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111,nior Center Staff
Patricia Gold
Watertown Senior News
Anne -Marie Gagnon, MSW
Chairperson
D/rector of Senior Services
Carol Airasian
Watertown Council on Aging/Senior Center
Deborah A. Dunn
31 Marshall Street
ProgramCoord/nafor
Bertha Anderson
Marina Kirsanova, LSW
Dorothy Jean Brown
Watertown, MA 02472
Case worker
Burt Greenberg
617-972-6490
Rae Grassia
PrncipalAccount Clerk
Mary Keenan
www.watertown-ma.gov
Alfredo Bartolozzi
Linda Moffitt
FoodPantry Coordinator
F E B RUARY 2017
Jim Cunningham
Alice Wadden
Senior Shuffle Oriuer
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A may be cold outside but our hearts are warm at the Senior Center.
Our February offerings include a special Valentine Lunch, our "Caregiving is Love"
workshop, a surprise floral arranging event, a lecture about "Managing Your Risk for
Diabetes" by the American Diabetes Association, a presentation about "Controlling
your Blood Pressure Numbers" by Mount Auburn Hospital and opportunities to
strengthen your heart in our exercise, tai chi, line dancing and yoga classes. We hope
you will join us!
We continue to grow our programs with the help of our many volunteers and friends.
We extend a special heartfelt thank you to all of them who help us every day.
See you at the Center,
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agagnon@watertown-ma.gov
Inside this issue:
SENIOR CENTER
NOTE: The Senior Center wi//be
SNOW POLICY
CLOSED Monday, February20th In
observance ofPresJdenes Day.
If Watertown public schools are
Flower Arranging
2
canceTFe-d for inclement weather,
Caregiving Is Love
2
all Senior Center programs, an
shopping bus runs are cancelled.
Valentine Party
2
Control Your Number
2
If school opening is delayed, the
Coming In March
2
morning shopping bus run is
cancelled, and Senior Center
Exercise Programs
3
programs maybe cancelled at the
My Senior Center
3
instructor's discretion, so call before
Income Taxes
4
coming over. Staff members will be
available during regular business
Transportation
4
hours. Remember, safety is your
first priority. Use your own good
Book Club
6
judgment to decide if you should go
Movies
6
out in bad weather.
Medical Screenings
6
Call the Senior Center at
CALENDAR
7
617-972-6490
Social Serv. Resources
8
Manage Your
Risk!
Rev. Albert Whitaker, Director of Mission
Delivery New England for the American
Diabetes Association, is coming to discuss
and raise awareness of Diabetes. The risk
of people age 45 and older developing type
2 diabetes is significant, but it is a condition
that is manageable if diagnosed soon
enough.
WHEN: Wednesday February 8th
TIME: 10:00 AM
Pre -registration is requested. Please call the
Senior Center at 617-972-6490 to sign up.
Healthy refreshments provided.
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Make Your Day Bouquet CARE GIVING IS LOVE
Looking for a way to treat yourself or a
special Valentine? Join us as Ernie
Berardinelli shows us how to make a
beautiful flower arrangement.
The choice of flowers is a surprise!
WHEN: Friday, February 10
TIME: 1 - 3 PM
COST: $22.00
WHERE: Watertown Senior Center
31 Marshall St.
Pre -Registration Required!
Sign up early as there are only
22 spaces available.
VALENTINE PARTY
Join us for coffee and conversation about the
important topic of Caregiving.
Molly Saldo, Caregiver Specialist at Springwell,
the local Aging Services Access Point, and
professionals from UCP and Beaver Brook Step
who support the Watertown Memory Cafe, a place
for people with memory challenges and their care
partners, will be here to share advice and
resources for caregivers, spouses, family
and friends about caring for those we love.
WHEN: Wednesday February 15
10:00 AM, Pre -Registration Required.
WHERE: Watertown Senior Center
Coffee and Light Refreshments
CONTROL YOUR NUMBERS
Enjoy an afternoon with us as we celebrate
Valentine's Day with a light Italian luncheon. Enjoy
music and friendship during lunch.
WHEN: Thursday February 16
TIME: 11:30 - 2:00 PM
COST: $ 7.00
Pre -registration is required and seating is limited
to 28. Stop by the Center to pick up and pay for
your ticket.
TICKETS GO ON SALE THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2
(We will be unable to hold a ticket without payment.
Thank you for your understanding).
High Blood Pressure -what do those numbers
mean? What can I do to prevent high blood
pressure? Join nurses from Mount Auburn
Hospital, Marie McCune RN and Mary
Johnson RN to discuss high blood pressure
and learn what you can do to help prevent or
control High Blood Pressure.
WHEN: Wednesday February 22
10:00 AM
WHERE: Watertown Senior Center
31 Marshall Street
Pre -Registration Required.
COMING IN MARCH
March 14: Coffee With Police Chief Michael Lawn and Friends
March 15: Coffee and Conversation with our Special Guest, Town Councilor Angeline Kounelis
March 16: Saint Patrick's Day Celebration at the Senior Center
March 21: 6 Mistakes to Avoid When Taking Social Security & Medicare Benefits - Chris Grand;
March 22: Spring Flower Arranging Event
March 23: Trip to the New England Flower Show
FEBRUARY 2017 WATERTOWN SENIOR NEWS PAGE
MONDAY EXERCISE
Exercise class with Shannon Lee Jones at
the Senior Center! The classes focus on the
particular needs of seniors in a fun, safe
environment. Exercises include muscle
strengthening, light -stretching, balance and
posture improvement, and low -impact
aerobics; all done to your favorite tunes!
Regular exercise can improve circulation,
help to strengthen bones, Increase muscle
mass, reduce joint stiffness, and improve
general health. Whether it's to get stronger,
loosen up, or just get moving, give it a try!
TIME: 11:00 AM COST: $4.00
TUESDAY EXERCISE
Exercise class with Joanna Grubel at the
Senior Center! The classes focus on the
particular needs of seniors in a fun, safe
environment. Exercises include muscle
strengthening, light -stretching, balance and
posture improvement, and low -impact
aerobics; all done to your favorite tunes!
Regular exercise can improve circulation,
help to strengthen bones, Increase muscle
mass, reduce joint stiffness, and improve
general health. Whether it's to get stronger,
loosen up, or just get moving, give it a try!
TIME: 11:00 AM COST: $4.00
TUESDAY CHAIR EXERCISE
This group meets weekly for support, and
to socialize. Using an audio tape you
exercise using a chair. After you can
participate in a talk about nutrition.
TIME: 9:30 AM COST: FREE.
WEDNESDAY EXERCISE
Exercise class with Henry Oliveras, at the
Senior Center! The classes focus on the
particular needs of seniors in a fun, safe
environment. Exercises include muscle
strengthening, light -stretching, balance and
posture improvement, and low -impact
aerobics; all done to your favorite tunes!
Regular exercise can improve circulation,
help to strengthen bones, Increase muscle
mass, reduce joint stiffness, and improve
general health. Whether it's to get stronger,
loosen up, or just get moving, give it a try!
TIME: 11:00 AM COST: $4.00
or pay in advance 10 sessions for $35.00.
Can I Still
Change My
Medicare
Plan?
The annual Medicare
Open Enrollment period
ended on December 7, but you may still be
able to change plans during 2017.
Medicare's 5-Star Special Enrollment Period
You have an opportunity to enroll in a top -
rated (5-Star) plan, once during the year.
This can be done at any time through
November 30, with the enrollment effective
the first of the following month. The Blue
Cross Blue Shield Medicare HMO plans, their
two Blue Medicare Rx drug plans, and the
Tufts Medicare Preferred HMO plans have
achieved the 5-Star rating for 2017. You can
enroll in one of these plans, as long as you
meet the plan's eligibility requirements. If
you are currently in a Medicare Advantage or
Medicare Prescription Drug Plan, this new
enrollment will automatically disenroll you
from your previous plan.
For those with a Medicare Advantaee Plan
(HMO or PPO):
Between January 1 and February 14 anyone
with a Medicare Advantage plan may drop it
and switch to Original Medicare. If you drop
your Medicare Advantage plan during this
period, you will be able to join a Medicare
Prescription Drug Plan to add drug coverage.
Your Original Medicare coverage and your
prescription drug coverage will begin the first
day of the month after your enrollment. You
may also add a supplement (Medigap) at this
time.
For those with Prescription Advantage need
"Extra Help" paving for prescription drugs:
You can change your Medicare Advantage
plan or drug plan anytime during the year.
Those with Prescription Advantage can do
this only once each year. Those with "Extra
Help" can change every month.
Call the Senior Center for More Information.
SHINE
PROGRAM
Serving the Health
Insurance Needs
of Everyone
THURSDAY YOGA
Led by experienced yoga teacher, Henry
Oliveras, LMT, this class is done using a
chair (or you can bring your own mat) and
provides a gentle stretch and limbering for
the body, improving balance, and a
restorative exercise for the mind.
TIME: 10:00 AM COST: $4.00 or pay
in advance 10 sessions for $35.00.
FRIDAY EXERCISE
Exercise class with Henry Oliveras, at the
Senior Center! The classes focus on the
particular needs of seniors in a fun, safe
environment. Exercises include muscle
strengthening, light -stretching, balance and
posture improvement, and low -impact
aerobics; all done to your favorite tunes!
Regular exercise can improve circulation,
help to strengthen bones, Increase muscle
mass, reduce joint stiffness, and improve
general health. Whether it's to get stronger,
loosen up, or just get moving, give it a try!
TIME: 11:00 AM COST: $4.00
or pay in advance 10 sessions for $35.00.
FRIDAY TAI CHI
Tai Chi, with Marie Favorito, is a great
exercise for all ages. Daily Tai Chi practice
promotes better energy flow in the body for
health, wellness, and to assist in healing.
The "Tai Chi for Seniors" exercise is special
because it is easy to learn and easy to
practice since it doesn't use much space.
Practice of this Tai Chi form provides great
health benefits such as: improved posture,
balance, prevention of falls, improved circu-
lation, metabolism, strengthened immune
system, strengthened heart energy,
improved neuromuscular function, and
improve brain function.
TIME: 12:30 pm. COST: Drop -in $5.00
E'EN/OR CENTER
Have you Registered for your Key Tag?
is our new consumer
database which will us better manage
programs and services for you.
Ask at the Front Desk for Details and to
be entered into the Raffle!
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Ride the Watertown Senior Shuttle!
Call the Senior Center at
(617) 972-6490for more information.
The Watertown Senior Shuttle travels a fixed route
throughout Watertown to take seniors grocery
shopping. We continually adjust the route to
accommodate new riders. The bus goes to the Stop &
Shop on Watertown Street on Tuesdays, and the
Super Stop and Shop on Pleasant Street on Fridays. It
also goes to the Watertown and Arsenal Malls on the
2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month. Take the bus,
and leave the driving (and parking) to us!
Starting January 1st you must give 2 days notice if
you are new or want to change from your
scheduled day. The suggested donation is $1.00
round trip and there is a 3 bag limit.
Options for rides to doctors' appointments are also
available. Call the Senior Center for more information
and to arrange transportation.
Income Tax Preparation at the Senior Center
Income tax preparation will be available at the Senior
Center forseniors60ando/der Volunteers, trained at
an IRS certified program sponsored by AARP, will
provide tax assistance byappointment.
The volunteers are notable to prepare returns that
include income from rental property, trusts,
partnerships, orbusinesses. These returns should ,be
handled ,by a professional tax preparer.
Complex returns will be referred to private tax
preparers.
While there is no fee for this service, donations to the
Senior Center are gratefully accepted.
Call the Senior Center at 617-972-6490
AFTER February 1st to make an appointment.
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February Movie Matinee
HEALTH SCREENINGS
®
Relax and enjoy a movie in our
are held on Thursday mornings
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comfortahle lounge Thursdays at 1: 00 p. m.
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February 9 - Podiatry Clinic -11:00 a.m.
Toenails,
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corns, callus care only. The cost for this service is
N 2/2
The Little Colonel - When a Southern belle
$25.00 payable to Dr. Alper. Insurance is not
married a Yankee, her father, a former Confederate
accepted.
colonel, promptly disowned her. Years
later their daughter visits the family
plantation to meet her grandfather and
heal old wounds, but will her spunk be
enough to win the crusty old man's heart. ,
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Shirley Temple,
Evelyn Venable 1935 PG 80 mins.
2/9 Glory - Loosely based on the letters of
F Union commander Col. Robert G. Shaw,
this Academy Award -winning drama follows
the first group of African -Americans to
serve in combat during the Civil War - and
• shows how they helped turn the tide of the
war. Cast: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington,
Morgan Freeman. 1989 R 122 mins.
NO MOVIE
2/23 Sully - Viewers around the world "'"
were astonished in 2009 when airline pilot
Chesley Sullenberger safely landed an suL`LY-
Airbus 320 on the Hudson River after both
engines were disabled. This fact -based
drama illuminates Sullenberger's life &
heroic achievement. Cast: Tom Hanks, Aaron
Eckhart, Laura Linney 2016 PG-13 96 mins.
3/2 The Dressmaker - Driven away when
she was young, Tilly Dunnage returns to
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rural Australia after years of working as a
dressmaker in Paris -- and she's ready to
make waves in her conservative hometown
not only with her haute couture but a hidden
agenda. Cast: Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam
Hemsworth 2016 R 119 mins.
MELLOWTONES!
Like to sing?
Consider joining our Mellowtones
choral group on Fridays at 12:30.
February 23 - Blood Pressure at 9:30 a.m. by Linda
Micklay, R.N. from CareGroup Home Care. Free
THE SENIOR CENTER BOOK CLUB
WHEN; Wednesday, February 15 at 9: 30.
WHERE: Senior Center, 31 Marshall Street
Join us to discuss Cod: A Biography of the
Fish That Changed the World by Mark
Kurlansky. Copies of the book
are available at the Watertown c o(i
Free Public Library. Cod is the
biography of a single species of
fish, but it may as well be a
world history, with this humble fish as its
recurring main character. Cod, it turns out,
is the reason Europeans set sail across the
Atlantic and it is the only reason they
could. What did the Vikings eat in icy
Greenland and on the five expeditions to
America recorded in the Icelandic sagas
and also the staple of the medieval diet?
Cod. As we make our way through the
centuries of cod history, we also find a
delicious legacy of recipes, and the tragic
story of environmental failure, of depleted
fishing stocks where once their numbers
were legendary. In this lovely, history,
Mark Kurlansky ponders the question: Is
the fish that changed the world forever
changed by the world's folly?
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SOCIAL SERVICES
RESOURCES
Watertown Senior Center
Case Worker
Marina Kirsanova, LSW
Help for residents 60+ and their families
with fuel, housing, food, counseling and
other emergency resources.
She speaks English, Armenian and
Russian.
(617) 972-6490
mkirsanova@watertown-ma.gov
Wayside
Watertown Social Services
Resource specialist
Help for residents under 60 and families
with fuel, housing, food, counseling and
other emergency resources.
(617) 744-9585
SENIOR PARKING PERMITS
For Watertown residents 65+, parking
permits available for meters in municipal
lots. Call the Senior Center for info.
WATERTOWN FOOD PANTRY
For Watertown Residents
Belmont -Watertown UMC (Rear)
80 Mount Auburn Street
Watertown, MA 02472
(617) 972-6490
Hours of Operation:
Tuesday 10:00 —11:30 AM
Thursday 4:00 — 6:00 PM
Residents may visit once a month
Home delivery available for
homebound individuals.
WATERTOWN VETERANS
SERVICES
Assistance to veterans and their
dependents with all Federal and State
benefits and services.
Mark R. Comeiro, USN, (RET)
Veterans Services Officer (VSO)
Town of Watertown
617-972-6416
WATERTOWN COUNCIL ON AGING
SENIOR CENTER
31 MARSHALL ST.
WATERTOWN, MA 02472
SPRINGWELL
Community Dining
Springwell offers a Community Lunch
Program for all seniors age 60 and
older, Monday - Friday, at Woodland
Towers. The purpose of the program is
to provide those in need with a
nutritious meal as well as the
opportunity to socialize with others
from their community. Any Watertown
resident age 60 years and older can
participate and there is a suggested
$2.00 donation. Call today for menu
information and to register with the
dining manager.
Monday through Friday
Woodland Towers - 55 Waverley Street
Call (617) 923-2769 for Menu
Information and to Register.