{"id":18723,"date":"2017-10-12T20:33:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T20:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reinhartrealtors.com\/blog\/?p=18723"},"modified":"2017-10-12T20:33:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T20:33:03","slug":"saline-area-senior-center-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9419hiddenlake.reinhartrealtors.com\/blog\/saline-area-senior-center-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Saline Area Senior Center : The Place to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Saline Area Senior Center is so much more than just a run-of-the-mill center where people might go to play cards or chat about the weather. The SASC is a bustling multi-room recreation and arts center, with so many possibilities to learn, play, create, and have fun, that it\u2019s tough to know where to begin!
\nThe focus of the Saline Area Senior Center is on wellness, covering both physical and mental health and wellbeing through their classes and other offerings. At the Center, you can make appointments to work on reflexology, learn about foot care, or get a massage or a facial, or stop in to get your blood pressure checked for free on the third Wednesday of the month. You can also come use one of their NuStep machines – fitness equipment designed for seniors – which are available during all SASC business hours.
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\nThe focus on wellness continues through their variety of fitness classes. You can dance into a Zumba class, release your inner Animal with a Drums Alive class (drumming on a large fitness ball to music), or take Tai Chi, strength training, or yoga, among others! You can also join in on a Pickleball game, try your hand (foot?) at Clogging, play some Bounce Volleyball, or join the walking group at Liberty School during the fall and winter.
\nWellness isn\u2019t just a physical practice, though – true wholeness means energizing the body and the mind. To that end, Megan Kenyon, Program Coordinator for the Senior Center, is working hard to add many art and music classes into the mix, to give members a variety of creative offerings to choose from.
\nOnce a month, seniors can meet with Steve Wood to paint a landscape using acrylic paints. They can also learn how to paint in the style of famous artists like Wayne Thibaud or Henri Matisse with instructor Soyeon Kim. Local artist Katherine Downie (author of this article) teaches a variety of classes at SASC, including Watercolors, Intro to Oil Painting, Zendoodle, Abstract Art, Drawing Bootcamp, and Papercrafting. And later in September, you can take Intro to Pastels with Debra Groth, learning how to \u201cuse pastels and produce bright and beautiful work.\u201d\"Seniors
\nWhether you have any artistic experience or not, art classes at the SASC are a great place to give art a try. Most classes are for beginners, and as Kenyon says, \u201cYou\u2019ve just gotta go for it…You don\u2019t how well you\u2019re gonna do until you try it.\u201d Most of the classes include a small fee for supplies, too, so you don\u2019t have to worry about picking up your own if you\u2019re not sure you are going to stick with it.
\nSASC also has music offerings such as Evola Music Keyboarding with Patti Fry and Ukulele Lessons with Bill Militzer. Don’t have your own ukulele? They’ve got that covered – sign up to make your own cigar box ukulele or pie plate banjo with instructor Bill Militzer in a two-day workshop coming up in October! And if the visual or musical arts aren’t your cup of tea, try out language arts by learning beginning Spanish with Mayra Mendoza or Beginning French with instructor Fran Thornton.
\nSo what makes SASC a good place to take arts classes? According to Kenyon, \u201cThey\u2019re so inexpensive!\u201d Kenyon and Program Manager Janie Colton also emphasize that art classes can be very therapeutic, allowing participants to focus on the task at hand, rather than the stresses involved in everyday life. And a big bonus is that the Senior Center offers members a chance to try their hand at art with little risk and low cost.
\nAll of that said, many may wonder just what constitutes a \u201csenior\u201d exactly? At the Saline Area Senior Center, it has been a long-standing practice to provide services to the community on the continuum of all senior ages. Senior-In-Training (SIT) memberships include all those between the ages of 45-54, and offers a limited membership for $30\/year ($40 for those living outside of the Saline Area School District). Those who are 55 and older and residents of the SAS District can become members for only $10 a year (Jan-Dec; $20 for non-residents). Give them a call or stop in to pick up a membership form and get a tour!\"Smiling
\nThis membership allows you access to the classes as well as the facilities – a billiards room, computer room, library, and the aforementioned NuStep machines. SASC also has a variety of clubs (Bookworm, Woodcarvers), offers Tech lessons, holds discussion groups, euchre tournaments, craft groups, and of course, a senior center staple, Bingo! As if all of that wasn\u2019t enough, they also offer travel opportunities both locally (Tigers game, ArtPrize, Toledo Zoo and more) and farther afield (Grand Canyon).
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