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Lapham Community Center and Senior Center of New Canaan, Inc. |
Waveny Park New Canaan, CT Tel: 203-594-3620 Fax: 203-594-3628 |
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Special Events
There are no fees for special events unless lunch is included ($4). Please make lunch reservations by the Friday before the event (203-594-3620). Please also let us know you are coming so we set up enough chairs and make sufficient handouts.
| Yale Mammogram Van | Managing Retirement Wealth |
| Holiday Hors d'Oeuvers | Craft Fair for Local Chrities |
| Exchange Club Christmas Party | Holiday Bingo |
| Herbal Supplements | Leap Year Bingo |
| Managing Retirement Wealth - Julie Jason |
| Thursday, December 1, 10:00 a.m., Free |
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Julie Jason
is a personal money manager who began her career as a securities lawyer on Wall Street thirty years ago. She is founder of Jackson, Grant Investment Advisers, Inc., of Stamford, Connecticut, an SEC-registered investment adviser.
Julie writes and lectures on investment topics. She has spoken at many major organizations and conferences and has been quoted for her views on retirement investing in a number of publications, including Business Week, Money Magazine, and New York Times, and she has appeared on NBC Nightly News, CNBC, and NPR among others. Her award-winning investor education column appears every Sunday in the Business Sections of the Stamford Advocate, Greenwich Time, Danbury News Times, and Connecticut Post. She will discuss her new book, Managing Retirement Wealth: An Expert Guide to Personal Portfolio Management in Good Times and Bad, which helps readers deal with the uncertainty of the markets so that they can anticipate, not react to market-moving event. Please call to reserve a seat in this program. |
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| Holiday Hors d'Oeuvres |
| Monday, December 5, 10:00 a.m., $5 |
| "Quick, easy and not the usual. Perfect for entertaining, with an emphasis on sophisticated simplicity and easy to obtain ingredients, this is a class that will especially appeal to those with busy lives". Emily Restifo is a realtor in town who loves to cook for her friends and family. |
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| Crafts Fair for Local Charities |
| December 6 - 8, 9:00 a.m.to 4:00 p.m., at Lapham |
| Silk & Dried Flower Arrangements Christmas Decorations Hand Knit Scarves, Mittens, Hats and Baby Items American Girl Doll clothes |
| Our last Fair raised $4,000 for the Food Pantry. If you can donate a hand made item, please call us. |
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| Annual Exchange Club Christmas Party at Waveny Castle |
| Wednesday, Dec. 7, 11:30 a.m. |
| Plan to spend a special day with members of the Exchange Club, our traditional Christmas Party hosts. Susan Goodman will cook a festive lunch with the help of many church volunteers. Santa will visit, and we will have Christmas music. Please make a reservation by December 1 at 203-594-3620. New Canaan residents only, please. |
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| Holiday Bingo |
| Wednesday, December 14, 1 p.m., $4 (lunch) |
| Those girls from the Vine Cottage will be back with a variety of bingo games and Christmas-themed prizes.
Please reserve your spot by Friday, December 9 and let us know if you will also come for lunch at noon. |
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| Herbal Supplements |
| Wednesday, January 11, 1:00 p.m., Free |
| Some studies estimate that 60% of patients do not reveal herbal supplement use to their health care providers because these
patients view these products as "natural and safe" or fear that their choices will be rejected. Patrick Corbett is a clinical pharmacist at Norwalk Hospital who also works in the hospital's Integrative Medicine Department as an herbal/supplement pharmacist. He will discuss safe herbal and supplement use and answer your questions about supplements and medications. |
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| Leap Year Bingo |
| Wednesday, February 29, 1:00 p.m., $4 (lunch) |
| It only comes once every four years so we are turning the prizes over to you. Please check your closets and drawers for small, new gifts that you don't want but someone else may enjoy - something in the $5 - $10 range, please. Drop it off by February 24th so we know how many prizes we also have to buy. Reserve your spot by Friday, February 9 and let us know if you will also come for lunch at noon. |
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