Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association
224-4093
The following senior health clinics are being offered in Concord. Blood pressure checks are free; all other services are $10. Call to make an appointment.
– June 2 from 9 a.m.-noon at Plaza/Crutchfield Towers
– June 9 from 9 a.m. to noon at Horseshoe Pond Place, 26 Commercial St. Also on June 18 until 3 p.m.
– St. Paul’s Church Outreach Center, 21 Centre St., June 3 from 1-4 p.m., June 11 from 9 a.m.-noon, June 18 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and June 25 from 9 a.m.-noon.
– June 19 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the JFK Building.
– June 10 and June 26 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Briar Pipe Apartments in Penacook.
– June 15 from 9 a.m. 3 p.m. at Jensen’s Mobile Home Park.
– June 17 from 9 a.m. to noon at TLC Medical Daycare, 211 Loudon Road.
Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association is offering an additional free monthly walk-in blood pressure clinic each month. It will take place on the first Friday of each month at the IBEW at 48 Airport Road. The monthly first-Friday clinic will take place from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. This clinic is in addition to CRVNA clinics held at Hannaford’s Pharmacy, Fort Eddy Road, Concord, and White Rock Senior Living Community, Wellness Office, 6 Bow Center Road, Bow.
The Concord Public Library
45 Green St., 225-8670
onconcord.com/library
A free public training on EBSCOhost will be held on Tuesday, June 23, at 7 p.m. in the library auditorium. EBSCOhost is a collection of 16 different databases covering magazines, newspapers, journals, health information, images, etc. for adults and youth. This training will be an introduction to using this database, explaining how to do the basic types of searching and what kinds of materials are covered.
Center for Health Promotion
279 Pleasant St.
230-7300
Concord Hospital’s Center for Health Promotion continues its Elder Care Lecture series. All lectures are free and one hour in length. Pre-registration is requested by calling 230-7300.
– Tuesday, June 2, 1-2 p.m., with Eliza P. Shulman, DO. Held at the Center for Health Promotion.
Will I be comfortable? Learn how to make your wishes known at the end of life, what options are available for treatment, and palliative care. Dr. Shulman has developed tools to help doctors and patients talk to each other about their wishes at the end of life and explain how the medical system interprets the living will, resuscitation orders, durable powers of attorney, and how to make sure your wishes are respected.
– Tuesday, June 9, 6:30-7:30 p.m., with Patti Nichols, LICSW. Held at Concord Hospital Conference Room A, third floor.
Learn how to navigate the various components of the healthcare system, optimize your healthcare visit, the importance of advance care planning, and keeping active in body, mind and spirit.
– Tuesday, June16, 6:30-7:30 p.m., with Dr. William Gunn of the Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency Program. Held at Concord Hospital Conference Room B, third floor.
Who Cares for the Care Giver? Dr. Gunn will discuss how more of us are involved in helping our family and loved ones in their later years, dealing with multiple chronic illnesses. After the acute phase of care giving is over and a situation turns into a chronic, daily challenge, the supports to the family caregiver can wear thin. Explore the predictable stressors that caregivers may experience and ways to deal effectively with those stresses.
Concord Family YMCA
15 N. State St.
228-9622, concordymca.org
The YMCA is open Monday to Friday from 5 a.m.-9 p.m. (pool opens at 5:30 a.m.) and Saturday from 7 a.m.-6 p.m. All programs are free for YMCA members or $57 per class for program members (unless otherwise noted.)
– Reiki is offered by appointment. A half-hour session is $25 for members, $50 program members. A 60-minute session is $50 members, $100 program members.
– “Beginning Yogafit” is for those who are active and want to try yoga, but never have. Yoga fitness is part of the hatha yoga and vinyasa style. Tuesday and Thursday, 8-9 a.m. This class is free for members; $82 for program members.
– Water walking is an intense deep water workout with no impact to muscles or joints. You’ll build strength and endurance. Classes are Tuesday and Thursday from 8:30-9:15 a.m.
– “Waterworks” consists of a steady aerobic segment followed by deep water exercise for endurance and muscle toning through water resistance. Classes are Tuesday and Thursday from 7:30-8:15 p.m. and Saturday, 8:30-9:15 a.m.
– Senior strength training is designed specifically for older adults with a primary goal of slowing the aging process. Classes are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9-10 a.m.
– “Silver sneakers” is a new program designed for seniors just beginning to exercise or seniors at an intermediate level. Join us on Monday and Wednesday, 10-11 a.m.
Always an Adventure
715-2723, 848-0345
barbhanchett@yahoo.com
nhalwaysanadventure.com
Always an Adventure offers outdoor adventures for active adults. There’s a $35 yearly membership fee for all activities.
– Outing club: Two levels. Meets Wednesdays at 8:50 a.m. year-round in the parking lot behind Borders, 76 Fort Eddy Road. $4 activity fee plus carpool fee. Activities may include hiking, walking, kayaking and biking.
– Biking club: Meets Tuesdays at 9:15 a.m. in the parking lot behind Borders. $4 activity fee plus carpool free.
– Yoga class: Classes are held on Monday and Thursday, 10:30 a.m. at 48 Airport Road. Cost per month is $4, which covers eight or nine classes.
– Kayaking: Starts June 12. Meets Fridays through October at 9:15 a.m. in the parking lot behind Borders. $4 activity fee plus carpool and kayak transportation fees.
Extended adventures are also offered. Preregistration required:
– June 5-7: Three days at the YMCA camp on Lake Coniston in Grantham. Activities include hiking, swimming, kayaking and crafts. The cost is $235, which includes all the meals.
– June 23-26: A Downeast Maine adventure with home base at Bucksport, Maine, where we will explore the area for three days, including a mail boat trip to Isle Au Haut, Bar Harbor, Camden and Wiscasset. The cost is $385/double, which includes three nights’ lodging, breakfasts and boat trip.
– July 21-23: This trip to Errol will include three days of kayaking. The cost is $310, which includes everything.
– August 7-9: “Living with Passion” is held at Mt. View Lodge in Rumney. Join Virginia Joslyn for a weekend of enthusiasm and expression of the passionate beings we are. The cost is $235, which includes two nights’ lodging and home-cooked meals.
Penacook Community Center
Community Drive, Penacook
753-9700, gailm6@comcast.net
– Monday: Community Action luncheon at noon. Call for a reservation.
– Tuesdays: An exercise class is held at 9 a.m. Walking is at 9:45 a.m., and Bingo is at 10 a.m.
– Wednesdays: Lunch trips. Walking is offered at 1 p.m.
– Thursdays: An exercise class is held at 9 a.m. Walking is at 9:45 a.m. Yoga is at 11 a.m. every other week.
– Fridays: Shuffleboard is played at 1 p.m. A card party is held at 7 p.m.
The summer schedule begins June 16. There will be no exercise classes, walking or shuffleboard until fall. Weekly Community Actions lunches will be on Wednesday and yoga will be held at Whitaker Place.
Red River Theatres
11 S. Main St.
224-4697, redrivertheatres.org
The theater will show 10 movies from a golden year in film history: 1939. Each one was photographed in “glorious” black and white.
June 5-7, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” (NR/129 min.)
James Stewart stars as Jefferson Smith, an idealistic, naive young man appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate and destined to collide with backroom political corruption and graft. The Oscar-winning story (by Lewis R. Foster) holds up exceedingly well: vibrant, meaningful and timeless in its appeal. Co-stars include Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Thomas Mitchell and Harry Carey (especially fine as the vice president).
June 8-9, “Dark Victory” (NR/104 min.)
When carefree socialite Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, she must decide whether she’ll face her final days with dignity. It’s a tour-de-force performance by Davis with solid support from George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan.
June 10-11, “Each Dawn I Die” (NR/92 min.)
Warner Brothers, Hollywood’s “socially conscious” studio, produced this exciting prison yarn in which a crusading reporter (James Cagney) is framed for murder and becomes a hardened victim of the unjust penal system, befriending an underworld big-timer (George Raft) in the process.
June 12-14, “Wuthering Heights” (NR/103 min.)
Emily Bronte’s Victorian novel of love and tragedy received first-class treatment from noted producer Samuel Goldwyn, who hired William Wyler to direct, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur to write the screenplay, Gregg Toland to do the camera work and Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier to breathe life into the roles of Cathy and Heathcliff. The result is a haunting, wildly romantic film which garnered seven Academy Award nominations.
June 19-21, “Of Mice and Men” (NR/107 min.)
This towering adaptation of John Steinbeck’s famous novel potently evokes the desperation of migrant farm workers who dream of having a little place of their own. Lon Chaney, Jr. and Burgess Meredith are the embodiment of Lenny and George, the half-witted gentle giant and his itinerant cousin.
June 22-24, “Only Angels Have Wings” (NR/121 min.)
In South America, pilots risk life and limb delivering mail over mountainous terrain, often in pea soup fog. Nothing seems to deter these devil-may-care aviators, but a piano-playing woman (Jean Arthur), passing through town, is trying to be a sincere distraction for the no-nonsense manager (Cary Grant) of this airmail service. Quintessential fare from director Howard Hawks pulsates with adventurous spirit, humor, drama and a non-stop exchange of dialogue delivery.
June 26-28, “Destry Rides Again” (NR/94 min.)
A sensational remake of a popular Max Brand novel (the 1932 original starred Tom Mix) pits mild-mannered sheriff’s deputy Tom Destry Jr. (James Stewart) against a lawless town full of swindlers and murderers where sheriffs tend to end up dead. Director George Marshall’s delightful version offers everything a movie needs: suspense, comedy, tenderness, vivid characterizations and even songs (like “See what the boys in the back room will have”).
June 29-30, “Rules of the Game (La Regle Du Jeu)” (NR/106 min.)
Jean Renoir’s provocative portrait of a decadent and immoral French society crumbling into chaos received a hostile welcome at its Parisian premiere. The film was cut twice (the August 1939 Variety review gave it an 80-minute running time) and its original negative was destroyed by Allied bombing. Pieced together decades later from various print sources, “Rules” is now considered a cinematic classic, second only to “Citizen Kane” in international acclaim. Cast includes Nora Gregor, Marcel Dalio, Roland Toutain and Renoir himself. In French, with English subtitles.
July 1-2, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (NR/115 min.)
Impeccable production values, faithfully recreating 15th-century France, enhance this fabulous remake (the 1923 version featured Lon Chaney) of Victor Hugo’s immortal beauty and the beast story. Charles Laughton is unforgettable as Quasimodo, deformed bell-ringer at Notre Dame cathedral, and Maureen O’Hara matches him every step of the way as the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda.
