+ + + Wheeling Forward Wheeling Pavilion Programs MAY AND JUNE , 2018 WALK AND TALK “WHATEVER” Walking is great for your physical and What would you like to discuss? Join us as we talk emotional well-being. When walking with about “whatever” you would like to talk about. It others, it is also a source of socialization. may be a funny story, an experience you have had, a Enjoy these benefits and more at our weekly trivial topic, a puzzle, “whatever”. “Walk and Talk” program. Date: 2nd Friday, starting June 8, 2018 Date: Thursdays, starting April 12, 2018 Time: 10:00 a.m.—11:00 a.m. Time: 1:00 P.M. Place: Community Recreation Center Boardroom Place: Meet at the Community Recreation Cost: FREE, but please let Alysia know you will be Center, inside the walking track. attending. Cost: FREE, but please let Alysia know you will be joining the fun. 1 Community Boulevard ● Wheeling, IL 60090 ● 847-459-2670 2 TRANSPORTATION RESOURCES PAVILION THANKS… Jeanne Annis, Marilyn Hams, VILLAGE OF WHEELING SUBSIDIZED CAB PROGRAM Dolores Kelley, Toni Nettnin, Discount ($2 per voucher) by Village of Wheeling for Joannie Purvin, and Corky Weber Wheeling residents. To register, call the Senior Center at for assembling the Wheeling 847-459-2670. After receipt of enrollment card and Forward newsletter. vouchers you can make your own arrangements by calling American Cab Co. 847-253-4411 or Lunch at Pavilion volunteers Lee Becker, Kevin 303 Cab Co. 847-537-0303. Frei, Czeslawa Gorka, Howard Grubman, Marilyn Hams, Pat Horejs, Darlene Kaplan, Marshall WHEELING TOWNSHIP DIAL-A-RIDE/SENIOR Kaplan, Barb LaHay, Carmen Herrera, Marco DISABLED TRANSPORTATION HerreraAnita Loewenstein, MaryAnne Marabella, This service is a scheduled bus service using small buses. Christine Pettit, Joannie Purvin, Pat Rizzo, Alicia Passengers are picked up at their homes and taken to Ross-Rudolph, Ronald Rudolph, Tina Salgado, their destinations. Fare is $2 each way. Preregistration and Vilma Sanchez, Bobi Spiegel, Carol Targun, and reservations are required and must be made 2 business our group of Elders. days in advance. Call 847-259-7743 for information. Technology learning volunteer Steve Rosengard. PACE PARATRANSIT BUS FOR PERSONS WITH Steven Meyer III for coordinating the Stitch and DISABILITIES *itch group. Call PACE at 312-663-4357 to arrange for registration and an interview. Once certification process is MaryAnn Marabella for coordinating the completed, pre-arranged curb-to-curb service can be community volunteers provided. The one-way fare for ADA Paratransit Services is $3.00 for Cook County. If you need a companion with you, the companion rides free. For handicapped riders only. SENIOR CITIZENS COMMISSION Pat Hawkins RTA FREE OR REDUCED RIDE PROGRAM Applications available at Pavilion Senior Center for a Marshall Kaplan special users travel card that allows senior residents to Michael Kohen travel on any RTA funded form of transportation free or Gerald Malin at a reduced rate. Call 847-459-2670 for information. Pat Miller PACE BUS SERVICE MaryAnn Marabella PACE scheduled bus service with major destination stops Kathy Pico in downtown Des Plaines, Mt. Prospect Metra Jackie Portnoy Station, Randhurst Mall, Woodland Creek Apartments, Joannie Purvin Wheeling High School, Wheeling municipal complex, and Buffalo Grove terminal. Exact fare required. For Bobi Spiegel information call the RTA Travel information center Roberta Vollriede at 847-836-7000. Corky Weber ESCORTED TRANSPORTATION SERVICE NORTHWEST Program matches volunteer drivers with seniors 60 years of age and older who need a ride to and from their homes to doctor or dentist appointments. Call 847-222-9227. Donation of $12 per round trip is suggested. WEEKLY PROGRAMS AND INFORMATION 3 SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE BRAIN GAMES MONDAY Playing games that encourage you to think is one of many ways to keep your memory sharp. Brain 11:30–12:30 Lunch at Pavilion At St. Joseph Social Games will help improve your focus, Hall concentration, and memory through a series of 12:00–3:30 Canasta and Pinochle exercises and games. Join us for a thought - provoking program of games to TUESDAY keep your brain sharp. 9:30–3:30 CJE Russian Speaking Social Date: Friday, May 25, 2018 Worker by appt. (Every other Tuesday.) Friday June 29, 2018 10:00–12:00 Current Events Time: 10:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M. 11:30–12:30 Lunch at Pavilion 12:30–3:30 Intermediate Bridge Place: Community Recreation Center, 333 W. 1:00—3:00 Volunteer Craft Group Dundee Rd. Cost: FREE, but reservations are requested in WEDNESDAY order to have enough materials for all in 11:30–12:30 Lunch at Pavilion attendance. We must have a minimum of 6 1:00–3:00 Stitch and *itch people registered in order to hold this program 1:00–4:00 Open Game Play (By RSVP only) on this date. (RSVP to Alysia at 847-403-4480) Trivia THURSDAY 11:30–12:30 Lunch at Pavilion August is the most popular month in which to have a baby, 12:30–3:30 Intermediate Bridge with more than 360,000 births taking place that month in 1:00–3:30 Happy Hookers 2001. 1:00 –-1:30 Walk and Talk 1:30-3:30 Color for Calm Tuesday is the most popular day of the week in which to have a baby, with an average of more than 12,000 births FRIDAY taking place on Tuesdays during 2001. 10:00–11:00 Brain Games (Last FRI of the month) 10:00—11:00 “Whatever” (2nd Friday of the Month) 10:00–12:30 Russian Tea Time Support Group (2nd & 4th FRI of the month) 11:30–12:30 Lunch at Pavilion 1:00–2:00 Book Club (3rd Friday of the month) Many of the sweaters worn by Mr. Rogers on the popular 12:00–3:30 Canasta television show, “Mr. Roger’s neighborhood”, were actually knitted by his real mother. Sons and daughters send 50 percent of the Father’s Day cards to their dads. Nearly 20 percent of Father’s day cards are purchased by wives for their husbands. Thirty percent of the cards go to grandfather, sons, brothers, uncles, and “someone special”. 4 SOCIAL SERVICES MEMORY SCREENINGS SPECIAL NEEDS RESIDENT LIST WHO SHOULD BE SCREENED? The Village of Wheeling Special Needs Memory screenings make sense for Resident Notification (IL Premise Alert everyone who is concerned with Program Public Act 96-0788) is available to all memory loss or experiencing the Wheeling residents. The IL Premise Alert warning signs of dementia. If family and friends have allows people with special needs to provide noticed changes, or those who believe they are at risk information to police, fire, and EMS due to a family history of Alzheimer’s disease or personnel to be kept in a database. This information will related illness, screenings and testing are advised. For be provided to responders dealing with situations involving anyone who does not have a concern at this time, but the special needs individuals. who wants to establish a base line score for comparison in the future, testing is also available. To let emergency personnel know about you or your family members’ special needs, pick up a form at the Police by appointment only (30 minutes) Department or download from the Village website under Call the Wheeling Senior Services at 847-459-2670 “Premise Alert”. Forms may be completed onsite, or you to schedule an appointment. may send them to the Wheeling Police Department Communications Supervisor at 1 Community Boulevard, Wheeling, IL 60090. Your information will not be shared with anyone outside of the emergency personnel of the Village of Wheeling and any other agency needed to TELEPHONE REASSURANCE provide emergency response. The information provided on “How are you doing?” Register for our telephone the list will not result in preferential treatment, or change reassurance program and answer that question when the response of trained emergency personnel. Inclusion on we call you on Monday—Friday mornings before the list will result in emergency responders being better 9:00 a.m. For more information, or to register , please prepared to assist individual residents with special needs. call Senior Services at 847-459-2670. Please contact either the Human Services Department at 847-459-2606 or the Wheeling Police Department Communications Supervisor at 847-459-2632 for further information LENDING CLOSET STATE OF IL BENEFITS FOR SENIORS Wheeling Senior Services manages a lending closet of The benefits now available are: medical equipment available to Wheeling residents. Seniors Free Transit Ride Equipment is loaned for a period of 30 days for wheelchairs The Persons with Disabilities Free Transit Ride, and 60 days for all other medical equipment. If you or someone you know is in need of any equipment, call Secretary of State License Plate Discount. 847-459-2670. To be determined eligible for these benefits, you must submit a Benefit Access Application : https://www.illinois.gov/ aging/BenefitsAccess/Pages/default.aspx on the Internet. Paper applications are not available. Call Senior Services at 847-459-2670 for an appointment. Lunch at Pavilion 6 Join us for a great meal and great friends at LUNCH AT PAVILION. Excellent NEW menu selections, restaurant atmosphere, and table service -you can’t beat it! Senior Services hosts meal service for anyone 60 years and better. A nutritionally-balanced lunch is served Monday thru Friday from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Reservations are required and must be made by Wednesday for the following week. Each diner will receive written information regarding the cost of the meal and will have the opportunity to contribute to part or all of the cost.