Senior Moments
Submitted by Irene R. Cote
The Epping Watson Academy Senior Citizens Club finished the year with a wonderful Christmas party at Camelot which is part of the Holy Grail. It was their first at Camelot since it opened.
For the next few months we're planning everything in "Pencil,” including a trip back to the Currier Museum, the State Capitol (we haven't gotten there yet), the culinary school for lunch and the Sugar Shack which leads us into spring. All - weather permitting. The list will grow once we warm up.
A recent adventure was a tour of the Rockingham County Jail. Superintendent Steve Church was an excellent tour guide who taught us so many interesting facts. The locking doors behind us were difficult to get used to, as was the inside of a jail cell. We all agreed it sure would be a great incentive to anyone to stay on the right side of the law and not on the wrong side of those bars.
We added a new challenge to our Christmas season. Once again we donated several boxes of an entire ham dinner to the Soup Kitchen who distributed them to Epping families. The new challenge was to bake over three hundred cookies to give to the Meals-On-Wheels program in Brentwood to be distributed to their recipients We did it with several cookies to spare.
Here it comes - our first mention of our annual Yard Sale. This is a great time for us all, on those cold and snowy days, to once again clean out those closets, basements and "his" garage. I mention "once again" because we seniors get rid of "stuff" every year but continue to find more stuff every new year. Do you? We think it's because our kids don't want our "stuff." So, we'll give you the actual date of the Sale in our next newsletter.
This is a good time for seniors to join our Club. We meet at the Watson Academy the second Thursday of each month at 1:00 pm. A few of the upcoming programs include a World War II speaker, a pharmacist with updates of medications (both bad and good), an attorney with updates on elder laws and much more.
Tidbit... A Senior Citizen's New Year's Resolution is something that goes in one year and comes out the other.
Submitted by Irene R. Cote
