Category: Active & Healthy Lifestyle

  • Ready to get out in this beautiful spring weather? JABA has some suggestions:

    Greetings and Happy Spring! We are looking for volunteers for these key positions: To assist with the Census at our community centers on the following dates: Greene County Community Center: March 23 Mary Williams Community Center March 25 Keswick Community Center: March 25 Esmont, Fluvanna and Nelson County Community Centers March 30 Scottsville Community Center:…

  • Creativity and Kindergarten – Lessons for Lifelong Learning: Update

    Creativity and Kindergarten – Lessons for Lifelong Learning has been one of my top posts since it first appeared last June. When I first read the original post on Mark’s Weblog, I was pressed for time and simply quoted him in order to pass along the message.  I have reread it several times while thinking…

  • Lifelong Learning – One way to keep your memory sharp

    I was marveling this week at the plethora of memory building books displayed in the bookstore.  It sure looks like a hot topic!  Here are some ideas from Harvard Health Publications: 7 ways to keep your memory sharp at any age As we grow older, we all start to notice some changes in our ability…

  • Charlottesville/Albemarle Volunteer Opportunities

    Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Volunteers for the Friends of the Library Spring Book Sale: April 3 – 11, 2010.  The money made at the sale helps support ALL of the library programs — kids, teens and adults.  For more information contact the Friends of the Library at 977.8467 or info@jmrlfriends.org Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville/Albemarle (LVCA) Volunteers…

  • Charlottesville City Schools – Now is the time to get involved!

    This morning I read with interest the article in the Charlottesville Daily Progress about the hard choices that the Charlottesville School Board must make in these challenging times of dwindling revenues. As a volunteer at Jackson-Via Elementary School, I noticed especially the quote below. If you decide to spend some volunteer time in the schools,…

  • Online learning for seniors? Yes!

    As I read the paper this morning I was reminded of my success with a “blended” online course several years ago.  I had taught Biochemical Nutrition, a course for pre-nursing students, for about eight years before I tried the blended approach.  BIO 204 was a three-semester-hour course, but for the blended course the students came…