PORA Adult Learning Program

2024 CLASS SEASON PREVIEW

We are working on our classes for the Spring season, and we are excited to say we have a new resident to Sun City West who will be teaching some fun crafty classes.  Her name is Kathy Garton and she is from Wheatland, Wyoming and worked as the Outreach Coordinator for Eastern Wyoming College.  She has taught all kinds of craft classes for the last 7 years and now brings that skill to us here in Sun City West. The first couple of classes will be painting little lady bugs and caterpillars on ordinary concrete pavers.  Later she will do a class on painted gnomes for Valentine’s Day and St Patrick’s Day on ordinary shelving boards.  Each class will include the cost of materials and you will take your completed project home with you that day!  The first class, Lady Bugs will be on January 10 at 12:30 PM and the cost will be $25.  She also teaches the art of painting “barn quilts” and will be offering a class later in the spring.

Lou Annacone of “DearOldFolks.com” has some in person classes coming up in the spring, but also has weekly ZOOM classes on his website.  These ZOOM classes cover topics such as eldercare, how to plan for it, how to pay for it, and less expensive alternatives for eldercare.  His ZOOM classes are on Tuesdays at 5:00 PM and can be accessed by going to his website.  He also has Friday Gabbers Sessions where you can have the opportunity for group help and guidance anonymously without pressure sales, and gain insight from the experience and suggestions of others who have “been there”.

Ed Madden will be back in January with his ever popular “Cut the Cord – Fire your Cable or Satellite TV Provider” class.

Want to learn Tai Chi but have heard it will be too difficult? Then try this class – we will be learning the Yang style 10 form set, which is very short, very simple, and lots of fun. Our classes will start with warm-up exercises, and ease into the forms of the set. This form set is designed for standing, but can be easily adapted for those who need to stay seated. Each lesson builds from the previous, so set your calendar now for this 8 week session which will start on Friday, January 12 at 10:00 AM.  This class will be led by Jan Stittleburg.  Jan has been practicing Tai Chi and Qigong for over 20 years, and teaching for 15.  Her classes are a blend of techniques learned directly from grandmasters and masters of the Yang and Wudang styles.

We are working on scheduling some astronomy and history classes.  We will have our usual classes about estates and estate planning, as well as Medicare 101 for those you of you turning 65 in the near future.