Hello Everybody,
Last weekend I attended the New York State Recreation and Park Society's annual conference. This year it took place in Glens Falls, close to Lake George. I learned many interesting things there but I also led a session with Sherry Farrell, a colleague from the Town of Hilton, who also serves that Town through coordinating programming for the 55+ community there. Our round-table session was about showing examples of expanding senior programming beyond card games and bingo and we used our newsletters as examples to show what we are doing and how we are (successfully) getting the news out to our communities. I did a similar session at the annual regional conference for the Genesee Valley Recreation and Parks Society last fall with Cindy Briggs (from the town of Gates), and after having done both of these sessions, I can safely say that we offer a much wider array of activities and programs to our seniors than most other municipalities in the State. Unfortunately, my weekly newsletter did not win the Multimedia award that I had submitted it for, but I did win a whole new set of resources through connecting with other senior programming coordinators at both the conferences we presented at.
Thank you, Sherry and Cindy, for the collaboration!
Next week's lunch menus are up, and as always, please remember that Chef Christina's dishes are never spicy but always aromatic and flavorful. We are fortunate here not only with multi-faceted programming, but by having a talented chef who wisely adds just enough flavor where needed.
May's Theater dinner event is out and this one is going to be very popular. Beautiful; The Carol King Musical will be performed at JCC on 5/16 and once again, we've scheduled a school bus to bring our group to the venue. Don't hem and haw too long!
MVPT has scheduled its next wellness seminar for next month. The topic of the May seminar will be aquatic therapy; something that we are also fortunate to be able to utilize here at this amazing community center because we have not only the MVPT offices here in the building, but also the "aqua" part of the equation.
The town is scheduling its recycling event for 5/11. Check out the post at the very end of this newsletter to see which items require an appointment prior to bringing in and where you will need to bring it.
Lesley Shakespeare's KEEP IT SIMPLE painting on glass class will take place tomorrow evening, so you still have time to get in on that class!
Has everyone who wanted to enter the latest fitness challenge handed in their sheets? If not, I'll extend the date until tomorrow and we will announce the winners of the raffle in next week's newsletter.
Every other day it seems like we are getting a tease of luscious weather to come and just when we think we could get used to this and start planting our dahlias, another rainstorm creeps across the horizon. Fear not, my friends! Spring is here and there are some places in our area that could make you cry from the sheer beauty of the blossom palette painted across an ever increasing backdrop of green. Take some pictures and send them to me and I'll post them!
Have a wonderful rest of the week!
Anke
