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Council on Aging 03/04/2025
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The March Council on Aging Board meeting reveals the delicate balancing act of maintaining senior services while preparing for building renovations. As utility costs continue to rise—with some board members reporting shocking increases—financial concerns remain top of mind for this small-town senior center. Yet these economic challenges haven't dampened their innovative spirit.
Despite multiple delays to the anticipated bathroom renovation project, the Director presents an impressive lineup of ongoing and upcoming activities. Tax preparation services continue with contingency plans to relocate if construction finally begins. Meanwhile, popular programs and performances such as the Knock on Wood Duo performance (funded by a local cultural council grant) will temporarily move to the Lions Club building across the street, where over 70 seniors can be accommodated in the larger space.
The meeting sparkles with excitement about new initiatives. A grant-funded raised garden bed project promises to create accessible gardening opportunities, with board members enthusiastically discussing everything from tomato harvests to potential community partnerships with local gardening experts. The newly established friends group, complete with official membership structure and dues, is exploring fundraising through Hilliard's chocolate sales—prompting good-natured debate about strategic timing to avoid competition with other community fundraisers.
Perhaps most revealing is the underlying conversation about staffing constraints. Board members openly acknowledge the challenges of operating with minimal personnel, particularly during periods when only one staff member is on duty. Their discussion about requesting additional part-time help (strategically kept under 19 hours to avoid benefit requirements) highlights the creative workforce solutions necessary in budget-constrained environments.
Looking for ways to get involved with your local Council on Aging? Consider joining the new Friends group at their next meeting or ask about volunteer opportunities that help support our vital senior services.
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Meeting Call to Order and Reports
Speaker 1Okay, call to order the March Council on Aging Board of Directors meeting at exactly 9.30. Okay, roll call. Let's see Erin is frantically writing, so I guess she's doing the roll call. We'll give her a minute. In the meantime we're going to be peeking at the Treasurer's Report, folks. Is that what you're going through first? No set, okay, is there anything major this past month that we should know about? Just the regular stuff. Yeah, with the TNLP bill getting higher and higher every day, right?
Speaker 3A little bit and another WAPA this month. Last month, $933. Oh jeez, the gas off the street.
Speaker 1I've never paid so much to keep that there's no gas on that first street. There isn't much. My whole house is electric I'll pay on the budget.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'd like that.
Speaker 5What's that the Everforce building.
Speaker 4How come we have Everforce and we?
Speaker 2don't have NLP. I don't know I could find out why we have Everforce. We're 19 dollars a month.
Speaker 1Well, nlp only covers a portion of Dighton. Like my brother-in-law and sister-in-law, they live in Dighton, oh, here.
Speaker 2Yeah, we pay $19. I don't think we have gas yet.
Speaker 1Gas we do have For what I just know because the question came up when I was thinking. I asked the question about should we get it generated so we could be an emergency location? And I asked Bob, are you afraid if we have gas here? And he said yeah, because they use it across the street with the lions on their stoves when they cook.
Speaker 3So it's got to be here, but something's wrong with getting Eversource. Are those the gas stoves over?
Speaker 4there Huge yeah. But, we don't have.
Speaker 5I mean is the gas line in here? I don't think so.
Speaker 3Do we have gas water here? Do we have to pay a fee to get to the?
Speaker 1house? I don't think so.
Speaker 6no, no, but you know, if we don't have it.
Speaker 1I don't think there's any availability sometimes it's $19 every month, so it's the same it doesn't change source.
Speaker 3we may have to pay a fee just because it goes in front of the house?
Speaker 5no, nothing. Run a tea in the ocean. You have to do that.
Speaker 3That's what we tied into it because we're gonna have to pay a fee anyway if we're tied into it even though we're not using it, then it's a delivery, everything's a delivery people.
Speaker 1I know and her delivery free fee was as much as Well.
Speaker 2This is supposedly what they're looking into? Yeah, but they're talking about 15% when they're going up 30%.
Speaker 3The last two months they've gone up 30%.
Speaker 1But you don't have TMLP here. Huh yeah.
Speaker 2I do oh you do, that's true. Okay, because Eversource does both gas and electric.
Speaker 1Is that correct?
Speaker 2No, there's a TMLP here. We have TMLP.
Speaker 1All right, I'm sorry we digress. All right, treasurer's report. Everybody have a peek. He says there's nothing special this month, everything's the regular old next month they should have the budget for next year.
Speaker 2Oh okay, good for review, all right sounds good.
Speaker 1You got a big two here. Directors report report's getting shorter and shorter every month every month. I'm sorry, not too much this month.
Director's Report on Activities
Speaker 2So AARP taxes. They've been going along with the building possibly being bathrooms. We're going to host the AARP at Taunton site, at the Taunton COA, because it's already all set up there. They already have their Wi-Fi set up. They put like an extension on the Wi-Fi, so it's just the easiest place.
Speaker 1So when is that signing? It's already happening.
Speaker 2It was supposed to happen yesterday but no work's been done, so they did taxes here yesterday. So we'll call them when it happens as of right now. Next Monday we'll be here.
Speaker 4Did they call you to tell you they weren't coming?
Speaker 2Nope. They just didn't show yeah, so we're just waiting. That's really good, yeah. So yeah, taxes might be over there for the last few of them.
Speaker 2We'll call everybody individually and tell them where it is and everything. Only two weeks the art for all classes. The instructor had to cancel until further notice. She's having something going on at home, so that is canceled for now. This month we will be hosting Singo and Knock on Wood Duo across the street at the Lions Club. We'll be over there. The Knock on Wood Duo is sponsored by the cultural council grant, the Rainham Cultural Council grant, so that will be good.
Speaker 2What is that? It's a folk rock duo. I guess it says high energy acoustic, so it's just two of them playing. I think they bring a bunch of instruments, oh. We had them a couple years ago and I heard they're pretty good. We have 50 people signed up, so we have a good attendance for it. We can kind of extend it a little more because it's over at the Lions Club. It's bigger. Even single this month. I think we have like 73 on there, so we probably won't keep really a wait list, we'll probably just take them all.
Speaker 2Yeah we'll probably just take them all for this month, because it's right across the street
Speaker 2and more room. Those of you over there. We did cancel the monthly luncheon which was supposed to be today, the movie and the breakfast, just due to the bathrooms that are supposed to start this week but have not. Yeah, so our activities this month are a little bit down, just because we thought the bathrooms were getting done. We're in limbo with that. And we have COVID test kits we got in front of the Board of Health. If anybody needs them, leave them behind. They come five in a pack. Now, that's good, which is good. So if anybody needs one, they can come and ask us. We have our trip to Ireland going on Thursday. I think there's eight people total from Rainham. There's 13 here From Rainham. That's what I heard. Oh, 13 going from Rainham.
Speaker 6Yeah, pick up here on Thursday.
Speaker 2And they'll be off for like a week and a half almost, which will be nice.
Speaker 3You'll have to give a report. Do I have to write it in you know, double space to it.
Speaker 2With pictures.
Speaker 5With pictures, of course.
Speaker 2Yeah, so that should be good With pictures. Of course I didn't even ask that.
Speaker 5Yes, that should be good.
Speaker 2And then we have our show and lunches. We have one coming up in April at the Phoenix Madness the Supremes. That one has 11 people going there. And then we have the other ones that are going off at Lake Pearl. We have quite a few people signed up for the various shows with the lunch. And then we have also 11 signed up for the Lighthouse Day Trip. That will be a bus trip from here. They'll pick you up from here. Where's it going? To Maine? Is it Island?
Speaker 4Sholes Lighthouse.
Speaker 3You're going to get two more, but I just don't know.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, so it's a lobster bake or you can get Maybe one more chicken. I did ask about the restrictions and they said as it gets closer you can check they can go around the restrictions. Thank you, yeah, they said that the week of.
Speaker 4So we'll out-email and call her the week of yeah, so any restrictions on the lunches, like low sodium or vegetarian and all that? Both the options they have are pretty high sodium.
Speaker 2Yeah. So she said that's no problem, We'll work with it.
Speaker 4And early in the morning come back.
Speaker 2Yeah, so we'll get the exact time, because they pick up a couple of centers around here to fill the bus, um, so we'll get that exact time. But yeah, it'll probably be between 8, 30 and 9, she said. Let's say it's me.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's not gonna be a good three hour ride. I'm guessing. Yeah, yeah, okay, yep, very good that's all I have by the way, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1I'll back up a second. Make a motion to accept the Treasurer's Report. Second Any discussion. Hearing none. All in favor. Aye, it's unanimous. And I'll make a motion to accept the Director's Report Motion Second. Second Any discussion. I have one discussion, nice job. We have a lot of. I have one discussion, nice job. We have a lot of new things going on. I like that. Yeah, okay, hearing none. All in favor. Aye, again, unanimous Correspondents.
Speaker 2The only thing is Evelyn Brown. She came to our last meeting. She is part of the board now as an associate member. It went on the Selectmen's meeting. I'm not sure why she isn't here today. I'll give her a call and make sure she knows when our meetings are. But yeah, so our new member. Hopefully she'll be at the next meeting. Associate.
Speaker 1Yeah, very good, that got approved a couple weeks ago, alright approved the minutes of the February 4th board meeting. I'm ready to take a second and read them over huh.
Speaker 6I asked if she said no other than yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1Hey, hey, hi dog, hi dog, hi, hi, hi Hi. How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing?
Speaker 2How are you doing? How are you doing, how are you doing, how are you doing, how are you doing, how are you doing?
Bathroom Renovation Updates
Speaker 3How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? How are? Thank you, Is it appropriate to comment on this? If you go to two sessions on single, are you going to keep track of who's there? So you don't.
Speaker 2I mean the reason you do two.
Speaker 3you can go to one, but not both.
Speaker 2Yes, but we did talk to him and he's pretty booked this year, so we have to like November that's when he does his schedule, I guess, for like the year.
Speaker 3So there's no parking spaces out here.
Speaker 2Yeah, no, so we would limit it to 50 and 50 and it would be once a month. They wouldn't be able to attend both right, but I did.
Speaker 1That's the latest craze. You're seeing more and more of them popping up in all kinds of organizations.
Speaker 2Yeah, they're all over. You got prayer places.
Speaker 1Talk about a niche business, huh Geez.
Speaker 4Yes, came up with that. I'm surprised somebody else has and decided to get in on it.
Speaker 1What is he? The only one. He's the one that goes to all the centers. He's the only one around.
Speaker 2Yeah, he goes to Bridgewater Dayton. He's over there.
Speaker 1Somebody. I'm trying to think if it was the crew, we would have called it Music Bingo. Yes, they're doing it up there as well. How come we don't have beer when we pour it? They're doing it up there as well. How come we don't have?
Speaker 6beer when we All right All set.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, I'm going to go Motion to accept Okay.
Speaker 6Very good, do I?
Speaker 1have a second Second, any discussion Hearing. None All in favor. Aye, aye, very good.
Speaker 6On the roll for a record here.
Speaker 1Renovation up the bathroom? No, there's not much. I don't hear a jackhammer.
Speaker 2Nope. So they're supposed to come this week? I have not heard of an official date. It was supposed to be last week. They were supposed to stop in. Nobody ever stopped in. This week they were supposed to start and I have not heard.
Speaker 4Sounds very unreliable. Yeah, I have not heard so.
Speaker 2Can you call?
Speaker 4them and give them an email.
Speaker 2Yeah, I can email them. So they're finishing up a job in Millbry or Mill Hill and a roofing job, so they're waiting to finish that.
Speaker 1Yeah, I've seen the roofers out already.
Speaker 2Yeah, so then they were coming here right after, so maybe they got a great day too right.
Speaker 1What's that? It was a salt shed or something so the question I have I mean we close at three. Okay, I assume they work later than three o'clock. We're gonna have to have somebody here with them, or how's that going to work? I mean, there is information in the building here that we don't want the general public to have personal information.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'll just see.
Speaker 1Maybe you could ask the question of Bob or Greg. Yeah, who's going to make data?
Speaker 4support. I would make a phone call rather than an email. You could just to say look, we need a definite stock date and we're folding everything up, you know, as far as we, know, to be honest with you, I would think you asked Greg to do that.
Speaker 6That's his as far as I'm concerned, that's his bail not yours.
Speaker 4Yeah, I'll call Greg, yeah so because we haven't ordered the porta potties yet, because we haven't gotten anything definite.
Speaker 2We need more of just a day of.
Speaker 4It's a cast from when it was originally supposed to start and now those knives are actually every time it's supposed to start the end of the day word.
Speaker 3You know there's nothing like that they have it once and be done, but if they keep pushing back and forth, it just doesn't sound like a really good.
Speaker 5So are you going to have the activities?
Speaker 2I get the gym can out, so we're telling people to keep coming here until we we'll call everybody for an event that has to go over there. So keep coming here as usual until Unless you hear different. Yeah, until you hear different, come here.
Speaker 4So did they give us like a time frame as to how long it would be once they get started?
Speaker 2How long will it take? At least a month, yeah, I think that's what I'm saying. It's supposed to be finished by June. June 30th is their deadline.
Speaker 4Do we have an end date in the contract June 30th?
Speaker 1Yeah, no later than June 30th. They have to finish before June 30th, yeah, no later than June 30th.
Speaker 4They have to finish before June 30th.
Speaker 2Are there penalties? I'm not sure.
Speaker 1Well, if there isn't, then there's no sense putting a date in contract.
Speaker 2Yeah there's something. Yeah, why would they rush? There's no penalty. You wouldn't have to find somebody else. But yeah, they don't seem to be rushing to start June 30th is the cutoff.
Speaker 1It was supposed to start around now this time. So give them a week or so. If it goes beyond that, then we've got to sink. I'll call Greg again soon. All right, Any other old business you can think of folks.
Speaker 5You were going to put together an item for the town meeting to get Aaron an extra help extra half-person or person.
Speaker 6I was Uh-huh. Is that the?
Speaker 5minutes Because you knew how to do it. You said you'd do it because you knew how to do it.
Speaker 1We don't know how to do it. Oh, an article for the town meeting, I guess that would.
Speaker 5You said that's the way you have to go. Okay.
Speaker 1I'm delinquent and I apologize. I will take that as an action. So, article, article. What are we talking about? Time? Yeah, clerical help how did I miss that? How many hours a week, I think it's as soon as probably 20.
Speaker 620?.
Speaker 2Well, if we go 19, then we might have a better shot, because there's no health insurance.
Speaker 3Tom used to always make us do 18 and a half, so there was no benefit If we do 19,.
Speaker 1we might have a better shot yeah because if it's benefits, then it's going to be twice the expense. Yeah, and I know their budget is tight with the schools, all right, so the likelihood is it's benefits, then it's going to be twice the expense budget is tight for the schools all right, so we'll do that.
Speaker 5I just think we have to do it to make put it out there right even this writing is everything else, I think we put it out there, and put it out there for that right until we get it. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2Okay, and I think 19 and under will probably be.
Speaker 1Thank you for reminding me of that.
Speaker 6I apologize for anything else.
Speaker 1What's that?
Speaker 2Bristol Lelts for Service.
Speaker 4Sometimes they have volunteers that you know people are still able to work and they come out. It doesn't cost. I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 1I think what they're gonna say to us is use the SAFE program.
Activity Relocations During Construction
Speaker 6Yeah, which we do? We do Because I've seen that in the past, when I remember when Liz was trying to get some help and they said use SAFE.
Speaker 5But there are still times when there's only one person here, and one person cannot cover everything that he's doing.
Speaker 1Yeah, and it's not a good idea, especially in the wintertime. It's dark in the area. The security list is documented.
Speaker 4Good idea. Alright, I'll put it together.
Speaker 1But I'm pretty sure that that's what they'll do. They'll come back to us and say you saved, we do use it, I know.
Speaker 6That's what we have to tell them.
Speaker 5It's not enough because there are times when there's just one person here to handle anything that happens.
Speaker 1Anything else in the whole business? Did I forget anything else? No Good, I'm out of a row. Okay, new business Change of location for certain activities.
Speaker 2Yeah, so we put the change in there. We're gonna use the Jim Connor building. We're gonna try to keep exercise here. If it's not working, we're gonna go to the Lions Club. Yeah, and we're just playing it by ear.
Speaker 1I'm guessing you're gonna have difficulty getting access to that room once they start on the bathroom, because the piping's gotta be right under that.
Speaker 2We would only use the front. We would enter and exit the front.
Speaker 6Oh, okay, the front door.
Speaker 4Nobody would come this way.
Speaker 2And we have a lot of parties. They were exit the front door. Nobody would come this way and where will the parties be? It's going to be right on the side of that door. We're going to get another decorative dumpster out here, I'm sure, and the bathrooms at the Jim Carna building will be open.
Speaker 3You can hike over there. What kind of space is available over there?
Speaker 2It's probably a room at size. Okay, that's a hard room, so it's not big enough for like, and it's pretty small. Yeah, it's like that size. That's about it. Everything else is cut off other than the bathroom.
Speaker 6They have everything locked because it's the We'll make do. Do we what we can do? We won't do. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 3They do have heat, it's for a good cause. That's the one thing about the Lions it takes so long to heat that building that they have to keep sweaters and even coats, because when we do meetings I'm halfway through the meeting before.
Speaker 1I take my coat off. Yeah, it's an old building.
Speaker 3I'm sure it's not well insulated, Well high ceilings. Yeah, they do have heat over there. Yes, they do have heat.
Speaker 1It takes a while.
Speaker 2Hopefully everyone just bears with us for the next month or two with the changes.
Speaker 5You can see the end.
Speaker 6The light is there at the end of the tunnel. It's not a dream.
Speaker 2next time, when you park over there. Some people like handicapped can park right next to the door at the gym. You can pull right up to the door. Yeah, there's a handicapped rep. You can park along that dirt road. You don't have to park way back there. I would park along the dirt road like parallel almost to the end, as long as it's not soggy and you sink that inside. Hopefully we're doing that the whole building is the. Jim Conn building. The white building.
Speaker 3The western horse shows.
Speaker 1Yeah, where the animal control offices are, okay. I thought they never got it. Well, we were supposed to be. That's what I thought.
Speaker 4Well, they didn't have an occupancy permit.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1Because it wasn't done right, it wasn't done up to code, but we could use it.
Gardening Club Grant Initiative
Speaker 2But we paid for it. I think they fixed the occupancy thing, but they can't. There was another company who came in after, supposedly to fix all the I think they fixed all the issues so that you can use the building now, but yeah, it's still All right. Still all right. Gardening club yes, I had a grant that I got to do on race garden beds, so I start that up. Super, I put some raised iron that's like over here.
Speaker 1So you're going to use the box type? Yeah, the higher ones.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah, and we'll fence it in like that.
Speaker 3One foot high, or three feet high, probably to my wrist.
Speaker 2Yeah, probably three feet. Yeah, good, wait a minute, that would make you five foot nine.
Speaker 1Yeah, you don't have five foot nine.
Speaker 5Yeah, I like it. Is there somebody going to be in charge of this?
Speaker 2I'm? Yeah, you don't have time for that? Yeah, I like it. Is there somebody going to be in charge of this? Yeah, so there's a couple people that were interested in it, so I'm going to reach back out to them and see if they still want to do it.
Speaker 1A club implies that someone's going to come and take care of the plants.
Speaker 6Yeah.
Speaker 1The only issue that I see is it's open to the world If anybody's going to come and steal your tomatoes.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's why the other place has a fence around it and it's locked.
Speaker 4I'm going to reach out to her? Are you going to put it? In the newsletter.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 4Hopefully April will start.
Speaker 5What's the guy that comes to Curbidge and does? He hasn't gotten he hasn't gotten to his kids, he hasn't gotten to his' house or something he just brings in vegetables.
Speaker 3Well, that's in Water Tower in Rainham and, honest to God, it's a complex that they live in. They put an in-law's apartment on. They had the front house with their three kids, put the mother-in-law in the back Mother-in-law's long gone. They put another addition on, so it's like a letter C, the entire house, and most of them live right there. Where's this? Because I know he does have an even 144?. Excuse me the one out on 44, yeah, Larry, let's see what was the kid's name. My kids went to school with him Chirp-Hot.
Speaker 1Not Larry. That used to have the ice cream place down the road. Is that Larry?
Speaker 3No, that was Larry George. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 5All right, he even has a garden up at the random.
Speaker 3well, I mean he often had pumpkins out front in the fall, but I mean he'd had pumpkins out front in the fall.
Speaker 5But I mean, he'd be somebody I would be really interested in, maybe just give us a little verbal help or something.
Speaker 2Yeah, hopefully we get that.
Speaker 4Probably start small and then yeah, I'd love to see native tomatoes. I don't think I got any this summer. I wasn't up for going out.
Speaker 2Yeah, and we do get a lot of donated we do. Which is really nice. It's so nice.
Speaker 1That's the problem with the whole garden.
Speaker 4Everything comes at once More than you can consume, you can sell some and raise money for the friends at the store.
Speaker 2You get nothing.
Speaker 1And then in August you get a bushel a day and you say what do I?
Speaker 5do and then you can't use them all.
Speaker 1Yeah, well, you have to put them up and if that that is successful, maybe we can go into chickens, because there's a lot of people I don't think I mean you get enough people that.
Speaker 5Yeah, I think I saw a post on Facebook friends looking for.
Speaker 1Is there any place for public God, god to grow on it's like $25.
Speaker 2Is it? You got paid. I didn't realize that Right on the corner.
Speaker 1All right, that's moving on. Friends group Give us an update. I missed the last meeting. I apologize, I was a bit sick.
Speaker 2So there's a friends group. It's an official group. They have their members, the directors and the board. We're going to have our next meeting this month next Thursday, Second Thursday. Yeah, that was the third. It's the second Thursday.
Speaker 4Okay, yeah, what time?
Speaker 2So next Thursday, the 13th, 3 o'clock the 13th yeah, I think the directors meet at 2.30 and then the regular meetings at 3 for anyone. If anybody wants to just be a friend of the, I'm going to put it in the newsletter. Yes, I think I missed it this morning. You did. I think you need it.
Speaker 1Oh, because we were going to put it in the pamphlet but it was too much money. There are dues requirements. That's why there are dues Ten dollars is the dues.
Speaker 2And Sue Conningsburg reached out to Hilliards for the chocolates because we were thinking of selling the chocolates for the first one. So I think she said it's $50 for 40 candy bars or something. So usually you charge $250 to make $50 on box.
Speaker 5It's Hilliards yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, so she got the pricing.
Speaker 5Yeah, it's half and half.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah. So if you do $250, you pay $50 and then you get $50.
Speaker 1The only thing we've got to do with that is, if we use that is, watch the timing, because if you conflict with the little league, all the kids, there you go. You don't have to sell anything.
Speaker 5People. You eat the chocolate and it's gone and people are ready for lunch. Is that good?
Speaker 1Yeah, I used to buy the whole thing rather than mess it up, buy the whole thing myself and I'd put it on my secretary's desk at work and it'd be gone by 10.30.
Speaker 3Is that something that we would do here? Have a box mixed here when you're here for an activity and you don't really like the dessert that was brought? Would Paula take the money for that?
Speaker 4Yeah, we'd just have to have it here At the desk. Yeah, why wouldn't people take that? Belong to the group? Try and sell them. Say it's someone.
Speaker 2Yeah, either way. I mean we can have a box here. You can do both.
Friends Group and Fundraising Plans
Speaker 4This is all for a friend's meeting, not for a board meeting.
Speaker 2But yeah, so it's all good. So yeah, 3 o'clock next Thursday. Do you want to be a?
Speaker 6friend of the group. Is it $10? No, that goes, please. Yes, is that going to be here?
Speaker 2I hope it should be here. Yeah, it's going to be here?
Speaker 1Okay, is that going to be here? I hope it should be here. Yeah, it's a board to be in, okay, the only other matter is let's take a look at this fancy colored.
Speaker 6Yeah, it's a letter. You got all the paid political announcements out of it.
Speaker 4Thank you, this looks like the Taunton one. Oh, and the hearing.
Speaker 2You'll see the hearing test in there, so we're going to start that. It'll be, the last Thursday of the month. If you want a hearing test, it's this one. They're sending us a flyer, so so that will be here the last Thursday of the month. We'll get a flyer up as soon as they fix it and send it to us, and I believe they're clean hearing aids.
Speaker 3They're what they're clean hearing aids too.
Speaker 1Very good. After the meeting, I want to tell you a little story about hearing aids. If you've got a minute to stick around, alright. Yes, very nice job, looks very professional. Do you have to put one of these stickers on every single?
Speaker 2one of them. We did, because we got the call that as soon as we thought, imprinted as soon as they arrived here, of course, john's alive self defense is back. Yeah, I'm hoping to expand the newsletter to bigger, but as of right now we're sticking with this one. Most centers have like eight pages, so maybe one day.
Speaker 5But see, that's something another person working with you can do.
Speaker 2You don't have enough time in the day. Yeah, so we're hoping to make it bigger and get more. I wanna get pictures of like single in there, because now it's color. Where it was black and white, it came out lousy, so now I can get pictures of things in there in color especially in the summer and stuff.
Speaker 1yeah so, and I see you've colored over this blue highlighted when you take place in the Lions Grove.
Speaker 2Yeah, but as of right now, just come here.
Speaker 1And, of course, the disclaimer everything is subject to change. Really, the way life goes yeah.
Speaker 5Just a side note here on Monday, you have handy input. On Wednesday and Friday, you have hand input.
Speaker 4Just because there was a, there might be a somebody saying I think I'm supposed to be playing hand and foot on that day. And I know his name.
Speaker 3so Well, Friday's not on here for hand and foot.
Speaker 5Yeah, on the back.
Speaker 3What is it? No, I'm looking up here. It says games and events and candy and food on Friday. It's not on there. Oh, wednesdays are on there. You got the handy? Yes, I did. Is that something on the line? No, it's not on there, it's on Wednesday. It's on Wednesday.
Speaker 5Okay, it's just you ran out of room because you got all the way to Thursday.
Speaker 2I wonder if it got cut off. Maybe I'll fix it. There's always a mistake.
Speaker 4You're saccharine of prize, physically fit only goes to Wednesdays too, so it must have gotten cut off. It probably got cut. Keep that physically fit. Only goes to Wednesdays too. That probably got cut too.
Speaker 5You could assign this to someone and they could keep track of all those things and change them. That wouldn't be your thing to do Right.
Speaker 2I'll fix those.
Speaker 1Any other items on the new business.
Speaker 3Anyone else that to bring up? I would like to go back and revisit the magazines out front. Just put it in the newsletter that bringing you lightly you want to set that up again everything yeah, because I mean I would always peruse that and get magazines that I didn't subscribe to but put mine there and at no cost. Somebody had said that if we applied to some of these places, the COA could get free copies to be placed out there too.
Speaker 1Is the wrap still there?
Speaker 5Yes, but it is nice to be. It is hanging up.
Speaker 6We figured that out the other day and that way almost since the beginning. That has to be something that is to be fixed.
Speaker 5You can almost pull it I did.
Speaker 4I did and.
Speaker 6I asked.
Speaker 1I answered it because I don't usually answer things on Facebook. But somebody said is there any place in town for a jigsaw puzzle? There are hundreds of them at the seniors center.
Speaker 4I don't know if anybody came in. Please take them and don't return them. Although I've had people say people took that puzzle I wanted to do and they didn't bring it back.
Speaker 6Right, because all that are out there.
Speaker 1If you can't find one that's a nice view, then you get a problem.
Speaker 3I mean, we pretty soon we'll need a separate building all right, I'm wondering how much use of the DVDs is happening, because I mean, that's three people regulars. There's three bookcases and we those and we're crowded for puzzles and I know a lot of people do the book swap too and we've just got one bookcase up there, maybe one book swap.
Speaker 4I don't think we need more puzzles.
Speaker 3No, but I'm just saying that those three bookcases.
Speaker 5How many puzzles can you get? You can fit 100 DVDs in three boxes of puzzles.
Speaker 1They were big during COVID. I know my wife and I did a couple of them a week.
Speaker 2Yeah, there's some regulars that come in for the DVDs and swap them out.
Speaker 4Would it be possible, instead of having that table with the puzzles all stacked up together, or maybe have it pass BP, if they could make a bookcase that would fit in that space? Good thought, I do agree.
Speaker 5I do agree, they look really nice. I suppose yeah, because then you can take them out like books.
Speaker 4Look at the front. Put them in there. Yeah, it would be a lot neater.
Speaker 1Would you mind? If we come up with all these things, what could?
Speaker 5they charge. I mean, we have five units here. That's why she needs to hear it. That's why she needs to hear it.
Speaker 1I know, Tell the chairman to get all of our agencies.
Speaker 4Can you use volunteers, like some of us that would have some time to spare, to help you out? Yeah, that's what you're saving.
Speaker 6Yeah, we use the save for that.
Speaker 4No, not just save. I mean just people like Answer the phone. But I don't use save because where we live it's yeah, we don't have to access there in our yeah, yeah, see if anybody volunteers and I've told you before.
Speaker 1There's a, an event that you can't be here for, I have the key now. I'll be more than happy to open up colors whatever, like the rave meeting you are. If we ever go back to game that you can't be here for, I have the key now. I'll be more than happy to open up, close whatever, like the rave meeting, or if we ever go back to game nights.
Speaker 3You know that's an open invitation and I know this is probably out of order, but the BP manicures? I noticed that that had been canceled.
Speaker 2Yes, they had to cancel it. They canceled February and then they canceled March. The BP what Manic manicures they're to cancel?
Speaker 1it. They canceled February and then they canceled March. The BP, what Manic manicure.
Speaker 2They're going to try again and then.
Speaker 3But I spoke to them about, because there's a lot of stuff that they could do, like facials, that wouldn't take. But BP only lets those kids go one field trip and they don't want their one field trip coming to the COA instead of to an amusement park somewhere. So I said it was something about being approved.
Speaker 3Okay about going there so if we did a day or afternoon or a couple and people from here with an appointment, go there on your own because they have all the equipment there. We're going for haircuts Don't look at the hair but I mean $10 for a haircut, shampoo and haircut. They do men as well, and I mean everything is a nominal fee. But it would be nice if we could continue that, because those girls, those people are looking for more experience for those girls.
Speaker 4Yeah, Do they have space to take a group from?
Speaker 3Yes, they have a room larger than our big room.
Speaker 4No, that's not what I mean. I mean, as far as students to service the people that might sign up. Yeah, they do to to to service the people that might sign up?
Speaker 3yeah, they do, I think three instructors there.
Speaker 4That's still not. But the same question I'm asking do they already have enough appointments to fill their week, where if we made appointments through the senior center it would overbook them?
Speaker 3When I talked to the woman, she saw that was a really good idea and she wouldn't have said that they would book to Erin if they were overbooked. That was my question.
Speaker 1Thank you, the academy, I don't know, is the academy still on Main Street? Is that still there?
Speaker 3I don't know. I think one of mine just started going there.
Speaker 1My wife built it here when she got out of high school. Okay, anything else. All right then. Thank you all for being here, and I'll make a motion to adjourn Second no further discussion. All in favor Aye, it is unanimous. Further discussion. All in favor, aye.