OATS December 2020 Hikes and Hunts
OATS December 2020 Hikes and Hunts
Outdoor Active Traveling Seniors (55+) OATS is a group with a shared interest of being outdoors and adventure.
- Thursday, Dec. 22 at 10 am at Avery Farm South. Our GOSA friends will lead us again on this approx. 2 mile hike —we will make several small stops to tell stories. Make sure you wear sturdy hiking shoes with good support and traction.
- Also in December. is another fun, outdoors and active scavenger hunt — PARKS ARE PRESENTS beginning Friday, December 18th. This community scavenger hunt will take place at local Groton parks and trails. Beginning December 18 through Dec31st you and yours can search out carefully placed PRESENTS around GrotonTo get the list of clues please email colsen@groton-ct.gov or you can pick up a printed list at the front door of Groton Senior Center. GSC is located at 102 Newtown Road, Groton CT 06340One must register to be eligible for prize. A drawing of all those who register for this event AND email in a selfie to colsen@groton-ct.gov while “hunting” will be drawn January 4, 2021Brought to you by Groton Senior Center 860-441-6785
Coping with Anxiety Workshop
Be sure to sign up!! Saturday, December 12th 12:00 pm-2:00 pm we do hope some of you will join us for a wonderful virtual workshop that we worked hard to get for us all. This year has raised everyone’s anxieties and the holidays seem to be a trigger for some so we thought we all could use a lovely lil workshop on how to best cope with anxiety – whatever the reason may be! This fantastic and relevant workshop is presented by the effervescent and well trained Jewell Jones, LMSW, Therapist Associate & Advisor of Embrace Your Difference, LLC
Coping Strategies for Anxiety Workshop will cover :
- what is anxiety?
- how do you cope now?
- what anxiety does to the brain and body
- coping strategies for anxiety
- helpful resources
We will have “break out rooms” where we will do an icebreaker and there will also be about 1/2 hour for questions included as well. A generous anonymous donor is sponsoring this so it is NO COST for you! Yes, it is FREE yet registration is needed via 860-441-6785 or www.grotonrec.com
Senior Learning Presents: A Visit to Ellis Island
Offered by : Ellis Island Immigration Museum Tuesday December 15, 2020 1:45p.m.-3:00p.m. virtually
Program Description: Prior to 1890, individual states, rather than the Federal Government, regulated immigration into the United States. Castle Garden (now Castle Clinton), located in the Battery of Manhattan, served as the New York State immigration station from 1855 to 1890. Approximately eight million immigrants passed through its doors, mostly from Northern European countries; this constituted the first large wave of immigrants to settle and populate the U.S.Ellis Island may not appear large on a map, but it is an unparalleled destination in United States history. After welcoming more than 12 million immigrants to our shores, Ellis Island is now a poetic symbol of the American Dream
Please call the front desk for the ID to Zoom for the program. 441-6785
Illustrated History of the Negro Leagues Baseball
Senior Learning Presents: An Illustrated History of the Negro Leagues Baseball
Offered by : Yogi Berra Museum and Education Center
Thursday , December 17, 2020 1:45p.m.-3:00p.m.
Program Description: Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Negro Leagues by exploring the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center’s newest exhibition, DISCOVER GREATNESS: An Illustrated History of the Negro Leagues Baseball. This program displays the remarkable collection of vintage photographs on loan from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. Highlights will include a slide-show, video clips about the Negro Leagues, and an augmented reality experience that brings the exhibition to vivid life.
Join Senior Learning Virtually on Zoom to register and receive the ID call the front desk at 860-441-6785
TOILETRY PROJECT to Support NL Homeless Shelter
We are the site for another great project! The Marine Magnet HS Interact Club is sponsoring this project at our site. The TOILETRY PROJECT is to support New London Homeless Hospitality Center. You can drop off items Monday, Thursday and Fridays 8:30 am to 4:00 pm until Dec 16th.
We will be collecting;
- Tampons
- Travel size shampoo and conditioner
- Travel sized toothpaste
- Travel size deodorant
- Wipes
- Thick socks
After a couple of weeks, INTERACT Club volunteers will collect all of the items to then take them to our predetermined packing locations. At these locations we will be having the collections sit for three days and after that three day period we will be cleaning and sanitizing all of these products. For the New London and New Haven shelters we will be putting the products into baggies. We will then coordinate times with the shelters to drop off our collections.
Change – Content by Judy
Change is defined as – the act of making or becoming different. This whole COVID situation certainly has made our entire lives different in a multitude of ways. From how we stay safe, interact, work and even make purchases evolves constantly.
2020 has been the all-time master of change whether we wanted it or not! Who would have ever dreamed we would be wearing masks? In 2019 we didn’t even know what social distancing was. Also, in 2019 just what could of possibly have been meant by “mandatory stay at home”?? Or that children would no longer go to school?
Even if someone had told you that they were going to make all of this into a movie, most of us would have said it’s all too crazy and no one will ever go see that!
For us New England Patriots fans the biggest 2020 news should have been Tom Brady leaving!! Instead local and high school sports almost doesn’t exist. Fans can’t go to games. We don’t know from week to week which school is opened, and which are closed.
COVID has changed our world forever. Whether we wanted it or not! Life will never go back to what it was.
Now is the time we should be thinking about how we want our individual lives to be as we move past 2020.
What do you want your 2022 to look like? What have you been dreaming about? What did you miss the most? What did you get robbed of in 2020? My husband and I were not able to celebrate our 50th Anniversary the way we had been planning for the last three years. We were going to have a huge party with all of the bells and whistles followed by a three-week vacation to Vancouver, a cruise to San Francisco and then onto Las Vegas.
So now is the time to start planning to live the life you want. Use the present to get healthier. Find new paths to travel. Start saving, even if it’s only $5.00 a week.
Don’t be afraid to reach out. Talk to your doctor, your friends, your family. Find a therapist. Tell them how hard 2020 has been for you.
Embrace change! No matter what it will look like.
Figure out new ways to socialize. I’m doing a Zoom Paint Night where the instructor will be online, and attendees can be in person in small groups or on Zoom. A network I’m part of is planning a Zoom night where we will learn how to make a couple of drinks.
Start work on your “2020 Bucket List”. Start making the actual plan on how you will achieve those goals. Hit the ground running. Be ready to live.
Now start planning your 2022 so you will know what it’s going to look like!!
Change – Content by Judy
Change is defined as – the act of making or becoming different. This whole COVID situation certainly has made our entire lives different in a multitude of ways. From how we stay safe, interact, work and even make purchases evolves constantly.
2020 has been the all-time master of change whether we wanted it or not! Who would have ever dreamed we would be wearing masks? In 2019 we didn’t even know what social distancing was. Also, in 2019 just what could of possibly have been meant by “mandatory stay at home”?? Or that children would no longer go to school?
Even if someone had told you that they were going to make all of this into a movie, most of us would have said it’s all too crazy and no one will ever go see that!
For us New England Patriots fans the biggest 2020 news should have been Tom Brady leaving!! Instead local and high school sports almost doesn’t exist. Fans can’t go to games. We don’t know from week to week which school is opened, and which are closed.
COVID has changed our world forever. Whether we wanted it or not! Life will never go back to what it was.
Now is the time we should be thinking about how we want our individual lives to be as we move past 2020.
What do you want your 2022 to look like? What have you been dreaming about? What did you miss the most? What did you get robbed of in 2020? My husband and I were not able to celebrate our 50th Anniversary the way we had been planning for the last three years. We were going to have a huge party with all of the bells and whistles followed by a three-week vacation to Vancouver, a cruise to San Francisco and then onto Las Vegas.
So now is the time to start planning to live the life you want. Use the present to get healthier. Find new paths to travel. Start saving, even if it’s only $5.00 a week.
Don’t be afraid to reach out. Talk to your doctor, your friends, your family. Find a therapist. Tell them how hard 2020 has been for you.
Embrace change! No matter what it will look like.
Figure out new ways to socialize. I’m doing a Zoom Paint Night where the instructor will be online, and attendees can be in person in small groups or on Zoom. A network I’m part of is planning a Zoom night where we will learn how to make a couple of drinks.
Start work on your “2020 Bucket List”. Start making the actual plan on how you will achieve those goals. Hit the ground running. Be ready to live.
Now start planning your 2022 so you will know what it’s going to look like!!
Change – Content by Judy
Change is defined as – the act of making or becoming different. This whole COVID situation certainly has made our entire lives different in a multitude of ways. From how we stay safe, interact, work and even make purchases evolves constantly.
2020 has been the all-time master of change whether we wanted it or not! Who would have ever dreamed we would be wearing masks? In 2019 we didn’t even know what social distancing was. Also, in 2019 just what could of possibly have been meant by “mandatory stay at home”?? Or that children would no longer go to school?
Even if someone had told you that they were going to make all of this into a movie, most of us would have said it’s all too crazy and no one will ever go see that!
For us New England Patriots fans the biggest 2020 news should have been Tom Brady leaving!! Instead local and high school sports almost doesn’t exist. Fans can’t go to games. We don’t know from week to week which school is opened, and which are closed.
COVID has changed our world forever. Whether we wanted it or not! Life will never go back to what it was.
Now is the time we should be thinking about how we want our individual lives to be as we move past 2020.
What do you want your 2022 to look like? What have you been dreaming about? What did you miss the most? What did you get robbed of in 2020? My husband and I were not able to celebrate our 50th Anniversary the way we had been planning for the last three years. We were going to have a huge party with all of the bells and whistles followed by a three-week vacation to Vancouver, a cruise to San Francisco and then onto Las Vegas.
So now is the time to start planning to live the life you want. Use the present to get healthier. Find new paths to travel. Start saving, even if it’s only $5.00 a week.
Don’t be afraid to reach out. Talk to your doctor, your friends, your family. Find a therapist. Tell them how hard 2020 has been for you.
Embrace change! No matter what it will look like.
Figure out new ways to socialize. I’m doing a Zoom Paint Night where the instructor will be online, and attendees can be in person in small groups or on Zoom. A network I’m part of is planning a Zoom night where we will learn how to make a couple of drinks.
Start work on your “2020 Bucket List”. Start making the actual plan on how you will achieve those goals. Hit the ground running. Be ready to live.
Now start planning your 2022 so you will know what it’s going to look like!!
Change – Content by Judy
Change is defined as – the act of making or becoming different. This whole COVID situation certainly has made our entire lives different in a multitude of ways. From how we stay safe, interact, work and even make purchases evolves constantly.
2020 has been the all-time master of change whether we wanted it or not! Who would have ever dreamed we would be wearing masks? In 2019 we didn’t even know what social distancing was. Also, in 2019 just what could of possibly have been meant by “mandatory stay at home”?? Or that children would no longer go to school?
Even if someone had told you that they were going to make all of this into a movie, most of us would have said it’s all too crazy and no one will ever go see that!
For us New England Patriots fans the biggest 2020 news should have been Tom Brady leaving!! Instead local and high school sports almost doesn’t exist. Fans can’t go to games. We don’t know from week to week which school is opened, and which are closed.
COVID has changed our world forever. Whether we wanted it or not! Life will never go back to what it was.
Now is the time we should be thinking about how we want our individual lives to be as we move past 2020.
What do you want your 2022 to look like? What have you been dreaming about? What did you miss the most? What did you get robbed of in 2020? My husband and I were not able to celebrate our 50th Anniversary the way we had been planning for the last three years. We were going to have a huge party with all of the bells and whistles followed by a three-week vacation to Vancouver, a cruise to San Francisco and then onto Las Vegas.
So now is the time to start planning to live the life you want. Use the present to get healthier. Find new paths to travel. Start saving, even if it’s only $5.00 a week.
Don’t be afraid to reach out. Talk to your doctor, your friends, your family. Find a therapist. Tell them how hard 2020 has been for you.
Embrace change! No matter what it will look like.
Figure out new ways to socialize. I’m doing a Zoom Paint Night where the instructor will be online, and attendees can be in person in small groups or on Zoom. A network I’m part of is planning a Zoom night where we will learn how to make a couple of drinks.
Start work on your “2020 Bucket List”. Start making the actual plan on how you will achieve those goals. Hit the ground running. Be ready to live.
Now start planning your 2022 so you will know what it’s going to look like!!