The August meeting of the club’s Steering Committee will be at the home of Judy Troast, 115 Winchester Lane. Here telephone number is 972-5541.
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Month: July 2011
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August club meeting
Jane G. Dalton, a representative of the Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services Board, will present a program about Connections, a program to support those caring for family members with Alzheimer’s Disease.
Jane G. Dalton, a representative of the Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services Board, will speak to the club at its Aug. 18 meeting about Connections, a program to support those caring for family members with Alzheimer’s Disease.
The Connections program teaches caregiving families how to facilitate interesting, meaningful activities for people with Alzheimer’s or other dementia.
Through eight weeks of in-home training and practice, families learn to set up easily accessible activity stations. Over time, the individual receiving care begins re-engaging in past hobbies and interests.
Connections is free to all residents of Orange, Culpeper, Fauquier, Madison and Rappahannock counties. No formal diagnosis is required to be eligible for the program.
A copy of a brochure describing the Connections program is available on this Web site in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.
Ms. Dalton is a retired U.S. Navy officer, having served in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps for 28 years. She and her husband, who is also a retired naval officer, moved to Madison County in 2008.
She is now project manager for the Connections program, a position that she says in especially meaningful to her since her father died from Alzheimer’s Disease in 1995.
After Ms. Dalton’s remarks, there will be time for questions about Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementia.
The meeting will take place at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 18, at the Woods Center in Lake of the Woods. As always, visitors are welcome to attend.
For more information about Connections or aging services in the region, contact Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services at (540) 825-3100 or visit the agency’s Web site.
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Sen. Houck asks for help
Heyward Whetsell, field director of Sen. Edd Houck’s campaign for re-election to the state Senate, visited the club’s meeting July 21 to recruit volunteers for a phone bank at the senator’s district office at 10813 Courthouse Road, Suite 104, in Fredericksburg. Volunteers are needed from 4 p.m. to 8 or 8:30 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, he said
Heyward also said the campaign is organizing a bi-partisan group called “Friends of Sen. Edd Houck” and is recruiting Democrats, Republicans and independents to get behind the growing enthusiasm to keep Sen. Houck on the job.
More information is available at the district office at (540) 710-6383.
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Steering Committee Meeting
The Steering Committee of the LOW Democratic Club will meet this month at the home of Shirley Pfile at 209 Edgemont Lane. Her phone number is 972-3812. We have much to be proud of lately, especially a terrific Flag Day picnic and Independence Day parade!