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.

June 2018 • Volume 5, Issue 6

This Month

1 Active Living Everyday

2 Sign Up for

Trips

2 Birthdays

3 Events

4 Calendar

a newsletter for active adults 50+

REGISTER NOW FOR

ACTIVE LIVING EVERY DAY Active living Every Day is like no class you’ve ever

been to. Learn how to overcome barriers to physical activity, set realistic goals, build confidence and stay

motivated!

This program is FREE to the public, but registration is required. Classes take place on Wednesdays from,

June 6th through August 22nd from 4-5pm. Register at the Harris Center.

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Register for Trips June 15

th: Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and

Museum, Atlanta, GA Shortly after taking office as President, Jimmy Carter expressed interest in building a Presidential Library “someplace in Georgia.” Today, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library houses 40,000,000 pages, 1,000,000 photographs, 2,200,000 feet of film, and 2,500 hours of video. The cost of the trip includes transportation and admission. Please bring extra money for lunch. $10. Payable to the AAB. Friday, June 15th • 8:00am - 5:00pm. This trip is full but, you can be added to the waitlist. June 25

th: Birmingham Food and Beer Tour,

Birmingham, AL Come hungry and eat your way through The Magic City with Red Clay Tours! First we will visit Gus's Hot Dogs, the last of the classic Birmingham hot dog stands. Next is The Peanut Place located on the oldest road in downtown Birmingham where we will enjoy roasted and boiled peanuts. Our third stop is the famous Saw's BBQ where we will try a special plate of pork n' greens, BBQ chicken with white BBQ sauce, potato salad, fried green tomatoes and a deviled egg. Getting thirsty yet? We will wet our whistles at Ghost Train Brewing Company with a flight of beer, Golden Flake potato chips and a Bud’s Best cookie. Our final stop is Lichita's Paleteria y Neveria a new Mexican dessert spot in the Pizitz Food Hall. The cost of the trip includes transportation, tour and all food. Please do not attend if you have a peanut allergy! Some stops will be standing room only. $65. Payable to the AAB Monday, June 25th • 8:30am - 4:00pm. This trip is full but, you can be added to the waitlist.

July 10th

- Annie, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery, AL The sun will come out tomorrow! Adults and children alike can’t resist the irrepressible optimism of Annie’s story of a special little orphan girl who refuses to give up hope. With a delightful cast and memorable song-and-dance numbers, such as “It’s A Hard Knock Life,” “Easy Street,” and “I Don’t Need Anything But You,” Annie delivers “the ultimate feel-good musical.” – Time. The cost of the trip includes transportation and admission. Please bring extra money for dinner prior to the show. $50. Payable to the AAB. Tuesday, July 10th • 4:00pm - 11:00pm.

July 24th

- The American Village, Montevallo, AL Bring your imagination and sense of adventure to the revolution-ary American Village - a venue so unique, it’s a national treasure! The American Village brings to life our nation's stories of liberty and sacrifice. Three major elements dominate the master site plan of the American Village. Independence Circle represents Liberty drawing the thirteen colonies together in common cause. Atop the hillside, Constitution Green represents the enshrinement of that liberty within the Constitution. Around that green are major structures representing the Executive (Washington Hall), Judicial (Courthouse), and Legislative (future Independence Hall) branches of the Republic. A grand avenue rises upward from Independence Circle toward Constitution Green, signifying the upward American experience from the colonial period to the new American Republic. Along that avenue is sited the Chapel. This draws from L’Enfant’s early plan for the new capital city, where he placed a “temple” along the “grand avenue” linking the Capitol and President’s House. The cost of the trip includes transportation and admission. Please bring money for lunch after the tour. $10. Payable to the AAB. Tuesday, July 24th • 7:30am - 4:00pm.

Upcoming Trips

August 3rd

- Marietta Fire Museum and Gone with the Wind Movie Museum, Marietta, GA

August 28th - KIA Motor Manufacturing USA, West Point, GA

(This trip is full but, you can be added to the waitlist)

Happy

Birthday!

3—Susan Smith

4—Vallarie Crawford

7—Doug Klinkenborg,

Patricia Jorden, Cheryle Gladden

8—Julia Norton

11—Kent Levihn

12—Francis McDurmont

13—Ruth Williamson, Beth Karr

15—Helen Zhang

18—Bonney Schowalter,

Cathy Richardson, Calvin Finley

19—Bernice Cobb,

Wendy Smith Thomas,

Geraldine Gordon

20—Sharon Harden,

Faye Newell

21—Mary Nell Parsons,

Betsy Sutton

22—Pearle Floyd

23—Willie Mae Lilly

24—Shirley Norman

26—Dot Haywood

28—Lenora Finley

30—Nita Darden, Dana Rogers

Mark Your Calendar! Munch ‘N Mingle Lunch Club:

Skyline Café

Get together with old friends and make some new as we gather for lunch at

Skyline Café (145 E. Magnolia Ave, Auburn, AL). Participants must provide their own

transportation and cover the cost of lunch.

Wednesday, June 13th 11:30am - 1pm

Register at the Harris Center by Tuesday, June 12th at noon.

Golden Giving Days: Auburn Public Library

Each quarter we will focus on one local charity to donate our time to! This quarter we will be focusing on The Auburn Public

Library and will help them by prepping their supplies for upcoming children’s projects. If you have old books you are looking to donate, don’t forget to bring them along! Limited to 15 volunteers.

Please register in advance. FREE to the public.

Monday, June 18th, 2 - 5pm

at Auburn Public Library 749 E Thach Ave, Auburn, AL

Register at the Harris Center by Monday, June 11th at 5pm.

Movie Night: The Greatest Showman

The Greatest Showman celebrates the birth of show business, and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. Golden Globe

winner for Best Original Song.

Thursday, June 14th, 5:30 - 8pm $5 to cover the cost of dinner.

Register at the Harris Center by Wednesday, June 13th at 5pm.

Read and Reflect Book Club An American Marriage

by Tayari Jones

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream

and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink

of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are

ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and

sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit.

Tuesday, June 26th, 1:30 –2:30pm

FREE to the public.

Active Living Everyday

Active Living Every Day is an evidence-based behavior change program.

Participants learn the skills they need to become and stay physically active

including identifying and addressing barriers to physical activity, increasing

self-confidence about becoming physically active, creating realistic goals and rewards

for physical activity, developing social support and recovering from lapses in

physical activity.

Every Wednesday from 4—5pm June 6th—August 22nd

At the Harris Center FREE to the public.

Are You Smarter Than a College Student?

Join us for a fun twist on the hit TV show “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?”

as we answer questions to see if we really are smarter than all these college

students! Each team will be assigned one college student to be their classmate.

$5 to cover the cost of lunch. Payable to the AAB. Please register by Monday,

June 25th at 5pm.

Wednesday, June 27th 11:30am –2:00pm

Hand and Foot Card Club

Come together to enjoy one of America’s favorite card games, Hand and Foot! Hand and Foot is a game related to Canasta, in

which each player is dealt two sets of cards - the hand, which is played first, and the foot, which is played when the hand has

been used up.

Every Wednesday from 10:00 am—1:00pm and every Thursday from 4:00 –7:00pm

FREE to the public.

NOTICE:

If you plan to attend a program or event, PLEASE

register at the front desk by the registration deadline

regardless of whether or not there is a fee! If the program is changed or cancelled I do not know to contact you if

you are not registered.

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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

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3 4 5

6 Active Living

Every Day 4—5pm

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10 11

Zip lining trip

Columbus, GA

9am—2pm

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13 Munch N’ Mingle:

Skyline Café 11:30am—1pm

Active Living Every Day 4—5pm

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Movie Night: 5:30—8:00pm

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Field Trip: Jimmy Carter Library 9:00am—5:00pm

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17 18

Golden Giving

Days : Auburn

Public Library

2—4pm

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Active Living Every Day 4—5pm

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24 25 Field Trip:

Birmingham Food

& Beer Tour

8:30am—4:00pm

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Read & Reflect Book Club

1:30—2:30 pm

27 Are you

Smarter than a college student? 11:30am—2:-00pm

Active Living

Every Day 4—5pm

28 29 30

June 2018