Senior Services (Melissa Thompson)
The seniors enjoyed many great trips including the King Tut tour at OMSI, Rose City Dog Show, Lunch at Edgefield & the movies, and Dine out at Stanford’s. In support of Glaucoma awareness month, Carol Cohen took the seniors on a field trip to a local organization called Oral Hull Foundation. With a full bus load of 15 people, some have never heard of Oral Hull and had no idea what they offered or where they were located. They gave a tour of the grounds, hiked down a steep trail to 2 ponds and fed the fish and was served a marvelous homemade lunch.
Olga Gerberg began her new position as Client Services Coordinator on January 7th. We are thrilled to have her be a part of the team.
Senior Services provided: Served 264 congregate meals, Delivered 1,952 meals to home bound individuals. Provided 12 hours of Case Management services, 9 units of reassurance, 301 referrals to resources outside of the center. Held 8 Tai Chi classes (average attendance 12 individuals) Provided 76 hours of respite care (4 days of 4 hours; average attendance 5)5 new participants in respite care 6 new riders for transportation (shopping, activities/outings, to and from center)coordinated 35 medical/other rides through TRP Provided energy assistance to 6 individuals
Recreation (Sarah Richardson)
The Winter/Spring Recreation Guide was published In January with programs that continue through May. Excited to have new music and STEM programs continue through this session. Music classes include piano, violin, voice, musical theater, and more. The STEM program uses Lego Materials to teach engineering concepts. Kinderdance has added a Kindertots and Kids Yoga to their existing program.
Mountain Storm kicked off the regular season in January with 24 teams grades 3-6. The K-2 Fundamentals class continues to be very popular as well.
The Recreation Department would like to thank the Oregon Trail School District for their support of our programs. We utilize gyms in almost every school to support this team sport experience and active program for kids.
In the month of January there were approx. 623 visits to city recreation programs.
Aquatic Center (Tanya Richardson)
After the Holiday closure, the Aquatic Center increased its usage for the month of January with over 550 visits, 12 birthday parties, and staff tested over 40 young adults from Timberlake Job Corp in their water safety skills.
The first swimming lessons session starting for the Winter with 85 registrations in our youth classes. Private Lessons started strong with 71 lessons taught to children throughout the region.
Sandy High School Swim team continued to utilize the aquatic center from 3:00-5:00pm Monday – Friday.
The aquatic center continues to employee over 25 part time hourly employees throughout the region. At least quarterly, staff inservice 2 hours in Emergency Action plans, customer service, maintenance job skills, first aid and rescues.
