Janesville Senior Center

Fun day trip to Theatre at the Center in Munster, Indiana. Loved the Gingerbread House making contest. Linda and Sue were very creative and won!

Wow! The quilting group made 22 lap quilts that they donated to St. Elizabeths. All the lap quilts were beautiful. Thank you for sharing your talents with the community!

Stop on down to the Janesville Senior Activity Center to take a selfie or photo with our Santa Farm Holiday Selfie Station Area.

Flu Clinic:
Hy-Vee pharmacy will be at the Janesville Senior Center on November 28th from 11 to 1 for the Flu Clinic. Bring insurance information.

I never met a pumpkin I didn't like! Beautiful paperback pumpkins!

Interested in learning how to do leather tooling? Join us Wednesdays at 1:00 p.m. in the Art Room. Beautiful work Andy!
Please call the Senior Center at 755-3040 with questions or stop by the office.

Today at the Janesville Senior Center, "A Salute to Those Who Served: America's Veterans" program. The program began with a pancake breakfast. Thank You to Janet, Rosemary and Sue for all your help! Special Thanks to the VFW VVA Honor Guard for posting and retiring the flags. The Janesville Senior Center Choristers enhanced the program with wonderful Patriotic songs! Mark Finnegan from the Vets Roll program spoke about the amazing trip taken to Washington. Thank you for all you do for the Veterans! The program ended with a Quilt Raffle, which raised $935. The money was donated to the Vets Roll Program. The beautiful quilt was made by Pat from the quilters. Congratulations Joyce on winning the quilt! Thank you, Veterans, for your service.

The JAMM'in Ukes, the Senior Center ukelele group, meet Mondays at 12:45 in the Riverview Room. Join us!

Educational presentation: Using Technology to Stay Connected
Thursday, November 9th at 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Kelly Difiore
Questions or to sign up for the presentation, please call the Senior Center at 755-3040 or stop by the office.

We will start taking 2024 memberships December 1st at the Janesville Senior Activity Center. Membership is only $25.00 annually.

Great day to craft Pumpkins! All of the projects looked amazing!

This afternoon we had a Halloween Costume Contest. Our contest winners are 1st place- Jerry Cox, 2nd place- George McRoberts, and 3rd place- Gay McRoberts. Who doesn't love a costume contest. Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from Vicki, Linda and the Janesville Senior Activity Center!

Halloween festivities are underway at the Janesville Senior Center. We started the day with Roll a Scarecrow. Our game winners are Susie Ehlers, Cathy Audorff, and Linda Rufer. Congrats! Next up, a costume contest.

Welcome Laurie, she is our 700th member this year!

Are you over 50 years of age and looking for a fun place to learn new things, have fun and meet new people - join the Janesville Senior Activity Center. Stop down and we would be happy to give you a tour.

Please remember: There will be No Night Ceramics on Tuesday, October 31.

Woodcarvers group at the Janesville Senior Center. Beautiful fall projects! The group meets on Monday and Thursday at 9:00 a.m. Would you like to learn; we have folks willing to help. Join us!

We will have no night ceramics on Tuesday, October 31. Our next class will be November, 7th. Thanks!

New Five Crowns game starting November 2nd! Five Crowns is a rummy style card game. This group will meet every Thursday at 1:00 p.m. in the Mirror Area.

Join Us! Starting November 10th, the Bunco group will meet the 2nd and 4th Friday at 11:00 a.m. in the Riverview Room. Hope to see you there!

Fun Mystery Trip yesterday. A visit to Historic Auto Attraction (so much to see), lunch at the Rock, Nicholas Conservatory (and we made lip balm) and cupcakes from Fatt Cats Cafe. Everything was delicious.

November Special Event
Please Join Us For
“A Salute to Those Who Served: America’s Veterans”

WHEN: Wednesday, November 8
WHERE: Riverview Room
TIME: Meal at 8:30 a.m.
Program at 9:00 a.m.
COST: $10 Members
$15 for Guests
All Veterans Free—They
Must Register

MENU: Pancakes, sausage links, applesauce, orange juice & coffee

This program is meant to include all veterans and those persons who wish to honor them. These veterans have enabled all of us to enjoy our nation’s freedoms. We hope you will join us to honor these men and women, our veterans at this breakfast event. We will have Mark Finnegan here to talk about Vets Roll and pick the winner for the quilt raffle. Choristers will be performing some patriotic songs. Please register by Thursday, November 2nd.

Register and pay by November 1st

Christmas From the Farm

DECEMBER TRIP

WHEN: Wednesday, December 6
WHERE: Theatre at the Center- Munster, Indiana
TIME: Leave: 9:00 a.m.
Return: 7:30 p.m.
(time subject to traffic or weather)
COST: $110 Members
$120 Non-members
Departs from the Ice Arena
Reservations & payment due by Thurs., November 2. This trip is open to members and non-members. Anyone over the age of 21 is welcome to attend. For more information, contact the Janesville Senior Center at 755-3040.

Quilting class on Tuesdays beginning at 9:00 am and goes all day. If you are interested in Quilting, stop in at the Janesville Senior Center!

Music is in the air at the Janesville Senior Center. Join the Blue Velvet Bans on the 1st and 3rd Friday of every month beginning at 9:30a.m. to enjoy the music and dancing!

Congratulations to the Janesville Senior Activity Center and Manager, Linda Kleven for receiving the Edison Bell Einstein Award from the Wisconsin Association of Senior Centers on September 28 at the WASC Fall Conference in Fond du Lac, WI. This award was for the intergenerational project to benefit local veterans on the 4th of July with the help of St. Paul's School first graders. The project was held in May.

Senior Fair was a success and Congratulations to Gay McRoberts for winning the free day trip sponsored by our terrific Senior Center Board! As you can see Linda and Vicki really went all out with their theme of the Wizard of Oz.