Join us every first and third Tuesdays for a place to relax, express your feelings, and connect with other caregivers! Facilitated by Catherine Vlasto, LCSW, you will have professional guidance in addition to support from your peers. Volunteers can be arranged to stay with your loved ones at home while you attend by calling the VNA at 860-354-2216. For more info, please call the Center.
Join for a special “Never Stop Learning” Presentation featuring local urban archeologist, Greg Van Antwerp who will be sharing stories of history from the Martin Luther King, Jr. era and beyond. Be able to witness and appreciate the tidbits of history lost to time in this fascinating presentation. To sign up, please call the Center.
Join us for a social group for any and all widows looking for a place of acceptance, talk about their losses, develop friendships, and to obtain a feeling of connectedness after the loss of a loved one. This group meets every third Tuesday of the month and light refreshments will be served. To sign up or for more info, please call the Center.
Leave from the Senior Center at 9:00 am. Tour begins at 10:00 am. New Britain Diner to follow for lunch. Go behind the scenes to see how soda was made 50 years ago! Invent your own unique soda flavors! You get to tour the soda factory, including a visit to the mixing room. You will measure syrup into each bottle, watch as the bottles are filled and capped and hand shake each bottle. You take home 3 bottles of your own handmade soda and an official soda makers apron! Sodas are still handcrafted using methods and recipes from generations ago including real cane sugar and the finest quality ingredients. Each flavor is carefully made in small batches and is packaged only in glass bottles to preserve the wonderful old-fashioned flavor. Steep stairs are required to walk up… Need 15 people to proceed. Fee is $37.00 per person.
The tavern offers selections of “International American” cuisine, complete with a wide selection of entrees, lunches and appetizers for casual and elegant dining. Build your own burger or be your own chef with sizzling hot rock entrees. The bus will be leaving Woodbury around 11:30 a.m. Seating is limited to 12. Please sign up.
Thursday, January 9 & 23 @ 10:00am-11:30am
Being a Caregiver can be incredibly rewarding. It can also be one of the most difficult and isolating times a person can go through. If you are caring for a family member and have ever experienced frustration, sadness, guilt or anxiety through your caregiving journey, you are not alone. Take the opportunity to meet other caregivers to share your experiences, and learn strategies to reduce your stress. Please RSVP to Miranda Dold (Miranda.Dold@nuvancehealth.org) if you plan to attend either or both sessions.
Join us for lunch and enjoy famous duets performed by The Willie and Jan Band. Dance and sing along with this lunch and learn’s sponsor, Emily Slattery from Old Glory Days Adult Day Center. Lunch will be provided by co-sponsor Melissa Marici with Candlewood Valley Healthand Rehabilitation Center.
Please join us for an informative Lunch & Learn featuring Dr. Paz of Orthopaedic Specialists of Connecticut who will be talking about Interventional Pain Management as well as Kyphoplasty Lumbar Fractures, Managing Pain Without Surgery, Epidurals and Spinal Injections in the Office, Arthritis of the Spine, and Spinal Cord Stimulators and Neuropathic Pain. A complimentary lunch will be provided by Bethel Health Care Center, The Cascades, Assisted Living Facility & Bethel Outpatient and Wellness Center. To sign up, please call the Center.
