Young at Heart

By Lorrie Conyac

It’s National Senior Center Month and we’re hosting a celebration. Join us as we make this a month of empowerment, enlightenment, engagement and enrichment.

On Saturday, September 16, we’re hosting a pancake breakfast and Classic Car Show, sponsored in part by Gear Heads. Bring the grandkids and take a trip back in time to celebrate the hard work that goes into preserving classic automobiles. On Tuesday, September 19 we’ll host a barbeque with games, stories and lots of fun.

Learn if you are at risk for falling, why we fall more as we age and what to do to help prevent falls during a workshop on Wednesday, September 27. Starting at 9:30 a.m., geriatric-certified specialist physical therapist Dr. Kayla Anderson will present the interactive fall-prevention workshop at the Blaine Senior Center.

Staff at the Blaine Senior Center would also like to announce that we’re not hosting the Christmas Bazaar this year. For those of us that have been there from the beginning, it’s a bit melancholy to remember all the fun, stress, laughter, disasters and the many great vendors and customers that made our bazaar so special. We send a special thank you to the volunteers that have worked to make our past bazaars such a success.

In addition to the Christmas Bazaar, we’re also canceling the Cookie Walk, so you’ll have to bake those special Christmas cookies in your own kitchen. We encourage you to gather the kids around, young and old, and renew that old tradition of baking in a warm, bright kitchen while laughing and tasting cookie dough.

We ask that all of our members consider serving on the Blaine Senior Center board of directors. If you’re not yet a member and are 50 years of age or older, we want to hear from you too. We’ll have three openings on the board; another board member and I are both relocating and another is retiring. Please contact our director Kathy Sitker with any questions.

The Blaine Senior Center is located at 763 G Street. You can call us at 360/332-8040.