Okay. I call the Council on Aging meeting to order on Monday, September 8th at 12:38. Okay. Seeing none, we'll skip public participation. Did everybody receive August minute?
I'm not on roll. Oh. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. Roll call for attendance. I'm sorry. That's okay. Uh Paula here. Carol Laughlin here. Elaine here. Teresa here.
Donna here. Okay. Everybody receive August minutes. Yes. Yes. Any changes or corrections? I have an I have a change of myself. I did not um put down that Arby was
absent. So I when I went back I sent to everybody. So I I added that in my change. So, is that how you want me to change it? Did I not send it back to you? I Yeah, you did not send it back. All right. So, everybody else should
have it on Harvey and I printed it out on that one. Okay. Yes. Okay. Okay. Other than that, any other changes or corrections? Send back to Donna. Do I have a motion to accept August
minutes? I'll make a motion to accept. I'll second. Any further discussion? Okay, we have a roll call vote to accept August minutes. Yes. Laughlin, yes. Elaine, yes.
Teresa, yes. Harvey, yes. Donna, yes. Okay, minutes accepted. Moving on to new business. Lisa. Um, so we're already looking at the Christmas party. Um, it's going to be
Tuesday, December 16th. Um, I believe it's at like 11:00, 11:30. Um, and then it will be at Tucker. Oh, Mhm. It's going to be at Tucker. It's going to be less work. Um,
and we can have up to 130, I think she said, or something like that. 120, whatever. So, that should be plenty. How many did we have last year? 120ish. But a lot of that was the people serving too. You have to count how many people were serving. So we
won't have that those people. So I think we'll have we'll be fine. You said now that's going to be at Tuckers. Yep. At Tuckers. They have uh two rooms and they have a wall kind of like what we have in the bingo. So they'll open that up and it'll be just one big room. Yep. Um it's less work for them. They're
actually closing in December. So, I'm sad. Yeah. Well, they're hoping to sell it to someone that's going to take over. So, yeah. Good. Um, the dining room, we have like four
to six new members eating in weekly. Um, Juliana and I will be doing meals, taking turns, meals on wheels, um, every other Thursday. Um, I want her to do it cuz we we we're down a driver, but she'll she also needs to know how it
works on that end cuz it gave me a um when I had to do it when they were sick. Um, it really gave you an idea of what they're doing and what what how the drivers um every other Yeah. So, every other So, this Thursday, if she's here, then she'll do it. Um, or
Elaine and I will do it um as a team. Elaine can do it um if you want with Juliana too because you you've already known that part of it. Um even if I just went with her a few times until she Yeah. until she understood it. Yep. Um
sometimes you need two people just to find where you're going. Right. Right. Until you're Because we don't do it that often. Roots and stuff like that. Yeah. It can be very confusing. actually might be changing the routes a little bit cuz on one route there's like 30 people 30 plus people and on the other
one there's like 11. So some people get back at 1:00 and the other people aren't getting their meal till after 2 or 2 something. So like so we're going to try it up a little bit. Yeah, there's some streets that that kind of you go by. So we might be able
to put some on the other one and make it kind of even for now. So that might help too so that everyone's not getting we don't want people getting their lunch at zoo. No. Um so and then um so this I sent you an
email yesterday um the other day about um the food the problem up in Northampton. Today they didn't get their meal that they chose, but they did were able to give us a cooked meal, a hot meal for them. So, I'm sure most most of the people that are out there getting a meal
um were are pretty understanding. Um the only other thing to let you know is we have our second FRTA van. Um and that has been we have two drivers, Donna and Greg. Um, sometimes they go together and sometimes they they they'll um because
she's kind of still in training, but um pretty soon we'll have when they when they find out they'll be calling from Granville and Talent. So, one of one of the vans was specifically to help them get out of their town and
get their go to the grocery store, the doctor's office, that type of thing. So, right now we're we're trying to keep them busy and we have no problem doing that. Is that part of the the 20 the
or um Yes. What am I talking about? The master plan master plan. That's part of the master plan idea, isn't it? Um I think that was in there somewhere. Something like that to expand to them where maybe to complete that or Yeah. So that's always going to be so to
complete it. Um I think we're we're pretty much close to let's say there's six things on there. We're doing like four out of the six um already um and and that was one of them reaching out to other community um and helping them do that. We still um I
think Nicole said she would um reach out to Granville and Talent and see if they wanted to um merge with us for their senior center and then their people would be able to come down here and go to more of our activities because they don't have one. I don't believe
they don't have a space. They don't have I don't think they have they don't I know Talin doesn't I think they might have a board up there but um I'm not sure what they do in Graanby I mean Granville. It's almost like combining with the schools kind of because it and that's what she's
saying. It's like because they don't have the money to put up a building for them. Um it's not going to get done in the next 5 years. I doubt it. So that's all I got for new business. Anybody else? New business.
Well, I have a question under new business. Okay. Seeing our pickle ball courts are in and people are using them. Yep. And I know you are um working on instruction. Is there any update on when instruction will begin?
So I have a um Vivian uh Gingleski gave me a name of a gentleman that said he would come. So as soon as he gives me a date that he's available, then I can put it in the October. And then um maybe we could go get put it
send it out some other way um through our cuz if I do the newsletter that they're not going to get it to the 1st of October, right? But you know if he can't do it until then it doesn't matter, right? Well, it's good because I have no
clue what rules and regulations this people are wanting to play but they just have no clue. You put all the panels and we have the all the equipment here for the seniors and then the shuffleboard equipment came in too. I just have to find out how to get it to be outside
like um a bin. Oh. So, right now you can come in, sign in, and take the paddles from downstairs. Okay. That's how they're doing. They're signing in here. Yep. During the day, cuz we're here for the seniors Monday through Friday. Um, any other time you'll have to get your
own paddles or I'll I because it's on camera, I might be able to find like um almost like the brown box that's out back for the garden. Get a small one and the paddles will be in there. Shuffle board um disc will be in there. Um and
then the the actual poles for the shuffle board can get stood up and just velcroed to the um vents. So, whoever wants to play right now, you have to have a partner and you have to go sign in and stuff like that. Yeah, we would like the seniors to come in and and still sign in and let us know they're out there.
Okay. Um Monday through Friday. Yeah. Yeah, that'll be good because it'll be almost like they don't sign in for some of the classes, right? Exactly, too. Yep. Yep. Any other new business?
Okay. Update on classes seem to be going well. Yep. Um we have um Donna just told me and I'll put a sign on the wall for this week. She's uh got COVID so she's not going to be here for cardio.
Oh, so no. No cardio this week. Yeah. Okay. Tuesday and Friday. Tuesday. Okay. Well, she had already cancelled. She was supposed to go Yeah, she had cancelled Friday, but nothing tomorrow. Okay. Well, what I can do too is I can once we leave here, I'll uh text some of the ladies.
Okay. because I know you Yeah, you have a group thing. Yep. Yep. Okay. Brown bags tomorrow. Yep. Yep. So, she stays pretty much the same. I'll come early enough to be here when Chat and them are here. Okay. All right. You don't need to tend to
them. You have enough to do. It's all good. Sometimes that just gives me something just to get out of my office. But we've got more clients now for we're up to almost 30 27. There's been an increase. So there been
an increase of signing up for the applications, right? And we've knocked a few names off, right? That no one increased on that. So, right. And you spoke about dining room. Anything else with dining room? No.
Okay. Okay. So, finances. Doing good. um all bills are paid and um the grant the second part of the grant should be coming probably in beginning of middle October I believe. Um but that's
good. I think the only thing we I think I I have to pay for is the wall. The wall was ordered for the gym. Okay. Um and that would be my question in the old business to talk about the equipment.
Yep. So, moving on to old business. He's so pushy. Old business. No, I know. Um, so we have the gym. All the equipment's there. The straps are there. Everything's hanging up. Um, everything's working. We have
the lymphat lymphatic machine there. We've had people try that and they love that. Um um so I I have the wall wall will get um built hopefully within this next month. Um he said two to four weeks, whatever
they'll put it up. Um it it the lighting is changing in there also. Um so I changed I brightened it in the bingo room. They've been love it complaining since I've gotten here the lighting. So we just we just did that. Increased that. The needle work people
were thrilled today. So, and then we'll do the same thing in the gym. And then he's going to put it on its own switch right outside the door of the gym. They'll have a door and then on the wall you just walk over and turn it on and it'll brighten in the gym. Do you sign up?
So, right now we're not doing the doing that. It's just first come first serve. We'll see how crowded it gets and see if we have to do that. It's a lot of work if you don't have to. So, nobody has to be, you know, checked out to make sure. I
haven't figured out. Um Nicole told me I don't have to do to make sure. So I do I have a baby camera I have that I can put up there and it would go to my office. Um or it could sit and go to the TV in the big room and it's really not
to watch you work out. We wouldn't be watching it all the time. It's just if we know someone's in there then every once in a while Denise would be able to glance up and there by themselves not feeling good sits over doubled over whatever. Um, we want to be able to either that or I'm gonna have to figure
out a way to open one of those door the walls on that door and then the card people are going to have a fit because I'd be I'd have to go from my office to in there and I wouldn't want to have to go all the way through the dining room to the lobby to just to get into the gym. No type of buzzer or anything like that.
I know. I gota I got to find something. Right now I have a baby camera I can put up until we figure out something else. Um, but they have these other things where um, like I I had it for my mom. She had it around her neck. It's almost like the
one like that you see on TV, the alert thing. So if you don't feel good, so maybe everybody I had seven, but that I I can't get it to work. But they're cheap enough, couple hundred bucks, I could buy a whole new system. And then you get it, you wear it, and then if you're not feeling good or need help,
you would hit it and then it would chime in our big room. And then somebody would hear it. I assume most people that would go into the gym are already using a gym somewhere or something. But Right. And then so Donna Donna does
this. Donna offered to do almost like a pickle ball thing. Come in and show people how to use it, what not to do, how how not to over, you know, don't go in just think your first day you're, you know, do doing a hundred of these, you know.
So I'm thinking we should do that. Yes. Um that's why I'm thinking they should sign up for something and have somebody go through and walk them through each right. Exactly. Yeah. Yep. No, I agree 100%.
If they have a button hanging around their neck, if they go to like lay on a bench or even do a rest, you're going to be constantly hitting I don't know. I don't I don't think so. No, I don't Yeah, I don't You don't even have to wear it. you can just have it
near you or something, you know. I I haven't figured it out, but I know I want some system. I just don't know what the best one is out there yet. But safety first. Safety is anybody else? Old business.
Okay, then moving on to the master plan. I know that um there are certain reports you're going to have to be working on or filling out. Yeah. And I think you know as you were saying
we we have been meeting some of the goals that they have set for us. Right. I think we're um we're at least moving in the right direction. Yeah. Which we were anyways. Yeah. So this we're meeting some of
their standards. So [Music] anything in particular? We talked about um Talin and Graanville. They talked about the bus. Yep. Oh, the new fire pit. We'll be that's
we'll be doing the um we'll be doing the children uh the kids group again with the seniors for like shoveling that that'll come in again. So we're interacting with the school with that. Um
excellent. Yep. What about um we have the Westfield IT group coming back again starting October. Excellent. People ask for them all summer long. Yeah. But yep. What about um people who just need cars
cleaned off? I'm thinking they could pretty much do do whatever you wanted. If you wanted to have the kids come there and just clean off the cars, they could do that. You know, they don't have to shovel. What I'm thinking of is we have a lot of
people at Rosewood who call and say, "Is there anybody that you know I could pay to clean my car off?" I know they can't move the car. Right. Right. That would be a liability. But um but they could go there. Right.
Yeah. Right. If they could clean it off, you know, we could probably get a bunch of the you know, like so last time she gave me like 15 kids and there was probably only like eight seniors that did it. Um this year if we wanted to add that we could you
know four or five kids could get together and everybody hit a side or a building and well not everyone needs not everyone needs it but it would be more than one person you know doing it. Yeah. You could more so one kid isn't doing 20 cars.
Yeah. The biggest thing is um you know getting it them cleaned off because the residents have to move them before you know when they plow. Right. But but if they're taking all that snow off, then they still have to shovel around the car. They got to move that snow themselves.
Yeah. So that's which is okay because that's what they're Yeah. Right. So we can we can make sure we mention that to the the kids this year. That would be such a big help. Yeah. We have some people that get out there
and they do it like effortlessly. And then you have some people that are really strong. Yeah. No hips, no new knees. Yeah. And then you get a pile of snow around the car. Yeah. You have to dig that out, too, right?
That would be wonderful. Okay. Anything else? We're I think we're good. Still looking for another Neil Wheel driver. We did We advertised um Juliana was good enough to go. We did a flyer and she brought it to a lot of businesses in
Westfield and hit some of the South um stores and stuff like that. Just to put it out there, um Westfield is having a problem with their getting Neo on Wheels drivers, too. So, Highland Valley actually
um has people that they pay to do work up in Highland Valley. So they literally sent them to Westfield to be, you know, I'm paying you today, Paula, to go be a driver somewhere um in Westfield. Excellent. So um they said once they get Westfield
straightened and and and they they can relieve a couple people, then they'll throw us a couple couple people. Good. Um so that'll help. But for now, we do what we have to do. Anything
else? Well, before we adjourn, I'd just like to say that I have heard a lot of wonderful comments in terms of the improvements that have been made and how nice everything is now. And I just
wanted to pass that along. I mean, I really have from a lot of people uh downstairs when we've been at functions and things. So, we're very happy. Thank you. I'm glad. I had someone come in and ask me who
decorated that room, you know, with that the reading. I'll call it the reading area. It's so beautiful. I know. I I noticed a lot of people using it lately, so that's kind of nice, too. Um, Lisa, I want to ask you, what about the flu shots? Are they going to do them?
Yep. That's in that That'll be in the newsletter. It's going to be the first week of um October. Okay. they'll come in. Uh, stop and shop will do it with us again. Oh, so we are able to get them because they're saying there's so many vaccines now that they're not going to give out
CVS was having an issue. Really? Wow. That I heard. Yeah. No, she I just have to give her a total the week before and she'll she'll be here to give the flu shot. Yep. The flu shot. Um, will that be like the senior dose? Is
that or do you have an option to get either or? The flu shot is just for one flu shot period. It's not that you don't you as a senior don't get a different one than someone in their 30s. I think they had one that was a different strength.
Yeah, I think you're right. But I think that No, no, no, no. I think you are correct. But she does or they always did the higher dose for the the senior dose. They always did when we were here. I remember that. I did not.
So, did you have an option at some time? No. No. They always give you the higher year. They didn't ask. They just did. So, there are two different something that dose if you're under a certain age. Right. Well, I could say
we get the super duper. Yes. Yes. She's super nice. So, I will say that um when I started, I had a list of all the different rooms and different things that I wanted to add and everything and I'm pretty much hit all the goals at once the wall gets
built in the gy for the gym. Um those goals are all off my list. So, if there's something else you hear or someone else wants something, um, please bring it forward so I can either, you know, figure out if it's something we
can hit nay or yay or or maybe if we can do it, then we'll try. If not, um, yeah. What's a little bit about the fire pit? So, the fire pit. So, that would be like to have lunch outside with the fire pit or something like that or like Jack and
his guitars come in this month. Maybe we'll have that him play out there and then it would be nice just to have the fire pit going. That's right. You know, and you could do s'mores. It's allowed. How we doing? The thing I I was going to mention is
the purchase of all the indoor exercise equipment so that when it's bad outside, Yeah. you have the the thing. We did. So, we did and I didn't even put that on Facebook yet. Um but so but I need to um
so there's some it's almost like a you can play it. It's in the um auditorium um or in the gym as a gym. So it's in the gym. There's one for golf. Um I just need a club and it gives you a little mat um to to put a like a little ball
and they're velcro around them. So when you hit it, it goes on this big huge thing. You can stand it up. You can lean it back. you can, you know, practice different things, but it'll give people um something to do in the winter time in that room. They can do it after the um
workout is in the morning, then they can do it from like 11:00 on. So, it's just to keep you moving and give you something to do. There's another one that's tall. You'll see it on Facebook sometimes and it looks like um it comes with paddles and it's you
have to get it in the square window. the big the netting is big but then it they give you a small square and let me tell you Rose and I tried it in downstairs in the office and I we could not do it. We were just like this has got to be for the elderly. It's like we couldn't do it.
It's like indoor pickle ball. It kind of like reminds you of pickle ball and then you could either use a ball to hit it or you have they have the birdie almost like bat mitten but you have to get it in this thing. So you have to you have to really like use your
eye coordination and hand to push for botchi ball. Yes. Botchi ball. A good game especially for men. Men like that game. And I would like to see more men involved with an extra more exercise
than just playing cards. Yep. So maybe that's something that we can put on the side over there after pickle ball or the basketball on that side because there is flat land there and they do mow it. So we'd have to see how even it is. Um I I agree.
And then maybe that's something we put there. Someone else said while you're waiting to for for you know I did buy the paddles um that go on the fence and you put your paddle there. Yes. For pickle ball, right? Because once pickle ball gets
going out there, there's going to be a lot of people. So you put your paddle in and you finish a game, then the bottom paddle, it's their turn. They can play a game. It just keeps you in line. Right. Right. So there's no argument. This paddle is
the next game. This paddle follows. Right. Yeah. Right. So I bought that that that they're trying to figure out how to put it on the fence. So that'll be good. But then they're saying if there's if you do have three people in front of you, you're going to be sitting there. Um, so I have I have umbrellas that I bought
for the um tables. So they'll go back out so you have a place to sit in shade. But then I was thinking um the bean bag one. Oh, the corn like the cornhole. So that's always fun for two people to play while you're waiting.
Just so so that'll be over there by the picnic um tables at some point. You're using your arms. you are you're still moving and you're wait you're playing something that's fun while you're waiting to play pickle ball. So that and that can be indoors too, you
know. Yeah. When the when the bad weather is then Yeah. trying to find one that I can leave out there though. Either that or cover it so you're not moving it around a lot. But and then just get a a different one for in here.
But yeah. Yeah. Then to participate thing. Women just, you know, yeah, I'll go and they just, hi, how are you? What's your name? You know, where do you live? Men just don't seem to do that.
Well, I you know, I mean, I I've seen it while they're threw you right under the P. Oh, they Yeah, you always see men there. Absolutely. Yeah. So maybe once we do that and get that out there, if if your husband was
here, you'd be saying, "Come on, let's go. You're playing botchi today. Go grab Pete and you're gonna go, you know." So maybe that's all it really needs to do is get that get it and then you get a partner to go with your right. And being out in the I mean fall is a beautiful time to be out here.
Yeah. Yep. All right. Okay. Anything else? Okay. Seeing none. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? Motion to adjurnn. I second it. Okay. Any further
discussion? Okay. Motion to adjurnn. Paula. Yes. Carol Laughlin. Yes. Oh, yes. And Teresa, yes. And Harvey, yes. And Donna, yes. Okay.
So, we adjourn at 107.