June/July/August 2018 News and Activities for Orange County’s Older Adults Inside this edition Aging Transitions ..................... 6-17 Language Classes ...................36-37 Seniors on the Road .................53-55 Athletics ............................46-47 Lunch at the Centers ....................13 Seymour Tech .........................53 Arts & Crafts ........................30-34 Movies .............................49-50 Special Events ......................40-45 Bridge & Other Games ...............35-36 Multigenerational Activities ...............4 Support Groups .....................29-30 Dance, Music & Theatre ..............47-49 Notes from the Director & Editor ..........2 Transportation .........................12 Educational Opportunities ............37-40 Orange County Senior Games ...........19 Friends of the Senior Centers .............8 Organizations & Club Meetings. 52 Volunteer Connect 55+ (VC 55+) ...... 18-19 In Praise of Age TV Show ............ 10-11 Pottery Classes .....................34-35 Wellness Opportunities ..............20-29 Interest Groups ........................51 Senior Times NEWS .................. 2-17 You'll Want to Know .....................3 Visit us at www.orangecountync.gov/aging or facebook.com/OrangeCountyDepartmentonAging To join the bi-monthly listserv, email [email protected] and request to join the list. This is a great way to stay up-to-date on what is happening at the Centers. Page 2 Senior Times June – August 2018 From the Director From the Editor It has been a busy spring for us here at the Department As I write this the first of April, I am hopeful on Aging and it looks like it is shaping up to be a very busy that by the time this issue is released we’ll still summer. We are in the final months of the first year of have spring like temperatures, and not go straight the 2017-22 Master Aging Plan(MAP) and we have made to the summer heat and humidity that the great strides in accomplishing our goals. You can track Piedmont of NC often experiences. I encourage the progress on our website www.orangecountync.gov/ you to adventure into new experiences at the departments/aging where we post quarterly MAP updates. Senior Centers – Passmore in Hillsborough I would like to say thank you to all of our community partners and Seymour in Chapel Hill for healthy fun and and the many volunteers who have helped in making many of interesting activities that can keep you out of the our goals a reality. It is exciting to be a part of a community summer heat/humidity. You will find welcoming that values its older adults and by working together we can and different program offerings at each center. be the best Age-Friendly community in NC. Don’t forget there is still a place for you in any of our MAP workgroups. As the Master Aging Plan process moves Just drop me an email to learn more about how you can get along one of the issues that has emerged involved. is the interest in creating and cultivating Multigenerational Activities in the community It is with mixed emotions that I announce the retirements and at the Senior Centers. Check out the new of two of our Aging Transitions staff, Mary Fraser and Pam Multigenerational section on page 4 of this issue. Tillett. They both have played such a vital part in the work of If you know of other Multigenerational activities/ the Department on Aging. Their contributions to the aging programs that may interest others, please let me community both here in Orange County and in NC will be felt know and I will pass it along to the programming for years to come. You might continue to see Pam around team or feel free to call their attention to it; our the Centers and town, but Mary will be heading off to her new contact information is listed on the back page of home in Florida. We wish them both the very best on their the Senior Times and on the website. new adventures. I am so thankful for technology as I know they will only be an email or phone call away, as we transition I hope you will come in out of the heat and to find staff to fill “their shoes.” try something new and different at the Orange County Senior Centers. I hope that everyone has a relaxing, and hopefully not SENIOR TIMES NEWS SENIOR too hot summer. We have some great programs coming up, Feel free to email, call or stop by to see me and so if you are looking to cool off, come take a new class or share your experiences and ideas for ways you participate in one of the many programs in our “cool” Centers. think we can continue to “Engage you at Every Age”. As always, I love hearing from you and seeing you at the Senior Centers. Come see me, or drop me an email. Sincerely, Myra Austin Sincerely, Senior Centers Administrator Janice Tyler Orange County Department on Aging Director, Orange County Department on Aging Senior Times Managing Editor [email protected] [email protected] Celebrate National Pollinator Week With the Hillsborough Tree Board on June 16 from 10 am-12 noon at Cates Creek Park, located at 1445 Cates Creek Parkway in Hillsborough. The volunteer advisory board will host a ‘Meet the Garden’ event at the newly installed pollinator garden. Tree Board members will be available to discuss best practices for protecting pollinators and highlight native shrubs, flowers, and grasses that provide food for bees and butterflies. To learn more at the event, please contact Stephanie Trueblood, Public Space Manger for the Town of Hillsborough at [email protected]. THE & EDITOR DIRECTOR FROM NOTES June – August 2018 Senior Times Page 3 You’ll Want to Know Instructors Needed Senior Times is on the Web Do you have a craft or a skill you would like to share For the current issue of Senior Times online, and teach others? If you are interested in sharing go to our web site: www.orangecountync.gov/ your talents, please call the Center Program and departments/aging Click on the Senior Times link Operations Manager for the Passmore Center, Terry on the left side of the Department on Aging’s Home Colville, 919-245-2016, and for the Seymour Center, page. You will need Adobe Flashplayer 9. On-line Cydnee Sims, 919-245-4250. registration is available for some programs. Centers Open in the Evenings Check Out Our Senior Page in the Durham The Passmore Center is open 4 nights per week, Herald Newspaper–Orange County and the Mon – Thu until 8 pm and the Seymour Center Triangle Today. is open Mon – Thu, until 9 pm. Check out the Just a reminder: We have a senior page in the evening programs throughout the various program Orange County issue of the Durham Herald as well schedules. as Triangle Today on Sunday, Jun 24 and Jul 29 with information on some of the upcoming month’s Registration for Programs Required events. You should register for all programs and classes in advance – both FREE, and those with a fee. Classes and events may become filled, or canceled if minimum numbers are not reached. Don’t be left out! Senior Center Surveys Participants should take the opportunity to evaluate the Senior Centers’ programs and participate in the interest survey. Forms will are also available on the website, www.orangecountync.gov/departments/ aging Assistive Listening Devices Registration Forms Update Senior Center registration forms are available. If you Available at the Senior Centers haven’t completed, or updated, one in the last year, please do it and sign the waivers. Stop by the front Did you know that both the Passmore and Seymour desk at either Center to receive a form, UPDATE Centers have assistive listening devices available your info, if it’s changed or go to our website and when you attend programs at the Centers? Both look for the “Registration Form”. the Great Hall at Passmore and the Theater at the Seymour Center have a system for enhancing the Facebook – the Department on Aging speakers’/performers’ voices. Each center has 10 page facebook.com/OrangeCounty assistive listening receivers and 2 assistive devices Department on Aging and a new that work with a t-coil. We also have the capacity to revamped website, www.orangecountync.gov/ amplify a classroom instructor or program provider departments/aging Check them out and become in one of the class rooms other than the theater. a Facebook Friend! (We have a limited number of these systems so ask about availability.) Join the Senior Centers’ Email List If you are in need of such a device while you are at To add your address to the list, e-mail Myra Austin the center for a program, speak to the front desk at [email protected] Information is person who can instruct you on how to use the sent out approximately every two weeks. system. Page 4 Senior Times June – August 2018 Multigenerational Activities As the Master Aging Plan process moves along, CINEMA NIGHT AT THE SEYMOUR CENTER one of the issues that has emerged is the interest in (See pg 42 & 49 for details) creating and cultivating Multigenerational Activities in Wonder – Wed, Jun, 13 6 pm the community and at the Senior Centers. If you know of other Multigenerational activities/programs that PETALS WITH A PURPOSE (See pg 44 for details) may interest others, please let me know and I will pass Weds (354094-01) 1 –2:30 pm along to the programming team or feel free to call their attention to it; our contact information is listed on the PIANO PERFORMANCE: A MEDLEY OF MUSIC back page of the Senior Times and on the website. AT NOON (See pg 44 for details) Please note these activities are for ages 18 and over Sat, Jun 2 (333050-11) 12 noon unless otherwise listed.