Active Adults 55+

Starting Tuesday, March 24, SLAAA will offer virtual programming on Facebook. Live web streaming sessions in yoga and livfit exercise will be offered to provide seniors the opportunity to stay active and feel connected with fellow SLAAA members, while practicing social distancing. Click to view the live stream schedule. 

Learn how to create a Facebook account.

Visit SLAAA on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stratfordactiveadults/.

March 19, 2020 - Program/Activity Cancellations and Community Supports

We wanted to inform you that, in light of this week’s closure of all City-run recreation facilities, including the Stratford Agriplex, we have created a cancellation list to re-confirm the status of previously scheduled SLAAA programs and activities. You’ll notice the list includes previously scheduled activities within the period of March 16 – May 5, 2020. In no way does the May 5^th date speak to when we may or may not re-open the Agriplex. That decision will come from the City’s senior leadership in consultation with the health unit.

The list of cancelled activities is posted on here.

Also, we understand that many of you may be going through trying times. We are here for you. We have started to compile a list of community resources currently available to you. See below. The accuracy of the information in this list may change, and we'll do our best to make updates as we know more. 

Further to this, if you need to speak to someone regarding your everyday challenges, we invite you to call us at 519-271-4310, Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 4:30pm. Our staff will do our best to answer your questions, within our professional capacity.

Perth 2-1-1 Service

2-1-1

www.211ontario.ca

Services are available through two access points, a three-digit phone number, 2-1-1 and its website, www.211ontario.ca. Both the phone and website connect people to organizations that can help them with a multitude of challenges that could range from finding em ployment services, utility and rent assistance, recreation programs, to accessing food programs. 211 is free, confidential, and multilingual.

Crisis Services Canada

1-833-456-4566

https://www.crisisservicescanada.ca/en/

Available 24 hours/7 days a week/365 days of the year.

City of Stratford Reception, Stratford Agriplex

519-271-4310

Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 4:30pm

General information and support.

The City of Stratford will move to close the Stratford Agriplex, Rotary Complex, Dufferin Arena and Allman Arena, effective March 16, 2020. This decision has been made as a means to cooperate with our community measures to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. At this time, we’re unsure how long this closure will extend. 

We will update you as more information comes forward. Thank you for your confidence and cooperation.

We want to ensure that members and guests of the Stratford Lakeside Active Adults Association have the most current information on COVID-19 as it relates to healthy living and gathering in public spaces and places. 

• Risk to residents
• Local public health response
• How to prepare
• Recommendations for travelers
• Events and mass gatherings

• Fever
• Cough and respiratory symptoms
• Difficulty breathing

• wash your hands often with soap and water or alcohol-based hand sanitizer
• sneeze and cough into your sleeve
• avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth
• avoid contact with people who are sick
• stay home if you are sick

• Public Health Agency of Canada - Outbreak Update: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.html
• Public Health Agency of Canada - Travel Health Notices: https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/health-safety/travel-health-notices
• Stop the Spread of Germs: https://www.hpph.ca/en/health-matters/stopping-the-spread-of-germs.aspx

Thursdays at 3pm, Facebook Live 

Rules: 

1. Must be a SLAAA member to participate. 
2. Must have the ability to view our live online stream via the SLAAA Facebook page at Facebook Live Videos.
3. Must participate only with the card you have been given (see below). 
4. Must have the ability to print off your Bingo card off at home. 

How to Participate: 

1. Email Jeff by end of day on Wednesday, prior to the Thursday game, to jotten@stratford.ca with your name.
2. Jeff will confirm your SLAAA membership and electronically send you Bingo cards for the next hosted Thursday game. Four (4) cards per person will be provided in a .PDF format. 
3. Print off your Bingo cards at home.  
4. Join the Facebook Live stream sharp at 3pm to begin the fun.   
5. Further instructions will be provided once the game begins. 
   
   

As this online program is new, we are limiting the event to a maximum of 25 participants. For more information or questions, please contact Jeff at jotten@stratford.ca.

This class will be delivered by a Facebook Live Video. The class can be done from the comfort of your own home. Just connect to our Facebook page at the event time and a live video will appear.

Fridays at 9am, Facebook Live

Each Friday, Brenda from Cozyn's Garden Gallery will bring a gardening demonstration to our Facebook Live.

Cozyn's is currently accepting orders for flowers, supplies, and yard supports. Call or email your orders for free delivery in Stratford or store-front pickup.

Cozyn's Garden Gallery

519-393-6661

www.cozynsgardengallery.ca 

cozynsgg@quadro.net.

This class will be delivered by a Facebook Live Video. The class can be done from the comfort of your own home. Just connect to our Facebook page at the event time and a live video will appear.

Missed a previously recorded Facebook Live Stream? No problem. Click here to view. 

Mondays at 9am, Facebook Live

Details forthcoming.  

This class will be delivered by a Facebook Live Video. The class can be done from the comfort of your own home. Just connect to our Facebook page at the event time and a live video will appear.

Missed a previously recorded Facebook Live Stream? No problem. Click here to view. 

Wednesdays at 10am, Facebook Live

Diane will lead you through a safe and effective exercise program to increase muscle strength and balance. This online class is for all abilities and levels. 

General Agenda

1. Introduction: What the class will provide.
2. Dynamic Warm-up: Moving the body through gentle actions to get ready to workout including balance work.
3. Workout: Resistance exercises using body weight or whatever you have in the house (soup cans, etc.) to gradually strengthen the muscles of the body.
4. Cool Down: Held stretches to loosen the muscles used in our workout.

This class will be delivered by a Facebook Live Video. The class can be done from the comfort of your own home. Just connect to our Facebook page at the event time and a live video will appear.

Missed a previously recorded Facebook Live Stream? No problem. Click here to view. 

Sunday Roast Sessions with Andrew Mavor (Facebook Live)

Sundays at 11am, Facebook Live

Each Sunday, Andrew will provide online classes that will focus on simple but excellent comfort foods that can be prepared easily at home using cheap, basic ingredients.  

The idea is to show how to making healthy, hearty meals at home. Share your pictures with the group and ask questions in the comment section of the Live Video - lets learn together and share some food!

About Andrew

Originally from Stratford, Andrew Mavor’s culinary style is one that playfully presents the best ingredients without pretension.  Informed by a life spent travelling, his food is best thought of as what you’d love to cook at home if you had the time (plus a pretty big pantry and an encyclopedic knowledge of strange ingredients). His resumé is long and bizarre, including 10 years in the music industry, running a guerilla sushi stand at a music festival in the desert, making hot sauce for a chicken wing chain in Las Vegas and cooking 30 pig heads in a football field.

In Victoria, BC, Mavor opened two restaurants. He turned an oddly experimental BBQ joint in a tiny powerhouse – his first restaurant, named Hanks *A Restaurant.  Known for its aggressively rustic charm and tongue in cheek tone, the restaurant built a strong cult following on Vancouver island. A heavy emphasis on locally sourced whole animals, creative preparations and unapologetically strong flavours gave the food at Hanks a particular charm, cementing it as a destination restaurant.

His second restaurant, Nowhere *A Restaurant opened in early 2019.  A slightly more refined version of the style of Hanks and with more of an emphasis on plants and seafood, Nowhere found its stride immediately and was subsequently nominated for Best New Restaurant in En Route magazine in 2019.  It placed 5th in the country.

Mavor was nominated for “Foodie of the Year” by Western Living for 2020.  He resettled in southern Ontario in late 2019 to pursue a career teaching the culinary arts and has been working with Paul Finkelstein, sharing his knowledge with the students of SSES at the Screaming Avocado Café.

Fridays at 2pm, Facebook Live

Discover the inner artist in you! Vanessa de Groot will be coming to you live from Kind-heARTed Studio.  You’ll be learning various painting techniques as she guides you step by step to create your very own work of art.  No previous art skills are required.  
 

Supplies:

• Paint brushes
• a painting surface (paper, canvas, cardboard)
• Paints (whatever colours you have)
• Cup of water
• Paper towel or a cloth

Kind-heARTed Studio is located in Stratford, Vanessa is an artist and Registered Psychotherapist specializing in art therapy. She facilitates a number of programs and classes for people of all ages, art therapy workshops, individual counselling, women’s retreats, paint nights and private parties.  

Vanessa De Groot

Registered Psychotherapist/Artist

www.kindheartedstudio.com

This class will be delivered by a Facebook Live Video. The class can be done from the comfort of your own home. Just connect to our Facebook page at the event time and a live video will appear.

Missed a previously recorded Facebook Live Stream? No problem. Click here to view. 

Saturdays at 10am and Wednesdays at 1pm, Facebook Live

Dayna Manning - Singer/Songwriter, Producer, Author, Mentor 
 

Juno nominated artist Dayna Manning exemplifies the very best that Canadian Folk music can be. Her cool clear voice along with her insightful songs represent a history of Canadian musical art that goes back to the early ’60s and sounds just as vital today. A modern renaissance artist, Dayna recently produced and engineered Trent Severn’s third album “Portage”, designed the Stratford Festival’s best selling 60th-anniversary t-shirt, and just produced her latest album “Morning Light” with Stratford Festival alumnus Ben Bolt-Martin arranging for chamber orchestra. In October 2019, she released her first book “Many Moons: A Songwriter’s Memoir” through Blue Moon Publishers. Dayna is also a community music leader in her hometown of Stratford, Ontario and beyond. In 2016 she founded the “Folk Army”, a private music instruction academy. The Folk Army’s mission is to empower young girls to make a positive change in their communities through creativity, thoughtful performance and positive self-esteem.

Dayna Manning

Morning Light: https://lnkfi.re/DaYnaMngLit

http://www.daynamanning.com

This class will be delivered by a Facebook Live Video. The class can be done from the comfort of your own home. Just connect to our Facebook page at the event time and a live video will appear.

Missed a previously recorded Facebook Live Stream? No problem. Click here to view. 

Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30am, Facebook Live 

Join Brad Seftel, certified Yoga instructor for a well-balanced yoga class. Practice postures that facilitate balance, coordination, mobility and mindful breathing. Tuesdays will be chair yoga, Thursdays will be flow yoga. 

This class will be delivered by a Facebook Live Video. The class can be done from the comfort of your own home. Just connect to our Facebook page at the event time and a live video will appear.

Missed a previously recorded Facebook Live Stream? No problem. Click here to view.