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Lifetime Learning Center
Summer Classes Start in July
Offers daytime, non-credit college-level courses in a wide range of subjects, from literature, history, and opera appreciation to bridge, yoga, and tai chi (geared to older adults), watercolor, quilting, computer classes, and writing your life story. About 35 classes are offered each quarter (Fall, Winter, and Spring). Each class is offered one day a week for eight weeks. A shortened Summer session is also offered.
The best way to get to know them is to visit a class. You are welcome to sit in on any class you are interested in - just drop by the office and introduce yourself before class!
Many of their instructors are retired academics. Others are current professionals and artists. All are volunteers who offer their time and expertise. Their reward is the satisfaction of teaching enthusiastic students.
You´ll find that the Lifetime Learning Center is one of the best bargains in continuing education in the Puget Sound region. Their goal is that no student be excluded by the cost of attending classes. Check their current schedule for class fees. They are on the Web at http://lifetimelearningseattle.org/
Lifetime Learning Center
520 NE Ravenna Blvd.
Seattle, WA 98115
Phone: (206)524-3778
A Seattle-based, tax-exempt non-profit organization since 1981, supported by fees, grants, and fund-raising.
Free Admission to Pacific Science Center for Seniors
The Pacific Science Center is offering free admission to King County seniors on Wednesdays. This is quite a savings over the usual senior admission of $8.50. This offer applies to all of the regular exhibits but not to special exhibits such as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Their Fall Hours on Weekdays are 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Prices, schedules, and hours are subject to change.)
Pacific Science Center is located under the five white arches near the Space Needle in Seattle.
Please call (206) 443-2001 for the latest information.
Pacific Science Center
200 Second Ave. N.
Seattle, WA 98109
Phone: 206.443.2001
Fax: 206.443.3631
http://www.pacsci.org/info.html
Wanna Dance?
Got an urge to dance? Here are a number of locations in the Puget Sound area where seniors can go to dance. There is something every day of the week! Betty's List. The list is also available as a Word document file.
A little rusty or interested in learning some new steps or dances. Betty McLain teaches dancing for seniors at a number of Seattle area locations. Highly recommended by this Webmaster--I'm one of her students! Check her web site for more information: BettysDance
Are you interested in the effects of stress on your health?
The University of Washington Caregiver Project is seeking married couples 55-years of age or older to participate in a study examining the effects of stress on health.
What We Provide You:
- Free medical tests including cholesterol, lipid, glucose, insulin, fat and blood pressure;
- Free breakfast and lunch while at the University;
- Results of medical tests sent to you and to your doctor;
- Transportation if needed and free parking;
- Fifty dollars per couple at the end of the study.
For More Information:
Margaret Savage, Project Coordinator
University of Washington
206-616-1869
Warning
By Jenny Joseph
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn´t go, and doesn´t suit
me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandles, and say we´ve no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I´m tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people´s gardens
And learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
Baby Boomers!
If you know that Paul McCartney was in another band before Wings, then we have a place for you here at BBHQ.
