the fitness center. Phone: (315) 2233973 Opening the Parkway facility’s fitness center is a step closer to us being Verona Beach Site: able to reopen for in person programming and we will be working on (315) 2352029 opening our Fitness Center at our Verona Beach location next. It has been Email: a long year for not only you, but for our staff as well. We look forward to info@theparkwaycenter when we can fully open once again. However, you can still sign up for our .org Online Subscription to participate in programs from your home. Website: And if you are looking for something to do, we have a lot of volunteer theparkwaycenter.org opportunities that can keep you busy, not only at the Parkway Center but with other non profits in the area. There is more information in the newsletter about those opportunities. On a final note, Happy Mother’s Day to all our mothers, grandmothers, mothers in law, aunts, nieces and “like a mother”. Have a wonderful month. Dimbleby FUNERAL HOMES INC. 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Cannistra 5/24 James Ciancia 5/12 Beverly Broadbent 5/24 Denise Giglio Get Well 5/12 Jim Houseman 5/24 Cindy Noon Evelyn Wilson 5/12 Phyllis Jacobs 5/24 Mary Marrone 5/12 Diane Schiffer 5/24 Thomas Ortiz Jr. 5/13 Christine Faga 5/25 Jean Rastani 5/13 Mary Lourdes Chiffy 5/25 Eleanor Bianchi *If we missed your birthday or 5/13 Sharon Cunningham 5/25 Steven McDonald anniversary, please let us know!* 5/13 Mary Ann Etienne 5/25 Kathleen Schmidt 5/13 Diep Thi Nguyen 5/26 Nancy Bello 5/26 Evelyn Wilson 3 Aging Together Tech Corner: How to Connect Elaine Pratt is originally from Utica Every Zoom event that we offer at and attended Utica Fee Academy the Parkway Center offers the growing up. She worked as a option to call in. If you want to secretary at Hornocks Ibbotson connect over Zoom but are having Fishing and at General Electric in trouble connecting for whatever the Purchasing Department and reason, you can call in to the Zoom married Doug. She and Doug will events to participate. be married 65 years in June. They lived in New Hartford for 47 years If you are having trouble connecting and moved to Verona Beach, over Zoom and would like someone where they had a camp, 17 years to walk you through the process ago. Owning the two homes, when please give us a call at (315) 223 retiring, required that they sell one, 3973. so they sold the one in New Hartford and completely remodeled the one in Verona Beach. Elaine wanted to share that she has two children, a daughter Donna (married to John) and grandson Matthew, who now lives in Nashville, TN, and is an entertainment lawyer. Their son Richard (married to Tracy) have a son Garrett, who graduates from New Hartford high school in June and will be attending Utica College. Gattett happens to love to bowl and has scored an 812, says the proud Grandmother. Although not particularly loving to travel, Elaine shared that she does love to go to Nashville now. She also loves to cook, and especially enjoys her family and friends. She stated that “Doug and I were very active at the New Mother’s Day Drivethru Hartford Legion, and for 14 years I handled the Limburger Cheese Night there.” Luncheon Elaine knew about the Parkway Center, as her son is on Dessert sponsored by The Grand! the Board, and she and her son have attended the Parkway Center Holiday Galas. Now that they live in Date: Thursday, May 6 Verona Beach, she made a decision to volunteer at the Time: 11:00am12:00pm Jason Gwilt Apartments, and the Parkway Center’s soon tobeopen Verona Beach site is connected in the Menu: Chicken & biscuits from building.