{"id":7158,"date":"2014-06-25T17:41:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T21:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=7158"},"modified":"2014-07-09T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T03:04:45","slug":"senior-scape-spreading-generosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/senior-scape-spreading-generosity\/","title":{"rendered":"SENIOR SCAPE: Spreading Generosity"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sylvia Dickens<\/strong><\/p>\n

You might think the Aurora Seniors\u2019 Centre is just a social club, but there\u2019s far more to it.
\nOver several decades of its existence, the Centre has grown immensely into one that spreads generosity and supports the community in many ways.
\nThe Centre enters the Town\u2019s parades each year and has even won a few awards for best float.
\nThese are created through the dedication of our workshop crew. It\u2019s not just about winning or the fun of coming up with a theme or creating the structure. It\u2019s about making sure our Centre gets its rightful representation. Perhaps more important, it\u2019s about supporting the community.
\nThe Aurora seniors don\u2019t just take.
\nThe Sew Much Fun group has just completed a sizeable batch of items to donate to the Operation Smile program. This program sends doctors to other parts of the world to perform sometimes life-saving operations on children who suffer from cleft lip and facial deformities that hinder their ability to eat.
\nAs we speak, our sewing ladies are handing over to the local Operation Smile coordinator a bundle of 52 bags each containing toiletries, coloring books and a mirror so every child can see their new smile.
\nAlso included in the package are 50 hand-made hospital gowns, 25 dolls so the doctors can demonstrate the procedure on their faces and help the children better understand what will happen, and 100 no-no arm bands to prevent the young patients from touching their faces during the healing process.
\nThe Centre creates several events throughout the year that are geared to making sure town residents add fun to their hectic schedule.
\nOn June 22, for example, the Centre held a Family Picnic and Fun Fair and invited the whole community. It included a sing-along of traditional songs: Deep In The Heart Of Texas, She\u2019ll Be Coming Round The Mountain, Take Me Out To The Ball Game and others.
\nThe Silver Stars and the Evergreen Choir are often invited to perform somewhere in the community to help entertain and ease the burden of life.
\nSince the inception of the Evergreen Choir nine years ago, it has performed for the community. For the past four years, the choir members have performed a Spring Concert at the Centre and then taken it to senior residences who also enjoy the spring repertoires.
\nIn the past two months, the choir was welcomed by residents of Hadley Grange and Park Place Manor.
\nSome members of the recently formed Keep Singing group, which meets Thursday mornings, has begun visiting nursing and retirement homes to sing to the residents. So far, this casual sing-along group has been to Sunrise Retirement Home, St. Andrew\u2019s Presbyterian Church, Cobblestone Lodge and plans to continue visiting other homes during the summer.
\nOur Centre also has donated funds to CHATS. Two teams, the Aurora Senior Walkers and the Aurora Seniors Board Bunch participated in the Walk for Wellness program in February. After walking 50,000 steps throughout the week, the teams gave the $1,500 raised to CHATS to support seniors\u2019 programs and services in the community.
\nThe Centre was the only non-profit organization which chose to donate not only the required 50 per cent of pledges collected, but the entire 100 per cent.
\nIndividual members have also made their mark on the community. Helen Roberts, Dorothy Gummersall, Dierdre and David Tomlinson received the 2014 Heritage Celebration award for actively working to represent and preserve the town\u2019s prestigious history.
\nRon Coe, the Centre\u2019s Workshop Coordinator, has been instrumental in many projects, the most recent being the construction of Lending Library bookcases. This project is a coordination between the Centre and the Aurora Public Library. People can grab a book, read it, pass it along and bring it back to the libraries.
\nIn years past and present, the Centre\u2019s community involvement continues. The Centre truly is more than a social club. If you want to get involved in some of these projects and put some fun in your life, all you have to do is join at only $20 a year.<\/p>\n

For more information on the Aurora Seniors\u2019 Centre, drop by 90 John West Way, visit www.auroraseniors.ca, email auroraseniors@rogers.com or call 905-726-4767 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday to Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sylvia Dickens You might think the Aurora Seniors\u2019 Centre is just a social club, but there\u2019s far more to it. Over several decades of its existence, the Centre has grown immensely into one that spreads generosity and supports the community in many ways. The Centre enters the Town\u2019s parades each year and has even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-1Rs","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 13:46:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}