painting: Giving seniors a creative outlet
Barb Engstrom of Ishpeming, dabbles with a painting she is working on at the Negaunee Senior Center based on a photo from a street scene in Cornwall, England. She has attended painting classes instructed by Roger Junak for about 30 years, she said. (Journal photo by Steve Brownlee)
NEGAUNEE — Painting class is now in session at the Negaunee Senior Center. But there’s very little worry of running in the hallways or dipping your neighbor’s pigtails in an inkwell. Instead, these students are a motivated group, nearly all composed of senior citizens, each working on a project of his or her own choosing. Instructor Roger Junak of Greenwood Location works his way around the tables full of canvases, palettes and tubes of acrylic or oil paints, checking on his students’ progress and helping out with suggestions. “Really this is more about group therapy,” he said with a chuckle as several nearby women students laughed with him. “A lot of people have been taking these painting class for years. “It’s something they just enjoy doing.
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MONDAY
CHATHAM: Senior Dining, noon, Township Hall, call 439-5360.
GRAND MARAIS: Dance Exercise Class, 9 to 10:30 a.m., Community Building.
Senior Dining, noon, Community Center, call 494-2721.
Famous but fleeting
MARQUETTE — It shouldn’t be too surprising — a big mound of snow once put Marquette on the map.
This wasn’t a big storm, however, though a few of them probably helped.
Senior events
MONDAY
CHATHAM: Senior Dining, noon, Township Hall, call 439-5360.
GRAND MARAIS: Dance Exercise Class, 9 to 10:30 a.m., Community Building.
Senior Dining, noon, Community Center, call 494-2721.
Class of 1951
NEGAUNEE — Fifty years after graduation isn’t too late to start a tradition.
That’s what members of the Negaunee High School Class of 1951 proved nearly a decade ago while preparing for their “golden” anniversary reunion.
March 10 Registered Dietitian Day
MARQUETTE — The third annual Registered Dietitian Day will be March 10. Registered dietitians are the leading nutrition experts in the health care field. They study nutrition for four years, followed by a nine- to 12-month internship.
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