If you are not feeling well, we ask that you stay home regardless of your vaccination status.

Think you have a cold?  Throat feeling sore?  Have a new cough?  Just feeling “under the weather”?

Please stay home!  You will be helping other Senior Center members as well as the Senior Center staff stay healthy by keeping out of the Senior Center and staying home until you are feeling better.

By taking some time away from the Senior Center, talking to your physician and resting, you will hopefully improve your health and get better faster while helping to maintain the health of others.

► If you have COVID-19 symptoms or have been exposed to someone who is COVID-19 positive, please get tested for COVID-19 no matter if you are vaccinated or not and please stay home.

Please do your part!  Help keep other Senior Center Members and Staff healthy and safe.

We are looking for volunteers to help in the Senior Center Coffee Shop.  You will be responsible for setting up the Coffee Shop for service, making coffee & tea, making toast, warming up pastries in the microwave, selling food items to Senior Center Members, and cleaning up.  The Coffee Shop hours are 8:30a.m.-10:00a.m. on the days the Senior Center is open.  Volunteers are needed to help one – two days per week or as back up.  This volunteer position is open to Senior Center Members only. 

Call or email Hilary if you are interested.  (860) 889-5960   hsandberg@cityofnorwich.org

Time: 1:00pm

Coloring books are no longer just for kids!  Adult coloring has been shown to help reduce stress, boost mental clarity, exercise fine motor skills and help train the brain to focus and generate a creative mindset.  You bring your own coloring book and coloring supplies.

Please call Hilary if you are interested. (860) 889-5960.

Discover the flavors of Connecticut’s Rose City as you explore its history and culture.

The Passport to Norwich program offers great ideas for getting out and enjoying Norwich.  Begin your excursion with culture and end it with cuisine.  Norwich abounds in award-winning historic trails, unique cultural sites, and amazing food.  Select a destination, pick a restaurant, and bring your passport.

Get your passport stamped at participating Norwich restaurants.  Collect 20 stamps for a chance to win a $250 restaurant gift card!  Maximum of 3 stamps from same location.  Drawings run August through January.  There is no limit to the number of passports you can fill and enter to win.

We have passports available at the Senior Center!  Stop by Reception to pick one up.

For more information, visit:  https://passporttonorwich.com

The Senior Center occasionally has packages of disposable underwear (adult diapers) donated which are available to seniors in need.  Please call to see what we have available.  Be aware that we cannot take requests for certain brand names.  We can let you know if we have the size and type you are looking for (pull-on, side-tab, pads or liners).  We occasionally have bed pads or under pads available as well.

Please call (860) 889-5960 if you are in need.

Bring in a puzzle and take one home with you. All puzzle pieces will be contained within a plastic
bag to ensure that when you have completed the puzzle that there is not one
piece missing. Come in, look over our puzzles of varied sizes and shapes and take
one home to enjoy. All of our puzzles were donated by a generous Preston senior
who wishes to remain anonymous.  

The Mission of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys For Tots Program is to collect toys during October, November and December each year, and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community in which the campaign is conducted.

The Lymes’ Senior Center will begin the collection November 1st. and collect till December 14th.If you would like to help make the Christmas for a local boy or girl happier, please drop off a new unwrapped toy to the Lymes’ Senior Center during the hours of 9am.-3pm. Monday through Friday until December 14th.

In November, we will be putting together free craft kits for you to make your own cards. Materials and directions for 3 cards will be included. The materials provided will give you an opportunity to make your own homemade card with a professional look. Kits are limited to 20 people. Please call and sign up if you are interested. Card kits will be available for pickup on Wednesday, November 17th from 11-2pm. Delivery is available for any homebound members, just let us know when you sign up. Call 860-434-4127 to sign up.

Cornhole Program

Corn hole is a fun game we play weekly inside our main room here after the lunch crowd leaves. It is best described as a “lawn game” in which players toss beanbags toward a slanted platform with the aim of passing the beanbag through a hole in the center of the platform. As we age, vision, depth perception, balance, and coordination can decline. Our weekly Cornhole games gets our patrons active and aids critical hand-eye coordination and balance.

We have lots of fun while being a tad competitive! Sign up with a partner or we can match you up!  $5.00 per participant (for 8 weeks)  Begins  Monday,  October 26th.  Please call 860-441-6785 to register.