Science Exchange, a staple and long-standing favorite class among ENCORElites, returns this Fall to a Thursday morning time slot, 10:30 a.m.
to 12:00 p.m. at the Astoria Senior Center’s classroom. Facilitators Karen Elder and Mike Kinney look forward to hosting a lively class featuring member-supplied topics, videos and maybe some facilitator-supplied topics or fun puzzles to fill any embarrassing periods of silence.

Trace your family history in this beginning class on Genealogy. The class will be held in the pool table room at the Senior Center on Wednesday afternoons from 1:30 to 3:30 from September 28 through November 16.

For more information on this exciting, informative class, contact the instructor, Sandra Melvin at 409-504-1655 or email: shargrov@sbcglobal.net.

Meet Friday mornings from 10:00 to 12:00 in the Senior Center.

A field trip to observe a tide pool environment at Haystack Rock
is possible if there is interest and the weather favorable.

Optional reading: What is the Ocean Like off Oregon?

Awaken the Writer Within You!

5 Reasons in 8 Short Weeks for You to Become
the Writer You Were Born to Be!

Perhaps you’ve pondered writing a memoir, a poem, or some other story, but the right circumstances never presented themselves. Perhaps now is finally that time.

Amy Tan, best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club, began writing relatively late in her life. Something which inspired her was joining a weekly writing group focused on two things: kindness and honesty.

ENCORE offers such a group, and it fits within your budget

Our Writing Exchange class provides 5 Key Benefits to You as a New Writer:

1. Encouragement
2. How to Constructively Give Feedback to Others.
   
   • This is Not Entirely an Altruistic Act. By Analyzing What Other People Write, it Improves Your Own Work.
3. How to Effectively Receive & Use Feedback.
   
   • Each week, you’ll receive emailed Audio and downloadable Video copies of Your Writing with Constructive Feedback from our class. Listen and Watch People React to Your Work with Signs of Honest Appreciation!
4. A Series of Soft Self-Imposed Deadlines, i.e., Eight Chances to Share Your Writing during the Fall Term.
5. Brief Lectures on the Techniques & Craft of Writing: Based on Master Classes from a Diverse Group of Writers! Borrow Techniques from One Master or More. You Can Be a Better Writer!

ENCORE Fall 2022’s Writing Exchange online class begins Tuesday, September 27 (and runs just 8 weeks till Tuesday, November 15) from 9:45 to 11:45 A.M.

For more information about ENCORE’s Writing Exchange  online class and how to access it, please email the instructor, Eric Anderson, at EricCAnder@aol.com or call (503) 325-3131.

Humanist Discussions is a group effort on Zoom in which we explore various aspects of the human condition. Each week we nominate and select a topic to discuss the following week. Over the intervening week, we exchange websites and articles pertaining to the topic selected. There is no requirement to review them. but the discussion is much improved when members of the group have made an effort to inform themselves about the upcoming topic. All are welcome to join.

Classes are held Monday mornings from 10:00 to 12:00, Fall term, September 26 through November 14. To join, send me an email at todlundy@gmail.com. Have “Humanist Discussions” in the title of your email please.

Tod

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