School's In Session For Seniors, Too

This in from the Bristol Senior and Community Center:

Open Registration for 2010 Senior Fall Classes will be held on Wednesday, September 8th and Thursday, September 9th from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the Beals Senior-Community Center, at 240 Stafford Ave. Bristol.

The classes are held at the Beals Senior-Community Center for Bristol Senior Center members . If you cannot register on those days, you may come in to the Main Office after those dates and register after 9 a.m. until classes are full. Classes are $10.00 and will begin on Monday, September 20th.


The Senior Center offers Senior Enrichment classes, which are sponsored by the Bristol Board of Adult Education, for 10 weeks, which include Ceramics (day and evening), Chair caning, Line dancing, Painting (Oils or Watercolor) as well as a Beginners Painting class; “One-Stroke” painting on Monday Mornings and on Wednesday evenings, Quilting (anexperienced class and a beginners class), Ladies exercise class as well as Co-ed exercise classes. This semester we have a Gentle Yoga for Seniors class as well as a Sculpt, Strength & Tone Exercise class for Seniors.

The Senior Center Community Computer Center will offer FREE Introduction to Computers Classes (2), and Introduction to Microsoft Word Classes, Introduction to the Internet classes for $5.00 as well as a Digital Camera Class for $8.00, all taught and coached by Volunteers. Call 860-584-7895 for questions. Bristol Senior Center Membership card is required at registration.

This Is The Surface of the Sun

And you thought it was just outside your door....
For anyone who is having trouble with the heat, head over to the senior center on Stafford Avenue, which is open from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. through Friday to offer a free, cool spot to chill.
You can also hit one of the city's two outdoor public pools -- in Rockwell and Page parks -- or one of the city's three spray/splash pools, which are really like big, fun, colorful sprinkers. They're in Rockwell and Page parks, closing at and at Stocks Playground.
Swimming pools close at 7 at Rockwell, 8 at Page. Sprinkers are off at 6 p.m. at Stocks and at 6:45 at the other two parks.
Don't forget your friendly local libraries. They're nice places to beat the heat as well.

Senior Center is City's Cool Down Spot

The Beals Senior and Community Center on Stafford Avenue will be the city's official public place to cool down in the heat this week.

Hours will be 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Stay tuned for more details.

Sickening Vandalism at Senior Center

At the left is a photo that Peggy Sokol sent me of a dogwood tree damaged by vandals Saturday afternoon.

If you look closely, you can see where the bark starts, high up just under the branches. All the lower, tan-colored part of the trunk has been stripped of bark.

Someone carved "Bree & Branden 4 Ever" in the tree trunk after the bark was removed.

Sokol said she called tree experts, who told her there wasn't much that could be done to save a tree with this extensive damage.

I'll have a story to file for Saturday's edition of The Bristol Press.

In the meantime, my puzzler will grow sore trying to figure out why someone would do this.