Time: 2:00pm to 4:00pm
This FREE virtual presentation is provided by a Certified CHOICES Counselor from Senior Resources Agency on Aging. No insurance will be sold. Registration Required.
Visit www.seniorresourcesec.org or email Laura Crews at ljcrews@seniorresourcesec.org
Once registered, you’ll receive an email with information on joining the webinar.
Time: 2:00pm to 4:00pm
This FREE virtual presentation is provided by a Certified CHOICES Counselor from Senior Resources Agency on Aging. No insurance will be sold. Registration Required.
Visit www.seniorresourcesec.org or email Laura Crews at ljcrews@seniorresourcesec.org
Once registered, you’ll receive an email with information on joining the webinar.
ONLINE GALLERY TALK ~ Florence Griswold Museum
Reckoning with History: Reframing the Impressionist Landscape
Wed., Oct 7th 2:00p.m.
How we understand the past shapes the way we view the scenic places celebrated by Lyme Colony artists after 1900. New research and shifting perspectives shed fresh light on the lived history the painted settings evoke. The untold stories of Native Americans, African Americans, and European immigrants suggest alternative ways of seeing and framing the Impressionist landscape. The lecture will take place virtually via GoTo Webinar.
Pre-registration required. https://florencegriswoldmuseum.org/calendar/
ONLINE GALLERY TALK ~ Florence Griswold Museum
Gender and the Impressionist Landscape
Wed., Oct 14th 11:00a.m.
Join Curator of Fresh Fields: American Impressionist Landscapes exhibition for a discussion of new perspectives on gender and the landscape in American Impressionism. Professional women artists such as Matilda Browne and Mary Bradish Titcomb will be considered. Women will also be discussed as a subject depicted in impressionist paintings by men artists such as Willard Metcalf, Will Howe Foote, and George B. Burr as they turned their eyes to family life as inspiration for their work. The lecture will take place virtually via GoTo Webinar.
Pre-registration required. https://florencegriswoldmuseum.org/calendar/
ART CHAT with Artist Christine Goldbach
Tue., Oct 27th 12:00p.m.
Join Mastering the Masters instructor and artist Christine Goldbach for a ZOOM art class dealing with everything from how to hold a pencil to art history. Chris Goldbach will talk about art in all its forms. This one hour entertaining look into the wild wide world of art will answer your questions and solve your art problems from a-z, abstraction to zinc white! Enjoy this special approach to art. Play along with Chris, have your art supplies (any medium) handy and be ready to explore. All levels welcome. Offered by Fairfield Bigelow Senior Center.
Email Hilary for the ZOOM link. hsandberg@cityofnorwich.org
The Last Green Valley is Celebrating 30 years of Walktober!
This year Walktober, along with socially distanced in-person walks, will also be offering a large selection of Virtual Walks and Presentations. This is a great way to enjoy local history without leaving the comfort of your own home and a great opportunity for individuals who were not able to enjoy Walktober in the past due to walking or health reasons to do so now.
Some of the Virtual Presentations being offered include:
Antient Ghosts of Norwich – This virtual experience will bring you through one of Norwich’s oldest burying grounds where you’ll hear local ghostly legends.
Off-Kilter Tales of Norwichtown – Zack Lamothe, author of Connecticut Lore: Strange Off-Kilter, & Full of Surprises, will host a virtual experience through his home neighborhood of Norwichtown discussing off-kilter stories of its history, hauntings and hidden surprises.
Spaulding Pond Dam Flood – March 6, 1963 marked a major event in Norwich when the Spaulding Pond Dam at Mohegan Park breached. Freezing water and blocks of ice rushed for miles on a course through neighborhoods ending at Norwich Harbor. This virtual experience will relive the event which took six lives.
Ye Antient Burial Grounds of Norwich – Join local expert, Dave Oat, on a virtual look at the old Colonial burial grounds in Norwichtown. Here you will see a variety of hand cut colonial tombstones and discover what they can tell us about early life in Colonial Norwich.
The Norwich Freedom Trail – During the nineteenth century, the City of Norwich was home to a vibrant abolitionist movement. During this virtual experience, you’ll hear incredible stories about colonial era blacksmith, Guy Drock, who earned his freedom and fugitive slave, shoemaker, minister and author, James L. Smith. This virtual experience will explore a largely untold piece of Norwich’s history in the Jail Hill Historic District.
For links to these and other virtual Walktober programs, visit:
www.TheLastGreenValley.org/Walktober/Virtual or www.TheLastGreenValley.org/Walktober/
This year, due to COVID-19, all voters are eligible to vote for the general election by absentee ballot if they choose to do so. Polling places will also be open for those who choose to vote in-person.
If you choose to vote by Absentee Ballot you must submit an application. You should have received an application for an Absentee Ballot in the mail mid-September, if not, contact your town’s City Clerk.
To receive your Absentee Ballot, check that your information is correct on the application, check off your reason to vote by Absentee Ballot, sign the application, seal the application in the envelope that was sent with it and either mail it back or drop it in the Election Drop Box located outside your Town or City Hall in the town you live in. Absentee Ballots will be mailed out starting October 2nd.
For Norwich, there is an Election Drop Box located outside of Norwich City Hall, 100 Broadway and one located outside of Wequonnoc School, 155 Providence Street, Taftville.
If you have any questions, please contact your town’s City Clerk’s Office.
Norwich City Clerk (860) 823-3732
If you have not already done so, please consider taking our online survey.
Please complete our online survey by going to https://tinyurl.com/RoseCityReopen
At this time, we do not have a date as to when the Rose City Senior Center will be re-opening. We currently have no plans to open before CT lifts the “Stay Home and Stay Safe” for individuals 65 and older, which should take place for Phase 3 of Connecticut’s re-opening plan. When CT Phase 3 does happens, the re-opening date for the Senior Center is still to be determined, but we anticipate that it should follow soon after.
When we do re-open, we will be following all of the social distancing guidelines, safety measures and protocol issued by the State of CT that Senior Centers need to follow.
We will be re-opening in phases, initially offering a limited number of classes and limiting the amount of people in each class to accommodate for social distancing. Classes will be based on our ability to safely offer them, control who is in the building, for how long and for what specific purpose. Everyone will be required to register for classes in advance and no one will be allowed in the building otherwise.
Other programs will be slowly reintroduced and more people will be allowed in the building over time and by appointment only. Slowly but surely, we should once again get back to how we operated pre-pandemic. Hang in there!
As we continue to work on our re-opening plan, we want to hear from you.
If you have not already done so, please help us out by taking our online survey.
We want to know what your concerns are and what would hinder you from coming back once we re-open. We would like to know if you participate in any Virtual Programs and if you use Social Media. Your answers will help us better gauge what to offer and what to implement when we do re-open.
The survey should only take approximately 5 -10 minutes to answer. Your answers are anonymous and it is optional to leave your contact information if you have question related to the survey. Your answers are for our planning purposes only. https://tinyurl.com/RoseCityReopen
If you have any questions or would like the survey link emailed to you, please contact Hilary (860) 889-5960 or hsandberg@cityofnorwich.org
Thank you for taking the survey! Stay Safe!
St. Vincent de Paul Place ~ 120 Cliff Street, Norwich
TIME: 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Provided by The Connecticut Humane Society
APPOINTMENTS NEEDED
Call Ashley (860) 594-4500 x6308 for appointment time or with questions.
Social Distancing and Masks Required!
Who can attend this clinic? Any pet owner in New London County.
What will be provided to dogs or cats at this clinic? Free Seresto flea & tick collar for up to 2 pets per family. These collars protect dogs and cats for 8 months against fleas and ticks.
Do I need to bring my pet(s) with me? Yes! Pets must be present at the clinic and must be older than 12 weeks to receive a collar.
All dogs must be leashed and all cats must be in carriers.
Melissa joins us after having worked for From You Flowers in Old Saybrook the last 5 years. She is a resident of Norwich who attended NFA. After graduating from NFA she attended and graduated from UCONN. She holds a degree in Sociology and Psychology.
We are very excited to have Melissa on board and look forward to her smiling face greeting all of you when we reopen.
Now’s the time! Companies are hiring! Big and small. Full time and part time.
Just figure out what are you looking for? Do you want to do the same type of work you did before? Do you want to do something totally different? Do you want something to keep you busy and get you out of the house? Maybe find a job that goes along with your hobby?
Do you want to work just part of the year? If so, retail hiring for the holidays, garden centers, landscape companies.
Check out schools. They are hiring nurses’ aides, substitute teachers, Paraprofessionals, bus monitors, and office staff.
Do you like wine and know a lot about it? Check out the area wineries and see if they have seasonal openings.
What about the golf course? Work part-time and maybe play for free. The same with a gym, maybe.
What population would you like to work with? Kids? Maybe a day care or a school? Be a nanny.
With food? How about a restaurant or a bakery??
Maybe you want to work in a big box store and take advantage of the discount they give to workers?
Do you want to meet a lot of people? So, maybe a receptionist? Telemarketer?? How about a service desk clerk? Customer returns?
What do you want from a job? Extra money? Structure? Identity? Being able to travel?
Could the job, you are looking for be at a bank, perhaps an online job? Maybe sales where you earn commission based on the sales you make – if that is the case the sky could be the limit for your income.
Home Care agencies are always looking to hire. So are Nursing Homes and Rehabs. Those jobs could be in the kitchen or laundry at the Nursing Home, a companion, a Certified Nurse’s Aide, taking people to appointments, maybe light housework.
To find these jobs. Tell others you are looking. Look on Facebook. Lots of times companies post jobs there. Ask at the places you go to each week. Volunteer then get hired.
And what about tutoring? Were you a teacher? Are you really good at math? Are you already helping some kids with remote learning?
Right now, with what is going on with COVID, some families are looking for more one-on-one situations. You could teach using ZOOM. You could help kids figure out and organize the assignments that the schools are giving them. It can be every hard for families where both parents are working to then come home and find the time to assist their students every day. And you could be the person they need.
Also, some families are grouping up and hiring someone to teach all the kids. This would be great if you are a retired teacher!!l
You can easily put yourself out there on Facebook or LinkedIn with what you have to offer and then anyone interested can private massager you. Depending on what you want to do, you do not ever have to actually meet person to person. You do not even need to live in the same area. You could be in Milwaukee and the student could be in Denver.
The time to apply is now!! Research. Develop a resume and cover letter. Even if you do not need those, they will help you rediscover your skills and talents. Have a list of questions to ask the interviewer. And if you get rejected, do not put yourself down. It is not personal.
Just move on to the next opportunity and “Get a Job”
Membership Renewal
Membership renewal in normally due starting July 1st. Since the Senior Center is still closed to the public until further notice, we are accepting renewals by mail only at this point.
We have already begun receiving renewals from some of our current Members. If you are not currently using any of our services and would prefer to wait until we reopen to renew your Membership, that is fine and we understand. If you are currently using one of our services (such as Transportation) we ask that you renew at this time.
For those of you who would like to pay your Membership dues now, please fill out the Membership Form on the adjacent page and mail it in with your payment. You can also call and pay over the phone with a credit card. Filling out the Membership Form is important for us to make sure we have all of your up-to-date information, including correct emergency contact information. If you call to pay over the phone, please go over your information with us or still mail in the completed Membership Form.
As a reminder, Membership dues paid to the Senior Center go directly towards providing services, programs, classes, activities and events. They help us pay instructors for different classes we offer and provide needed supplies for different senior center groups. Money we receive from dues stays with the Senior Center and does not go into the City of Norwich’s general fund. The Senior Center controls how and when we use the money in order to provide you with the best services.
We appreciate all the donations and Memberships that we receive in order for us
to bring you as much as we can. Thank you!
