Senior Center Exhibit at Booth Library

 

The joy, the classes, the members’ achievements and the camaraderie at The Newtown Senior Center, 14 Riverside Road, Sandy Hook, are the focus of an exhibit at the CH Booth Library, Main Street, Newtown. Members of the Senior Center must be 60 and older or 55 if you’re disabled. Located in the showcase outside the Children’s library, the exhibit, a collaboration between the library and the Newtown Cultural Arts Commission, will be on display through August 28 during regular library hours.  Members of the Senior Center must be 60 and older or 55 if disabled.

From pottery classes to art classes to knitting workshops and time and space for friendships, the senior center supports the independence of the older citizen by supporting their mental, physical and social wellbeing.

A Regional Initiative Grant, through the Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut, funded the pottery course at the Senior Center through the work of Senior Center member John Boccuzzi.

Commenting that “Many hands working together,” Marilyn Place, Director of the Newtown Senior Center noted that each year, members of the Senior Center create decorative items from donated fabrics. All are available at the Center’s fall bazaar fall. Lap quilts are donated to the Praxair Cancer Center.

For more information, access http://www.newtown-ct.gov/public_documents/NewtownCT_Senior/programs

 

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Submitted by Newtown, CT

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