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Complete listing of GWSA Activity Groups

Sports:	Crafts & Leisure:
Badminton	Art in the Halls
Canoeing	Bunka Art
Pickleball	Computer Club
Skating	Craft Club
Skiing	Into Focus Photography Club
Table Tennis	Quilting
	Silvertones Choir
Lifelong Learning:	Trips, Travel and Tours
Book Club	Watercolour Painters
Book Club 2	West End Arts Group
Computer Mentoring	Writers Club
Peer Learning
	Games:
Active Wellness:	Bid Euchre
Casual Bicycling	Bridge
GWSA Dances	Canasta
Line Dancing	Chess Club
Walking Club	Cribbage
	Darts
	Dominoes
	Euchre
	Golf
	Mah Jong
	Scrabble
	Shuffleboard
	Snooker
	Texas Hold’em Poker

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RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Saturday March 23rd at 1:30 pm — Ward 2 Town Hall Meeting at the Evergreen Seniors Community Centre
Wednesday May 29th; Italian Canadian Club at 2 pm — Retired Governor General Rt Honourable David Johnston to Visit Guelph
National Advance Care Planning Day Tuesday April 16th
Spring Fling Dance – 8 March 2019
Traumatic Bereavement Workshop — March 22
After Whys: A Play About Seniors Mental Health and Suicide – Monday April 15th
The March 2019 Edition of the GWSA Sentinel is now available
Seniors Day at the Guelph Legion — Tuesday March 19th
Workshop Series to Help With Accumulating Too Much Stuff: April 1st to June 17th, 2019
GWSA Spring Fling Dance – Friday March 8: 1:00 – 3:30 pm
Counter the stigma around hoarding; MONDAYS 10:00-NOON, April 1—June 17, 2019
Family Day at the Evergreen Seniors Community Centre. Please note that the Centre is CLOSED on that day.

ABOUT US

The Guelph Wellington Seniors Association (The GWSA) is an Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporation and a Registered Canadian Charity. Our Mission is to enable older adults to be active, involved, make friends and age with dignity.

SOCIAL MEDIA

GENEROUS SUPPORTERS

TESTIMONIALS

I enjoy helping out the community and the people of Guelph. It’s helping to keep Guelph be a nice place to live.

Because it gives me the opportunity to help others and make new friends

It is a great way to make friends, be involved and be active! I really enjoy the people I have met being part of the GWSA.

I enjoy working with enthusiastic people especially older folks. I love planning and organizing I hope to keep the great programs!

Meaningful community involvement and special contact. It helped me to get to know the Guelph community as a newcomer

Helping people gives me great pleasure

It is important to me to give back to the community.

Working with the variety shows

I enjoy working with seniors

I enjoy talking to all

It is fulfilling and helpful to others

I enjoy delivering sentinels

It brings me closer to the community

It is very rewarding. It is great meeting people and taking them on tours to show off the evergreen community centre.

Meet wonderful people. I enjoy the GWSA centre!

I look forward to each day I work because of the friends I’ve made and the feeling of belonging

I enjoy helping out the community and the people of Guelph. It’s helping to keep Guelph be a nice place to live.

I volunteer every year for showtime. From childhood, I have been involved with all things musical. Showtime allows me to mingle with other seniors while keeping involved with theatrical pursuits

I get to meet a lot of very nice and interesting people

It gives me great pleasure to interact with all our great seniors and to hear some of their stories

I have a sense of contribution

I enjoy Pickle Ball and Arts!

The seniors that we help are very appreciative

Meeting new people and doing something useful

I volunteer because I like to teach new computer knowledge to all seniors!

Volunteering with the GWSA is my contribution to the community. It keeps me active, both physically and mentally. It also allows me to continue practicing learned skills as well as provides me the opportunity to learn new skills. It provides an ongoing social connection.

I enjoy the friendships and contributing to the Centre. It is fulfilling to accomplish projects and to keep active.

Giving back to the community, meeting people, working with great co-workers

It gives me a purpose of life and find it rewarding for myself

I like giving!

In-home experience programme- helping people socialize and support GWSA.

It keeps me active

I wanted to see the group and attend the leadership

I have lived in Guelph for a long time. It is now time to give back

I enjoy doing things for others and trying to make a difference while having fun

It is my contribution to the community. It keeps me active both physically and mentally. It also allows me to continue practicing learned skills as well as provides me the opportunity to learn new skills. It provides an ongoing social connection.

Friendships and contributing to the Centre. It is fulfilling to accomplish projects, and to keep active

I volunteer because I get to meet interesting people and it makes me feel worthwhile! My life is far happier because of it! Thank you, GWSA!

It keeps me busy. I enjoy meeting many people and I love volunteering in the kitchen

Giving back to the community. I enjoy meeting people and making friends and helping out. I enjoy taking our seniors on trips.

I enjoy helping others! It keeps me busy!

Because it enhances my life in so many respects

I have met a lot of nice people. I have learned a lot about the people I’ve met and everyone is so nice!

Meet great people as I volunteer, “clients”, visitors and staff. BRAVO!

I volunteer every year for Showtime. From childhood, I have been involved with all things musical. Showtime allows me to mingle with other seniors while keeping involved with theatrical pursuits.

I enjoy time with the ladies

I enjoy meeting new people. I liked the front desk and I started doing tours

I feel I am doing something useful for my community and I’ve made a lot of friends

Being able to help people and get to know more about senior activities and challenges

Social interactions, feeling useful in retirement, and giving back to the community

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