Bulletin Board for Seniors

Jill Hellberg
Wellness Project Coordinator
Sanford Center for Aging
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV
• 9-14 CD For Seniors -- I would greatly appreciate your help. I am a senior - and a professional musician. I am producing a CD for seniors - The most beautiful tunes of our times, from the 30's, 40's and 50's. I would like suggestions to be included. The top twenty please! -to Allan Singleton-Wood sw@interlog.com. Thank you.

• 9-3 Senior Adult Fellowship - To Whom It May Concern, -- I an the Director of the Senior Adult Fellowship at Marble Collegiate Church in NYC. I am looking for ideas on how to improve and develop a program which meets the needs of seniors in a dignified fashion. Do you have any suggestions on topics, ideas, speakers, dos, don'ts, etc..Fred jwchappy@cdmnet.com

• 8-19 Women's Poetry Classes -- I'd like to let seniors know about online introductory women's poetry classes I will be leading this fall through Kennesaw State University (http://www.mindspring.com/~profjer/ksu/Fall.htm). It isn't specifically for seniors, but I really enjoy having seniors in the class because they are so enthusiastic and their comments share such insight with the other students. There are also creative writing, technical writing, and other business courses listed on that site. Thank you! Tabatha Yeatts yeattslo@mindsprint.com

• 8-14 TV Story -- My name is Cordia Scott and I'm a reporter for a TV station in Monroe, Louisiana. I'm going to be doing a TV story on senior citizens in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area who are involved in sports or unusual leisure activities. If you know of someone who lives in the D.C. area and would be interested in being interviwed on TV please call me at 202-661-0143 or e-mail me at: cordia@nwu.edu Sincerely, Cordia Scott

• 8-14 50th Anniversary Party I am the oldest daughter, and I am planning a 50th anniversary party for my parents next May. I am looking for ideas--program ideas, decorating ideas, gift ideas. There are 4 of us children and 4 in-laws as well as 9 grandkids. If you have had an anniversary party given for you, or if you have attended one that has some special event, could you please share you ideas with me? Thank you!!! E-mail ekanger@nrctv.com

• Don Cornell, last of the Big Band singers, will be performing on two 7-day cruises in January from Ft Lauderdale, Florida to the Western Caribbean. We have put together a group of seniors at a special rate. It was so successful last January that we have booked it again next January on 2 new beautiful ships.

  Also, visit Don Cornell's new web site http://www.earthlink.net/~doncornell/. You will be able to see the new CDs and cassettes that Don Cornell has made available. These are the original songs from the 1950s & 1960s from Coral, RCA, Dot, Signature that have been redigitized to perfection. You will also see a beautiful biography of Don as well as his schedule of national appearances. We are very happy to say that there has been an enormous response to Don's site. Email us if there is an interest in cruising with the last of the Big Band singers, Don Cornell. Zora, Don Cornell's secretary. E-mail address doncornell@earthlink.net

• Food Shuttle of Western New York The food Shuttle of Western New York is an all volunteer group that picks up perishable food from super markets and delivers it to the soup kitchens and food pantries all over Western New York. The work calls for once a week scheduled pick ups (or fill ins) and are especially appropriate for active able seniors who have a larger car. If you can help e-mail Art Klein happyk1@aol.com or HappyK@ freenet.com, 876-0471

• A Witty Play -- For seniors who love to act: a witty play about a retired civil servant whose hobby is picking up lonely RICH women and showing them a "honeymoon special" -- at their expense. One day he falls in love and his hobby backfires. Cast: two men and one women. Book $2.00; royality $10-$20. Contact: Aran Press, 1320 S. Third St., Louisville, KY 40208; phone 502-636-0115

• AARP --- AARP does not speak for all of us seniors . We need a new organization that listens to people that tried to set up thier retirement; rather than those that squandered all of thier assets. From DRAKE" drake@rea-alp.com

• Suggestion-need for Seniors to take Mature Driving -- A lot of Seniors feel that they are good drivers since they have driven many years with no accident. However, please consider that a lot of Seniors never have taken any special classroom review of good driving habits since they learn to drive on the farm when they were teen agers. Many organizations give an ALL IN THE CLASSROOM course on defensive driving that allows the senior to receive a discount on their present car insurance. The cost for an AARP class is only $8.00 throughout the United States. Other organizations charge more. The Seniors will have far fewer accidents and traffic citations (10% to 17% fewer) upon completing the 8 hour class. E-mail Oliver Southwick - olly@hotcoco.infi.netfor more information. Olly, Lafayette, California