Please take time for yourself and soak in some of this beautiful day! Can’t today?
We challenge you all to get outside at least half an hour for the next three days (Fri /Sat/Sun) Nov 6-8, 2020. Let us know you did it and give us a lil description or a photo. Please reply here or email Cindy at colsen@groton-ct.gov by 12 pm Monday, Nov. 9,2020.
We will enter you in a raffle for a cool outdoorsy prize. We will place your name in a hat and draw three winners.
ENJOY!!
Senior Learning Presents: I Want My Mummy offered by: Penn Museum
Travel with us virtually on Zoom Tuesday, November 10th 1:45p.m.-3:00p.m.
For Zoom ID please contact the front desk at 860-441-6785
Mummies, intentionally or naturally preserved human (or animal) remains, hold a special fascination in popular culture. The very word, “mummy” typically brings to mind a mysterious ageless land, ancient Egypt, where mummification of the dead in preparation for a successful afterlife persisted for millennia. However, when we think of ancient Egypt’s mummies, we commonly associate them with books and movies that portray them as reanimated, vengeful monsters returning from death to wreak havoc upon the living. Where did such notions come from, and why? This workshop addresses that question by engaging participants in a close examination into the at least 500-year history that led to why ancient Egypt’s mummies hold such a special fascination in our own culture. Unpublished images of actual ancient Egyptian mummies, including royal mummies such as Ramses II as well as human remains recovered as part of Dr. Phillips’ own excavations in Egypt, are used to illustrate how and why the Egyptians mummified their dead (including their pets!). Please note: This program includes photography of human remains.
Travel with us virtually on Zoom Thursday , November 12 ,2020 1:45p.m.-3:00p.m.
Senior Learning Presents: Flight From Kitty Hawk
Offered by: Wright Brothers National Memorial
Program Description: How did small barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina become the site of the first successful flights of human history? In this presentation by the rangers at Wright Brothers National Memorial, you’ll learn about what made two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, travel to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina and how they used the perfect conditions of the Outer Banks to conduct their flying experiments and make the impossible possible.
For Zoom ID please contact the front desk at 860-441-6785
COME GET IN THE HOLIDAY CHEER WITH US!!
Join us for a fun afternoon Wednesday, December 9th at 12:45pm (Snowdate: Thursday, December 10th at 12:45pm)
for a Yankee Swap and Ugly Sweater Contest. Limited to 14 cars. Register early to ensure your spot. Each participant
will drop off their wrapped gift (worth approx. $10.00) to the attendee and park their car in the designated spot. For safety, all cars will be 6 feet apart and all participants will be required to wear a mask. For those of you who are not familiar with a Yankee Swap, here is what you need to know to participate. Everyone wanting to participate brings a
wrapped gift worth $10.00. If you would like to participate, but can’t afford a gift, please call (860)434-1605 ext. 240
and let us know. Be creative, it should be a gift that others would like to own. When you bring your gift. you will pick a number. 1 through however many people. The more people that come the “funner” it is! The first person picks a gift and unwraps it. Then the second person picks a gift or takes the one that the first person picked. If the second person
chooses the first person’s gift, the first person picks another gift and unwraps it. The game continues until the last
person picks a gift.
In addition, pictures will be taken of all members that wear an ugly sweater that day and will be posted for people to vote on which they like the most. If you can’t make the Yankee Swap, but still wish to enter the Ugly Sweater Contest, call us at (860)434-1605 ext. 240 to set up a time (before that day) to have your picture taken outside to be entered.
The winner will be awarded a $50.00 Gift Certificate from Flanders’ Fish Market in East Lyme CT. A special thank you to
Flanders’ Fish Market for sponsoring the Ugly Sweater Contest!!
Travel with us virtually on Zoom
Thursday , November 5,2020
1:45p.m.-3:00p.m.
Senior Learning Presents: Spanish Missions in Texas
Program Description: Why did the Spanish attempt to build Missions in Texas? What effect did this have on the Native Americans living in Texas? Were these Missions a success or a failure? Explore these questions alongside a museum educator with maps, timelines, and historical information.
The General Election will be held on Tuesday, November 3rd. If you requested an absentee ballot, make sure you return your ballot by 8:00 p.m. on election day in order for it to be counted.
The best way to return your absentee ballot is by an Official Election Drop Box located in your town. All absentee ballots deposited into an Election Drop Box by 8:00 p.m. on November 3rd will be counted.
Official Election Drop Boxes for Norwich are located at Norwich City Hall – 100 Broadway; Stanton School – 386 New London Turnpike; Greeneville Playground – 266 Central Ave and Wequonnoc School – 155 Providence Street, Taftville.
If you are opting to vote in-person, polling locations will be open from 6:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. You must be in line by 8:00 p.m. at your polling location in order to be allowed to vote. Contact your town’s Registrars of Voters if you do not know your polling location. For Norwich call (860) 823-3754.
You can also check your voter registration status, polling location or to see if your completed absentee ballot was received by your Town Clerk by visiting myvotect.gov/lookup
ATTENTION:
Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Rose City Senior Center is currently closed to the public.
We are currently offering help with grocery shopping and rides to medical appointments.
Please call for information.
Information in this newsletter is as up-to-date as possible but is subject to change.
We will do our best to keep you up-to-date on the re-opening status of the Senior Center.
If you have a question or are looking for services or resources to help you, please contact us at (860) 889-5960.
