Saturday, March 19, 2011

Seniors College Celebrating The Arts - on CBC

A recent item on CBC Radio, features retired publisher, Libby Oughton and myself with Island Morning host Matt Rainnie talking about the upcoming book being published of work by members of Seniors College writing classes. Libby and Dianne Morrow are both currently teaching courses with Seniors College and want to contact writers who took courses in prior year to consider submitting a item of their work.

Seniors College had offered courses for writers for over a decade, and the book is a celebration of members work from that decade.

The interview also covers the overall project and the main celebration event at which the book will be launched on November 4, 2011, at Confederation Centre of the Arts.

You can listen to the item as a slide show/video.

The project website explains more.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Seniors-to-Seniors Abuse Awareness Presenters

The UPEI Centre on Health & Aging through its project on Abuse of Older
Adults Awareness Project is seeking senior who are interested in becoming
Seniors-to-Seniors Abuse Awareness Presenters. As trained volunteers the
Seniors-to-Seniors Abuse of Older Adults Awareness presenters will provide
awareness sessions within their own community or if interested neighbouring
communities as well (you would not be expected to do more than 3
presentations per year).

We are providing training on Thursday March 24 and again on Monday March 28.
A training session is one day only and lunch will be provided, the two dates
are to provide choices.

If you or anyone you know is interested in taking the training please let me
know and I will contact them to provide more details. I sometimes work at
home so will give you all of my contact numbers which also have answering
machines so if I cannot answer the phone I will get back as soon as possible:

902-675-4312 (Home)
902-892-2841 (Work)
902-940-6702 (Cell)

I can also be contacted via e-mail: obryanton@upei.ca or olive@hhost.ca

Olive Bryanton