55+ Connections: Week of 11/17/24
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55+ Connections: Tuesday Gathering
Tuesday, November 19
10:30 AM
North Liberty Library – Meeting Room CD
Are you a puzzler? Then come on down to the library this week for a relaxing time of conversation, jigsaw puzzles, and snacks! We’ll have smaller puzzles from the library’s collection to work on (and hopefully finish). Bring a friend!
Join us each week for a social gathering full of activities and friendly conversation – board games, puzzles, art, book discussions, and more! No registration required.
Movie Night at the Coralville Public Library
Wednesday, November 20
6 – 7:30 PM
Coralville Public Library – Schwab Auditorium
Join us for a free movie night at the Coralville Public Library! On November 20th they will be showing Planes, Trains, & Automobiles (R).
Highly strung marketing executive Neal Page is trying to get home to his family for Thanksgiving when he meets slovenly shower curtain ring salesman Del Griffith. Thus begins a 3-day odyssey filled with the humorous misadventures of a mismatched odd couple. This film stars Steve Martin and John Candy and is directed by John Hughes.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is approximately 1 1/2 hours long and is rated R for use of profanity.
55+ Connections: Friday Lunch
Friday, November 22
11:30 AM
North Liberty Rec Center – Classrooms 3 & 4
China Garden will be providing our lunch this week. After lunch, Tanya Van Voorst with Midwest Audiology will give the presentation “Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline: What You Need to Know”.
Registration for lunch is $5 and required for all who attend lunch. Participants must register before noon on Thursday, November 21st Call the Rec Center to register (319)626-5716 or go online to your RecDesk Account and register yourself.
Film Fridays & Free Popcorn
Friday, November 22
2 PM
Iowa City Senior Center – Room 302
Come to the Senior Center to watch a movie and eat popcorn!
November 22nd movie: Fremont (2023)
Donya works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory. Formerly a translator for the U.S. military, she struggles to put her life back in order. In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to send out a special message in a cookie.
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop
Sunday, November 24
2:30 – 4:15 PM
UI Stanley Museum of Art – 160 Burlington St. Iowa City
Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. A different, talented writer in our area will lead each session, offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (that is, writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the start of a newly written piece. Writers in all genres are welcome.
In November, the workshop leader is David Duer. A writer and retired high school language arts and humanities teacher, David now serves as a docent at the Stanley Museum of Art and the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. His memoir pieces can be found at www.davidduerblog.com, and his poetry has appeared in Ascent, English Journal, Little Village, North American Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. A chapbook of his poetry, To Bread, has been published by Coffee House Press. Register here.
Club 24
Monday, November 25
6 PM
North Liberty Rec Center
CLUB 24 is a program for adults and seniors to socialize over University of Iowa Athletics.
Patrons can sign up online, over the phone, or in person at the Community Center.
On November 25th we’ll be watching the Iowa vs. Nebraska game.
Holiday Cookie Walk DONATIONS NEEDED
December 5 – 6
North Liberty Library
Calling all bakers! The FRIENDS of the North Liberty Library are putting on a cookie walk and they need your baked goods! Homemade holiday cookie donations will be accepted for the Holiday Cookie Walk. Items can be delivered to the library starting Thursday, Dec. 5. Please have donations dropped off by noon on Friday, December 6.
*Use a dish or container that does not need returned.
*Cookies/candies do not need to be individually wrapped.
Thank you so much for supporting the Friends of the North Liberty Library. The Holiday Cookie Walk will take place on December 7th. You can pick up a pre-packaged dozen of goodies for $7.
Library Hearing Loops
The North Liberty Library recently received the American Library Associate “Libraries Transforming Communities” grant for $10,000. This grant was used to install hearing loop technology in our meeting rooms and at our front desk!
What is a hearing loop and how does it work? Hearing Loops allow people with hearing aids or cochlear implants to receive the sound from the PA system directly in their own hearing aids without having to pick up a separate listening device.
Do you use hearing aids? You need to find out if your hearing aids have a wireless receiver called a T-coil or Telecoil built in, in order to use the hearing loop. The T-coil is accessed by pushing a button on a hearing aid. This T-coil program has to be activated by your audiologist. Talk to your audiologist to find out if your instruments can have both a T (no background noise) and an MT program (blended micro-phone & Tcoil program) for improved hearing.
If you get a telecoil installed in your current hearing instrument, make sure it has a manual, not an automatic, setting. Hearing loops improve hearing aids! Digital hearing aids have significantly improved in the last decade, but they do not restore hearing to normal. Difficulties often remain when in challenging listening situations. Hearing loops help hearing aid users overcome this problem by broadcasting sound without background noise or reverberation. For questions about your hearing aids and telecoils talk to your audiologist. To learn more about hearing loops visit: www.hearingloop.org or www.hasloops.com
If you have hearing loss and do not have a hearing aid, we have individual headsets and receivers available for in-library hearing loop access!
