Local Senior Centers Offer FREE Programs To All Ages

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   Senior Community Services' Center for Life Long Learning and Schoolhouse Center in Folsom is offering a Hiking Club with Group Leader Kim McDaniel.  Join us in the great outdoors to take a walk for fitness and enjoy nature along the way.  The group will carpool to hiking sites.
    The following trips are offered (all on Mondays): 9/19- Ridley Creek State Park; 10/17- Edgmont Walking Trail and 11/14 Tinicum. The FREE club is open to the public.
    To reserve a space call Schoolhouse at (610) 237-8100.

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Senior Community Services’ Center for Life Long Learning is offering Healthy You on Wednesdays, September 14 (Opening Session), with Lectures on  9/28, 10/12, 10/26, November 9, 16 and (Closing Session) November 30, 2011, 11:30 PM, at Good Neighbor Center, 1085 Hook Rd in Sharon Hill.  Participate in the 10 week health education program presented by Mercy-Fitzgerald Hospital Staff.  Lecture tops to be determined.  No fee. To register or for further information, call (610) 586-8170.   

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Senior Community Services’ Center for Life Long Learning is offering a presentation on Fire and Burn Prevention, on Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 10:30 AM, with a presenter by Burn Foundation, at Good Neighbor Center, 1085 Hook Rd in Sharon Hill. (Supported through a grant from State Farm Insurance.) As Americans live longer and healthier lives, there are special strategies they can use to ensure their burn prevention and fire safety.  This FREE program will show you these proper tactics in case of a fire in your home.  Don’t become a statistic, know how to react in these tragic situations.  No Fee.  To register or for further information, call (610) 586-8170.   

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Senior Community Services’ Center for Life Long Learning and Schoolhouse Center in Folsom is offering a continuation of the Positive Aging Book Club the Second Thursday of each month. Upcoming dates are September 8, October 13 and November 10, 9:30 AM.  9/8 book is “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff- and It’s All Small Stuff” is a simple yet wise guide to discovering what’s really important in life, especially your own.  Written by Richard Carlson, Ph.D., this small but wise book is easy to read and offers book club participants invaluable information with the added benefit of discussion from other group members. Copies of the book, including large print editions, may be obtained through the Delaware County Library System or on line from Amazon.com. Facilitators are Marian Mullahy, M.S.S., L.C.S.W., and Schoolhouse Center Peer Counselor Lou Criden, both of NHS Human Services of Delaware County. This is FREE and  open to the public. To reserve your space call Schoolhouse at (610) 237-8100.

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Senior Community Services’ Center for Life Long Learning and Schoolhouse Center in Folsom is offering Lincoln and the Widow Bixby, on Thursday, September 8, 2011, 12:15 PM.  Professor Judith Giesberg discusses the most famous condolence letter ever written.  The letter, written by President Lincoln to a mother  (Mrs. Bixby) who lost five sons to the Civil War (like Saving Private Ryan in the WW II). Through the life of Lydia Bixby you will consider how ordinary women experienced the war in their lives and explore the mystery surrounding Lincoln’s letter. Presenter, Dr. Judith Geisberg, Villanova University. NO FEE. Open to the public. To reserve your space call Schoolhouse at (610) 237-8100.

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Learn how you can protect yourself from disease—no matter what your age.

On Thursday, September 29, 2011, 1:00 PM, Senior Community Services’ Center for Life Long Learning will offer Immunizations- You’re Never to Old to Immunize with Instructor: Joyce Rasin, PhD, RN, Widener University.  Shingles, flu and you!  What should you do to protect yourself, and those around you.  No fee.  For further information, call (610) 237-6222 Ext. 126   

The center is on the Mercy Fitzgerald Medical Campus, conveniently located opposite Holy Cross Cemetery on

Wycombe Avenue

in Darby.  

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