Charlton Council on Aging

Senior Center

37 Main Street

Charlton, MA 01507

Phone: 508-248-2231

Fax: 508-248-2379

WEBSITE:

townofcharlton.net

MISSION: To provide social, supportive and

referral services for all seniors in an effort to

maintain and improve quality of life, so that they

may stay in their homes as long as possible.

September 2021

Charlton Seniors on the Common

COA Board Members:

Cindy Cooper, Chair

James Russell, Vice

Chair

Sue Crockett, Secretary

James Howard

Barbara Larson

Joan Malinowski

Vicki Thompson

Elaine Materas Like us on

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September in New England with that refreshing Autumn air! Truly

many folks favorite time of the year, as well as the tradition of Old

Home Day for the Town of Charlton.

The Charlton REAS Foundation will have a booth at Old Home Day

on Mon, September 6th selling Lottery Calendars, “Charlton

With Janet

Sept 8 @ 12:30 PM

Sept 22 @ 12:30 pm

Monday - 10:45 Low impact

Fitness w/Jenn Tetreault

Tues & Thurs - 8:30

Floor Yoga w/Linda Davis ($2) Senior Center Staff:

Elaine Materas, Director

Mary Carpenter, Outreach

Coordinator

Jennifer Trudeau, Kitchen

Manager/Cook

Samantha Remillard,

Kitchen Asst./Cook

Sherri Nedzweckas,

Kitchen Aide

Line Dancing with JP Ellery

Tuesdays @ 1:15

$5 per person

Strong” T-Shirts, and tickets for a Taste of the Towns Gift Basket. This an-

nual event had to be cancelled due to COVID. The Taste of the Towns for

the Charlton REAS (Residential Energy Assistance for Seniors) Foundation

was their largest fundraising event. In an effort to continue providing heat-

ing and cooling assistance for qualifying senior citizens in the Town of

Charlton; they hope you’ll stop by their booth to support their efforts, as

well as other non-profits in Charlton.

Hope to see many of you there!

Diamond Painting Christmas Cards with Dottie

Class begins October 3rd at 1:00 pm. Please sign up by calling the Senior Center

at 508-248-2231. Sorry, no to-go cards - must attend!

$2 per card/one per person, however, if we have more cards after sign up, we will

allow for additional cards to be purchased. Sign up to join in the fun!

Elaine

Golden Age Club

Meeting

Tuesday, September 14

11:00 am

37 Main St.

Charlton, MA 01507

Corn Hole Game

Thursdays at 10:00 AM

CHARLTON REAS FOUNDATION, INC. P.O. BOX 793 CHARLTON, MA 01507

The Charlton REAS Foundation (Residential Energy Assistance for Seniors)

helps qualified Charlton senior citizens 60+ with funding towards energy

needs. Questions? 508-868-5289

Applications are online at www.reascharlton.org or call the Senior Center to

get your application. Heating assistance season: October 1st - April 30th

SENIOR TAX WORK-OFF PROGRAM

APPLY NOW for 2022

20 participants may qualify to receive a

$1,500 abatement

off property taxes in the Town of Charlton:

Policy, Application and Confidentiality forms are

available at the Charlton Senior Center, or on our

website at www.townofcharlton.net.

Eligibility guidelines apply

For more information call Mary at

508-248-2246 or the Senior Center at

508-248-2231

Please note that if you know someone who may

be eligible for this program but cannot physically

do the work, a volunteer may work in place of that

person. (All policy guidelines apply)

Call the center for more information - Program

runs from January 3 - November 30

Would you like to come to the Senior Center but

you have no means of transportation?

If you are a Charlton resident 60+ or under 60

with disability, you may be eligible to ride the

SCM Elderbus to and from the Charlton Senior

Center free of charge.

For more information, please contact

Mary at 508-248-2246

Beginner Line Dancing!

Not comfortable line dancing because you’ve never

done it before? JP will be offering a 30 minute class

(Tuesdays at 2:15 pm) at a reduced rate for beginners.

It’s great exercise and lots of fun!

Give us a call to sign up

at 508-248-2231

Minion-qutes.com

Bemis Class ~ Autumn Art

September 15 @ 1:30 pm

COA will supplement a portion of this class -

Charlton seniors $10

Non Charlton seniors $15

Limited space sign up now!

Why is sleeping so easy?

Because you can do it with

your eyes closed!

News from SHINE for September 2021

Look for important mail from your drug and health

plans! It’s that time of year… if you have a Medicare

Part D Prescription Drug or Medicare Advantage plan,

your plan will mail you a document called the Annual

Notice of Change (ANOC) by the end of September.

The ANOC is a summary of changes to your plan for

2022. Your costs (premiums, deductibles, and copays),

covered medications, and provider networks may change

from year-to-year. Make sure you read this important

document and think about whether your plan will contin-

ue to meet your needs. If you do not receive it in the mail,

call your plan and request another copy.

If you would like to change your plan for 2022, you may

do so during the annual Medicare Open Enrollment Peri-

od. SHINE counselors can help you to understand chang-

es to your current plan, as well as discuss other options

you may have. Don’t wait: if you would like to meet with

a SHINE counselor during open enrollment, make your

appointment early!

To make an appointment, call your local senior center, or

contact the Central Mass SHINE Regional Office at 508-

422-9931 or by email at info@shinema.org. A certified

SHINE counselor will return your call.

Greetings Everyone! My first complete month here seems to have flown by so fast and by the time you are reading this, I will have been here two months! It has been nice to meet so many new faces. Everyone has been so kind and welcoming. I look forward to meeting more folks whether it is here in the office or out for a home visit. I want everyone to know that I have been vaccinated, so if you would like to schedule a home visit but would prefer I still wear a mask as well, that is

fine with me. Also, since we still have some fairly nice weather, we could even sit outside. I have my beach chair in the trunk of my car ready to go and always prepared! I have been very busy in the office between phones calls received or assisting people out one way or another. I think the reason it has been so busy is since 2020 was a heck of a year (and even the first half of this year ) and we were closed, people who may have had questions or needed some form of assistance can now come in to see us. Please don’t hesitate to give me a call if you have any questions. It has been so nice to see more people coming back to the Senior Center and joining in for our lunches and/or activities. Eventually I would like to add here any informative resources I come

across that I believe could be beneficial for folks. Any ideas are always welcomed...Thank you. Mary

MySeniorCenter Scan Card

For those of you who do not have a scan card,

please see Elaine or Mary.

Scanning your card each time you come into the

center helps us to get an idea of the number of

folks who enjoy our center along with the variety

of programs we offer.

Thank you for your assistance!

Local Resources:

Charlton Town Hall Offices 508-248-2200

Charlton Senior Center 508-248-2231

Senior Center Outreach 508-248-2246

Charlton Housing Authority 508-248-5067

Charlton CHIP-IN Food Pantry 508-248-3292

Charlton REAS Foundation (Residential Energy

Assistance for Seniors) 508-868-5289

Tri-Valley Elder Services 1-800-286-6640

Elder Bus 1-800-321-0243

WCAC (Worcester Community Action Council)

508-754-1176

Legal Aid 508-752-3718

State Resources:

MASSACHUSETTS 2-1-1

Alzheimer’s Helpline 1-800-272-3900

SHINE (Serving the Health Insurance Needs of Every-

one) 1-800-243-4636

Suicide Prevention Hotline 1-800-273-8255

Substance Abuse/Mental Health Helpline

1-800-662-4357

Check out Charlton Cable TV channel

191 for local senior programs from 7:00-

10:00 AM and 6:00-9:00 PM. Programs

focused on senior issues & interests.

Foot Care Clinic

Professional foot care by a licensed nurse.

Call Diane for appointment at

508-353-4972

Clinic visits $27 Non-Insulin dependent

diabetics $27 Home visits $45

Some of our programs and newsletter printing

are partially funded by a grant from the

Executive Office of Elder Affairs

CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT

CHARLTON/STURBRIDGE

Thursday, September 28 from 2:30-4:30 PM

at the Sturbridge Senior Center 480 Main St.

Players, please call to sign up!

Outdoors if weather is

good - Indoors if not

Prizes, Friends, Fun!

Golden Age Club Offering minor alterations at reasona-

ble prices through the Sew What Sewing Group here at

the Senior Center. Pants/skirt hems, jeans hems, minor

mending, buttons, other.

Bring your request into the center on

Tuesdays from 9:00 - 11:00 for assessment.

All proceeds donated to Golden Age Club

Lunch serving time at 11:45. Please sign up at the center by checking your name(s) off the

list, calling the center, or filling out the menu with your name(s) and the dates.

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1

Sausage, Egg

and Cheese

Sandwich

2 Chef’s Salad

3 4

5 6 Labor Day / Old

Home Day: Sen-

ior Center Closed

7 Spaghetti &

Meatballs

8 Chicken Pot

Pie

9 Baked, Stuffed

Fish

10 11

12 13 Seafood

Newburg

14 Tacos

15 Steak & Cheese

Grinder

16 Baked Chicken

17 18

19 20 Tuna Noodle

Casserole

21 Crispy Chicken

Salad

22 Pork Chops

Dessert sponsored

by Humana

23 Hot Open-

faced Turkey

24 25

26 27 Kielbasa

28 Cheese Ravioli

w/Salad

29 BBQ Chicken

30 SOS

Lunch Menu September 2021

Please sign up by noon at least a day ahead.

Thank you. 508-248-2231

* Menu

Subject to

Change *

NAME(S)______________________________ ________________________________________________

Lunch

Time!

Join us on September 16th at 10:30 with honky-tonk piano man

Gary Landgren! We’ll sing “Happy Birthday” to our September folks

SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS

Bill Beaumier

Richard Bellanceau

Paul Bernard

Marjorie Burlingame

Debra Ciesluk

Ed Ciesluk

Carolyn Colby

William Dibenedetto

Nancy Duby

Donald Dunham

Marie Ferree

Sharon Frawley

Nancy Garcia

Tricia Gay

Phyllis Hanlon

Lorry-Jane Hay

Sheila Hokanson

Harry Howard

Paul Jolin

Nancy Karlon

Denise Millette

Autumn Oleksiak

Dennis Orsi

Stanley Parzych

Barbara Perron

Carl Phillips

Faith Pichette

Elaine Piekarczyk

Diane Santelli

Vicky Slipp-Punches

Katherine King

Willis Kittredge

Wendy Labrecque

Robert LaFlamme

Paul LaForte

Ed LeBoeuf

Ruth LeBoeuf

Dave Loiselle

Madeleine Manfield

Nancy McKinstry

Donna Smeltzer

Neil Stanton

Sylvia Stepien

David Stone

Mary Vigeant

Greg Vangel

Paul Walker

Linda Welton

Joyce Yovan

Serving at 11:45

Birthday Cake