Taste of the Coast tickets on sale NOW!

Taste of the Coast is a unique fundraising event that supports Senior Coastsiders' programs AND gives ticket purchasers a chance to explore new businesses and visit old favorites! Tickets are $100 with special senior pricing (60+) at $75. For tickets and a full list of participating businesses and their special 'taste' offerings, go HERE.

If volunteering is more your speed, we ALWAYS need more help! Please contact hatmore@seniorcoastsiders.org if you are interested in volunteering at the run!

Senior Coastsiders Cookbook Senior Coastsiders will be producing a cookbook to be available in time for the holidays. Do you have an old family recipe with a story, or a favorite recipe that you are known for? We are collecting recipes from our extended Senior Coastsiders family - donors, participants, volunteers, and staff. To submit your recipes, please email them to Casey at cmcclung@seniorcoastsiders.org or drop them off at the office. Deadline is August 15th - don't delay on submitting your recipe!

Mystery Book Club This group meets the first Wednesday of each month (August 4th this month) at 12:00pm. The group will be discussing Three Hours in Paris, by Cara Black. The group will be meeting in person but will have the option to Zoom in for those who choose to do so. For the Zoom link, please contact vaughnharrison@yahoo.com. Future books can be picked up at the Senior Coastsiders office at 925 Main Street. The September meeting will host author Amy Peele and they discuss her new book Match. Learn more about Match and Amy at her website: amyspeele.com/books. Books can be purchased at your local independent bookstore!

Sound the Alarm Did you know that you can schedule to have local Red Cross members come to your home to replace your smoke detectors? Call the scheduling number at 650-259-1769 and leave a message with your name and phone number and they will set you up with new smoke detectors - and ensure that they are in the best locations!

Planning for People and Nature at Tunitas Creek Beach

JoIn this upcoming webinar presented by Peninsula Open Space Trust and San Mateo County Parks to learn about the past, present and future of Tunitas Creek Beach, soon to be the newest publicly accessible beach on the San Mateo County Coast! Friday, August 13, 12 PM. Register HERE.

VA Medical Outreach Team at the Half Moon Bay Library Medical provider(s) will be at the HMB Library on Monday, August 9th from 10am - 2pm to provide examinations, consultations, and referrals.

Learn more about services and eligibility HERE.

Ocean View Plaza Studio Wait List Opening Applications will be available to download HERE starting 8/2/21. Waiting list will be open from 9:00am 8/2/21 through 4:30pm 8/6/21 and can be submitted by e-mail to jengel@lesleysc.org or by fax to 650-726-5888. Applications can also be picked up and submitted at 1001 Main Street, Half Moon Bay from 2:00pm to 4:30pm 8/2/21 through 8/6/21.

Bridge Groups Bridge is back and better than ever! There are casual games of bridge on Mondays from 1:00-3:45 and starting August 6th, the center will host Duplicate Bridge on Fridays from 11:45am to 2:45pm. Friday games will be ACBL sanctioned and cost is $10 to play. Please email Maria Grigorieff at mariagrigorieff@gmail.com to sign up to play. More details on the casual bridge can be found HERE and Duplicate Bridge HERE

Although it isn't exactly new and upcoming, it does seem to be a secret to many! Did you know you can donate your old car (running or not) to Senior Coastsiders? The process is easy and fast through a partnership with Careasy. Simply go to the drop down menu on the DONATE tab on our website and scroll down to 'Car Donation.' One recent donor said, "I wish I had done this sooner! You hear of all these national charities -yet knowing the donation stays local and especially for Senior Coastsiders feels great!" You can go directly to the car donation site by clicking HERE.

Presentation on PG&E Time of Use Plans Acterra, an environmental non-profit, is hosting a virtual informational workshop on Wednesday, August 25th at 7:00 pm that educates people how their energy bills will change as part of the PG&E Time of Use Plans being implemented in September. People may register for the online workshop at the link HERE.

See below for our current class listings and the August menu. For a full list of class descriptions and instructors, click here.

Do you shop on Amazon? Did you know that every time you buy something through Amazon, you could be supporting Senior Coastsiders? Visit smile.amazon.com and sign in with your Amazon.com credentials. Search and choose Senior Coastsiders as your charitable organization and start shopping! Add a bookmark for smile.amazon.com to make it even easier to return and start your shopping at AmazonSmile!

THANK YOU to Fresh Generation Foods who has donated some lovely produce to our kitchen for our home delivered and dining room lunches. If you want to learn more about this young company, visit their website HERE.

THANK YOU to the 24 organizations that have partnered with us for Taste of the Coast that runs from 8/20/21 to 10/17/21. Each ticket entitles the holder to a special “taste” or discount at partner restaurants, wine bars, breweries, and sweet shops and one entry into a raffle for a chance to win a $500 New Leaf gift card, wines, restaurant gift cards, and more. Additional raffle tickets available for purchase. Please support this event which is one of our main annual fundraisers. Check it out HERE.

Firstly, I came across a prescient article titled the "Hammer and the Dance" that was written over a year ago in March 2020 (right at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic) by a Stanford graduate, Thomas Pueyo. In this article he suggested that countries should adopt a hammer and dance strategy to address the COVID-19 pandemic. The hammer phase being a period with extreme measures such as lockdowns, travel restrictions, contact tracing, widespread testing, and identification, isolation and care for those infected to get the spread of the virus under control as quickly as possible. The hammer phase is followed by the dance phase‚ a period of stabilization during which time as many restrictions as possible are lifted while still maintaining low rates of infection. During the dance phase, there is always the possibility of tightening the restrictions again if needed, for example, if infection rates increase. It seems that over the past year all of us have lived through the hammer phase and we are now negotiating the dance phase.

At Senior Coastsiders we re-opened for in-person dining, classes, and activities on July 7^th and have welcomed new and returning participants who are delighted to spend time with one another. We are doing the dance of lifting restrictions while keeping everyone safe. We require that all unvaccinated individuals wear masks when entering our facility and strongly encourage mask wearing when our visitors are not actively eating, drinking, or engaged in physical activity. We continue to closely monitor the increasing infection rates in California and are ready to adapt again as needed.

Effective July 1, 2021, the weekly testing at the Ted Adcock Community Center will move to Wednesdays, from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. There will no longer be testing on Monday afternoons.  Details on the new testing service are as follows and can be found HERE

As part of a statewide effort to create a cleaner energy future, many California residential electric customers moved to the Time-of-Use (Peak Pricing 4 - 9 p.m. Every Day) (E-TOU-C) rate plan. For more information and some helpful tips, click here.

Please forward to anyone you think might benefit from this information!