Category: Programs

Do you have ideas of places you want to go in 2017?   Join us for the 2017 Trip Planning Meeting on Tuesday, October 4^th at 1:00pm.

Wed afternoons in September @ 1pm

Presented by South Central Regional Director

of the Alzheimer’s Association’s

Maria Tomasetti

Sept 14th             

Healthy Living For Your Brain and Body

Sept 21st

Know the 10 signs of Alzheimer’s

Sept 28th

Basics of Alzheimer’s Disease

Registration begins September 1st.

Welcome back from summer!

Groton Senior Center fall classes are starting and the staff has been busy changing over

to a new registration system. Please bear with us as we are learning this new system.

Once up and running fully, you will be able to register online for classes and programs as well as

continue to register right at the center. We thank you for your patience.

We will be starting a NEW 6 Week Thursday Night Level 2 Yoga Class on September 29th at 5:30pm. This class is $24.00. Please sign up early as a minimum number of students are needed to run this class. Call (860)434-1605 ext. 240.

On September 29th at 1:30pm we will be holding our 3rd Annual Nonagenarian Celebration. If you or someone you know will be 90 or over by the end of 2016, please call (860)434-1605 ext. 240 to sign up to be honored at this celebration. All seniors and family members are welcome to attend and celebrate with us. Details will follow in the September newsletter.

Connecticut Classic Duo
Join us on September 28th at 1:00pm for an amazing musical performance. Iris Bendokas Rogan, violinist and Thirzah Bendokas, cellist are teaming up for their first concert tour of New England this season and will be stopping here at the Lymes’ Senior Center, having toured for the past several seasons in Central Florida and along Florida’s west coast. We have an entertaining and varied program of popular classics, familiar popular tunes, as well as patriotic, Disney, Broadway melodies and hymns. Both sisters are graduates of The Mannes College of Music and The Juilliard School in Manhattan, Iris is a former member of the Orlando Philharmonic and Disney’s Candlelight Concerts Orchestra, and I, in addition to being former Principal ‘Cellist of the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra in Connecticut, was soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra in Symphony Hall, Boston as well as with virtually every symphony orchestra in Connecticut. Audiences often hum along and often clap their hands and even want to dance to some of our more lively selections, and they hope that our new friends in Old Lyme will enjoy doing the same!

On Tuesday, September 27th we will be having Wii Bowling (in place of regularly scheduled day on September 29th) this will be the only Thursday affected.

On September 21st at 1:00pm we will be holding Bingo. Admission is $1.00 at the door

Do you find your life being put on hold for your headaches? Even one headache a month will equate to almost two weeks of your life every year being lived in unnecessary pain. We have the solution to 90% of all headaches! Join us on September 20th at 1:00pm with Dr. Mirante of the Wellness Champions and we will decode your headaches, classify them, and show home remedies you can implement right away!

We will begin a New 6 week Painting/ Multimedia Class taught by artist Sharon Schmiedel on September 19th from 10:00am-12:00pm. The class is $25.00 and is open to members. Limited space available. Call (860)434-1605 ext. 240 to sign up.