Join our Creative Community without leaving home!
The Senior Center has a unique opportunity for you: we’ll mail you a free Creative Community Kit with the necessary materials and step-by-step recipes for creating 10 unique fiber art projects, plus one bonus project. You’ll enjoy working with fabric, yarn, paper, and more, using techniques that are variations on traditional methods. (No previous art experience is required to create a beautiful product.)
Projects include:
- Tissue Paper Dyeing on Silk
- Shibori Dip-Dyeing with Color Pigment
- Eco-Print Scarf
- Fabric-Wrapped Jewelry
- and seven more
We’ll guide you through each project with an online learning session, and you can also join a community on Facebook and Instagram dedicated to participating artists—a great opportunity to share your work, ask questions, and build connections with other Creative Community members.
A limited number of kits are available. The deadline to sign up is January 23. If you’d like to participate, we request that you commit to using your Creative Community Kit, provide feedback, and participate on Zoom or Facebook to learn more about the projects.
To sign up for your free Creative Community Kit, please click here.
Healthy Aging & Yoga Therapy Class Series Starts Monday January 16
Gather with local yoga practitioners AJ Connors and Will Sechrist for a series of evidence based healthy aging and yoga therapy classes at the Pagosa Senior Center geared for adults and older adults of all ages. Start 2023 with a yoga series for healthy aging individuals with therapeutic classes offering yoga tools and education for strength, resilience, and wellness. Classes are designed to address different aspects of healthy aging and are geared towards accessibility and gentle practice. The themes for the class will include physical and mental well-being utilizing movement, meditation, and breathing practices. Mats and chairs will be provided; it’s optional to bring a blanket, and please wear comfortable clothing. Classes are offered Monday 2:30 pm-3:30 pm. First class begins 1/16/23 and subsequent classes are 1/23/23, 1/30/23 and 2/6/23.
Text Us @ 970-264-2167
Don’t forget that we also offer a convenient texting service for you to communicate with us. When texting, please include your name, phone number and the days you want a meal. If you are calling to cancel a reservation, please include your name, phone number and the days you want to cancel. Texting services are available for dining-in meal reservations, Grab-n-Go meals, and Meals on Wheels recipients.
Mobile Food Pantry Service Available for Seniors
The Pagosa Senior Center would like to remind the community about our mobile food pantry services we provide in partnership with Archuleta County MET to seniors age 60 and older throughout most areas of Archuleta County. In order to participate in this program, community members must visit with Barbara Noriega at the downtown Senior Center located in the Ross Aragon Community Center to fill out an application to qualify for hot meal delivery service and/or the mobile pantry service. The application, called the dining assessment form, is also available on our website. For more information contact us at 970-264-2167.
Medicare Call by Appointment
For anyone who needs help enrolling and navigating Medicare plans, the San Juan Basin Area Agency on Aging helps with Parts A, B, and D. They can also help you with fraud concerns and troubleshooting any billing issues you may be having. By appointment only. Please call the Medicare line at 970-264-0501; ext 4.
Hand & Foot Card Game
Whether you are new to Hand & Foot or interested in learning, please join us most Thursdays at 1:15 at the Senior Center. This card game involves 4 rounds of playing until the final round is reached – some 2 to 3 hours later. Plan to stay and meet some new friends or catch up with those you have missed over the last couple of years. No experience is necessary so come willing to learn.
Kitchen and Desk Volunteers Needed
The Community Cafe at the Pagosa Senior Center is requesting volunteers to help with kitchen tasks and substitutes for our Meals on Wheels drivers. Please call or text us at 970-264-2167 to volunteer or for more information.
Community Cafe Menu
Thursday,January 12 – Chicken marsala, baked potato, roll, garden salad, fruit and milk.
Friday, January 13 – Crispy cod with tartar sauce, sweet potato fries, broccoli, garden salad, fruit and milk.
Monday, January 16 – Martin Luther King Junior Memorial Day Closed
Tuesday January 17 – Beef spaghetti with garlic bread, garden salad, fruit and milk.
Wednesday, January 19 – Cajun shrimp, jamba rice, broccoli, garden salad, fruit and milk.
Thursday,January 20 – Pork tenderloin with chokecherry sauce, scalloped potatoes, dinner roll, garden salad, fruit and milk.
Friday, January 21 – Turkey tetrazzini with egg noodles, sauteed squash, garden salad, fruit and milk.
Meals on Wheels
We deliver fresh Meals on Wheels five days a week (and provide frozen Meals on Wheels for weekends) to homebound Archuleta County residents. Call or text us at 970-264-2167.
Requesting Donations
Archuleta Seniors Inc. has an immediate monetary need to support ongoing operations and programming that provide critical services to some of the most vulnerable in Archuleta County. Please consider donating to Archuleta Seniors Inc. You may mail your donation to PO BOX 3444, Pagosa Springs CO 81147 or please visit our website: http://www.psseniors.org/ (donation button). Donation checks can be written to: Archuleta Seniors, Inc.
We are located at 451 Hot Springs Blvd., in downtown Pagosa Springs.
For more information about ASI, please visit http://www.psseniors.org/.
Rose Chavez is Executive Director for Archuleta Seniors, Inc. and Public Health Consultant at Archuleta Food System/Food Equity Coalition.