Category: Charlottesville

  • Told you so! Tutoring is a win-win for tutors, grade-school kids

    As a volunteer JABA FISH tutor at Jackson-Via Elementary School, I have mentioned several times  my belief that tutoring  provides significant health and brain benefits – for the tutor as well as for the students! Here is some proof coming out of Experience Corps, a program operating in 22 cities nationwide that trains volunteers over…

  • Ready to get involved in our community? Here are some opportunities!

    Here are some new opportunities for getting involved in our extended community: Some of our current volunteer opportunities include: A gentleman in Dyke is in need of assistance with yard work Lunch server and assistant are needed in several of our community centers.  Hours and days vary Garden coordinator at Mary Williams Community center for…

  • Senior Center Healthcare Summit: What are the Burning Issues Linked to Health Care Reform?

    A Healthcare Summit: What are the Burning Issues Linked to Health Care Reform? Thursday, April 1, 2010 – 6:00-8:00pm The Senior Center, 1180 Pepsi Place, Charlottesville, Virginia Featured Lecturer: Stuart Rosenberg, MD President and CEO Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians t Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Senior Lecturer on Medicine, Harvard Medical School ***FREE AND OPEN…

  • Aging 101: Improving Your Fiscal Health

    Karin Bonding, Finance Professor at the U.Va. McIntire School of Commerce, will discuss “Improving Your Fiscal Health” at the Institute on Aging’s next “Aging 101.” The lecture takes place on April 20 at 3:00 at the Doubletree Hotel Charlottesville. Professor Bonding, Chartered Financial Analyst, will address the need for advance planning.  She stresses the importance…

  • 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…