The best shooting star show of this year runs from Dec. 4 to 20. At its peak in the Washington area, the Geminids Meteor Shower may produce 150 multicolored meteors per hour from 9:30 pm on December 13th to dawn on December 14th.
The Geminids meteors radiate from near the bright stars Castor and Pollux in the constellation Gemini. Some of these spectacular shows may be blocked at […]
Many of the rights and liberties which Americans cherish—such as freedom of speech, religion, and due process of law—were not enumerated in the original Constitution drafted at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787, but were included in the first ten amendments, known as the Bill of Rights.
In 1941 U.S President Franklin D. Roosevelt established Bill of Rights Day, the annual observance of the ratification of the first ten Amendments to our Constitution on […]
Help choose the reading list for 2023
Calling all book lovers and avid readers. Whether you have been a regular at our PS! Book Club or would like to join us, we invite you to help us choose our reading list for the 2023 PS! Book Club. In the past year, we read a mixture of genres, non-fiction, novels, historical fiction, and fantasy. The book club gives us a chance to read selections […]
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 […]