Capital District Senior Spotlight - November 2019

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Hero laid to rest Turning the page Thanksgiving traditions

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Editor’s desk

Traditions New ones or old ones, they keep us grounded and focused on family

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here is such a heavy emphasis on consumerism this time of year. Our favorite Christmas songs are piped through the sound system of each store before kids have the chance to pick out a Halloween costume.

They’re subliminal messages dressed like sugar plum fairies dancing through our heads. They’re meant to induce subtle panic attacks that lead to bigger and more frequent purchases. It’s a mad cycle that continues to churn into Thanksgiving. When steam continues to waft from what’s left of the turkey, store clerks are forced to leave for work to feed into the new manic Thursday evening shopping spree that precedes the old manic shopping spree once called Black Friday.

Family traditions run rich through Thanksgiving. Much of what we practice on this holiday are rooted in more desperate times. Memories of big families struggling to scrape by contrast against today’s commercials of cashmere sweaters and ribbon-topped BMWs. Some families have discarded their traditions because it reminds them of less fortunate days. Others, however, see these idiosyncratic rituals as tethers that ground us, that define us and keeps us focused upon family.

Modern families grow miles and states apart from the neighborhoods once filled with brothers, sisters and cousins. Divorces and aforementioned work schedules also rip into well-intended families who wish to keep to tradition. It’s not easy. I can say that I come from a family that didn’t pay close attention to them. However, inside this edition are a few ideas some of our readers shared. I admit that they all sound fun to me, and that was the purpose of sharing these with you. The holidays can be tough, especially when we can’t be close to the ones we love. Try to interject a little fun on Thanksgiving and start a new tradition. If you need an idea, keep flipping the pages.

Sincerely, Michael Hallisey, Managing Editor Spotlight Newspapers

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Columnists Social Security Corner

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Retiring Retirement

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A Patriot Remembers

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Senior Services Albany JCC

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Vooheesville Library

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LifePath 15 Clifton Park Senior Comm. Center 16 Bethlehem Public Library

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Niskayuna Senior Center

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Social Security Corner

Military Aid

Social Security helps veterans and active duty military members

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very year on Veterans Day, our nation honors the people who risk their lives to protect our country. Social Security’s disability program is an important part of our obligation to wounded warriors and their families.

For military members who return home with injuries, Social Security is a resource they can turn to. If you know any wounded veterans, please let them know about Social Security’s Wounded Warriors website. You can find it at www.socialsecurity.gov/ woundedwarriors.

The Wounded Warriors website answers many com-

monly asked questions, and shares other useful information about disability benefits, including how veterans can receive expedited processing of disability claims. Benefits available through Social Security are different than those from the Department of Veterans Affairs and require a separate application.

The expedited process is used for military service members who become disabled while on active military service on or after October 1, 2001, regardless of where the disability occurs.

Even active duty military who continue to receive pay while in a hospital or on

For military members who return home with injuries, Social Security is a resource they can turn to.

If you know any wounded veterans, please let them know about Social Security’s Wounded Warriors website. medical leave should consider applying for disability benefits if they’re unable to work due to a disabling condition. Active duty status and receipt of military pay doesn’t necessarily prevent payment of Social Security disability benefits.

Although a person can’t

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receive Social Security disability benefits while engaging in substantial work for pay or profit, receipt of military payments should never stop someone from applying for disability benefits from Social Security.

Social Security honors veterans and active duty members of the military every day by giving them the respect they deserve. Let these heroes know they can count on us when they need to take advantage of their earned benefits.

Our webpages are easy to share on social media and by email with your friends and family. For more information, visit www.socialsecurity.gov.

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Senior calendars Albany JCC, Adult Department

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340 Whitehall Road, Albany (518) 438-6651, ext. 112 Claire Sigal, Program Director

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Mondays & Wednesdays, at 4:45 to 6 p.m.

Full-course kosher dinners for those 60 and older.

Reservations taken until 9:30 a.m. the day of the meal.

Suggested contribution: $3 per person. Guest under 60 pay $10.

Book Mavens

Wednesday, Nov. 13

Ruchel Weitz, a Yiddish/ Hebrew teacher, reviews the Monica Heese book, “Girl in the Blue Coat.”

A poignant World War II novel that looks at the choices all of us- including young adults- have to make in wartime.Suggested donation: $2.25. per person.

Plays of Family Life

Tuesdays. 1 to 3 p.m.

Nov. 5, 12, 19, 26 and Dec. 3

The instructor is Paul Lamar — a poetry and fiction writer, and retired educator.

The program fee is $66 for the general public, $57 for JCC members. Prepaid registration is required before class fills.

Pre-Thanksgiving Concert & Dinner

Monday, Nov. 18, at 4 p.m.

Concert of Songs, a program of contemporary and classical music, performed by A Touch of Woodwinds. A full course, kosher dinner follows the concert. Attendance requires a $14

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Chanuka Program & Dinner Monday, Dec. 16, 4 to 6 p.m.

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Eye On The World

Thursdays, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

A current events group discussion with guest moderators.

There is a $2.25 suggested donation per session.

Fun and Fitness to the Songs of Broadway Thursdays, 10:15 to 10:45 a.m.

A fun, gentle exercise class with instructor Richard Feldman.

There is a $2.25 suggested donation per session.

Senior Chorale

Thursdays, from 1 to 3 p.m.

Sherri Strichman, chorale director, instructs rehearsals and performances each Thursday afternoons.

To participate, there is a $2.25 donation suggested per session.

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Hero laid to rest A community says goodbye to war hero Francis Sherman Currey

By DIEGO CAGARA cagarad@spotlightnews.com SELKIRK — Francis Sherman Currey, one of the last three living World War II veterans who received the Medal of Honor, died peacefully at his Selkirk home on Tuesday, Oct. 8 at the age of 94.

Currey’s death was announced in a Facebook post on the day he died by the Delmar-based Nathaniel Adams Blanchard Post 1040 of the American Legion, which he had been involved in.

“Our Post’s highest-decorated member Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, Francis S. Currey was called home to the lord. He passed this morning,” it read.

“May he rest in peace! A truly great man! … Thoughts and prayers to his family!”

According to his obituary, Currey, of Selkirk, was born in Loch Sheldrake, New York on June 29, 1925 and joined the U.S. Army when he was 17, just one

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week after graduating from Hurleyville High School. While he later became a technical sergeant, he was an automatic rifleman with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 120th Infantry, 30th Infantry Division.

According to the Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum, on Dec. 21, 1944, Currey risked his life when German infantrymen shot at his direction in Malmedy, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge.

In a 2011 filmed special by Medal of Honor, Currey recalled how he and his platoon had been ordered to defend a bridge near the aforementioned Belgian town, and one morning, numerous German tanks arrived. Currey said he tried to shoot at one of the approaching tanks’ commanders who had stood up and saw him. After failing to stop his tank which then crossed the bridge, Currey said he went to engage in a standoff in a nearby factory building.

He shot at a tank with a bazooka,

rendering it immobile and forcing its men to abandon it; he then shot three German soldiers in a nearby house’s doorway. Traveling alone to within 50 yards of that house, he used his bazooka again to take out half of a wall which helped save five American soldiers there who had been trapped under German tank rounds for hours.

Then, three more German tanks arrived and Currey threw anti-tank grenades at them. “An anti-tank grenade was supposed to not knock down a tank,” he said in the filmed special. “Believe me, it will not knock down a tank. All it does is hit the tank, makes a hell of a noise, a lot of flames, a lot of smoke but it scares the hell out of the crew and they abandoned the tank. They gave me credit for all three tanks because they abandoned them.”

This led to the Germans falling back due to losing more tanks and increasing casualties.

Francis Currey’s funeral, with full military honors, at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in South Bethlehem, on Saturday, Oct. 12.

Thomas Heffernan, Sr. / Special to Spotlight News Currey was just 19 at the time. “I hope that my country can be as proud of me as I am proud of my country,” he said.

Currey’s heroic actions earned him the Medal of Honor — the highest and most prestigious decoration for an outstanding U.S. military service member for acts of valor — and has been said to win the battle and shorten the war. He also received the Belgian Order of Leopold, a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. A July 14, 2006 article by the Times Herald-Record reported that a GI Joe action figure was crafted in his image back in 1998.

The National Medal of Honor Museum posted on its social media platforms that it has extended “heartfelt

condolences to his friends and family and remain grateful for his service.” Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed flags to be flown at half-staff on state government buildings on Friday, Oct. 11 in honor of Currey.

Spotlight News has reached out to Currey’s family and the American Legion Post 1040 Nathaniel Adams Blanchard Post for comment but did not receive any at the time of this publication.

After the war, Currey became a counselor at the Albany VA Medical Center for three decades, retired in 1980, moved to Bonneau, South Carolina and returned to Selkirk in 2009.

Throughout the Capital District,

he was a South Bethlehem Volunteer Ambulance Service volunteer, a Hudson Valley Little League coach, a Bethlehem Conservation Committee member as well as being involved in the RCS Men’s Association, Cornell Cooperative Extension, the American Legion Post 1040 Nathaniel Adams Blanchard Post and the Albany-based VFW SheehyPalmer Post 6776.

Currey is survived by his wife of 70 years, Wilma Eileen French Currey; his children, Michael, Kathryn, Domery and Jonathan Currey; his grandchildren Jessica Moran, Kyleen D’Ambrosio, Diane Lammers, and Christopher, James, Kevin and Travis Currey; and 12 greatgrandchildren.

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Retiring Retirement

Turning the page ohn “Jack” McEneny may have retired from a lifetime of public service in 2013, but the public never got out of him.

As Albany’s unofficial historian, he grew to grasp the nuances, ethnicities and character of dozens of neighborhoods. He not only studied them, he was vested in the capital city’s Buckingham Pond section where he built his Colonial Avenue house four decades earlier.

After losing Barbara, his wife of 37 years, to a two-year bout with cancer in 2005, McEneny was left with grief, his golden retriever and an

empty house. Before his spouse died, he asked her what he was going to do with their newly-acquired dog. Barbara replied, “I got the dog for you.”

The stress of widowhood may have contributed to his heart attack shortly thereafter and in this one-two punch, life handed him an uphill walk as he entered his senior years.

“When you lose your wife,” McEneny said, “you can try to lose yourself in work…but it’s not the same.”

For three years, McEneny didn’t date and spent most of his time escaping into long hours at work at his post in the New York State Assembly.

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“I was the best assemblyman they ever had because I remember doing anything to avoid coming home to an empty house,” he recalls.

But the historian’s history was about to take a dramatic turn when one neighbor introduced him to another, and he fell in love with Jan. “When I asked my son what he thought,” he laughs, “he said ‘Mom sent her.’”

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Two years later, in 2010, the couple was wed. By Jan and McEneny were now both retired, had leisure time, a cottage in desperate need of restoration that became a labor of love at Sacandaga Lake, hobbies, non-profit work and the next chapter was surely headed for a happy ending.

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Senior calendars Voorheesville Public Library

Thursday, Nov. 7, 14, & 21, 1:30 p.m.

Join us Thursday to watch a classic movie on our giant screen. Check our website calendar or call for movie titles and descriptions. Light refreshments served.

Nimblefingers Craft Group

Tuesday, Nov. 5, 12, 19 & 26, 1:30 p.m.

Bring your projects, socialize, and connect with other crafters every Tuesday. Share your own special talents or learn a new knitting, crocheting, embroidery or quilting skill. All crafters are welcome to join the group.

Candle Making Sunday, Nov. 3, 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Fight the darkness — learn how to make your own beeswax candles! Make one for yourself and a friend. Supplies provided to make two candles to take home. Age 10 through adults, please register.

Second Sunday Film Sunday, Nov. 10, 2 p.m.

“The story of the legendary rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous 1985 performance at Live Aid.” 2018 PG-13 2h 14m (IMDB) Light refreshments will be served.

Beading Workshop Tuesday, Nov. 12, 6 to 8 p.m.

Learn easy beading tech-

niques for making simple necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. The library provides tools and offers a variety of beads to choose from, or you are welcome to bring your own supplies and projects along. Check out our beading books and magazines for inspiration. You may arrive at any time during the workshop that fits your schedule. Adults and teens ages 14 and up. Please register.

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Family tradition We asked our readers what traditions they follow during the holiday season, and here are some of the best responses we received.

Piece on Earth [On] Thanksgiving Day, I give my son and his young family an old-fashioned jigsaw puzzle of a Christmas theme. It’s a tradition that they spread out on a table and everyone helps throughout the day.

— Geri Shannon Kissane

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The winner is...

Everybody loves Thanksgiving pies, but we couldn’t possibly have as many pies as we have people in our family. So, we all choose our favorite [pie], write it down on a scrap piece of paper and have a drawing. We pick four winners and our winner’s pie will be served on Thanksgiving Day. — Mary Ann Raz

Gloves off Dressing and sweet potatoes have to be at the table. Then, I pray that no one starts discussing politics or religion.

— Kathleen Ryan Gill

‘Thanksmas’ We used to do “Thanksmas.” [We] combined Thanksgiving and Christmas so everyone could spend Christmas with their in-laws or at home.

Oh, and my parents would head to Myrtle Beach on that Monday!

— Pop Wahl

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A Patriot Remembers

Games children played Bygone days spent outside in the neighborhood

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aby Boomers had a lively and memorable childhood.

I grew up in Albany, in the Blessed Sacrament Parish, adjacent Colby Park and a water-filled reservoir.

The neighborhood was filled with two-family flats rarely held by absentee landlords and most had at least one child.

Our home had one TV, one bathroom and one heavy, black phone. We were a family of five children, two parents and a grandmother. It was a blessing, even expected, that children went outdoors to play.

Baseball cards were a nickel a pack, and they made for many hobbies. Pitching them

against the wall or putting them on bike spokes far outweighed the thought of future value. We played “War” on the blue stone sidewalks and the cards were the ante.

The Reservoir had a barbed wired fence that enclosed various black cast iron storm pipes.

When we played baseball the barbed wire fence was our left field. If you hit the ball over the fence you were out and faced the challenge of climbing the fence to get it. That’s because we normally had only one baseball, often held together with black, two-sided sticky type. We played “Three Pop and Seven Grounders” and that helped us to hit. A batter would toss the ball up

and hit it to kids in the field.

A fielder who caught three fly balls and seven grounders earned the right to become the hitter. Catching fly balls was easy compared with fielding grounders over our rocky, bumpy makeshift baseball field.

And, when a kid couldn’t hit pop ups, he heard it from us.

There were enough neighborhood kids to play football, but not many of us owned a ball. Without a football, we’d play “Head on Tackle.” One person would stand in the middle of the field against several others intent on running toward the goal line. The lone opponent earned teammates by tackling a kid. As the tacklers grew, the runners were few.

Frank DeSorbo The last one or two remaining runners would be gang tackled with a big “pile on.” We rarely got hurt.

Basketball was played on an outdoor court behind the church. Colby Park had a UniHoop. It had no backboard, which helped us all develop a good jump shot. As our skills improved, we mustered the confidence to play two-on-two for dimes. Winning 60 cents was a jackpot, considering soda only cost a dime and candy sold for just pennies.

Today, my daughter struggles with her kids to put down their phones. Our days will never return, but going outside is never out of bounds.

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To reserve your place, call Nora at 518-482-2120.

Let’s Celebrate Veterans Friday, Nov. 8

Join us for a salute to our veterans with our friends from Joseph E. Zaloga Post 1520 to present pins and the colors. There will be a singalong of all the patriotic songs and service hymns. For more information, please call Nora at 518-482-2120.

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Come and beat the drums, this fun-sit down exercise will help build community connections, enhance your mood and give you more mental clarity. Limited to the first 12 people who sign up. Once a month for five months.

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Senior calendars Clifton Park Senior Community Center 6 Clifton Common Court, Clifton Park (518) 383-1343

UPCOMING

Monthly Deadlines December Deadline:

January Deadline:

February Deadline:

Thursdays at 10 a.m.

¨We meet every Thursday at the Center at 10am! Contact Lorraine at 518-885-1570 or Lorrainezjanack@gmail.com or just show up on a Thursday at 10 a.m. Come join the fun.

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Magic with Mike Wednesday, Nov. 6, 12:30 p.m.

Mike Beehner is a retired family doctor, who has had magic as his hobby for the past 50 years. His interest in magic came about, because, in his part-time job as a taxi cab driver while in college in Chicago, he would often ride by this small magic store on south State Street. One day he walked in and bought a handful of small tricks. From there, it ended up being a life-long love affair with magic and bringing smiles to people young and old with his shows, which he has never charged a

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Call for dates and times.

Reservations are required.

Mondays: Tap Intermediate, Jazz Dance, Chair Yoga, Discussion Group, Clogging, Quilting, Healthy Bones for Life, Soul Line Dancing, BUNCO, Learn to Play Beginner Bridge, Basic Computer Class, Adult Coloring Tuesdays: Exercise to Tape, LCR or Dice 3000-learn to play, Pinochle, Pool/Billiards, Duplicate

penny for. Non-members are also welcome. Please contact the Center at 518-383-1343 to sign up.

Blood Pressure Clinic

Friday, Nov. 15 and Dec. 13, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Please join Clifton Park Halfmoon EMS at a monthly blood pressure clinic at the Senior Center. They will be on hand each month to check and record your blood pressure, answer any questions you may have about them and the services they perform, and provide educational materials to the senior center community.

Kykuit-Rockefeller Estate & Walkway over the Hudson Thursday, Nov. 7

Take a trip to the Hudson Valley with us. $80 Members/ $88 Non-Members (hot meal included).

Bridge, Tai Chi, Scrabble, Mexican Train Wednesday: Exercise to Tape, Senior Investment Group, Social Bridge, Memories to Memoirs, Hand & Foot (cards), Crochet & Knitting, Poker, Healthy Bones for Life, Crafts, Beginner Bridge Thursdays: Exercise to Tape, Pool/Billiards, Chorus, Yoga, Watercolor & Sketch, Seton Health Seniorcize, Duplicate Bridge, Mah-Jongg, Pinochle, Bunco or Pinochle – learn to play

Senior calendars Trivia Night: All About the ’90s

Bethlehem Public Library 451 Delaware Ave., Delmar (518) 439-9314 www.bethlehempubliclibrary.org

Fridays. Nov. 1, 8 and 15 1 p.m.

History of Bethlehem: Nov. 1 Bethlehem Historian Susan Leath with talk about the town’s past.

Familiar Songs; Unfamiliar Stories: Nov. 8 Storyteller Sandy Schuman will talk about how some of the best-known American songs came to be written.

PBS’s Country Music: Nov. 15 Catch a sneak preview and behind-the-scenes look at the new Ken Burns series.

Knit One Purl One Sunday, Nov. 3, 2 p.m.

If you’re an experienced knitter, bring your current project. If you’re a beginner, bring size 8 knitting needles no longer than 10 inches; we’ll provide yarn and get you started.

Cricut Demonstration

Monday, Nov. 4, 6 to 8 p.m.

Drop in the library’s updated Tech Room Makerspace and see the Cricut cutter in action or give it a try yourself, 6-8 p.m. The Cricut can be used to create precision designs in hundreds of different materials.

Come alone or as a team and match wits with others.

Trivia questions will encompass several categories,. Limit of 10 teams of 1-5. Prizes donated by the Friends of Bethlehem Public Library.

American Red Cross Blood Drive Thursday, Nov. 7, noon to 6 p.m.

Call 1-800-RED-CROSS or go to www.redcrossblood. org for more information and to schedule an appointment.

Walk-ins welcome.

3D Printing Mechanics

Saturday, Nov. 9, 2:30 p.m.

How does a 3D printer

Sunday, Cinema: Tolkien

Sunday, Nov. 10, 2:30 p.m.

Film series with titles suitable for adult audiences. Shown with Subtitling for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing when possible.

(PG-13, 112 mins., Fox)

Intro to Essential Oils Tuesday Nov. 12, 7 p.m.

Learn about essential oils and how to safely use them for your home, health and creativity. Make a scented craft to bring home, 7 p.m. Sign up online or call.

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Senior calendars Niskayuna Senior Center

Upcoming Events

2682 Aqueduct Road, Niskayuna (518) 372-4969

Mondays

10 a.m. — SS Zumba Gold (no class Nov. 11 for Veteran’s Day)

Tuesdays

9 a.m. to noon — Tom’s Computer Class (first and third Tuesday each month) 9:15 to 9:45 a.m. — Tai Chi 10 a.m. — Cards, Bridge, Wii Bowling and Mahjong 10:30 a.m. — Line Dancing Noon — Lunch 12:30 to 2 p.m. — Afternoon program: lectures, trivia or games 1 p.m. — MVP Chair Moves (no class on Nov. 26)

Thursdays

9:15 to 9:45 a.m. — Tai Chi

10 a.m. — Cards, Bridge, and Wii Bowling 10:30 a.m. — Bocce, Pickle Ball Noon — Lunch 12:30 to 2 p.m. — Afternoon program: lectures, trivia or games 7 p.m. — Balletone at Town Hall, Nov. 14 and 21

Fridays

10 a.m. to noon — Beginner Mahjong 10 a.m. — Men’s Group (Nov. 1 and 15) 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. — Alzheimer’s Support Group (first Friday of each month) 11 a.m. to noon — CDPHP Chair Pilates

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Blood Pressure Screening at Baptist Health — Tuesday, Nov. 5, at 10 a.m.

Cornell Cooperative Extension Lecture — Tuesday, Nov. 5, at 11 a.m.

CDTA STAR Bus presentation — Thursday, Nov. 7, at 12:15 p.m.

Birthday Celebration — Thursday, Nov. 7, at 12:30 p.m.

Trip to Palatine House Museum and shopping/ lunch at Grapevine Farms — Wednesday, Nov. 13

“Ask the Experts” Panel at Town Hall — Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m.

Dentistry Presentation — Thursday, Nov. 14, at 12:45 p.m.

Thanksgiving Luncheon — Thursday, Nov. 19, at noon Collage Workshop — Thursday, Nov. 21, at 6:30 p.m. iPad Classes — Thursday, Nov. 7; Tuesday, Nov. 12; and Friday, Nov. 15; 10 a.m., lower level of Niskayuna Senior Center

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