STEIN SENIOR CENTER MARCH 2016 NEWSLETTER Jane Barry, Executive Director Robert F. Doxsey, Deputy Director 204 East 23 rd Street, 2 nd Floor New York, NY 10010 Tel: (646) 395-8083 Fax: (646) 395-8088 Website: www.steinseniorcenter.org HOURS OF OPERATION MONDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM 4:30PM Programs funded in part by the Dept. For The Aging
Welcome to March, 2016 Can Spring be far behind? We ve been glued to our TVs watching the political happenings. It promises to be a fascinating year ahead. As usual, Stein is jumping with all the activities and programs. We have a new feature starting Thursday, March 31st from 10 am to 2 pm. Bernie is a watchmaker who will fix your watches (replace batteries, clean the watch innards, etc.) The only charge will be for the batteries or other replacement parts needed. Bernie will be at Stein twice monthly, so gather your good watches. By the way, Bernie won t fix your Rolexes, Movados or Tourneau gems, just your eve-ryday watches. Stein is focused on health and wellness and offers many exercise classes from Yoga to Zumba to Strength training to Feldenkrais classes and more. We know that exercise is key to maintaining good physical and cognitive health. Please take advantage of our classes which are taught by certified teachers. Your presence guarantees that these classes will continue. The same goes for our educational and cultural programs, which are many and diverse. Your support keeps them going. It is the time of year where we are assessing needs for the last quarter of our fiscal budget. We are again going to be under in our meal contributions. Please Step up to the Plate again and help us cover our annual contribution level. If you are able, please contribute the suggested $2.00 per meal. The actual cost of meals is much more of course, so your contribution matters. Thank you for your help. Stein is fortunate to have three nursing programs here from Hunter/Bellevue, Pace and NYC Tech. These nurses are doing their community rotations here and help out in many ways. In addition to giving health lectures, monitoring blood pressures, etc. they are planning a health fair, special fundraising events, and outreach to the health community. We are planning computer classes provided by Senior Planet, funded by our wonderful Council members, Rosie Mendez and Dan Garodnick to start in April. Dates to be announced. Barbara Green continues to volunteer her seamstress skills in March, fixing seams and mending tears in your clothes. Please see the newsletter pages for her schedule. The Senior Chorus will be meeting until early April. Kristen, the conductor is preparing the chorus for performances here and at Turtle Bay Music School. Thanks to an anonymous member for funding our Feldenkrais classes for the last year. Stein also offers some dynamic smaller group activities: play-reading, art history, beading (not so small), bellydancing, meditation, knitting, and bridge. Our SPA group is for early to mid-stage Alzheimer s clients and their caregivers. It is a wonderful group of people, well-respected and full to capacity. On Wednesdays, Volunteers, Pat and Jane sell soft and hard-cover books and greeting cards- the best deal in town - $.25 for soft cover, $.50 for hard cover books. As soon as the weather improves, we will plan some day trips in and around the city. If you have suggestions, please let us know. I also want to thank our great staff and student intern, Janice for their good work, the nurses and their professors for excellent projects, our volunteers for their constant loyalty, our teachers, our board and senior advisory council, our members for your support. The Stein Senior Center is a partnership of all the above resulting in a dynamic and changing center for lifelong learning. Jane Barry, Executive Director
Talking Circle Let's talk about IT? A TOPICAL DISCUSSION GROUP FACILITATED BY: MIKA SZABO MEETS THE FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH BEGINNING March 3rd at 1:30 PM ACTIVITY ROOM 1
Stein Senior Center Will Be Closed on March 25 th for Good Friday
Ladies, We Salute You!
STEIN SENIOR CENTER MARCH 2016 ACTIVITIES Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Open Computer Lab 9:00 1:00 Arthritis Exercise 11:15 12:15 Activity Rooms 1 & 2 NO CLASS 3/14 Opera Appreciation 1:30 2:30 3/7 Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss Act 2, Part 1 3/14 Ariadne auf Naxos, Act 2 Finale 3/21 Madama Butterfly by Puccini, Act 1 3/28 Madama Butterfly, Act 2 Open Computer Lab CLOSED Feldenkrais 11:00 12:00 Activity Room 1 Knitting 10:00 11:30 Activity Room 2 Nurses Presentation: Stress Be Gone! 10:45 3/15 Art History 11:00 12:00 Lecture Room Next Step Yoga 12:30 1:45 Activity Rooms 1 & 2 Zumba 1:30 2:30 NO CLASS 3/8 Legal Clinic 1:30 3:00 Lecture Room 3/8 Open Computer Lab 1:30 4:00 Play Reading: Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw 3/2 & 3/16 10:30-12:00 Lecture Room Book & Card Sale 10:30 11:30 Strength Training 11:00 12:00 Activity Room 1 NO CLASS 3/30 Meditation 1:00 2:00 Activity Room 1 NO CLASS 3/9 & 3/16 Bridge Club 1:15 3:45 Beading with Sarita 1:30 2:30 Open Computer Lab CLOSED Nurses Presentation: Clean House, Strong Bones 10:45 3/17 Arthritis Exercise 11:00 12:00 Activity Room 1 NO CLASS 3/17 Senior Chorus 12:30 1:30 Activity Room 1 Birthday Party! 1:30-3:00 3/24 Happy St. Patrick s Day! Open Computer Lab 9:00 1:00 Yiddish Club 10:30-11:30 Lecture Room Belly Dancing 11:00 12:00 Activity Rooms 1 & 2 Shakespeare Othello 1:30 2:30 Happy Good Friday! PARTIALLY FUNDED BY THE DEPARTMENT FOR THE AGING SUGGESTED DONATION FOR EACH PROGRAM IS $2.00 SUGGESTED DONATION FOR OPERA APPRECIATION, BRIDGE CLUB AND SHAKESPEARE IS $5.00 Dates subject to change. Please call our center for updates.
SPECIAL PROGRAMS We Care Committee Visit Our Website For a Comprehensive Overview of Our Mission and Programs www.steinseniorcenter.org Contact Pat Keegan Tell her about people you have not seen and are concerned about. A call will be made and, as appropriate, a card sent. (You can always leave a message for Pat with LaToya Fowler or Sandy Daniels) Shop & Escort Shopping services and escort to appointments Call LaToya Fowler at least 3 days in advance 646-395-8083 Sandy Daniels Social Worker Case Assistance, Benefits and Information Call for an appointment Sandy Daniels at 646-395-8083 MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATION Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00-1:00 Please make an appointment with Ruth Walker CALL: 646-395-8083 Please bring proof of your age. The name, address, and telephone number of your doctor, hospital or clinic. The name, address, and telephone number of an emergency contact such as your spouse, other relative, or friend. A list of medications you are taking along with the daily dosage. There is no cost to become a member of Stein Senior Center. ALL MEMBERS Need an updated membership card with a 2016 sticker Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00am 1:00pm
SPECIAL PROGRAMS SHAKESPEARE Beware my Lord of the green-eyed monster... The devilishly scheming Iago. Here's Shakespeare s definitive study of jealousy. Everyone in this painful tragedy is ultimately poisoned by mistrust. Most especially the romantically naive couple who start out like a May/December Romeo and Juliet. Black Othello and high born Desdemona have eloped in a gondola. For the starry-eyed couple midnight in Venice is a lover s playground. But their happiness is not meant to be. Envy intrudes and evil will dash their tender dreams. Shakespeare at his best. Fridays, 1:30pm Play Reading with John Windsor Cunningham March s featured play Joe Orton s What The Butler Saw Wednesdays - 3/2 & 3/16 OPERA APPRECIATION 3/7 Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, Act 2, part 1 featuring Deborah Voigt and Natalie Dessay 3/14 Ariadne auf Naxos, Act 2 Finale 3/21 Madama Butterfly by Puccini, Act 1 featuring Leontyne Price (audio only) 3/28 Madama Butterfly, Act 2 featuring Maria Callas (audio only) Mondays, 1:30pm,
SPECIAL PROGRAMS THEATRE & MORE Tickets Available Wednesdays 10:30am 1:30pm Thursdays 10:30am 1:30pm* Fridays 11:30am 2:00pm ********** BOOK & CARD SALE ********** Wednesdays 10:30am 11:30pm Books Hard Cover: 50 Soft Cover 25 Cards - 10 Awakening Your Body Next Step Yoga - Tuesdays 12:30pm - 1:45pm Activity Room 1 Public Health Solutions Apply for Medicaid Mondays & Fridays 9:30 am For more information, call Sandy 646-395-8083 xt. 101
SPECIAL PROGRAMS Seamstress Service Thursday March 3rd Activity Room 2 1:00-3:00 pm Nutrition Presentation By Denise Sabal Cancer Prevention Thursday March 3rd 1:15 pm in the Legal Clinic Tuesday March 8th 1:30-3:00 pm Lecture Room HICAP Wednesday March 16th Call Bob for appointments 646-395-8083 xt 104 Hair Cuts by Jennie Thursday March 24th Call LaToya for appointments 646-395-8083 xt. 106 Birthday Party! Thursday March 24th 1:30-3:00 pm Celebrate your birthday with us! Refreshments will be served in the dining room Bernie s Watch Repair Thursday March 31st 10:00 am 2:00 pm Lecture Room
SPECIAL PROGRAMS ART HISTORY with Judy Collischan Every Tuesday 11:00 am Lecture Room "From the 6th Century BCE to the 8th CE" BEADING WITH SARITA Come learn unique jewelry design and repair! See Instructor Wednesdays 1:30 pm
Stein Senior Center Acknowledges Our Generous Supporters: The New York City Department for the Aging The Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation The New York State Office of the Aging The John A. Hartford Foundation Discretionary Grants Program A special thanks to Stein members who contribute to our programs.
STEIN SENIOR CENTER MARCH 2016 MENU LUNCH SERVED FROM 11:30am - 12:45pm MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 29 Pepper Steak with Onions Brown Rice Baby Carrots with Parsley Apple Juice Fruit Cocktail 7 Eggplant Parmesan Barley Chickpea Salad With Dried Fruit Sauteed Spinach Canned Apricots Orange Pineapple Juice 1 BBQ Chicken Penne Tossed Salad with Dressing Zucchini with Corn and Tomatoes Apple Orange Juice 8 Beef Meatballs Tomato Sauce Whole Wheat Bread Whole Wheat Spaghetti Broccoli w/toasted Garlic Pear 2 Veggie Meatballs in Tomato Sauce Rice Pilaf Green Bean Saute Orange Pineapple Juice Pear 9 BBQ Pork Ribs Whole Wheat Bread Mixed Green Salad Vegetable Ratatouille Apple 3 Onion Soup Grilled Chicken Breast Whole Wheat Bread Tossed Salad with Dressing Orange 10 Turkey with Gravy Whole Wheat Dinner Roll Baked Sweet Potato Green Bean Saute Apple Juice Applesauce 4 Veg Lasagna Whole Wheat Dinner Roll Kale, Romaine, Apple, Red Cabbage and Parmesan Salad Ranch Dressing Apple Juice Banana 11 Baked Salmon Brown Rice Spinach, Apple and Red Onion Salad Canned Pineapple Orange Juice 14 Chicken Noodle Soup Chicken Parmesan Bowtie Noodles Collard Greens with Tomato Pear 15 Pepper Steak with Onions Brown Rice Mixed Vegetables Tossed Salad with Dressing Orange 16 Salmon Whole Wheat Bread Baked Sweet Potato Cauliflower with Carrots and Parsley Canned Pineapple Orange Pineapple Juice 17 Corned Beef Dinner Roll Boiled Potatoes Cabbage Ice Cream Orange Juice 18 BBQ Chicken Brown Rice with Beans Sauteed Spinach Tossed Salad with Dressing Orange 21 Lemon Salmon Whole Wheat Bread Collard Greens with Tomato Tossed Salad with Dressing Fruit Cocktail 22 Eggplant Parmesan Penne Tossed Salad with Dressing Apple Orange Juice 23 Spinach and White Bean Soup Swedish Meatballs with Beef and Turkey Brown Rice Mushroom, Red Pepper and Onion Saute Kiwi 24 Grilled Chicken Breast Cous Cous Zucchini with Corn and Tomatoes Orange Pineapple Juice Sliced Peaches 25 CLOSED GOOD FRIDAY 28 Split Pea Soup Baked Flounder Whole Wheat Dinner Roll Corn and Peas Sauteed Spinach Fruit Cocktail Orange Juice 29 Honey Mustard Chicken Whole Wheat Bread Garlic Mashed Potatoes Italian Blend Vegetables Orange 30 BBQ Pork Ribs Whole Wheat Bread Cabbage with Shredded Carrots Vegetable Ratatouille Apple Orange Juice 31 Chicken Noodle Soup Chicken Parmesan Bowtie Noodles Baby Carrots with Parsley Canned Apricots 1 Stuffed Shells with Cheese Beet and Onion Salad Tossed Salad with Dressing Kiwi Suggested Donation $2.00 for those 60+ Guests under 60 - $5.00 Partially funded by the Department for the Aging MENU SUBJECT TO CHANGE