News, Activities, Services, and Advice Encore from Encore Experiences at Harleysville Experiences at Harleysville Volume 38, Number 5 |September-October/2012 Encore Experiences at Harleysville Are You Ready for November 6th? Being prepared for the November 6, 2012 to get one free of charge at a PennDOT free ID for voting purposes. This verification elections means more than knowing the Driver License Center. One is located at 2101 process will take about ten days. When the candidates and where they stand on particular Swede Road, Norristown 19401 and another application and supporting documentation issues. As a voter in the Commonwealth at 2022 County Line Road, Huntington have been reviewed and processed, a Drivers of Pennsylvania, you are required to take Valley 19006. It is best to call 800-932-4600 License Center staff member will direct you an extra step before exercising your hard- to ensure that the Photo License Center is to the Photo Center to have your photo ID earned right to choose – and that is to first open before making the trip, as its hours may taken for your photo ID card. Once your show a photo ID. be different from the Driver License Center. photo has been taken, you will be issued a All photo IDs must contain an expiration Once there, you need to declare that you do Photo ID card. not have the required ID by completing the date that is current, unless noted otherwise. Continued on Page 15 Acceptable IDs include: Oath/Affirmation Voter ID form. Additional forms that you will need to complete include •Photo IDs issued by the US Federal the Application for Initial Identification Card Government or this Commonwealth. and Application for Certified Copy of Birth Inside this issue: These include PA driver’s license or non- Record. When making this first visit to the Director’s Report …………………………2 driver’s license photo ID (IDs are valid for Drivers License Center you should have your voting purposes 12 months past expiration Social Security card and one of the following: Daily Lunch Specials ……………………3 date), a valid US passport, or a US Military ID Certificate of U.S. Citizenship, Certificate – active duty and retired military (a military of Naturalization, valid U.S. Passport, or Encore Wellness.. ………………….......4, 5 or veteran’s ID must designate an expiration birth certificate with a raised seal plus two Encore Finance... …………………………6 date or designate that the expiration date proofs of residency such as lease agreements, is indefinite). Military dependents’ ID must current utility bills, mortgage documents, Sept.-Oct. Calendars..........................7-10 contain an expiration date; W-2 form, or tax records. •Employee photo ID issued by Federal, PA, PennDOT will then forward the completed Encore Recreation. ……………….........11 County or Municipal government; Application for Certified Copy of Birth Encore Enrichment.............. …….........12 •Photo ID cards from an accredited PA public Record form to the Department of Health. or private institution of higher learning; After verifying your birth record is on file, Articles of Interest. ……………13, 14, 15 this agency will then securely transmit this •Photo ID cards issued by a PA care facility, information to PennDOT. PennDOT will then In Memoriam ……………………….........14 including long-term care facilities, assisted notify you by letter that your birth record has living residences, or personal care homes. been confirmed. You will then need to return Meet Our Members.... …………….........16 If you do not have one of these IDs and require to the Drivers License Center, with the Welcome New Members.......................16 one for voting purposes, you may be entitled above noted documentation, to receive your Encore Experiences at Harleysville 312 Alumni Avenue Help Yourself to Healthy Living Harleysville, PA 19438 Encore Experiences, in collaboration with confident about making informed decisions Encore Café Hours the North Penn Visiting Nurses Association, regarding your diet and exercise in support Breakfast 8:00AM to 10:00AM is excited about adding yet another program of a healthy lifestyle. As your facilitator, Jane Lunch 11:30AM to 1:00PM to help you live independently and remain will listen closely to the direction and topics active. For those who have to deal with a that are of interest and concern to the group Office Hours chronic disease such as diabetes, COPD, members, and provide the assistance that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday high blood pressure or anxiety, our monthly you request. Many of you know Jane, as she 8:00AM to 4:00PM Support Group will help you live with your already provides health monitoring at Encore Thursday chronic condition with the assistance of Jane Experiences on a monthly basis. 8:00AM to 8:00PM Cero, a Chronic Care Certified Professional So, if you are living with a major illness Phone: 215.256.6900 Nurse, and your peers. or stressful life change, you don’t have to Fax: 215.256.9132 Beginning on Thursday, September 20, at do it alone. Our group will bring together Website: www.EncoreExperiences.org 1:00PM and every third Thursday thereafter, people facing similar issues who will share you will learn techniques to better manage experiences, successes and challenges. We It is our policy to request that each attendee symptoms like pain, fatigue, frustration, invite you to take control, make connections, completes a participant registration form. This helps us apply for additional funding and isolation. You will be better able to and get support on the third Thursday of and gives us vital information in case of effectively communicate with your healthcare every month. Please indicate your interest incident/emergency. Thank you for your professionals about your treatment and in joining us by registering in the office by cooperation. medication options. In addition, you will feel Monday, September 17th. Director’s Report Some might say, “It’s where people can play cards goes far beyond business; it’s not the surface. If you wanted to find a place to personal,” but isn’t all exercise more often or meet friends for lunch, business personal? or learn new things, we have it all – right I know it is here at here – at your local senior center. Encore Experiences. Speaking of your local senior center, you may Our business is have heard of the conversations between the very personal. You, PEAK Center and Encore Experiences boards our participant (or of directors about how to collaborate in new Encore customer), must feel and exciting ways. As you know I have been as if you personally Experiences at both organizations since April. We have at Harleysville are being taken care not yet made the final decisions, but I want of. We try hard to ensure that everyone to let you know that no matter what happens, Staff wanting or needing our services gets the kind the goal is to keep two senior centers, one in Robin Burstein, Executive Director of personal attention they deserve. We know Harleysville, and the other in Lansdale. As a that we will have better success helping you participant you will probably see some small Kay Pagni, Assistant Director & achieve your goals if we treat you personally changes – no matter what the decision by the Social Services Coordinator and well. In fact, we are working on a tool (it boards is, because we are really learning a lot Encore won’t be available till next spring) that will Michele Ross, Program Director Experiences from each other. The participant form may at Harleysville help target your goals and help us recommend change. We may collaborate more on trips or Susan Andersen, Communications Mgr. specific activities to help you reach them. other programs. As you see these changes, Bobbie Kepler, Meal Coordinator It began with the evaluation/learning please understand, they are to help more organization project that started almost two people reach their goals of staying active and Pat Crompton, Administrative Assistant years ago, came to its first peak in November fit and involved in community. We want to Katie Zoccola, Administrative Assistant when Encore participants completed a 17 page hear your suggestions and concerns as we & Café Volunteer Manager survey, and is now providing information that continue to strive to make Encore Experiences will help the board and staff make decisions and the PEAK Center stronger, more valuable Board of Directors to change certain ways of business to improve organizations in your community. your chances of reaching your goals. September is Senior Center Month! As you Andrew Santana, President Does that sound complicated? All you wanted flip through these pages, I hope you are Deb Santoro, Vice President was to play cards? Well, if the reason you excited by all that Encore Experiences has to Joann Barnak, Treasurer come to Encore Experiences is to play cards, offer. I hope you find many items of interest, isn’t your real reason to have fun, be with programs you want to attend, and classes you Mary Metz, Secretary your friends, and make new acquaintances? want to join. Join us at Encore Experiences Ted Tozzi, Members Council Rep. People with active social lives are healthier, on Septembers 25th when we celebrate with more resistant to disease, and recover faster an open house and live broadcast with Darryl Anna Crouse than people who do not have active social Berger on WNPV “Comment Please.” Mark Hoffman lives. Did you know that? The community I hope to see you soon, Jason Klaskin impact of having a vibrant senior center Robin Diane Kropf Meet a Board Member-Joann Barnak Kim Licata Betty Linko Joann recently celebrated volunteering her time and talents as a 34 years of employment CPA to Encore Experiences and Ivy Hill Bob Schoen at Harleysville Insurance. Therapeutic Equestrian Center in the In her tenure, she has capacity of Treasurer for both organizations.