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30-Day Challenge Offered at Local Senior Centers
Save the Date!
Several senior centers are offering a 30-day challenge, running from January 1 – June 30, 2018. The goal? Visit your senior center 30 times in the next 6 months, and get a free t-shirt when you complete the challenge! Take the challenge and learn healthy tips for a healthy life style. Make new friends or meet up with old ones. Learn a new crafts or play games. Each center offers a variety of classes and programs. Don’t let the winter blues get to you. Participating centers include Monessen (724-684-6105) and West Newton (724-872-4976).
Neighborhood Memory Café Holds Monthly Meeting in South Hills on March 3rd
Pleasant Hills Public Library Offers Tax Help to Seniors through AARP Pleasant Hills Public Library will host the AARP Tax Help Volunteer on Tuesdays through April 10, 2018 from 12:30 - 8 p.m. AARP Foundation tax aide is available free to taxpayers with low and moderate incomes, with special attention to those 60 and older. Tax aide volunteers help on a first-come, first-served basis at the library; no appointment is necessary, but there may be a long wait for this popular service. For more information on the paperwork needed to complete tax forms with the volunteers, follow this link: http://www.aarp.org/money/taxes/info-01-2011/ important-tax-documents.htm. For the complete listing of AARP tax aide sites, please follow this link: http://www.aarp.org/applications/VMISLocator/ searchTaxAideLocations.action The Library has received state tax forms, including the PA State 2017 property tax/rent rebate booklet, but has not received federal forms yet. Please call the library at 412-655-2424 or visit the library to see what forms are available. Forms are available in the library’s lobby during regular operating hours: Monday-Thursday: 10 a.m. - 8:30 p.m., Friday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., and Saturday: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Forms can also be printed at the library from the government websites for the regular library printing fee of 20¢ per page, black and white.
SEEKING SENIORS AGES 60 AND UP FOR SOFTBALL TEAMS Wanted: seniors to form softball teams. We currently have a three-team league based out of West Newton, Murraysville and Penn-Trafford and are looking for seniors age 60 and over. This is a senior league with senior bats. Games run from May through August For more information, contact Mike at 412 -860-5975 or email -elkhunter6x6@comcast.net.
St. David’s Episcopal Church is host to March’s Neighborhood Memory Café, a monthly gathering for individuals who experience memory problems and their caregivers to socialize with others who are living a similar journey. The Neighborhood Memory Café will be held on Saturday, March 3 from 1-3 p.m. at St. David’s Episcopal Church, 905 E. McMurray Road, Venetia. A Neighborhood Memory Café is a place where individuals with memory loss and their caregivers can come together once a month in a safe, welcoming space. The mission of a Neighborhood Memory Café is to provide such an environment to enable people with memory loss and their caregivers to connect and remain socially engaged with others who are experiencing similar journeys. Additionally, the Neighborhood Memory Café aims to be a grassroots effort, organized, maintained, and self-sustained by the people that attend. The Neighborhood Memory Café hosted by St. David’s Episcopal Church on the first Saturday of each month. The event is free and open to people with memory loss and their caregivers. For more information, visit www.sites.google.com/site/neighborhoodmemorycafe/ or contact Sue Schmidt, coordinator, at sue.schmidty@gmail.com.
MARCH NEWS FROM VENETIA COMMUNITY CENTER Venetia Community Center is located at 800 Venetia Road, Venetia and hosts senior lunches. Senior lunches are held monthly and are sponsored by the Washington County Aging Services and the Southwestern PA Area on Aging. These delicious lunches are prepared by the staff of the Canonsburg Senior Center and delivered by our faithful volunteers to the Center. All seniors are welcome. Suggested donation is $2. A speaker or music is provided after the luncheon for your information and pleasure. Senior lunches will be served twice in March: March 8 Lunch: 12 p.m. A Speaker from “Freedom Rides” will give us some interesting information on this group, with information on this company for help for all seniors. Come and listen to this presentation to aid all seniors. March 22 Lunch: 12 p.m. Pastor Roberts from the Methodist Church next door will be playing on his guitar with a great program planned for our pleasure. All seniors are welcome. Reservations are necessary and can be made by calling Carolyn Dagg at 412-833-7111. Birthdays in March: Johanna Buri, Carol Berryman, Jance Briscoe, Dolores Huse, Carol Nath, Ray Olenak and Nancy Pochatko Anniversaries in March: Elizabeth and Randy Jefferies