Senior Center to Celebrate November Birthdays

        The City of Stillwater Senior Activity Center will hold a pot-luck luncheon to celebrate participates November birthdays. The celebration will start at 12:00 noon, Friday, November 13. Turkey will be served as the entrée. You can bring a food dish to share or pay $3/person and enjoy the delicious food and friendly conversations. The Senior Activity Center offers many activities for participants, 50 years old and older such as; exercise classes, pool/snooker playing, guitar lessons, line dancing, Zumba, painting classes, card games, bridge, a monthly movie, and a music night. Hours for participation are Monday through Friday, 9:30 am to 4:30 p.m.; and music night is held on Thursday evening, 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The facility is closed on weekends. Stop by 1015 E. 12^th Ave. or call 405-747-8080 for more information and make sure to pick up a calendar of events.

        The Walk in the Park event for senior walkers is ongoing in Couch Park. Seniors can sign up and log in each time at the Center. Walk the trail ten times and earn a t-shirt and better health.

        Monday, November 9 – Start getting ready for all those extras calories consumed from your Thanksgiving meal by joining the free exercise class called “Sit ‘n Be Fit”, offered at the Center every Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 9:30 a.m. The exercise class utilizes stretchy bands to test flexibility and bouncing balls to help with hand/eye coordination, along with stretching and toning exercises. Each person has a chair for some of the exercises and some are done while standing by your chair. Women pool players also come in at 9:30 a.m. and play several friendly rounds of 8-ball. They would welcome some new women players to come join in the fun competition. At 10:30 a.m. line dancers step in time to country songs. You are welcome to come join the group and get some exercise while having fun. During the afternoon, canasta and social bridge players get out their cards for plenty of good times. A jig-saw puzzle is always out enticing someone to find another piece. Exercise equipment, including a treadmill, is available too. At 1:00 p.m. a coed pool tournament will take place. Come enjoy the fun competition 

        Tuesday, November 10 – Free guitar lessons have started back up every Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. Come let Jim Thomas help you improve your skills. A fast-paced aerobic exercise dance session called, “Zumba with Angie” takes place at 10:30 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday. The exercises are done mostly to Latin American dance music. In the afternoon, games are played that include; canasta, duplicate bridge, pool/snooker, and jig-saw puzzle solving. Exercise equipment that includes a treadmill, two exercise bikes, and a weight set are available for use during the afternoon, too. Bingo is played at 2:00 p.m.  It is a lot of laughs and everybody wins a prize!

        Wednesday, November 11 – The morning activities get started at 9:30 a.m. which include; the free exercise class and women’s pool playing. Then at 10:30 a.m., after the exercise class, line dancers start kicking up their heels as they keep up with swinging country tunes. During the afternoon, games of canasta and other card games are played. Pool and snooker shooting are also popular.

         Thursday, November 12 – A good way to burn off those extra calories is by joining the free “Zumba with Angie” class that starts at 10:30 a.m. You can work up a good sweat exercising to the jazzy tunes. Afternoon games start at 1:00 p.m. Canasta and bridge are popular games of choice. Bingo is called by a guest caller at 2:00 p.m. Every one bingos and receives a prize. Don’t forget music night at 6:00 p.m. There is always good toe tapping music to enjoy!

         Friday, November 13 – Sit ‘n Be Fit class, women’s pool, and a painting class all begin at 9:30 a.m. During the painting class artists bring their own supplies and get together to paint and discuss their art work. Then at 10:30 a.m. line dancers arrive ready to boot scoot around the floor to some lively tunes. At 12:00 noon the pot-luck birthday luncheon will begin. Everyone will enjoy turkey as the main entrée. Bring a dish to share or pay $3/person and make some new friends. Afternoon games of duplicate bridge begin around 12:15 p.m. Canasta players start coming in around 12:30 p.m. along with pool players and puzzle solvers.

         Last weeks reported winners for social bridge were: Barbara Geiser, 1^st, and Cindy Smith, 2^nd; duplicate bridge winning partners were; Al Perry and Lionel Raff, 1^st; and Linda Ely and Judy Rebman were 2^nd. The winner of the pool tournament this week was Vic Berryman.