Free Blood Pressure Checks at the Stillwater Senior Activity Center

        The City of Stillwater Senior Activity Center will offer free blood pressure checks on Tuesday, November 17 at 1:00 p.m. These checks will be provided by HomeCall Home Health on a first come first serve basis. The Senior Activity Center offers many activities for participants, 50 years old and older. 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 16 – It is a good time to start thinking about joining an exercise group. The Center offers a free exercise class called, “Sit ‘n Be Fit”. It is held 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.

        Tuesday, November 17 – Free guitar lessons are being offered every Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. Come let Jim Thomas help you improve your skills. He will be taking new students through the month of November only. 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. At 1:00 p.m. a coed pool tournament will take place. Come enjoy the fun competition. Also, at 1:00 p.m. free blood pressure checks will be taken. No appointment is needed. 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 18 – Exercisers meet up again at 9:30 a.m. to tone up in the “Sit ‘n Be Fit” exercise class. Women pool players also get out their pool sticks for some good friendly 8-ball. 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 19 – You can come at 10:30 a.m. and work up a good sweat by keeping up with the Zumba class members. 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 20 – Friday mornings are busy with Sit ‘n Be Fit class, women’s pool, and a painting class that 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. 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: Mallory Owen, 1^st, and Barbara Geiser, 2^nd; duplicate bridge winning partners were; Betty Lowrey and Patricia Logan, 1^st and Al Perry and Lionel Raff, were 2^nd . The second day of duplicate bridge, Al Perry and Lionel Raff came in first; and Sandy and John Boepple were second. The previous week winning duplicate bridge players, Al Perry and Lionel Raff were first; and Meg Kletke and Adrienne Hyle were second. The winner of the pool tournament this week was Jack Ventis.