Author: Suzanne Pollak

Beacon Senior’s Expo coming Sept. 10 and 17

Uncategorized / By Suzanne Pollak / August 24, 2017

Seminar: Beacon 50+Expo to be held in Silver Spring and Springfield The Beacon’s free, annual 50+Expo will return to the Silver Spring Civic Center in downtown Silver Spring on Sunday, Sept. 10, featuring informative government, nonprofit and business exhibitors, health screenings, flu shots (free with Medicare card), entertainment, giveaways and door prizes. The expo also …

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Wondering about Medicare?

Uncategorized / By Suzanne Pollak / July 11, 2017

Seminar: Turning 65 and Wondering About Medicare? Tuesday, September 26, 2017 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Davis Library 6400 Democracy Blvd. Bethesda, MD 20817 Join us for a FREE seminar. You have choices and Medicare is one of them. Here are some common questions that the seminar is designed to answer: Do you need to sign up …

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View photos from JCA’s Productive Aging Dinner

Uncategorized / By Suzanne Pollak / May 30, 2017

Whether you were able to share our evening or couldn’t make it, please take a look at the great time we had at our 24th Annual Sylvia Blajwas Productive Aging Award Dinner. Our honorees were America’s bestselling investigative biographer Kitty Kelley and The Kursban Family of Family and Nursing Care. View the event photos.

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JCA honoree interviewed in Washington Jewish Week

Uncategorized / By Suzanne Pollak / May 18, 2017

‘You just don’t want to fish around with that kind of depravity.’ Q & A with Kitty Kelley By Dan Schere Bestselling Author Kitty Kelley Has Written Unauthorized Biographies of Frank Sinatra, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Oprah Winfrey. Bestselling author Kitty Kelley has written about the lives of American celebrities Frank Sinatra, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis …

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JCA’s Interages program recognized

Uncategorized / By Suzanne Pollak / May 9, 2017

Montgomery County Council President Roger Berliner recognized the 30 year anniversary of JCA’s Heyman Interages Center on May 9. Founder Austin Heyman was the featured speaker. Interages’ intergenerational programs bring children and older adults together. Since 1986, thousands of children from hundreds of schools and hundreds of isolated older adults from senior facilities have benefited from participation …

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Have dinner out and support JCA

Uncategorized / By Suzanne Pollak / April 24, 2017

Here’s a way to have a great meal out and support JCA’s work to Help All Seniors Thrive. Every Tuesday in May, Not Your Average Joe’s in Bethesda and Gaithersburg will donate 15 percent of your bill to JCA so we can keep our buses running and offer our programs to as many seniors as …

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Yom Ha’Shoah community commemorations

Uncategorized / By Suzanne Pollak / April 19, 2017

Please join the Jewish community as it honors the survivors, victims and heroes of the Holocaust on Sunday, April 23. Get details on the Northern Virginia commemoration. Get details on the suburban Maryland event. JCA is proud to support these Yom Ha’Shoah community commemoration events, which are made possible by the the Jewish Community Relations …

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Don’t miss our Senior Prom

Uncategorized / By Suzanne Pollak / March 23, 2017

Put on your dancing shoes and come on out to JCA and Charles E. Smith Life Communities’ Senior Prom on Sunday, April 2 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Misler Center, 1801 E. Jefferson Street, Rockville (in the back of the Ring House on the Terrace Level). A DJ will provide the music …

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Author Kitty Kelley to headline JCA dinner

Uncategorized / By Suzanne Pollak / March 22, 2017

 Kitty Kelley, who has written about Ronald Reagan, the Bushes, the Royal Family, Frank Sinatra, Oprah Winfrey and Elizabeth Taylor, is this year’s JCA honoree at its 24th annual Sylvia Blajwas Productive Aging Award Dinner, which will be held Sunday, May 21 at the North Bethesda Marriott Hotel and Conference Center. There will be cocktails, …

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Learn to ride smart

Uncategorized / By Suzanne Pollak / March 6, 2017

Offered periodically, JCA’s RideSmart Workshops help small groups of older adults learn to use public transportation options and otherwise navigate the National Capital Region. Our next RideSmart workshop is March 29 & 30, 2017 at Mary’s Center, at the Bernice Fonteneau Senior Wellness Center, 3532 Georgia Avenue NW. The first day of classroom training will …

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