National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day is observed on December 7th to remember and honor the 2,403 Americans who were killed eighty-one years ago in the 1941 Japanese surprise dawn attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. As a result, the United States declared war on Japan and entered World War II. FDR called this “a day that will live in infamy’.
Japanese planes attacked the U.S. […]
Everyone knows the movie shorthand for a heart attack…grab the left arm, wince in pain, and fall to the floor. But in real life (IRL) the signals of heart disease may be more subtle, though they generally stem from blood flow problems.
When writing in the AARP magazine, Nicole Pajer offered up these ten less well-known signs that you may be suffering from heart disease.
Amazon Shoppers…Want to help Poolesville Seniors this holiday shopping season? Ever heard of the giving program Amazon Smile? It allows you to help us out at no additional cost to you. It’s so easy too!
To use the Amazon Smile program, go to https://smile.amazon.com and log into your regular Amazon account. Next, select “pick your own charitable organization” on the menu and type in “Poolesville Area Senior Center”.
This is a great time to remember Community FarmShare which is celebrating its second successful year. Donations now can help to set up the program for the next year’s growing seasons.
The non-profit’s director, Jennifer Freeman envisioned it as “an “Agri – Culture of Caring,” a place where growers and eaters, those with resources and those with fewer resources, can support one another, come to know each other, build bridges, and develop […]
While donations play an important role in our success, Poolesville Seniors also depends on the amazing contributions of time and talent of individuals. We are thrilled to announce that we have just implemented a new volunteer registration section to our website!
If you’d like to register to be on our Volunteer Notification Email List, you can do so here
We thank you all so much for being part of our community, your support, and considering […]
This time of year, we all anticipate that Thanksgiving turkey with the crispy skin and juicy meat. Whether you are feeding two or twenty, you look forward to those leftovers.
After you have eaten several Thanksgiving dinners, sandwiches, and turkey salad what do you do next? Here are some suggestions!
Never waste the turkey carcass. After all the meat has been removed from the turkey carcass, turkey bone soup should be next […]
Arlington National Cemetery lies on the west bank of the Potomac River overlooking the nation’s capital. The hallowed ground serves as the final resting place for numerous presidents, Supreme Court justices, astronauts, and other public servants, including more than 400,000 military personnel, veterans, and their immediate families. Among the most frequently visited sites in the cemetery is the grave of President John F. Kennedy whose grave is marked with an […]
With a watch on our wrist and a cell phone with us 24/7, time is a concept we take for granted and seem to question only when changing to and from Daylight Saving Time. Until relatively recently, this idea of time as we know it was foreign to most humans. Through most of history humans were too busy staying alive to think about regimented time.
If you lived in the Middle Ages your […]
On Thursday December 1, 1955, a department store seamstress in Montgomery, AL, was on her way home from work by bus. Quiet, well-mannered and impeccably dressed, Rosa Parks was seated on a crowded bus with three others in a row designated for “colored” passengers. When a White man boarded the bus, that row immediately became seats for Whites only. When the bus driver ordered Rosa and three other Black passengers to stand and give […]
Thanksgiving week, November 20th to 26th is National Game and Puzzle Week. Celebrating the gatherings and homecomings of families around the country, it is a week dedicated to enjoying games and puzzles as a group. Get everyone off their devices and go old school.
Board games, crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, and other types of games and puzzles, and word games, are a great way to spend time with the […]