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Foundation: Community Foundation of Central Illinois
If you're over the age of 50 and living in Peoria, Ill., there's a new place for you to hang your hat.
The Chicago Tribune reports on the opening of the Life Together Center, a community-based senior center that's part of the Graceland Center for Purposeful Living.
"If you don't know, you may think we're adult daycare, but with a community-based center, people can drop in and pick and choose different activities," executive director Peggy Jacques tells the Journal Star.
The center, which will be open from 10am to 1pm on Wednesdays, will offer a wide range of activities, including yoga, chair yoga, art therapy, music, cooking, and bingo.
It's not the first community-based senior centerChicago's Mathers Center has onebut it's the first to be community-based, Jacques says.
"We want people to feel comfortableto enhance the lives of older adults through education, connections, and innovations," she tells the Tribune.
"We have a bias about older adults based on reputation," she adds.
"But they have the right to do activities; the right to be respected.
The right to have fun.
And keep having it
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