Posted on: March 14th, 2018

Mountain MidLife and NAS Friends:                                                                   
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Sign Up Now for our Mountain MidLife Dinner and Games Night on Friday, March 23. See details below.

 

Pancake Appreciation: Thank you to the 45 people who volunteered to help with our Community Pancake Breakfast during Frozen Dead Guy Days! We needed and appreciated every one of you as we enjoyed serving over 625 guests in just 6 hours!

Thank you: Bob Behrens, Loren Blaney, Arden Buck, Marty Cheshes, Jim Disinger, Jim Elder, Carrie Evans, Bob Foss, Marilyn & Terry Goyer, Sandy Hollingsworth, Michele Hurliman, Guy & Lorelei Falsetti, Kathy & Steve Fox, David & Margaret Freeman, Justine Irwin, Lee Kennedy, Chastity & Sierra & Tabitha Lamb, Norman Linke, Rebecca Lundberg, Al & Kathy & Matthew Meyer, Drew & Sandy Morris, Lois Ott, Taylor Pajunen, Lauren & Mirasy Pfister, Bob Reeser, Jeannie Reynolds, Kathryn Roberts, Randy Sachter, Kaitlin Silbaugh, Circe Stumbo, Lynn Underhill, Joy Weinstein, Pat Whited, Dan Williams, Laury Yates – and to Community Center staff for your unwavering support!

 

We are so Lucky! Please inform your friends (email, Facebook), especially those in Boulder, to please contribute to our nonprofit Nederland Area Seniors (host of Mountain MidLife) with their “wooden nickels” (10 cent bag credits, when they bring their own bag) at the checkout counter at Lucky’s Market NORTH at Broadway and Quince. We are only in this program from now until May 16, so we need to get the word out quickly asking Lucky’s shoppers for their help. We do not wish to divert any shoppers from our locally owned B&F Mountain Market, but if you tend to shop down below anyway, please take a moment to visit Lucky’s and donate your bag credit to us. Thank you!

 

Invite a friend to a meal (lunches every Monday and Wednesday or monthly dinners or breakfasts/brunches) and offer to pick them up and drop them home afterwards. With a “requested contribution” of $5 over age 60, we offer a fun and affordable get-together with friends. We need and appreciate your anonymous meal contributions, but please ensure people know that we welcome anyone over age 60 regardless of ability to pay. Those under age 60 pay $8 breakfast/brunch, $8.25 lunch, $10 dinner.

 

All ages of adults are welcome at all events, attended mostly by folks over age 50.

Sign up for all Mountain MidLife events at 303-258-0799 or Meetup.com/Mountain-MidLife-Social-Group (posted within the next two days) or by replying to this email.

 

Everybody’s Table

 

Everybody’s Table is a new event featuring good nutrition for seniors – and the people who love them. Dr. Coco Dughi from the Boulder Medical Center presents “The Power of Diet and Lifestyle in Healthy Aging” and a resource fair includes demonstrations with food, as well as information about meals, nutrition, and senior services in Boulder County. Continental Breakfast provided. Everybody is welcome to the Table – Seniors, MidLifers, Family Caregivers – Thursday, March 15, 9am-Noon, hosted by our Boulder County Area Agency on Aging at the Jewish Community Center at 6007 Oreg Ave, Boulder. RSVP to https://everybodystable.eventbrite.comor contact 303-441-4995 for more information.

 

Snowshoe Interest Group

 

The BIGfoot Snowshoe hike tradition continues with our volunteer leader Gunda Starkey. These hikes meet on third Fridays at 10:00am at the lower east entrance of the Nederland Community Center to carpool to a nearby trailhead. Our next snowshoe hike will be on Friday, March 16. If you have no snowshoes but would like to learn and participate, let us know. When we have too little snow, we can hike with YakTrax (or equivalent). Please call Gunda at 303-459-0412 with questions/reservations.

 

St Patrick’s Day with The Gael

 

Everybody’s Irish on St. Pat’s Day! Kick off your celebration on St. Pat‘s Eve here in Nederland with local Irish band The Gael at Very Nice Brewing Company in the shopping mall on Friday, March 16, 6:00pm-8:30pm. Dance a jig and drink a craft brew with friends. The band is made up of local Mountain MidLife friends and is a fabulous local choice for our St. Patrick’s celebration!

 

Auditions for Viva Theatre Spring Show

Viva Theatre is casting for a production of A.R. Gurney’s The Dining Room to be performed in late May at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder. Both small and large roles are available, as well as behind-the-scenes stage hands. Auditions will be held in Boulder Saturday, March 17, 2:00pm to 4:00pm at Frasier Meadows, 350 Ponca Place, Boulder OR Sunday, March 18, 6pm-8pm at Horizon West Condominiums Community Room, 1850 Folsom. Required dress rehearsals and performance weekends run 5/15-26. For info, contact info@nulls4creativeaging.com.

 

Swing Dance to Live Big Band Music

 

Swing Dance to a live dance band at the Avalon Ballroom at 63^rd and Arapahoe in Boulder on Saturday, March 17. This month’s big band will be the Flatirons Jazz Orchestra – the same group that played the Caribou Room last year. Dance lesson 7pm-8pm included with the price of admission. Dancing 8-11pm. DJ dance music during intermissions. Light snacks provided. All ages welcome. No partner or dance experience required. Please wear non-marking shoes. Dress to express yourself. Casual is fine. Admission: $15 per person general; $10 students; $5 children accompanied by adult; volunteers free. Cash or check.

 

Featured Event!  Mountain MidLife Dinner & Games

 

Meet old and new friends at the Mountain MidLife Dinner on Friday, March 23, 5:00pm doors open for social, 5:30pm meal served. This month’s menu includes beef/mushroom or vegetable/sweet potato empanadas, eggplant/squash, roasted potato, and pear with dulce de leche. Please reserve as far in advance as possible at Meetup.com/Mountain-MidLife-Social-Group, by replying to this email, or by phone at 303-258-0799.  If you have special dietary needs not already registered with us, please inform us several days in advance. $10 Adults under age 60 or $5 requested contribution over age 60. Bring a game you’d like to play with friends after dinner!

 

Please VOLUNTEER to help at these events. If you enjoy cooking and would like to assist our friendly new chef Cher Rainbolt in the afternoon, please let us know AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. If you can help at the door with greeting/check-in and welcoming/orienting our newest guests, we really appreciate it. We need 3-4 people to handle this each time and need to know several days in advance that we have these positions covered.

 

X-C Ski Interest Group

 

Join us on a weekday or weekend day for classic cross-country skiing on the groomed trails at Eldora Mountain Resort. We will meet inside the Nordic center, just left of the downhill beginners’ slope, on Sunday, March 25, at 1:30pm. Single day trail passes on weekdays are $25 and $16 (weekends are higher) and equipment rentals are $27, or $22 over age 65. Our volunteer leader (not a certified ski instructor) can help beginners; otherwise please consider scheduling a lesson in advance with a professional instructor ($80) from Eldora Nordic Center prior to our outing. Plan to arrive early if requiring rental equipment.

 

With varying skill levels in our group and snow/trail conditions being fickle, we will need to communicate prior to the event. Please call Gunda at 303-459-0412 with questions/reservations and indicate what type of cross country skiing you have done and your skill level so we can plan groups. This event presents inherent risk of injury and all participants must sign a liability waiver.

 

New Event!  Boulder Opera – Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte

 

Mozart’s clever opera buffa follows the lives of two sets of lovers whose fidelity is put to the test in a comedy of errors. Lines are hilariously blurred as deceit and desire cause characters to lose sight of what is reality and make believe. Come see one of Mozart’s most adored musical works satirizing both women and men.

 

Sung in Italian with English subtitles, featuring an ensemble orchestra. We will attend the matinee on Sunday, March 25, 3:00pm at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder. We offer a special price available nowhere else, with the usual senior ticket reduced from $25 to $17 for mountain residents over age 60. This price is only if we have a group of ten or more. Make checks payable to NAS, P O Box 188, Nederland CO 80466 and ensure we receive your signup and payment by Wednesday, March 14.

 

Foot Care

 

 Local Registered Nurse Debbie Neal serves mountain older adults with toenail and skin care, review of foot concerns – Monday, March 26. By appointment, downtown Nederland, $30, sign up early at 303-258-0799.

 

National Caregiver Training Program

 

Acquire the practical skills needed for safe, confident home care of a frail elder older loved one. Taught by a nurse. Learn to provide personal care, take vitals, manage medications, lift and transfer, use a wheelchair safely, and more. Book and resource info included. Tuesdays, April 3 – May 8, 1:30-4:30 in North Boulder.

303-678-6116 or InfoCaregiver@nullbouldercounty.org. Open to Boulder County residents providing care for a relative, partner, or friend who is age 60 or over or of any age if the person has dementia. No charge; donations appreciated. Respite care assistance offered.

 

Fitness Author & Movement Class at NCL

 

Bust the myths of the aging process with a lively discussion followed by gentle movement lessons designed to improve posture, core strength, flexibility, and balance. Cheryl Ilov, Physical Therapist and author of Forever Fit & Flexible…Feeling Fabulous at Fifty and Beyond, offers a special class at Nederland Community Library on Wednesday, April 4, 1:30pm-3:00pm. This fun, interactive, and informative class shows us how we can remain fit, flexible, vibrant, and active in our 50s, 60, 70s, and beyond. Please arrive by 1:15pm for check-in, dress in layers, and bring a yoga mat or blanket and a pillow or towel.

 

Book Group

 

The Book Group will meet at a private home on second Thursdays; the next meeting is Thursday, April 12, 6:30pm, and the format is pot luck. Call us at 303-258-0799 for the location or other info.

April’s book is The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson.

 

Open-Caption Films at Monday Matinees

 

Our friendly Backdoor Theatre crew at the Nederland Community Center has added a special matinee showing every Monday at 1:30pm of the prior weekend’s film. Please help spread the word to friends whose jobs or busy schedules prevents them from attending movies on Friday and Saturday evenings. The matinee includes “open captioning”, which shows the words at the bottom of the screen. This is most helpful to those of us who stopped attending movies because we have trouble understanding what the actors are saying. Enjoy this new, enhanced feature and show your support to the BDT so they can continue to offer this new service!

 

New Opportunity!  Create Our Events

 

Our new board is reconfiguring some of the ways our organization can operate most effectively. We invite all of the folks who have enjoyed an event or outing in the past few years—or would like to in the future—to help us sustain our vibrant activity levels. Your input about what specific outings you would like our organization to plan and a small amount of your energy to help make them happen for everyone is needed. We are reducing hours for our tiny overburdened staff and need YOU, our friends we love to get together with, to help keep our group lively. If we don’t step up to make them happen, our wonderful array of activities and outings could become a distant memory. Let’s get together regularly to plan all the fun times we can share! Please call us at 303-258-0799to volunteer with our fun programs and activities planning group.

 

Other Events of Interest

 

Plan an outing or interest group and we can post it at Meetup. Email details to Serene at serenekarplus (at) gmail.com. Adults of all ages are welcome at all events.

 

 

  WEEKLY CALENDAR

 

Lunch at Nederland Community Center — RSVP 2 days ahead

   Every Monday & Wednesday, Noon

 

Mtn MidLife Breakfast/Brunch, Nederland Community Center —RSVP one week ahead if possible

   Second Sat Odd # Mos, 8:30am/9:00am

   Second Sun Even # Months, 11:00am/11:30am

    

Mtn MidLife Dinner at Nederland Community Center —RSVP one week ahead if possible

   Fourth Fridays, 5:00pm/5:30pm

 

Exercise at St. Rita’s Catholic Church; free

   Every Monday & Wednesday, 10:30am

 

Pickleball at Nederland Community Center; Ned CC fees

   Every Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, 10:00am

 

Writing Skills at Ned Community Library; free

   Every 1st and 3rd Monday, 1:00pm

 

Writing Life Stories at Ned Community Library; free

   Every 2nd & 4th Wednesday, 1:00pm

 

NedKnits at Ned Community Library; free

   Second Thursdays, 1:00-3:00pm, Ned Comm Library

 

BIGfoot Memorial Snowshoe/Hike Meet at Nederland Community Center; free

   Every 3rd Friday, 10:00am, Call NAS to Confirm

   

 March Menu

 

Please RSVP two days ahead for lunches, several days ahead for breakfasts and dinners to 303-258-0799.

 

 

Day	Date	Entrée	Vegetable	Carbohydrate	Salad	Fruit
Mon	3/5/18	Sweet and Sour Pork	Broccoli	Brown Rice	Field Greens Salad	Apple
Wed	3/7/18	Chicken Fried Steak		Mashed Potato	Cole Slaw	Pear
Sat/Sun Breakfast	3/10-11/18	Eggs/ Sausage / Yogurt		Pancakes, Bran Cereal		Banana
Mon	3/12/18	Tuna Salad Sandwich       on WW	Garden Vegetable Soup			Berries
Wed	3/14/18	Corned Beef	Cabbage / Carrot	Potato		Apple/Berry
Mon	3/19/18	Turkey ala King	Green Bean / Carrot / Mushroom	Egg Noodles		Orange
Wed	3/21/18	Eggplant Parmesan		WW Spaghetti / Garlic Bread	Italian Salad	Peach
Friday Dinner	3/23/18	Beef or Veggie/Sweet Potato Empanadas	Eggplant/Squash	Roasted Potatoes		Pear w Dulce de Leche
Mon	3/26/18	Beef and Broccoli          Stir Fry	California Vegetables	Brown Rice		Banana
Wed	3/28/18	Herbed Fish	Lemon Spinach / Carrots	WW Roll		Pear

 

 

We look forward to seeing you at an event soon!

 

Serene Karplus, Director

Nederland Area Seniors & Mountain MidLife

NederlandAreaSeniors@nullgmail.com

www.NederlandAreaSeniors.org

www.Meetup.com/Mountain-MidLife-Social-Group

303-258-0799

 

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Nederland CO 80466