AFCI
The Age-Friendly Community Initiative always welcomes your involvement and your ideas. If we had more volunteers, we could help more people in our community. Want to help? To volunteer or for more information on our programs and services, please visit our website: www.agefriendlybethel.org or contact us by email: agefriendlybethel@gmail.com. To request (1) a Neighbor to Neighbor ride or (2) a Handy Neighbor outside chore to be performed by Telstar students or (3) a free Home Safety Assessment, call our service number, 207-824-4444. Please note that this number is an answering machine. You won’t reach a person or be able to ask for information, but if you leave a clear message, a coordinator will get back to you within 24 hours and try to fill your request. Service requests do not reach us through FaceBook or anything but the phone number.
Community
Monday, February 14, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.: Valentines Day Soup’s On! event for local senior citizens, sponsored by The Local Food Connection and the Bethel Methodist Church. Held at the church on Main St., Bethel – snow date February 15. If you want to volunteer to make soup, bread, or desserts, call Bonnie Pooley at 207-381-7944. Join in person (vaccinated and masked) or call Bonnie to have your soup delivered.
Bethel’s ‘Repants’ program is always looking for men’s large pants and T-shirts that have fun or meaningful sayings on them; all proceeds support Bethel District Exchange Programs (Bethel Area Food Pantry, Smile Fund/Assistance with Denture Expenses, School Backpack Program/Food for Crescent Park Students, and the Telstar Resource Closet/Food and Personal Care Items for Telstar Students. FMI Sue Lowe (603) 534-9744)
The Gem Theater (thegemtheater.com): On Friday, February 11, West Side Story returns to the theater, and on Friday, February 25: New Worlds, The Cradle of Civilization, starring screen legend Bill Murray and three world-renowned musicians for an evening of humor, music, and poetry.
Bethel Food Pantry, first and third Wednesday of each month, 9 a.m.- 2 p.m.
Health and tips
AARP suggests that “Most every mobile service provider pitch you come across nowadays screams 5G, shorthand for the fifth generation of wireless rolling out across the country,” which is bad news for the millions of people, including many older adults, who still rely on phones and other devices that tap into 3-G. https://www.aarp.org/home-family/personal-technology/info-2021/phone-companies-ending-3g-service.html?
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