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Upcoming Events
Thursday, September 23rd, 9 am to 4 pm
Join us as wSe celebrate National Senior Center Month with special programs, tours, refreshments, and more. This year’s theme is Senior Centers: Your Place to Connect.
Special Events/Presentations
10 am: Stories of Rochester
Rochester has grown & changed incredibly since chartered in 1858.
Many places no longer exist or have changed significantly. Despite change,
Rochester retains its small-town-ness. Through the use of vintage postcards,
learn about the development of our remarkable community. Whether you have
lived in Rochester all of your life or are a first-time visitor, this
presentation is a fascinating look back into our unique community.
Presented by Alan Calavano.
Free, open to the public, no RSVP required.
10 am: Nutrition 101: Covering the Basics of Nutrition from Fat
to Carbohydrates
Presented by OMC Nutritionist Bridget Ideker
Free, open to the public, RSVP required by 1 pm Sept. 22nd
11:15 am: National Senior Center Month & September Birthday
Celebration You’re invited! Those attending with a
birthday in September will receive a free candy bar. We are pleased
to have the Mellow Fellows entertaining.
$4.00 for people 60 and over and $6.50 for those under 60.
Please call the business office for luncheon reservations by 1 pm on Friday,
September 17th (507-287-1404).
Menu: Roast Beef, Mashed Potatoes, Mixed Vegetables, Fruit Cocktail Cake,
Ice Cream
2 pm: Junk in the Trunks, Cash in the Attic
These days “junk” in your attic can be like money in the bank.
There’s a market for everything from old Mickey Mouse Club records
& Beetles 45’s to your grandmother’s cardboard laundry
soapboxes. Too many items and don’t know how to organize your junk
from treasures? Do you know how to categorize or where to sell your items?
Presented by Sandy Erdman.
Free, open to the public, no RSVP required.
For New Center Members
Annual Membership Special*:
$10 off day of open house (9/23)
$5 off month of September
*New memberships only
Tours offered by the Advisory Council at 9 am, 11 am, 1 pm, and 3:30 pm.
Informational Displays in Fred Reed Hall
Find out more about the Rochester Senior Center Foundation, the upcoming
Quilt Gala, and our ongoing fundraiser Flamingo Bingo.
Hear more about the variety of Love of the Arts programs available at the Center as well as Exercise and Pickleball.
You will also be able to sign up to join groups.
The Elderberry Gift Shop will be open from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm.
The SeniorNet Computer Learning Center will be having
an open house. See the lab and check out the upcoming scheduled classes.
How to Stany Young for Your First 100 Years
Tuesday, September 14, Noon
Presenter: Dr. Todd Sands from Precision Chiropractic Center
RSVP required by Wednesday, Sept. 8th.
Lunch: Ham Salad on Bun, Potato Soup, Cookie
Cost: $5.50 (includes lunch)
School Days at the Rural School in America
Tuesday, September 21, Noon
There would be hide and seek in the cornfield, Annie Over over
the schoolhouse, cool water from the stone jar and communal dipper, wooden
desks with the carved names of previous scholars, and the old stove in
the center of the room. If a student toiled long and successfully
enough at his history, arithmetic, geography, music, hygiene, grammar,
and penmanship (remember those interminable circles?), he could gain the
ultimate prize, his eighth grade diploma.
Those were the days when women teachers, not much older than some of
their students, had to agree not to “marry or keep company with
a man friend during the week except as an escort to church services.”
Men teachers, however, were allowed to “take one evening each week
for courting purposes or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly.”
For this program, we’ll take a little time to sing a few of those old schoolhouse musical classics like “School Days” and “Good Morning To You,” and enjoy a collection of illustrations from across the country.
Presenter: Dale Blanshan
RSVP required by Wednesday, Sept. 15th.
Lunch: ½ Roast Beef Sandwich, Chicken Dumpling Soup, Cookie
Cost: $7.50 (includes lunch)
To Register for either Lunch & Learn, visit us online or call the Business Office at 507-287-1404.
Gala, Party & Dance
Friday, October 1, 6-11:30 pm
It’s a Party, a Dance, an Auction, and a Celebration of Quilts!
Join us for our first annual ‘Quilts on Parade’ Gala Party
and Dance on Friday, Oct. 1st.
If you like dancing, good food & drink, bidding on auction items,
supporting the Senior Center and appreciate quilts, then you’ll
want to be with us on Friday night from 6 - 11:30 pm for the opening Gala.
But you don’t even have to like quilts to have a good time at this
party!
Tickets are $50/person and can be purchased in advance at the Senior
Center, Med City Mobility and from Senior Center board members.
The doors open at 6:00 pm and attire is business casual.
Come and help support the Senior Center’s Mission: “To enrich
the lives of older adults.”
For more information on this event, and to see what is scheduled on Saturday, Oct. 2, click here.
Calling all men that can not cook, clean, iron, do laundry, and/or sew.
October is your chance to learn – you can do it!
Basic instruction. Everyone welcome, 50+. Widowed, single, still married
– girls sign your guy up! They can figure this stuff out- and your
white socks will not turn red.