September Senior Moments
By Kristen Bodmer
For those going back to school we have some advice from the Senior Center:
To ALL students returning to school, If, you see any of the following:
- A student struggling to make friends
- A student being picked on
- A student who is new, shy, or not with the “in crowd”
- A student who is eating lunch alone
BE A LEADER, BE A WARRIOR say “Hello”. Smile at them. Ask if you can sit with them, include them. You never know what that person is facing, inside or outside of school.
Have a great 2024-2025 school year.
Summer is coming to an end and we are ready to welcome Fall with the beautiful leaves changing colors and crisp breezes blowing. We will be spending time together laughing and playing games and would love for you to come join us.
September is full of activities. Take the opportunity to take a look the calendar of events we have scheduled. You can find our calendar on the website https://thurmontseniorcenter.org/ on Facebook or come into the center and ask for one. Don’t forget we serve lunch every day at 12:00 and if you are not able to stay you can just pick up your lunch. We have quite a few people who pick up lunch from the center now. Just remember to call the day before or by 9:15 the morning of.
August was a fun filled month. We had two exciting bingos. We had our Pot luck and General Meeting. We had Forever Young come and entertain us. We stretched and exercised, we played Farkle, Hand and Foot, Pinochle and Poker. We laughed and laughed. We also had coffee, tea and goodies galore. You just never know how much fun you can have. We would love for you to join us for some fun and fellowship. We have a free balance and strength exercise session daily, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday beginning at 11:00-11:45. We play Pinochle on Tuesday at 1:00, We have Bunko on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 1:00 and Farkle on the 4th Thursday at 1:00. Thursday’s at 12:30 we play dominoes. We also play Bingo every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month, if we have a 5th Wednesday, we have a Special Bingo. It is always a fun time full of laughter and special homemade treats for halftime. I can’t forget to mention coffee we are told it is the best, so come in and have a cup with us. Friday’s, we have Zumba we also offer Poker and 500. Just to let you know we have a whole corner dedicated to exercise. We have 2 treadmills, a stair climber and a recumbent bicycle for use during our hours 9-3 there is no charge to use this equipment
We really love having the community use the center. There are so many different possibilities to use the center. The price is very affordable. Call the Thurmont Senior Center to rent for different activities such as a baby shower, a birthday party or a bridal shower.
If you are looking for a volunteer opportunity I would love to talk with you. We are in need of volunteers to pick seniors up and take them to different places in Thurmont, like the grocery store, bank. Pharmacy or the local doctor’s office. This is an opportunity to be on a call list to help out not necessarily a daily but perhaps once a week.
Just a reminder Colorfest is coming up and we will be having our yard sale. If you have items that you would like to donate to the yard sale, we welcome donations.
As always if you have questions don’t hesitate to call us at 301-271-7911.
Some activities may have a minimal cost but to join the center is absolutely free.