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A Few Local Resources for Seniors

AGE FRIDENDLY COMMUNITIESIn 2014 Kitimat was recognized as an

Age-Friendly Community! Our Age-

Friendly Community Committee meetsonce a month to continue the workneeded to be Age-Friendly. Themeetings from this minute are availableto everyone and are posted at the KitimatSeniors’ Centre.

In Age-Friendly Communities—Seniorsare supported to age actively, enjoy good

health, remain independent, and remainin their community

People of all ages and abilities benefitfrom a safer, barrier -free buildings andstreets, better access to local businesses& facilities, and more green spaces.

The community benefits from theincreased participation of older adults incommunity life.

If you are interested in participating inthis committee, or would like to sharesome suggestions on how Kitimat couldimprove itself for aging, please let usknow. Contact Mary Murphy,Chairperson, at 250 632 5201

The Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters(SAFER) program, from BC Housing,helps make rents affordable for BC seniorswith low to moderate incomes. SAFERprovides monthly cash payments tosubsidize rents for eligible BC residents whoare age 60 or over and who pay rent fortheir homes.

For further information please contact theKitimat Housing Resource Project @

250-639-6065

Better at Home provides a range of non-

medical home support services in Kitimat.Home services vary from community tocommunity. They are designed tocomplement existing services and arebased on the unique needs of localseniors. In Kitimat services available are:

Friendly visiting

Transportation

Light yard work

Minor home repairs

Light housekeeping

Grocery shopping

Snow shoveling

Jocelyn Iannarelli (250) 632-3475 work ([email protected]

SENIORS’ PROGRAMMER:

JANUARYNEWSLET

KITIMAT SENIOR CITIZEBRANCH #

658 Columbia V

Phone: (250) 632E-mail: kitsca@cWebsite: www.ki

SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION—EXECUTIVE

President Bonnie Doiron 250 632-4039250 632 -1596 c

1st Vice Pres. Bill Whitty 250 632- 4039

2nd Vice Pres. Laura McKenzie 250 632- 2554

Treasurer OPEN

Secretary Patricia Lovegren 250 632-5955

Director Ann Ferguson 250 632-7874

Director Lois Marleau 250 632- 2697

Director

Carol Paul

250 632-5628

Monthly Membership Meeting

Next Membership Meeting will be held onThursday, January 8th, 2015 at 1:00pm

at the Centre.

Please note this monthly meeting ison the 2nd Tuesday, due to the Centre

being closed Jan 1st. Your attendance is very important.



PLEASE NOTE:

The Feb. Newsletter DEADLINE is

January 27th. If you have any

information, or changes to yourprogram please submit it to Jocelyn, at

250 632 3475 or [email protected]

Oh what fun we had at our

2 14 Christmas Party …

The evening turned out to be a fantastic party,

filled with lots of laughter, happiness, singing,

dancing and humour.

Many, many thanks to all the people who were

involved with preparations and helped make

this year’s party such a big success.

Special thanks to Fran, Bill, Edwin, the elves,

the singers, dancers, Earl Keller, and the

helpers on Tuesday night—a great job well

done!

Thank you very much to these people, with

out their help it would not have been possible.

A great big thank you to my friends, Ester and

Jingles. Thank you to the Luso Staff for an

excellent meal and donation of the hall.

Happy New Year to

everyone. Stay

healthy and happy,

Tilly

Special Interest Progr

Community G

Come share your

and meet fellow g

the new Commun

Share Garden prog

get involved! Disco

our northern climget a jumpstart o

season. Refreshme

Everyone welcome

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No Cost—

Please sign up in

Soup Sandwich Lunch

In January let’s get out of the cold and

travel to the beach! Put on your

shorts/grass skirt and come to the

Seniors’ Centre to enjoy a piece of the

tropics for a while. Should make for a

fun and entertaining time at the Centre.The traditional bowl of hot soup and a

nice sandwich, which always includes

dessert, coffee &/or tea, will be served!

See you there!

Tues., Jan. 20

12:00pm

$6/person - Seniors’ Centre

Please sign up in advance 632-3405

Snowshoein

What a lovely waythe snow. Snows

lot in recent years

and are designed

traction on the sno

dozen pairs to sh

hand to assist you

far from the Rive

four days, until

Come give it a try!

Mondays - Jan

(snow condi11

No Cost—

Please sign up in

Kitimat Boom Town

This will be an audio-visual presentationby Walter Thorn, exploring who our

community was, who we are, and who

we could be. Walter will be sharing

many historical, and current day, photos

of Kitimat to compare the boom town of

the 1950’s, to the activity in our

community today. Are these times

comparable? Join us for this very

informative and interesting presentation

on Kitimat.

Thurs., Jan. 29

1:00pm

No Cost—Kitimat Seniors’ Centre

Please sign up in advance 632-3405



Monday

Table Tennis ~ 8:30am

Exercise ~ 11:00am

Cribbage ~ 1:00pm

Skat ~ 6:00pm

Bridge ~ 7:00pm

Band ~ 7:00pm (starting in Jan)

Tuesday

Pickle Ball ~ 9:30am

Carpet Bowling ~ 1:00pm

Sing Along ~ 1:30pm

Entertainment ~ 6:00pm

Wednesdays

Table Tennis~ 8:30am

Chair Yoga ~ 11:00am

Craft Group ~ 1:00pm

Floor Curing ~ 1:00pm

Bridge ~ 1:00pm

Mahjongg ~ 1:00pm

Investment Group ~ 1:00pm,

Library, every last Wed of the month

Whist ~ 7:00pm

Thursday

Pickle Ball ~ 9:30pm

Carpet Bowling ~ 1:00pm

Book Club ~1:00pm, every 3rdThursday of the month

Entertainment ~ 6:00pm

Friday

Line Dancing ~ 10:30am

Exercise ~ 11:00am

Computer Users ~ 1:30pm, every2nd Friday of the month

Poker ~ 6:30pm

Every ay

Tai Chi ~ 7:00am

Sueca ~ 12:15pm

*You must be a member toparticipate in Centre activities.Only $20 for membership per year.

**Schedules change sometimes,so please check for notices postedat the Centre, or sent via email. C l u

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Sueca (meaning Swedish

(female) in Portuguese) is a 4player -partnership point trick-

taking card game. The game isplayed in Portugal, Brazil and

Angola. Its closest relative is thevery similar German gameEinwerfen.

A note to say…

“THANK YOU “ to theindividuals that donatedthe vacuum cleaners tothe Seniors’ Centre this

past month. Our carpetsand custodian are veryhappy!

We are in need of some volunteers to join our TEAM at the SGrab a friend and let’s sign up to take on one of the following Contact Bonnie if you need any further information 250 632 4

Potluck Socials Organizer Pancake Breakfasts Organizer Decorating of the Centre for the various holidays

These are not big commitments and there are many helpingyou like. Consider one of these positions & help support

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Reminder: Gene would like to remind

everyone, that you need to bring in all yourSUPER VALU TILL TAPES to the Centre

ASAP— when the store changes names we willnot longer be able to submit them. Thanks toeveryone for supporting the Centre this way!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-taking



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_game

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einwerfen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einwerfen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_game





If you have a special occasion or milestone you would like to share in our monthlynewsletter please let us know.

A new great grandbaby, a silver anniversary, leaving town, a welcome to a newcommunity member. What ever the occasion we would love to share it with you!

Call 250 632 3475

Anniversaries

Happy Anniversary to all celebratingthis month!

Birthdays

"

Happy Birthday to all those born

in January

Sick & Visiting

Please welcome Carol Paul to the position of Sick & Visiting.Thank you to Anne Bunn & Edna Partington for filling in until

we had a “full-time” replacement! You shared lots of wellwishes for us over the past 3 months!

Please call Carol if you know of anyone who is sick, or in need or a visit. 250 632 5628

On behalf of the Executive, I would like to wish everyone good health and

happiness for 2015. We look forward to all that the year brings and thank you

all for your support and participation at the Centre ~ Bonnie

Guess Who?We are going to play a game of

“GUESS WHO?” at our beach–themedSoup & Sandwich Lunch in January… Please

bring in your old beach photos to Jocelyn, or sendthem to the Centre’s email.

This is sure to be lots of fun, but we need photos inadvance to make it happen! Come on, don’t be

shy! Go through the old albums and see what youcan find.

Let’s make this a great beach party lunch!

Computer Tutor—Seniors Helping

If you are wanting some help with

your laptop, or tablet, Kathy is will

sessions will happen on Tuesdays a

Centre, for approximately 45 minutes

–3 weeks. We will make arrangemen

see what suits you best. This is on

there are only a few spots…...

Volunteer Corner… We will need some help in the kitchen and serving on Tuesday,

Soup & Sandwich Lunch. Please consider helping out, it’s lots ocouple of members who would be interested in making soup. Cvolunteer!

Call Jocelyn @ 250 632 3475, and leave a message if you



Committee Members Contact ListBridge Richard Krickan 632.7813

Carpet Bowling Terry Dillabough 632.2463

Choir Fran Hrynkiw 632.3836

Computer Users Helen O’Neill 632.6673

Crafts & Bazaar Shari Burrows 632.5045

Cribbage Bonnie Doiron 632.4039

Cycling Group

Kathy Walker

632.9100

Entertainment Tilly Bachmann 632.6728

Exercise Frank Da Silveira 632.5402

Floor Curling Gene Dielschneider 632.5231

Line Dancing Aileen Ponter 632.6225

Maintenance Earl Keller & Bill Whitty 632.4589

Manning the Centre Bonnie Doiron 632.4039

Membership Helen O’Neill 632.6673

Newsletter Programmer (temp) 632.3475

Pancake Breakfast

VACANT

Pickle Ball Pauline Morgan 632.7224

Poker Len Irvine 632.2232

Potluck & Socials VACANT

Publicity VACANT

Purchasing Tilly Bachmann 632.6728

Recycling Paper—Dave Galloway

Cans/bottles—Cliff Doiron

632.4245

632.4039

Seniors Counselor VACANT

Sick & Visiting Carol Paul 639.9871

Skat

Frank Botems

632. 6223

Sueca Fernando Amado 632.7295

Super Valu Tapes Gene Dielschneider 632.5231

Whist Tilly Bachmann 632.6728

Important Program Notices for J This month our Membership Meeting will be held on the 2

Month due to Thursday, January 1st, being a Statutory Ho

Pickle Ball is cancelled on Tuesday, January 13th due to a

Riverlodge.

Mahjongg has moved back to Wednesday afternoons.

Jocelyn will be back at the Centre , following the holidays,

Look at all the “Ugly Christmas Sweaters” that were at our aft16th. Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate the seasothanks to the Line Dancers and Joan Fenato, for providentertainment! Thanks to all for the lovely carolling too…See yo

Lesly Williams, Anne Bunn, Dina DaSilveira, Devine D’’Amico, Barb MDanielle (Edna’s Granddaughter home for the holidays from SFU)

Hopefully we find someone to organize the traditional Robbie Dinner we have at the Centre. Come on all you Scottish Ladstartans on and call Bonnie today! 250 632 4039. It’s time to ha

Stay tuned ev



January

2015

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MOND Y TUESD Y WEDNESD Y THURSD Y FRID Y

4 5 6 7

7:00am Tai Chi 8:30am Table Tennis

11:00am Exercise

12:15pm Sueca

1:00pm Cribbage 6pm SKAT

7pm Bridge

7:00am Tai Chi 9:30am Pickle Ball 12:15pm Sueca

1:00pm Carpet Bowling

1:30pm Sing Along—RL 6:00pm Entertainment

7:00am Tai C

8:30am Table11am Chair Yo

12:15pm Suec

1:00pm Crafts/1:00pm Floor1:00pm Mahjo

7:00pm Whist

11 12 13 14

7:00 am Tai Chi 8:30am Table Tennis

11am Snowshoeing

11:00am Exercise

12:15pm Sueca

1:00pm Cribbage

6pm SKAT7pm Bridge



1:30pm Sing Along—MLC

6:00pm Entertainment

7:00am Tai C


12:15pm Suec


7:00pm Whist

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19 20 21


11am Snowshoeing

11:00am Exercise

12:15pm Sueca

1:00pm Cribbage

6pm SKAT7pm Bridge


12:00 Soup & Sandwich


1:30pm Sing Along—RL


7:00am Tai C


12:15pm Suec


7:00pm Whist

25 26 27 28

Robbie Burn’sDay


11am Snowshoeing

11:00am Exercise

12:15pm Sueca

1:00pm Cribbage

6pm SKAT7pm Bridge



1:30pm Sing Along—MLC


7:00am Tai C


1:00 Investme1:00pm Crafts/1:00pm Floor1:00pm Mahjo

7:00pm Whist

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7:00am Tai Chi 9:30am Pickle Ball 12:15 pm Sueca

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