Harris Center • 425 Perry St • Auburn, AL 36830

(334) 501-2930 • www.auburnalabama.org/seniors • gmeredith@auburnalabama.org

Open Monday - Friday • 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

August 2017 • Volume 4, Issue 8

This Month

1 Fiber Friends Club!

2 Sign Up for Trips

2 Birthdays

3 Events

4 Calendar

a newsletter for active adults 50+

Fiber Friends Club

Attention all fans of fiber and fabric! Have you wanted a communal space to work on projects with others

that share your passion? The Fiber Friends Club is just that! Join one another to work on your knitting,

crocheting, sewing, or felt projects alongside each

other. Instruction is not included, but warm drinks and great conversation are provided.

Day Date Time Location

Wednesdays 6/7 — 8/30 9:30 — 11:30 a.m.

Auburn Public Library Conference

Room

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Register for Trips August 18th: Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta, GA The Center for Puppetry Arts opened to the public on September 23, 1978, when Kermit the Frog and his creator Jim Henson cut the ceremonial ribbon. Today it is the largest American non-profit organization solely dedicated to the art of puppet theater. The Center has been recognized both nationally and internationally as an organization for excellence. The Center for Puppetry Arts' mission is to inspire imagination, education and community through the global art of puppetry. Our visit will include a guided tour as well as a professional puppet show. Cost of the trip includes admission, show and transportation. Please extra money for breakfast prior to the trip and a late lunch after the trip. $20. Payable to the AAB. Friday, August 18 • 7am - 5pm. August 25th: Southern Museum of Flight, Birmingham, AL The Southern Museum of Flight is one of the largest aviation museums in the Southeast, is dedicated to presenting civilian, military, and experimental aircraft and memorabilia from the earliest history of powered flight. The 75,000 square foot facility houses over 90 aircraft, as well as engines, models, artifacts, photographs, and paintings. In addition, the Southern Museum of Flight is home to the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame with over 65 biographical plaques presenting Alabama aviation history through collective biography. Cost of the trip includes admission and transportation. Please bring extra money for lunch. $15. Payable to the AAB. Friday, August 25 • 7am - 5pm. September 22nd: Old Cahawba Archaeological Site, Orrville, AL Cahawba was once Alabama’s state capital (1819-1826) and a thriving antebellum river town. It became a ghost town shortly after the Civil War. Today it is an important archaeological site and a place of picturesque ruins. Nature has reclaimed much of Old Cahawba, but historians and archaeologists from the Alabama Historical Commission are working hard to uncover Cahawba’s historic past and to create a full time interpretive park. Our trip will include a fully guided wagon tour. The cost of the trip includes admission and transportation. Please bring extra money for lunch. $15. Payable to the AAB. Friday, September 22 • 8am - 4pm. REGISTRATION BEGINS AUGUST 7TH! September 29th: SIFAT Around the World and Global Feast, Lineville, AL The idea of SIFAT (Servants in Faith and Technology) was conceived in 1976 when Ken and Sarah Corson and their four children moved to Bolivia to be pastors of a church. Realizing that the homesteaders there needed more than spiritual nourishment, Ken and Sarah began to work in integrated development with the people of the village. In 1979, the Corsons returned to Alabama and established SIFAT. Around the World is an interactive day-trip where we are provided with an opportunity to participate in hands-on activities with an international perspective, while focusing on the geography and cultural studies of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The goal is to help people from different countries, cultures and social classes understand each other and work together. We will conclude our visit with a global feast. The cost of the trip includes admission, transportation and lunch. $35. Payable to the AAB. Friday, September 29th • 7:45am - 3pm. REGISTRATION BEGINS AUGUST 7TH!

Happy

Birthday!

Please make sure we have

YOUR birthday on our

list so we can acknowledge it!

1– Virginia Scoggins

5– Joy Bowden

7– Charlotte Hollis

9– Margie Sullivan

10– Mary Smith

11– John Barker, Helen Tatum

13– Willa Nesbitt

14– Barbara Wilcox, Mary Ellis

16– Doris Dill, Patricia Martin

17– Charlotte Musselwhite

18– Gayleen Andrews,

Janell Necaise

19– Jim Burdette

21– Dorothy Arwood

22– Katherine Fincher

27– Florence Page, Vicki Meetze

31– Lela Morgan

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Mark Your Calendar! The Brain Games

Are you a fan of Jeopardy, Minute to Win

It, Name that Tune and other game shows? Better yet, are you competitive? Join us for the fourth edition of the Brain

Games as we split into two teams and compete for prizes in three rounds of

craziness and fun. Prizes will be awarded to the winning team and dinner is

provided.

Wednesday, August 2nd 6pm– 9pm

Register at the Harris Center by Monday, July 31st at 5pm.

Food for Thought: Tara Viars from Friends of Internationals

Enjoy a presentation from Tara Viars from Friends of Internationals about how you can become a friend to an international

graduate student coming here for the first time. This breakfast is FREE to the public.

Tuesday, August 8th

8:30 - 10am Register at the Harris Center by Friday,

August 4th at 5pm.

Get Out and Go! Local Adventure Club: AACT Production of Spamalot

Meet us at the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center for Auburn Area Community

Theater’s performance of Monty Python’s Spamalot! Spamalot retells the legend of King Author and his Knights of the Round Table. It features a bevy of showgirls, not

to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people. Participants must provide

their own transportation.

Thursday, August 10th TIME CHANGE! 6:30pm-8pm

$12 per participant. Participants must register by Tuesday, August 8th at 5pm.

Golden Giving Days

Each quarter we will focus on one local non-profit to donate our time to! This

quarter we will be focusing on East Alabama Services for the Elderly (EASE House) and will spend time interacting with the residents who don’t get out of

their apartments much. We will play bingo, beanbag baseball as well as other games. Each volunteer will receive a free

t-shirt.

Friday, August 11th, 2 - 4pm at EASE (1300 Commerce Drive). Limited to 15 volunteers.

Register at the Harris Center by Wednesday, August 9th at 5pm.

Movie Night: Beauty and The Beast

In this live-action adaptation of the classic Disney movie, Belle, a bright, beautiful

and independent young woman, is taken prisoner by a beast in his castle. Despite

her fears, she befriends the castle's enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the beast's hideous exterior, allowing her

to recognize the kind heart and soul of the true prince that hides on the inside.

Thursday, August 17th, 5:30 - 8pm

$5 to cover the cost of dinner. Register at the Harris Center by

Wednesday, August 16th at 5pm.

Read and Reflect: The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic

story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville

Wright.

Tuesday, August 29th 10 - 11am at the Harris Center

FREE to the public

Munch ‘N Mingle Lunch Club: Draft House

Get together with old friends and make

some new as we gather for lunch at Draft House located on 161 Magnolia Ave in

Auburn. Participants must provide their own transportation and

cover the cost of lunch.

Wednesday, August 30th 11:30am - 1pm

Register at the Harris Center by Tuesday, August 22nd at noon.

All classes and programs are held at the Harris Center, unless otherwise noted.

Trips depart from the Harris Center. Trip departure times are exact.

Return times are approximate.

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2

The Brain Games

6 - 9pm

3 4 5

6 7

FALL

REGISTRATION BEGINS!

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Food For

Thought

8:30 - 10am

9 10

Get Out & Go!

Spamalot at JDCAC

6:30 - 8pm

11 Golden Giving

Days -EASE House

2 - 4pm

12

13 14 15 16 17

Movie Night

Beauty & The Beast

5:30 - 8pm

18

Field Trip

7am - 5pm

19

20 21 22 23 24 25

Field Trip

7am - 5pm

26

Active Auburn

Kickoff

8am - Noon

Town Creek Park

27 28 29

Book Club

10 - 11am

30

Munch N’

Mingle 11:30am

31

August 2017