50+ Recreation March 2016 Our mission is to enrich the lives of our citizens. ISSUE 3 www.ColumbusRecParks.com AARP Tax Preparation Taken from www.aarp.org: “AARP Foundation Tax-Aide offers free tax preparation help to anyone and if you’re 50 and older, and can’t afford a tax preparation service, we were mad especially for you. We understand that retirement or other life changes may mean your taxes are a little more complicated now. With the help of our team of IRS-certified volunteers we make it easy for you. AARP Foundation Tax-Aide has more than 5,000 locations in neighborhood libraries, malls, banks, community centers and senior centers. There’s no fee and sales pitch foe other services and AARP membership is not required.” Please visit www.aarp.org for a list of documents and other items you will need to bring for tax preparation. List of CRPD Centers offering AARP tax preparation: Dodge 645-3176 Thursdays & Fridays 9 am-4 pm By appointment only Gillie 645-3106 Wednesdays 9 am-3 pm By appointment only Marion Franklin 645-3612 Mondays & Wednesdays 9 am-4 pm By appointment only Martin Janis 645-5954 Mondays 9 am-4 pm Walk-in only Whetstone 645-3217 Tuesdays & Wednesdays 9 am-5 pm Walk-in only Golden Hobby Shop March 2016 Issue 3 630 S. Third St. in German Village Columbus, Ohio 43206 Phone 614-645-8329 COAAA Page 8 Creative Arts Event Page 4, 5 Shop Hours of Operation: Tuesday- Saturday Dance Information Page 2 10 am – 5 pm Dodge Intergenerational Page 6 Gillie 50+ Center Page 7 Plenty of free parking on the east side of the Golden Hobby Shop Page 1 building. 2016 merchandise – loads of new, Lazelle Woods Multigenerational Page 8 wonderful items will be available! The best selection Marion Franklin Multigenerational Page 9 of handmade greeting cards in town and at prices way Martin Janis 50+ Center Page 10 below what you’d expect. Come and find unique Red Hat Activities Page 2 gifts to go with the cards! Trip Information Page 2, 3, 4 Water Exercise Page 8 Whetstone Multigenerational Page 11 Newsletter Editor: Wendy Frantz 645-7427 Dance Trips Gillie Dance Dodge 645-3176 Line Dance Beginners Tuesdays 1 pm Lunch and the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum at Advanced Tuesdays 2 pm Ohio State University Intermediates Fridays 10:30 am Friday, March 11 10:45 am Cost $5 Move & Groove Monday 7:30 pm We will grab a bite to eat and then to OSU’s campus Tap Dance: to see the Cartoon Museum, where a docent will give Advanced Wednesdays 10 am us a tour at 1 pm, and talk to us a little about cartoon Beginning Wednesdays 10:50 am history and some very famous Comic strips, like Ballet Class Wednesdays 5 pm Calvin and Hobbes, Charlie Brown, Family Circus, and some other vintage comics as well. There will be Gillie Wednesday Evening Dance Information some walking involved on this trip, as the museum 6:30 – 9 pm Admission: $5 isn’t too big, but it is in Sullivant Hall near High Come early for line a line dance session: 6-6:30 pm. Street, but no front door drop off area, some steps, but The DJ begins spinning a variety of dance music at there is an elevator. We will be stopping for ice cream 6:30. Refreshments will be served, dancing until 9 pm. afterwards of course, because cartoons and ice cream Weekly Themes: just go together! (Actually, come to think of it, ice March 2 Birthdays/ Anniversaries cream goes together with everything.) March 9 Rock-n-Roll Elvis Night March 16 Wearing of Green Friday on the Town; March 23 Easter Parade Jeffersonville Outlets Friday, March 18 March 30 Spring Fling 9 am Cost $5 Marion Franklin We will be heading to the outlet Line Dance malls to grab a bite, do some Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 10-11 am shopping or just window shop; it’s Beginners Wednesdays 11:15 am up to you. You may find the Men’s Tuesdays and Thursdays 1 pm perfect gift, Easter bonnet, spring suit or dress! Men in Black Rehearsal Tuesdays and Thursdays 2 pm * Just a rem inder that we will be going to see Line Dance Workout Tuesday and Thursday 10 am “Fiddler on the Roof” at Otterbein University on Evening Line Dancing April 13 at 10 am. Tickets are $15 and please register by April 1st. Payment is due at registration. Beginning Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:30-6:30 pm $20 per person, per session Gillie 645-3106 Urban Ballroom Dancing Trip Policy: Tuesdays 7-8:30 pm $25 per person, per session Persons registering for van/mini bus trips need to be current members of The Columbus Recreation & Parks Department 50+ Programs. Charter bus trips are open to adult non-members. All refund Red Hat Activities questions will be handled by the staff person in Dodge charge of the trip. Schmidt’s and German Village Shopping Thursday, March 10 10:45 am Cost $5 Gillie Lunch Bunch Join us for lunch at Schmidt’s Restaurant and Sausage Wednesday, March 16 11 am-3 pm Cost $5 Haus, shopping in the local boutiques, candy shops Join us as we visit good, tasty then a stop at the Golden Hobby Shop. local restaurants and enjoy a little shopping getaway. Gillie’s Fillies Mark your Calendars! Registration begins March 2. Tee Jay’s Country Place Tuesday, March 15 11:30 am Corner of Morse Rd. and High St. 2 Trips Gillie (continued) 645-3106 Martin Janis _________ _645-5954 Graveyard Tours 2016 Conversations & Coffee Greenlawn and Franklinton Cemeteries Thursday, March 3 11:15 am Wednesday, April 20 Cost $10 Cost: $5 for transport, lunch on your own Travel around our great state to examine the big, Join us at the Cultural Arts Center for an interesting little, less known and downright forgotten cemeteries and revealing look at pastel painting with a story with in an attempt to understand the markers, stones, odd artist Susan Shubert followed by a tasty lunch. Time epitaphs, haunted sites and unusual places people permitting; we’ll visit some local art spaces. spend in eternity. We will start the season with a look The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Greenlawn and Franklinton Cemetery. Lunch will Where: Ohio State University Campus be on our own at Tommy’s Diner. Registration Thursday, March 17 11:30 am begins April 6. Cost: $5 for transport, lunch on your own Ghosts, Glass Shows and Trains in West Virginia The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum’s Wednesday-Thursday, June 1-2 primary mission is to develop a comprehensive $398 per person (double occupancy) research collection documenting American printed Register now. The deadline is Friday, April 8. cartoon art, to organize the materials and to provide Tour the Trans Alleghany Lunatic Asylum, access to these resources. The scope of the collection formerly the Weston State Hospital of West Virginia includes editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, which served as a sanctuary for the mentally ill in the graphic novels, sports cartoons and magazine mid-1800’s. The history of the building holds cartoons. fascinating stories of Civil War raids, a gold robbery, the “curative” effects of its beautiful architecture. Lunch & a Movie Take a ride aboard the Cheat Mountain Thursday, March 24 10:30 am Salamander; pulled by two diesel locomotives you will enjoy lunch and a 45 mile trip through unspoiled Cost: $5 for transport, lunch and movie admission mountain scenery and a stop at the inspirational High (around $5) on your own Falls of the Cheat. Enjoy a premier evening show at If there’s a movie you’ve wanted to see, this could be the American Mountain Theater where a cast of your chance. Join us for this reasonably priced seasoned entertainers will keep your toes tapping and matinee at Stoneridge Cinema preceded by a visit to a hands clapping through this show which features local eatery. country, southern gospel, bluegrass, pop and patriotic music. And finally there will be an Appalachian Whetstone_____ __________645-3217 Glass Tour, where you will meet owner Chip Turner Note: Any participant signing up for Whetstone trips and learn how glass blowing has been a large part of must present payment at the time of registration. life in West Virginia. Each passenger receives a Glass Friendship Ball. ALL ARE WELCOME ON THIS TRIP! Marion Franklin_ 645-3612 Wednesday, March 9 10:15 am This trip is the group will visit the Schumaker Gallery Lunch & Learn on Capital University campus. (Admission is free to Wednesday, March 2 9:30 am the gallery). Lunch for the day will be decided while Breakfast and Movie we’re out and about. Wednesday, March 15 8:30 am Bring your thinking caps. During lunch we’ll discuss Cost $5 (Transportation Only) and determine the entire year’s outings. Please call Mike with any questions. Bargain Shopping Wednesday, March 23 9:30 am Mike’s Taste of Italia Cost $5 (Transportation Only) Wednesday, March 16 11:15 am Join us as we head out to local thrift stores and We will head to the eastside of Columbus to eat lunch bargain outlets to catch deals legends are made of; at the Berwick Restaurant. Please call Mike with any questions. and then we will grab lunch before heading back to share news of our finds. Whetstone Trips continued on page 4. Must register at the front desk. 3 Trips 50+ Water Exercise Whetstone (continued) __________645-3217 Café & Culture It may cold outside but the water is warm inside.