MARCH/APRIL 2020 INSIDE THIS THE SENIOR SENTINEL ISSUE 2 Director’s Message Community 3 - 4 Supportive Living 4 Support Groups 5 Health & Wellness 5 - 7 Group Fitness 7-10 Arts & Activities 11 Movie Matinées 11-12 Special Events 12-13 Excursions 14-15 Speakers Spinning Around Town Solon Spins is back again this spring! 16 - 17 Activity Calendar Venture outdoors and explore the City of Solon on our age-friendly 18 Technology borrowable bicycles. Bicycling is a Senior Center great way to exercise, enjoy nature, 18 Supporters and socialize. Our fleet of bicycles, provided by the Solon Rotary, returns Sign-up Sheet 19 - 20 to the Community Center on April 15th. Recognizing that weather Solon Senior Center can change rapidly in the spring, there will be no charge to 35000 Portz Parkway borrow during the first month. By request, a bicycle trailer for Solon, OH 44139 youngsters too young, is available. Spin single or with the Phone: 440.349.6363 whole family. TTY/TDD: 440.248.1176 www.solonohio.org Hours of Operation Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Weekends & Evenings As scheduled FROM THE DIRECTOR home with a phone or laptop, SHAPE YOUR FUTURE. A Time To Serve - 200 Acts START HERE! plus a bag with a Census Bureau logo to gather your information. of Service for 200 Years The first census was taken If you are concerned about the in 1790. As the years have knock on your door, call the This initiative will launch on progressed, so have the Solon Police or 800-932-8282. March 12th. You will have the procedures. This year, you will Better yet, respond on your own opportunity to help others and be able and asked to respond on- in order to avoid a visit. the City of Solon celebrate our line. The 2020 Census will shape Bicentennial by contributing to your future, as well as future Are you concerned about generations, because results are confidentiality, regarding the our volunteer efforts. It will be used to: census? Don’t be! Federal law simple. mandates that individual data is • Divvy up seats in the U.S. sealed for 72 years. A Volunteer page will be Congress, State Legislature posted on the City of Solon and more By the time the census starts, website which will provide you we will have one less staff • Determine the distribution with a link to opportunities of money (for every person person who has been counted here for 30 years. We wish both within the Solon and not counted, Ohio loses ~ the Greater Cleveland $1,814) Adeline Minadeo the best in her retirement, and thank her for her Metropolitan area. You will • Forecast Social Security dedication in making us who we be asked to complete a brief payouts are today! registration, and from that point • Determine Emergency forward will be able to select response needs In April, we will thank our Volunteers, whose numbers opportunities of interest to you. • Plan Health & Wellness have grown, for assisting us in The Rotary Club of Solon is programs enhancing the lives of others. • Influence Business Decisions If you have not volunteered providing support for this new yet, you can contribute to initiative. If you have questions This March, you will receive or need assistance getting the an invitation to respond to the Solon‘s Time To Serve, 200 2020 Census on-line. We have Acts of Service for 200 Years information in a different format made plans to assist you in Bicentennial initiative which will than the website, contact our responding and/or provide you kick-off in March. Check the City Human Services Specialist, with an opportunity to socialize of Solon website or contact the Sally Goodwin at the Solon with others completing their SSC for more information. Senior Center. forms in our computer lab. Just like the census, we use Join us at one of the Census numbers to help us plan. With the Café events, which are listed guidance of our Senior Council, Gone But Not Forgotten inside this newsletter. If you we have revised our cancellation If you would like to post a notice are unable to join us then, let us policy to best meet our needs, as or memorial of a loved one know and stop in another time well as you, our members. See who has passed, there is now for assistance. the updated policy on page 7. a memorial book located If you do not respond to the initial For the census and so much more, at the Welcome Center. census invitation, you will receive remember to START HERE. This As the memorial book a letter. If you do not respond will allow you to, live well! is member managed, after the letter, a U.S. Census you are welcome to worker, with an identification badge, which includes their contribute to or view photograph, will come to your … Jill the book at anytime. 2 COMMUNITY SUPPORTIVE LIVING • Becoming a Friendly Visitor Taxes are due on Wednesday, "BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT • Making Morning Calls April 15, 2020 and here at the TO SEE IN THE WORLD" • Working at the food pantry SSC the AARP Foundation Tax- ~Mahatma Gandhi • Delivering meals Aide Program offers assistance Happy spring! It has been quite • Helping with special events on Mondays until April 13, a winter, and although the • Working with the C.A.R.E. 2020. If you haven’t done so weather has been cold, I have Program yet, please call us to make an a wonderful way to stay warm appointment. and toasty, VOLUNTEERING! These are just a few of the It is a way to stay active and opportunities that are available. As always, I am available if you need assistance or just want to it results in you making a Another large event this year have a conversation. Do not difference in the lives of others, is the 2020 U.S. Census! hesitate to contact me for an something that, as they say, Very soon, you will receive a appointment. “warms the heart.” postcard invitation to respond to Now I know you are ready to get the census online. You should Yvette started because volunteering see this postcard in the mail benefits everyone, not just those between March 12th and 20th. who give their time to a cause. Those who do not respond will Volunteering can reduce stress, receive a paper form in the Greater Cleveland improve our mood, help prevent mail. In addition, if there is still Volunteers Information loneliness and actually make us no response, census takers will DAYS TIME feel better. The lives you touch knock on the door to collect the WED., 04/29 11:00 am - 2:00 pm information. by giving your time benefit so There are only so many volunteer much, sometimes you may not We all know how important opportunities at the SSC. This see it, and truly echoes the City collecting census information is why the Greater Cleveland of Solon’s “service above self” is to our community and how Volunteers will be available at mantra. it impacts everyone’s lives in the SSC to provide information As we continue celebrating the the years to come. Here at about volunteer opportunities City of Solon’s Bicentennial the SSC we have decided to throughout the Cleveland area! this year, our directive is “A make completing the census You will also be able to register Time to Serve," to serve our a combined effort. The SSC to become a volunteer with the community and all those the will be having Census Café’s Greater Cleveland Volunteers. Solon Community touches. throughout the months of Service above self! Coming up on Thursday, March March and April to assist you 12, 2020, there will be a kick- with completing the census off event, “200 acts of service online, and avoiding a knock at AARP Tax Aide for 200 years." We hope to see your door. Please look in this you there and will continue to newsletter for a date and time DAY/DATE find opportunities for you to help that will be convenient for you. MON., 03/02, 03/09, 03/16, the Solon community through Filling out the census does not 03/23, 03/30, 04/06 your volunteer service. have to be a chore and the SSC & 04/13 is here to make it as easy as TIME If you haven’t volunteered through possible! 9:00 am - 3:00 pm the SSC yet, why not consider… Call to schedule your appointment! 3 COMMUNITY SUPPORTIVE LIVING TRANSPORTATION SERVICES Serving City of Solon residents who are at least 60 years of age as well as adults with disabilities. Transportation services are available for medical appointments, routine errands, recreation, religious and social events. Please contact the SSC to schedule a transportation consultation to register and get to your destination! OUT-OF-TOWN SERVICES Senior Transportation Uber Health Connection The Solon Senior Center now Trips are provided through Senior offers out-of-town transportation Transportation Connection, after utilizing the Uber Health IN-TOWN SERVICE registering through the SSC. Network. Trips are provided to Operated by the Department of locations throughout Northeast Reservations can be made by Ohio for those that qualify. Senior Services, in-transportation calling 216-265-1489. Three is provided at no charge to eligible business days of advance notice Uber Health out-of-town residents, and reservations can required. transportation reservations are be made by contacting the SSC. made through the SSC, and rides 4 Trips are provided Monday Cost: $ .00 one-way* are provided by Uber drivers.