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Council on Aging 03/04/2025
(Episode Description is AI generated and may be errors in accuracy)
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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Okay, 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 3:A little bit and another WAPA this month. Last month, $933. Oh jeez, the gas off the street.
Speaker 1:I'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 2:Yeah, I'd like that.
Speaker 5:What's that the Everforce building.
Speaker 4:How come we have Everforce and we?
Speaker 2:don't have NLP. I don't know I could find out why we have Everforce. We're 19 dollars a month.
Speaker 1:Well, nlp only covers a portion of Dighton. Like my brother-in-law and sister-in-law, they live in Dighton, oh, here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we pay $19. I don't think we have gas yet.
Speaker 1:Gas 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 3:So it's got to be here, but something's wrong with getting Eversource. Are those the gas stoves over?
Speaker 4:there Huge yeah. But, we don't have.
Speaker 5:I mean is the gas line in here? I don't think so.
Speaker 3:Do we have gas water here? Do we have to pay a fee to get to the?
Speaker 1:house? I don't think so.
Speaker 6:no, no, but you know, if we don't have it.
Speaker 1:I don't think there's any availability sometimes it's $19 every month, so it's the same it doesn't change source.
Speaker 3:we may have to pay a fee just because it goes in front of the house?
Speaker 5:no, nothing. Run a tea in the ocean. You have to do that.
Speaker 3:That'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 1:I know and her delivery free fee was as much as Well.
Speaker 2:This is supposedly what they're looking into? Yeah, but they're talking about 15% when they're going up 30%.
Speaker 3:The last two months they've gone up 30%.
Speaker 1:But you don't have TMLP here. Huh yeah.
Speaker 2:I do oh you do, that's true. Okay, because Eversource does both gas and electric.
Speaker 1:Is that correct?
Speaker 2:No, there's a TMLP here. We have TMLP.
Speaker 1:All 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 2:Oh okay, good for review, all right sounds good.
Speaker 1:You 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.
Speaker 2:So 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 1:So when is that signing? It's already happening.
Speaker 2:It 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 4:Did they call you to tell you they weren't coming?
Speaker 2:Nope. 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 2:We'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 2:What 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 2:Yeah we'll probably just take them all for this month, because it's right across the street
Speaker 2:and 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 6:Yeah, pick up here on Thursday.
Speaker 2:And they'll be off for like a week and a half almost, which will be nice.
Speaker 3:You'll have to give a report. Do I have to write it in you know, double space to it.
Speaker 2:With pictures.
Speaker 5:With pictures, of course.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that should be good With pictures. Of course I didn't even ask that.
Speaker 5:Yes, that should be good.
Speaker 2:And 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 4:Sholes Lighthouse.
Speaker 3:You're going to get two more, but I just don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 4:So 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 2:Yeah. So she said that's no problem, We'll work with it.
Speaker 4:And early in the morning come back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:Yeah, 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 1:I'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 2:The 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 1:Yeah, 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 6:I asked if she said no other than yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1:Hey, hey, hi dog, hi dog, hi, hi, hi Hi. How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing?
Speaker 2:How are you doing? How are you doing, how are you doing, how are you doing, how are you doing, how are you doing?
Speaker 3:How 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 2:I mean the reason you do two.
Speaker 3:you can go to one, but not both.
Speaker 2:Yes, 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 3:So there's no parking spaces out here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:That's the latest craze. You're seeing more and more of them popping up in all kinds of organizations.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're all over. You got prayer places.
Speaker 1:Talk about a niche business, huh Geez.
Speaker 4:Yes, came up with that. I'm surprised somebody else has and decided to get in on it.
Speaker 1:What is he? The only one. He's the one that goes to all the centers. He's the only one around.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he goes to Bridgewater Dayton. He's over there.
Speaker 1:Somebody. 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 6:beer when we All right All set.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, I'm going to go Motion to accept Okay.
Speaker 6:Very good, do I?
Speaker 1:have a second Second, any discussion Hearing. None All in favor. Aye, aye, very good.
Speaker 6:On the roll for a record here.
Speaker 1:Renovation up the bathroom? No, there's not much. I don't hear a jackhammer.
Speaker 2:Nope. 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 4:Sounds very unreliable. Yeah, I have not heard so.
Speaker 2:Can you call?
Speaker 4:them and give them an email.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:Yeah, I've seen the roofers out already.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so then they were coming here right after, so maybe they got a great day too right.
Speaker 1:What'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 2:Yeah, I'll just see.
Speaker 1:Maybe you could ask the question of Bob or Greg. Yeah, who's going to make data?
Speaker 4:support. 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 6:That's his as far as I'm concerned, that's his bail not yours.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'll call Greg, yeah so because we haven't ordered the porta potties yet, because we haven't gotten anything definite.
Speaker 2:We need more of just a day of.
Speaker 4:It'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 3:You 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 5:So are you going to have the activities?
Speaker 2:I 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 4:So did they give us like a time frame as to how long it would be once they get started?
Speaker 2:How 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 4:Do we have an end date in the contract June 30th?
Speaker 1:Yeah, no later than June 30th. They have to finish before June 30th, yeah, no later than June 30th.
Speaker 4:They have to finish before June 30th.
Speaker 2:Are there penalties? I'm not sure.
Speaker 1:Well, if there isn't, then there's no sense putting a date in contract.
Speaker 2:Yeah 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 1:It 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 5:You were going to put together an item for the town meeting to get Aaron an extra help extra half-person or person.
Speaker 6:I was Uh-huh. Is that the?
Speaker 5:minutes Because you knew how to do it. You said you'd do it because you knew how to do it.
Speaker 1:We don't know how to do it. Oh, an article for the town meeting, I guess that would.
Speaker 5:You said that's the way you have to go. Okay.
Speaker 1:I'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 6:20?.
Speaker 2:Well, if we go 19, then we might have a better shot, because there's no health insurance.
Speaker 3:Tom used to always make us do 18 and a half, so there was no benefit If we do 19,.
Speaker 1:we 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 5:I 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 2:Okay, and I think 19 and under will probably be.
Speaker 1:Thank you for reminding me of that.
Speaker 6:I apologize for anything else.
Speaker 1:What's that?
Speaker 2:Bristol Lelts for Service.
Speaker 4:Sometimes 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 1:I think what they're gonna say to us is use the SAFE program.
Speaker 6:Yeah, 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 5:But there are still times when there's only one person here, and one person cannot cover everything that he's doing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's not a good idea, especially in the wintertime. It's dark in the area. The security list is documented.
Speaker 4:Good idea. Alright, I'll put it together.
Speaker 1:But 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 6:That's what we have to tell them.
Speaker 5:It's not enough because there are times when there's just one person here to handle anything that happens.
Speaker 1:Anything 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 2:Yeah, 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 1:I'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 2:We would only use the front. We would enter and exit the front.
Speaker 6:Oh, okay, the front door.
Speaker 4:Nobody would come this way.
Speaker 2:And 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 3:You can hike over there. What kind of space is available over there?
Speaker 2:It'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 6:They 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 3:They 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 1:I take my coat off. Yeah, it's an old building.
Speaker 3:I'm sure it's not well insulated, Well high ceilings. Yeah, they do have heat over there. Yes, they do have heat.
Speaker 1:It takes a while.
Speaker 2:Hopefully everyone just bears with us for the next month or two with the changes.
Speaker 5:You can see the end.
Speaker 6:The light is there at the end of the tunnel. It's not a dream.
Speaker 2:next 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 3:The western horse shows.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 4:Well, they didn't have an occupancy permit.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because it wasn't done right, it wasn't done up to code, but we could use it.
Speaker 2:But 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 1:So you're going to use the box type? Yeah, the higher ones.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, and we'll fence it in like that.
Speaker 3:One foot high, or three feet high, probably to my wrist.
Speaker 2:Yeah, probably three feet. Yeah, good, wait a minute, that would make you five foot nine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't have five foot nine.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I like it. Is there somebody going to be in charge of this?
Speaker 2:I'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 1:A club implies that someone's going to come and take care of the plants.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 1:The only issue that I see is it's open to the world If anybody's going to come and steal your tomatoes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's why the other place has a fence around it and it's locked.
Speaker 4:I'm going to reach out to her? Are you going to put it? In the newsletter.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Hopefully April will start.
Speaker 5:What'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 3:Well, 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 1:Not Larry. That used to have the ice cream place down the road. Is that Larry?
Speaker 3:No, that was Larry George. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 5:All right, he even has a garden up at the random.
Speaker 3:well, I mean he often had pumpkins out front in the fall, but I mean he'd had pumpkins out front in the fall.
Speaker 5:But I mean, he'd be somebody I would be really interested in, maybe just give us a little verbal help or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hopefully we get that.
Speaker 4:Probably 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 2:Yeah, and we do get a lot of donated we do. Which is really nice. It's so nice.
Speaker 1:That's the problem with the whole garden.
Speaker 4:Everything comes at once More than you can consume, you can sell some and raise money for the friends at the store.
Speaker 2:You get nothing.
Speaker 1:And then in August you get a bushel a day and you say what do I?
Speaker 5:do and then you can't use them all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 5:Yeah, I think I saw a post on Facebook friends looking for.
Speaker 1:Is there any place for public God, god to grow on it's like $25.
Speaker 2:Is it? You got paid. I didn't realize that Right on the corner.
Speaker 1:All right, that's moving on. Friends group Give us an update. I missed the last meeting. I apologize, I was a bit sick.
Speaker 2:So 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 4:Okay, yeah, what time?
Speaker 2:So 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 1:Oh, 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 2:And 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 5:It's Hilliards yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so she got the pricing.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's half and half.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So if you do $250, you pay $50 and then you get $50.
Speaker 1:The 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 5:People. You eat the chocolate and it's gone and people are ready for lunch. Is that good?
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 3:Is 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 4:Yeah, 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 2:Yeah, either way. I mean we can have a box here. You can do both.
Speaker 4:This is all for a friend's meeting, not for a board meeting.
Speaker 2:But yeah, so it's all good. So yeah, 3 o'clock next Thursday. Do you want to be a?
Speaker 6:friend of the group. Is it $10? No, that goes, please. Yes, is that going to be here?
Speaker 2:I hope it should be here. Yeah, it's going to be here?
Speaker 1:Okay, 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 6:Yeah, it's a letter. You got all the paid political announcements out of it.
Speaker 4:Thank you, this looks like the Taunton one. Oh, and the hearing.
Speaker 2:You'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 3:They're what they're clean hearing aids too.
Speaker 1:Very 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 2:one 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 5:But see, that's something another person working with you can do.
Speaker 2:You 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 1:yeah so, and I see you've colored over this blue highlighted when you take place in the Lions Grove.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but as of right now, just come here.
Speaker 1:And, of course, the disclaimer everything is subject to change. Really, the way life goes yeah.
Speaker 5:Just a side note here on Monday, you have handy input. On Wednesday and Friday, you have hand input.
Speaker 4:Just 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 3:so Well, Friday's not on here for hand and foot.
Speaker 5:Yeah, on the back.
Speaker 3:What 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 5:Okay, it's just you ran out of room because you got all the way to Thursday.
Speaker 2:I wonder if it got cut off. Maybe I'll fix it. There's always a mistake.
Speaker 4:You'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 5:You 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 2:I'll fix those.
Speaker 1:Any other items on the new business.
Speaker 3:Anyone 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 1:Is the wrap still there?
Speaker 5:Yes, but it is nice to be. It is hanging up.
Speaker 6:We figured that out the other day and that way almost since the beginning. That has to be something that is to be fixed.
Speaker 5:You can almost pull it I did.
Speaker 4:I did and.
Speaker 6:I asked.
Speaker 1:I 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 4:I 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 6:Right, because all that are out there.
Speaker 1:If you can't find one that's a nice view, then you get a problem.
Speaker 3:I 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 4:I don't think we need more puzzles.
Speaker 3:No, but I'm just saying that those three bookcases.
Speaker 5:How many puzzles can you get? You can fit 100 DVDs in three boxes of puzzles.
Speaker 1:They were big during COVID. I know my wife and I did a couple of them a week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's some regulars that come in for the DVDs and swap them out.
Speaker 4:Would 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 5:I do agree, they look really nice. I suppose yeah, because then you can take them out like books.
Speaker 4:Look at the front. Put them in there. Yeah, it would be a lot neater.
Speaker 1:Would you mind? If we come up with all these things, what could?
Speaker 5:they 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 1:I know, Tell the chairman to get all of our agencies.
Speaker 4:Can 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 6:Yeah, we use the save for that.
Speaker 4:No, 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 1:There'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 3:You 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 2:Yes, they had to cancel it. They canceled February and then they canceled March. The BP what Manic manicures they're to cancel?
Speaker 1:it. They canceled February and then they canceled March. The BP, what Manic manicure.
Speaker 2:They're going to try again and then.
Speaker 3:But 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 3:Okay 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 4:Yeah, Do they have space to take a group from?
Speaker 3:Yes, they have a room larger than our big room.
Speaker 4:No, 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 3:yeah, they do, I think three instructors there.
Speaker 4:That'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 3:When 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 1:Thank you, the academy, I don't know, is the academy still on Main Street? Is that still there?
Speaker 3:I don't know. I think one of mine just started going there.
Speaker 1:My 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.