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Parking. We have the Church, Ministry Centre, Café Vista and school parents all fighting for parking space, often at the same time. In order to avoid conflict no group activity should commence before 9.30am - a 20 minute set up time prior to that should be sufficient for most groups. In addition Groups are asked not to vacate the HQ, unless on foot, between 3.15p.m. and 3.45p.m. thus reducing the number of moving vehicles at school leaving time. South West Lancs U3A Network. Find out more about Groups in the area with www.sw-lancs-u3a-network.co.uk/. Get more information on other groups and newworks
Wednesday 8th February. A new memory course starts. More details Wednesday 22nd February. Short course on More Victorian Novelists begins. Details Sunday 19th February. IS ROMANCE DEAD? At 2.30 Details Tuesday 6th March. NW Region Science Day at West Lancashire Investment Centre from 9.45am - 3.45pm Thursday/ Friday March 22nd/23rd. Musical Theatre Group production"Up For It". Order your tickets now. See Musical Theatre Group Saturday 21st April: an evening of music from the great American songbook featuring, among others, many of the timeless and sophisticated songs of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. Tickets on sale 1 March Tuesday 12 June: Day tour to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Barbara Hepworth Museum Details on Art Appreciation webpage
The October Monthly Speaker
Heather Butler-Smith talked about "A better life for the over 60s" at the October Monthly Meeting New Members Tea Party Around 80 people came to our new members tea party. The executive committee made cakes and Chairman Jeff explained explained how Aughton and Ormskirk U3A operated on an entirely voluntary basis and offered over 80 activities for learning, exercising, enjoying and gaining fulfilment and friendship in retirement. This also marked UN Older People's Day which took place the following day - October 1st.
Mobility Outing On a particularly blustery October day, an intrepid group made their way
to see the Iron Men at Crosby beach and on for afternoon tea at Ladygreen
Garden Centre. The outing was organised by Pat Atherton of the Helping
Each Other Group for members who have difficulty getting out and about.
This followed on from the theatre outings and more trips are planned.
Group Information, New Groups Short Courses
Successful Ageing: the Memory Course The memory course aims to provide information about memory processes and to reduce anxiety about memory problems. This is through helping members to consider common memory problems associated with increasing age, how this can affect activities of daily living and what can be done to prevent or manage such problems. At the end of October 2010 over 120 members had been through the course. So the memory course team decided to have a break. Our team that developed the course - Sylvia Dillon, Norma Seddon, Ann Haskell and Wendy Craddock (and formerly Anne Stark) and myself are busily responding to a growing interest from all parts of the UK and will publish a handbook in January2012. The team
has conducted
training courses
for ten Lancashire
U3A groups and twenty
Yorkshire groups. Invitations are
being processed by the East
Midland Region, Thames Valley,
South East etc. Read more details about the 'Mindgym' Memory Programme by Alex McMinn New memory course The next Memory Course will be
in February: four 1½ hour sessions
on consecutive Wednesday mornings at the Scout HQ from
1015 to 1200 commencing 8
February and then 15 February, 22 February and 29 February. The
charge for the course is £5.00
payable at the first session. Book List: Updates for the website: please contact the webmaster with any comments or updates
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