The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Dear Editor:

Each year older adults are making positive impact by taking part in activities that promote wellness and social connection, sharing their wisdom and experience with future generations, and enriching their communities. They are volunteers, employees, employers, educators, mentors, and advocates.

Older Americans Month (OAM) provides resources to help older Americans stay healthy, independent, and provides resources to help communicate support and celebrate their diversity.

This year’s OAM theme is “Connect, Create, and Contribute”, which emphasizes the importance of Connecting with friends, family, local services, resources; Creating through activities that promote learning, health, personal achievement; Contributing time, talent, life experience to benefit others.

Southeast Washington Aging and Long Term Care will celebrate OAM by promoting ways that community members of all ages can take part in helping older adult populations thrive not only during the month of May but throughout the year. Communities that support and recognize their older adults are stronger!

Visit http://www.altcwashington.com and join us as we “Connect, Create, Contribute”!

The Columbia County Senior Center has a number of events planned for OAM which include Free Haircuts on May 7th starting at 9:30am, a Senior Open House on May 9 from 1:00-3:00pm with free ice cream sundaes, Demaris Daycare coming to perform on May 16th at 11:30pm, and exercise every Thursday starting at 10:15am to 11:15am.

If you are 60 and older come on down to the Columbia County Senior Center and see everything the center has to offer.

Stephanie Carpenter, Chair

SE WA Aging and Long Term Care

Advisory Council Representing Columbia County