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LOOKIN’ CATCHAN MMUNITY c 7 RE Local seniors are active, fun loving and ready to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their club You’re never too old to feel young. Just ask the members of the Port Perry Seniors Club, which celebrates its Golden Anniver- sary in 2012. “WANTED” scream the block letters of their newly-published flyer, soliciting new members. And in small script below: “Ac- tive, fun-loving seniors to help us celebrate (ous) 50th Annivers of the group’ ¢ November 17 Gord Emmerson, president of the Port Perry y Senior Gitzens is seen here Open House at Latcham Centre, the poster in front oftheir ‘meeting place at the Lateham | Centre. features a pair of broadly-grinning “Want- Photo by J. Peter Hvidsten eds.” These “shady characters” illustrate by example the organization's philosophy: The club offers a wide range of activities, all of them, President Gord Emmerson sports a clown’s nose and Gord reports, well subscribed: exercise classes (regular Vice-President Rita Barrell’s jazzy sunglasses would and “gentle,” for those who prefer a lighter approach), easily suit a Floridian beach. bridge, euchre, and cribbage, drawing and painting, Whether by design or not, the club accurately re- shuffleboard, crafts, computers, line dancing, chorus, flects its President's personality. Gord exudes vitality, pickleball (which he describes as a vigourous blend of as well as a keen and ever-present sense of humour. tennis and badminton), and wood carving. “Our membership fee's only $15 a year,” he says, The Seniors Club has remained a popular and vibrant adding with the same grin as his poster, “But now that _ organization since its beginni I’m over 80, I'm eligible for the discounted rate of only “Forty-five charter members attended the club’s first five bucks!” official meeting in December of 1962,” recounts Past Presi- 32 FOCUS - NOVEMBER 2012 11.NOVEMBER.56 final indd 32 12-10-22 8:26AM