What's Happening

  Weekly Update
Week of Sept 2nd, 2024
506.450.7849
https://www.steppingstoneseniorcentre.com
 [email protected]
 
Happy Labour Day Weekend!
 
We are closed Monday, Sept 2nd
 
We need 250ml Mason jars to make more jam!
 
Yard & Bake Sale – This Saturday, Aug. 31st. – 8 am to noon. Rain or Shine. We accept donations for both the Yard and Bake Sales. Tables are available for rent - Members $10, Non-Members $20.  Call the Centre at 506-450-7849. TODAY, Friday, Aug 30th from 4:00 to 5:30 pm., set up your table(s) and drop off donations.
 
Breakfast- Saturday, Sept 7th from 8-11 am. Cost $10 for a full, hot breakfast!!
 
Programs beginning the week of September 9th
Come in or call the Centre to sign up
 
Beginner Guitar Lessons - Beginning Monday, Sept 9th at 2:00 pm.
 
American Mahjongg- Beginning Tuesday, September 10th at 10:00.
 
Core Strength & Mobility- Tuesday, Sept 10th at 10:30 am and Thursday Sept 12th at 11:45 am.


Functional Mobility - Tuesday Sept 10th at 11:30 am and Thursday Sept 12th at 11:30 am.

Fluid Dance - Beginning Tuesday, Sept 10th at 12:45 pm.

Adaptive Yoga - Beginning Tuesday, Sept 10th at 2:00 pm.
 
New!  Senior Stretch & Strength - Beginning Thursday, Sept 12th at 2:00 pm.


Rowing For Fitness - Beginning Friday, Sept 13th at 11:30 pm.   


Harmonica Lessons - Beginning Friday, Sept 13 at 1:30 pm.
 
New!  Ba Duan Jin Qigong for Seniors: A Gentle Path to Wellness - Demo Wednesday, Sept 18th at 9:30 am. This class is designed to help you improve your health, relax, and feel better overall through simple, gentle exercises. Ba Duan Jin, or the Eight Pieces of Brocade, is a set of eight easy-to-learn exercises. These movements are slow and smooth, making them perfect for seniors of all fitness levels. They help improve flexibility, balance, strength, and relaxation.  Whether you're new to Qigong or have done it before, you'll find this class beneficial and enjoyable.
 
New!  24-form Yang Style Tai Chi- Demo Friday, Sept 20th at 9:30 am. Join our Yang Style Tai Chi 24 Form class, perfect for seniors looking to enhance their health and well-being through gentle, flowing movements. This popular form of Tai Chi features smooth and continuous movements designed to promote relaxation and improve both physical and mental well-being.
 
Line Dancing classes at The Intercultural Centre- Beginning September 18th
*Note * Below are the correct times:
Instructor - Michele Watson
9:00 -  Intermediate 1
10:00 - Intermediate 2
Instructor - Eileen DuGuay
11:15 - Improver
12:15 - Beginner
Register at the Intercultural Centre on Sept 18th at the time of you class.
 
"Christmas Bus Trip - November 16th 2024" McAdam Train Station
Lunch at the Lion's Club, a Large Craft Sale, and a tour of the Beautiful Station!
Cost $120.00.  The first 50 to sign up will receive a wonderful Early Christmas Gift!!  Your all-inclusive Bus Trip will only cost you $70.00!
Sign-up sheet will be available Second week of September.  
COME JOIN US FOR THIS FABULOUS ADVENTURE!
 
Seniors Prom in celebration of the International Day of the Older Person
Saturday, October 5th, 2024 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm at the Fredericton Intercultural Centre, 28 Saunders Street. Music by the Thomists. Refreshments will be served. Donations will be accepted in support of Stepping Stone Senior Centre.
Contact: Jeff Foster, Fredericton Intercultural Centre [email protected] 506-462-3003
Madeleine Gaudet, Stepping Stone Senior Centre [email protected] 506-450-7849 
 
Community News:
 
Free Program Offering for Adults 60+ with symptoms of depression.  No need for formal diagnosis.  Participation includes 8 online group sessions (weekly, 90-minutes each) and 2 brief interviews via teleconferencing (Zoom platform).  You can join each session from your home/chosen place and learn information and tools for your mental health.  For more information, contact [email protected]


National Seniors for Climate Day of Action
Louise Comeau
October 1st is the United Nations International Day of the Older Person, and in Canada, Seniors for Climate are raising their voices – in webinars, marches, and gatherings of all kinds to say we want climate action now. Across Canada, 55 communities, including in New Brunswick, have signed up. In Fredericton, three activities are planned:

1. Join us Tuesday, October 1 at the New Brunswick Legislature from 11 am to noon. Bring a chair (rocking chairs welcome!) and hear songs from the Raging Grannies, join in making a pledge to future generations, and hear how climate change affects older people and what we can do about it. We want to fill the Legislature lawn. Everyone is welcome. Car pool from wherever you are like Moncton is planning.

 
   2. At 4 p.m. we will host a webinar where you will learn how climate change affects the health and safety of older people. This webinar is hosted by the New Brunswick Environment Network and the Fredericton Stepping Stone Senior Centre. Everyone is welcome. Register here. 
3. The Conservation Council of New Brunswick will release a case study on the experience of a New Brunswick senior living in an energy inefficient home and what can be done about it.To learn more about what’s happening in your community and how you can participate, check out this Seniors for Climate online map. You will find planned activities and contact information for New Brunswick communities. If you live somewhere without a planned activity, join your neighbours! Fredericton looks forward to seeing you at the Legislature and everyone is welcome to join the webinar.
Why is October 1st so important? We are facing unnatural disasters – new and escalating levels of record-shattering heat, wildfires, and floods. Extreme weather events put our health and quality of life at risk, especially older people who have less capacity to cope with overheated homes, power outages, and evacuations.
These unsafe extremes are mostly caused by burning oil, gas and coal pouring heat-trapping pollution into the air. It’s been happening since coal first powered ships, but really ramped up after World War ll to power growing economies and population. Now those Baby Boom Babies are Baby Boom Seniors. An unstable climate is not safe for us and not what we want to pass on to our children and grandchildren.
There are affordable and healthy solutions to climate change beneficial to all. First, we need to stop burning fossil fuels and switch to renewable energy and use clean electricity to power our lives. Second, we need to retrofit our homes and buildings so they use less energy and save us money. We want heat pumps for all and electric school buses for our grandchildren. Third, we need to help communities prepare for the extreme events already happening.
Time is running out. We need to act now, and seniors do something more reliably than others: WE VOTE. Many of us are also fortunate enough to have spending power to support solutions and the energy transition. We have time to advocate for change and to be part of a broad-based and deep-rooted movement – so that our kids and our grandkids inherit a better world. Join us now, because later really is too late.