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Diary Dates

September: Church History: This will restart ion Wednesday 8th September if enough people are interested. Ring Audrey on 423302. More details.

Thursday 2 September: Monthly Meeting "Sustaining Wellbeing in Later Life". More details

Sunday, 26 September: Visit to Croxteth Hall and more. Coach at 13.30. See local history for details

Wednesday 29th September - Sunday 1st October - UN Older Persons Day
As part of the international celebration of the UN Older Persons Day, Aughton-Ormskirk U3A will be in Ormskirk Town Centre from 29th September - 2nd October at No. 22 Church Street
The shop will be manned by U3A members and furnished with exhibits illustrating U3A activities. Members are asked to visit the "shop" and encourage neighbours, family and friends to do so also. Volunteers to help set up and staff the shop for short periods should contact the Chairman - Jeff Roberts.

Friday 1st October: Line Dancing and Disco at Aughton Village Hall at 7.30pm. Tickets from June Huyton. Bring your own food and drink and enjoy Grand National Barbers Shop Choir Cabaret during the interval.

Monday 4th October.  New improvers bridge course starts. Ring Vin on 421472 if interested

Saturday 9th October: A Race Night at Aughton Village Hall. Tickets £3.00 on sale at Horizons in September

Wednesday 6th October: Computer Workshop. More details

Friday 15th October: CHICAGO TEDDYBEARS SOCIETY  JAZZBAND at the Aughton Village Hall on Friday 15th October.  Tickets at £6.00 on sale at the monthly Jazz Evening on September 17th and at the following Horizon Mornings.

Monday 6th December: Walking holiday in Malhamdate meeting at 12.15 in the Scout & Guide HQ. More details.

Friday 17th December: Christmas Lunch at the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool. Tickets will be on sale at Horizons from the 7th October. More details later.  

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Short Courses

EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS: John Johnson of the Horus Egyptology Society is willing to give a course f ten twoweekly sessions on Hieroglyphs, probably on a Wednesday afternoon. The cost would depend on the number of people signing up. Anyone who has been to Egypt with John will know his enthusiasm for and expertise in the subject. If you are interested in this course please contact: Doug and Joyce Lennie on 722 131 or Andrew and Bliss Beeston on 574 928.

CANTERBURY TALES: A five-session course on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales will be offered soon by Joan Hughes who leads the Shakespeare group. At the time of going to press the venue and times had not been arranged but these will be announced shortly on the website and at Horizons. So prepare to wend your merry way to Canterbury!

We are exploring interest in the following:

Creative Writing: (contact Beth Blamires)

Stained Glass; Astronomy: Architec ture and Sugar Craft (contact Jeff Roberts)

Victorian Novelists: (contact Carol Potter - Book Reading)


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.

Although we have been over subscribed for our October course it will be some time before we run the course again. By the end of October over 120 members will have been through the course. So the memory course team has decided we need a break.

Leaders: Sylvia Dillon and Norma Seddon. Coordinators: Wendy Craddock 01772 600 543 and Ann Haskell 579 569

Read more details about the 'Mindgym' Memory Programme by Alex McMinn

Book List:
A very basic overview
Mason D.J and Smith S.X. (2005) ‘The Memory Doctor’. New Harbinger Publica tion.
Smith T (2007) ‘Coping with Age-related memory loss’. Sheldon Press.
Related to later life memory problems – light hearted
Gibson H.B.(1995) ‘On the tip of your tongue. Your memory in later life’. Third Age Press. ISBN 189857605.


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