Centre offers plenty for seniors to do to keep active and engaged

NORTH WELLINGTON – The Seniors Centre of Excellence is offering the following programs in the upcoming months.

Coffee programs

– Mount Forest: Friendship Circle. Tuesdays, 10:30am. Pentecostal Church, 259 Fergus St. S.;  

– Drayton: coming soon! Coffee Group every 2nd Thursday, 10:30am. Selah Centre, 24 Wood Street. Beginning Jan. 12; 

– Palmerston: “Muffin Mondays,” every Monday at 10am. United Church. 215 James Street; and

– Palmerston: SCE Coffee Group, last Wednesday of the month, 10am. United Church, 215 James Street. 

Dining programs

(In case of inclement weather, if school buses are not running in North Wellington, the dining programs are cancelled, too.) 

– Palmerston: Dec. 21. Palmerston United Church. 215 James Street. Doors open at 11:30am. Lunch served at noon.  

Speaker: Ian Evans, Extreme Adventurer – “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” 

Walking programs   

– Palmerston Community Centre, weekdays, 8:30 to 9:30am;  

– Harriston Community Centre: weekdays, 8:30 to 9:30am;  

– Mount Forest & District Sports Complex, Walk-A-Doodle-Do, Thursdays, 9:30 to 11am;  

– Arthur Arena, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 to 11:00am. (Coffee hour from 10 to 11am)  

Pickleball 

– Drayton PMD Arena, cost: $3. Mondays, 10am to noon; Wednesdays, 10am to noon and 7 to 8:30pm; and Friday, 10am to noon. Contact Amy Grose agrose@mapleton.ca.

There are also exercise classes, regular card games like euchre and bridge, and zoom lectures. Visit mapleton.ca/living-here/senior-services/seniors-centre-for-excellence.