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Senior Centre Without Walls releases April schedule

Weekly art classes, brain health, poetry among host of activities scheduled for next month
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Seniors can find all sorts of interesting topics in the April schedule for Seniors Centre Without Walls.
The Seniors Centre Without Walls has another busy month of phone-based activities lined up to help keep folks connected in these difficult times.

It’s all free to take part in, with participants able to join up by calling (306) 631-4357, e-mail swwsask@sasktel.net or visit their website at www.scwwmoosejaw.com.

Those who’ve signed up will receive a call from (306) 801-6393 at the time of the event and are asked to press one, from where they’ll automatically be linked to the class or activity.

Some events needed to be pre-registered for by March 25, so be sure to keep an eye out for May’s schedule in the middle of next month.

For more information on any of the programs, contact Ronda at (306) 631-4357 or (306) 690-4957 or Yvette at (306) 419-9127.

Here’s a list of dates, times and classes set to take place in April.

Thursday, April 1

(Pre-registration required)

10 a.m. -- Easter Clay at Home with Christy Schweiger, education coordinator at the Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery. Kits have been sent out in advance of the class.

Monday, April 5

1:30 p.m. -- The Myrna Show featuring a variety of coffee chats, social visits and trivia games.

2 p.m. -- Seated yoga with Ericka

Tuesday, April 6

10:30 a.m. -- Grief’s Effect on the Body, Mind and Spirit, and the Self-Care Strategies to Navigate Those Effects. Presented by Della Ferguson of Jones-Parkview Funeral Services.

11 a.m. -- Brain Food with Paulette Mills. Help for brain health, memory, learning challenges and depression. Learn what you can do to improve health brain function without drugs through food, lifestyle and supplements. For more on Paulette and her books on healing, visit www.healingwithnutrition.ca.

1:30 p.m. -- The Myrna Show featuring a variety of coffee chats, social visits and trivia games.

Thursday, April 8

(Pre-registration was required)

10 a.m. -- Oil pastels with Christy Schweiger.

Friday, April 9

10 a.m. -- Lorne Jackson plays old-time music on piano.

1:30 p.m. -- The Myrna Show featuring a variety of coffee chats, social visits and trivia games.

2 p.m. -- Seated yoga with Ericka.

Monday, April 12

10 a.m. -- Crazy Categories with Donna Kostal from the Moose Jaw Public Library. Join Donna as she gives us questions and we try to guess the answer!

1:30 p.m. -- The Myrna Show featuring a variety of coffee chats, social visits and trivia games.

2 p.m. -- Seated yoga with Ericka.

Tuesday, April 13

10:30 a.m. -- The Mourning Tasks of Grief with Della Ferguson of Jones-Parkview Funeral Services.

Wednesday, April 14

10 a.m. -- Shared Air with Ryan MacGillivray, M.Sc., P.ENG. Learn how the air spaces in public buildings are build and how they can keep us safe if built proper.

1 p.m. (preregistration was required) -- Creative Writing and Life Story Writing with Lynda Monahan.

Thursday, April 15

(preregistration was required)

10 a.m. -- Coffee Filter Art with Christy Schweiger.

Friday, April 16

10 a.m. -- Lorne Jackson plays old-time music on piano.

1:30 p.m. -- The Myrna Show featuring a variety of coffee chats, social visits and trivia games.

2 p.m. -- Seated yoga with Ericka.

Monday, April 19

1:30 p.m. -- The Myrna Show featuring a variety of coffee chats, social visits and trivia games.

2 p.m. -- Seated yoga with Ericka.

Tuesday, April 20

10:30 a.m. -- Developing a New Identity in Light of Your Loss with Della Ferguson of Jones-Parkview Funeral Services.

Wednesday, April 21

(preregistration was required)

1 p.m. -- Painting and Drawing on the Themes of Nature with Jamie Reynolds.

Thursday, April 22

10 a.m. -- Crazy Categories with Donna Kostal from the Moose Jaw Public Library. Join Donna as she gives us questions and we try to guess the answer!

1:30 p.m. -- all about Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind, the charitable organization founded in 1984, focusing on providing Canadians with greater mobility through the use of professionally trained guide dogs.

Friday, April 23

10 a.m. -- Lorne Jackson plays old-time music on piano.

1:30 p.m. -- The Myrna Show featuring a variety of coffee chats, social visits and trivia games.

2 p.m. -- Seated yoga with Ericka.

Monday, April 26

1:30 p.m. -- The Myrna Show featuring a variety of coffee chats, social visits and trivia games.

2 p.m. -- Seated yoga with Ericka.

Tuesday, April 27

10 a.m. -- School Days and Memories with Karla Rasmussen, Western Development Museum. Participants will have a chance to look back and compare how schools have changed in Saskatchewan since the early 1900s. Did you attend a rural one room schoolhouse, or a school in a town or a city? How did you travel to school? What did you take for lunch? Karla will speak about school supplies, recess and what classroom life was like for our province’s settler children. 

Wednesday, April 28

(preregistration was required)

1 p.m. -- Journaling (writing), collage and painting (visual arts) with Berny Hi. 

2 p.m. -- Myrna’s last day! Stay on the phone at 2 p.m. to join in the well wishes.

Thursday, April 29

10:30 a.m. -- Adjusting to Your New Reality After a Profound Loss with with Della Ferguson of Jones-Parkview Funeral Services.

Friday, April 30

10 a.m. -- Lorne Jackson plays old-time music on piano.

1:30 p.m. -- Yvette’s Coffee Chat.

2 p.m. -- Seated yoga with Ericka.

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