AARP Driver Safety- Smart Driver Course
Thursday, April 25th from 9:00am-1:00pm
(please arrive by 8:45am)
The AARP Smart Driver™ course, is a classroom based refresher course for drivers age 50 and older. Auto insurance companies in most states provide a multi-year discount after showing proof of completing the course. Consult your auto insurance company on discounts available to you.
Cost: $20 AARP Members (bring your AARP Card) / $25 AARP Non-Members
Pay directly to AARP by check or exact cash on the day of the class.
You must sign up to take the class. Sign up at Reception ~ Space is Limited.
Trip: Art in Bloom, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Friday, April 26th
Celebrate the return of spring at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston annual Art in Bloom event.
This popular festival of fine arts and fresh flowers incorporates more than 45 extraordinary floral arrangements inspired by works of art throughout the museums amazing galleries. From ancient to contemporary, enjoy exquisite art from across the museum’s collections paired with magnificent floral interpretations created by New England area garden clubs and professional floral designers.
Established in 1870, the Museum of Fine Arts is home to approximately 500,000 pieces including paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, jewelry, photography, furniture and fashion. The expansive
galleries include European, Asian, Egyptian, American, African and Contemporary art.
You will have time on your own to explore the museums many art galleries, be amazed at the beautiful floral arrangements and shop at the Museum gift stores and special Garden Cart for unique floral gifts and take-home flower arrangements.
COST: $58 per person includes charter bus transportation and entrance fee to the Museum including the Art in Bloom event. Lunch is on your own at the museum. Driver tip is not included.
8:15 AM Depart Rose City Senior Center, 8 Mahan Drive, Norwich
6:15 PM Approximate return time to Norwich
Call Hilary for availability (860) 889-5960
Upcoming Class: Pilates
Starting May 7th
Tuesdays 9:00 a.m.
Pilates Instructor: Lisa Weir
Based on Joseph Pilates’ mat-work exercises, this Pilates class is designed to strengthen the core, abdominals, back, shoulders and hips with total mind & body core conditioning.
Carefully designed postures implement Joseph Pilates’ technique to improve strength, flexibility and muscle tone while using isometric resistance, rhythm and visualization techniques. Pilates develops control and endurance in the whole human body.
This class is a floor based exercise class. Bring a Yoga or Pilates mat with you.
Housing Support Group
3rd Tuesday of every month from 10:00-11:00am
Noreen Zupnik, Housing Counselor from New London Homeless Hospitality Center – Housing Resource Center will be at Rose City Senior Center the 3rd Tuesday of every month to answer questions, listen to your concerns, and help with your complaints on your current housing situation.
The goal is to insure ongoing support to seniors currently in housing and dealing with landlords, management companies or housing authorities. With limited housing inventory and prices soaring it has become critical that our senior population is experiencing Fairness, Security and Affordability.
Noreen will be here to listen, educate, and help seniors in understanding their tenant rights that will include the how-to of landlord communication including: complaints, lease explanations, letters to landlords and housing commissions to mention a few.
You will not be alone in working through your concerns…
So let’s take the fear away, go forward, and build strength through knowledge and partnership.
Sign up now for May trip to Newport Playhouse: “The Cemetery Club”
May Day Long Trip – This trip is open to any adult, 18 years old and older.
The Cemetery Club
Newport Playhouse & Cabaret Theater, Newport, RI
Thursday, May 30th
Start with a delicious, all you can eat, buffet lunch featuring a large selection of freshly prepared food. After lunch, enjoy the hilarious performance of The Cemetery Club. Following the show, return to your seat in the dining room for dessert, drinks and a fun-filled Cabaret Show!
Fun Fact ~ Originally on Broadway, The Cemetery Club was made into a movie in 1993!
The Cemetery Club ~ Three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husbands’ graves. Ida is sweet-tempered and ready to begin a new life; Lucille is a feisty embodiment of “the girl who just wants to have fun”; and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the butcher enters the scene. Sam meets the widows while visiting his wife’s grave and when he has an eye for Ida, Doris and Lucille try to squash the budding romance!
COST: $99 per person includes charter coach bus transportation, fabulous buffet lunch, matinee performance of The Cemetery Club, and Cabaret Show. Driver tip is not included.
9:45 AM Depart Rose City Senior Center, 8 Mahan Drive, Norwich
6:00 PM Approximate return time to Norwich
REGISTRATION BY TELEPHONE
*On your registration day, Dial (860) 889-5960. When you hear the message saying the Senior Center is closed, dial 3433 and follow the instructions.*
Senior Center Members, Norwich Residents
-Beginning Tuesday, April 16 at 5:00pm
Senior Center Members, Non-Residents
-Beginning Wednesday, April 17 at 5:00pm
Open Registration (Any Adults, aged 18 and older)
-Beginning Thursday, April 18 at 5:00pm