OLDER ADULTS NEWS

Get a Lift to the Library!

Reading Elder Services provides transportation on the last Monday of each month from your home to the Reading Public Library. Trips to the Library are at 9:00 a.m. and return trips home are at 11:00 a.m. To schedule a ride, call the Elder Services Department at 781-942-6794 at least two (2) days in advance.

Aladdin Low Vision Personal Reader

Having trouble reading? The Library has a low vision reader to allow visually challenged individuals to view photos, work on crafts and read books and magazines by magnifying images and texts and displaying them on a screen.

Netguides

Trained Netguides are available to meet one-on-one for technology training sessions. For more information and to sign up, see our Netguides page.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012
10:00 a.m.
(Coffee & refreshments at 9:30 a.m.)

 (Rescheduled from an earlier date.)    Derby Square Tours’ Jim McAllister will recount some tales of the region’s most colorful characters–from the curious residents of Dogtown to the bizarre Lord Timothy Dexter–in this entertaining slide lecture. In honor of Valentine’s Day, he will also relate some fun local romance stories in keeping with the home-grown theme.

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(Senior Center Lounge, 1-2 p.m.)  After Adam March loses his job, his wife, and the life he has worked so hard to achieve, he must fulfill a community-service obligation at a soup kitchen, where he meets Chance, a pit bull bred for fighting who ends up being Adam’s best shot at redemption. Barbara Currie will lead this discussion.  Copies of the book are available at the Library or at the Senior Center (ask at the front desk.)  Link to the catalog. 

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Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012
7:00 p.m.

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is the largest membership organization for personal financial planning experts in the U.S. and includes professionals from all backgrounds.  Tonight’s presentation, by a member of this organization, will provide handouts to assist people in working through how to cope with a loss of income due to job loss or other adversity.  The presenter will also tell how to manage investments during uncertain market conditions.

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Saturday, January 21
3:00-4:00 p.m.

Do you want to learn how to play chess?  Are you a bit rusty, and need a refresher?  Or are you a seasoned player looking for playing partners?  Whatever description fits you, this chess program is for you.  We will have tables set up for players of all abilities, plus High School and Middle School volunteers ready to teach chess beginners of all ages.  (Children under the age of 10 must be accompanied by an adult.)  Chess sets will be provided.

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Begins February 2, 2012
7:00 p.m.

Would you like to learn more about U.S. foreign policy in an engaging community forum?  The Library will host a Great Decisions series for nine weeks.  The series begins on February 2 and continues on Feb. 9, 16, 23, March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 (with a snow date of April 5).   This series will discuss many of the important foreign policy topics facing the United States.

The topics are:  Middle East Realignment, Promoting Democracy, Mexico, Cybersecurity, Exit From Afghanistan & Iraq, State of the Oceans, Indonesia, and Energy Geopolitics.

The discussions will be led by Dr. Craig Brandt, a former naval officer who has also been a professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology and dean of academic affairs at the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management.

Attendance is by pre-registration only; registration begins in January.  There is a $20 fee for the briefing book.

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