Eldridge announces 2009 Senior Conference
State Senator Jamie Eldridge has announced that the 29th annual Senior Conference will take place Thursday, April 23, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Assabet Valley High School, 215 Fitchburg St. in Marlborough. The event, which is entirely free for seniors, features coffee and doughnuts in the morning, a hot, catered lunch, health screenings, entertainment by the Sudbury Strutters, lots of door prizes, including a Bose Wave radio, and free samples from Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Some of the day’s workshops include:
- “How to avoid scams and identity theft,”
- “Making the most of senior discounts,”
- “Belly dancing,”
- “Everything you always wanted to ask an attorney concerning your estate,”
- “FDR—Nothing to Fear,”
- “Help with your prescription drug costs,”
- “Hot paraffin wax hand treatments.”
For more information or to reserve free tickets call Eldridge’s district director, Peggy Ayres, at 508-786-3040.
Pharmacist available for consultations
The COA will offer free consultations with a pharmacist Thursday, April 16, at Hildreth House. This is an opportunity for people to bring all their prescription drugs to a pharmacist for review. Forty-five-minute appointments can be set up through the COA office; in-home consultations can be arranged for those unable to come to Hildreth House.
On the road with the COA
Call the COA office at 978-456-4120 to sign up for any of these trips:
- Wednesday, April 29. The COA has organized a trip to WBZ and the Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center. The group will tour WBZ’s Soldiers Field Road facilities during actual programming and will later stop for lunch on the way to the Blue Hills Reservation in Milton for an opportunity to learn about meteorology, weather instruments, and more. The tour will leave from Hildreth House at 9 a.m. and return by 4:30 p.m. Cost is $5 plus the cost of lunch.
- Wednesday, April 29. The COA is sponsoring a trip to West Acton to see Theatre III’s spring musical, Forever Plaid, the story of four young male singers killed in a car crash in the 1950s, on their way to their first big concert. According to Theatre III’s website, “Through the powers of harmony and the expanding holes in the ozone layer … they are allowed to come back to perform the show they never got to do in life”—a show filled with nostalgic pop hits of the 1950s. The COA van will leave Hildreth House at 7 p.m. Cost is $2.
