Travel, Leisure & Fun for South Valley Adults
Travel, Leisure & Fun for South Valley Adults
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ImagineU has a Grandparent Membership like none other, and we're giving away memberships for FREE! ImagineU is Visalia's premier destination for preteens and believes every child has an imagination and can learn through play. ImagineU encourages imagination but allows the child to "complete the picture" with open-ended, hands-on activities. A Grandparent Membership allows two adults and an unlimited number of grandchildren admission to ImagineU for a full year and includes...
Charles E. Boles liked stagecoaches. In fact, he liked them so much that for at least eight years he was in the stagecoach business earning some $50,000. Not bad considering that today the amount would be worth more than $1.3 million. Now this accomplishment seems laudable until it's realized that he didn't earn the money using smart business practices. Instead he acquired his cash by robbing coaches, and lots of them - crimes that earned him the name "Black Bart." For...
The Tulare County Health & Human Services Agency announced that seven human cases of West Nile Virus have been detected and reported in Tulare County. Kings County reported five cases, with one becoming the first West Nile Virus-related death of a Kings County resident in 2021. "Though we are late in the season for mosquitos, this is a stark reminder of how important it is to eliminate the sources where mosquitos can propagate," said Kings County Department of Public Health...
The 1950s will live again when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper take the stage at the Visalia Fox Theatre on December 4. John Mueller's "Winter Dance Party" is the official live and authentic re-creation of Holly, Valens and the Big Bopper's final tour and the only show endorsed by the Holly, Valens and Richardson estates. The concert performance will include over two hours of high voltage entertainment featuring such hit songs of the 1950s as "That'll Be the...
On October 12, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force posted a draft recommendation statement on aspirin use to prevent heart disease and stroke, also known as cardiovascular disease (CVD). People ages 40 to 59 who are at higher risk for CVD and do not have a history of CVD should decide with their clinician whether to start taking aspirin. Heart disease and stroke are leading causes of mortality in the United States, accounting for about one in three deaths. While daily aspi...
The following is a post that appears on the Library of Congress website. It was written by Elizabeth Brown, a reference librarian/digital reference specialist in the library's Researcher and Reference Services Division. Her post originally coincided with a related exhibit, "From the Greatest Gift to 'It's a Wonderful Life,'" in the library's Thomas Jefferson Building. Several years ago, I received a question from a remote researcher who wanted to know what was different...
What is a Form 602 and why is it important to have it completed before moving to assisted living? A Form 602 (better known as a Physicians Report) is a state-mandated report that needs to be filled out by the primary doctor. It asks questions about primary diagnosis, dementia diagnosis, allergies, and a plethora of other important items that caregivers in the assisted living facility need to know before they can create a care plan, or even accept the resident. It is basically the doctor saying, “This is my patient and here ar...
November is one of my favorite months in the California garden. I watch leaves descend, winds sway even large tree branches, and sheets of rain (hopefully!) wash off a year's dust. Birds and even some late butterflies, moths and bees work feverishly to gather enough stored energy for hibernation or migration. Since we all know our water supply depends on abundant mountain snow, we rejoice when we see snow-capped peaks after a good storm and there is still optimism that the upc...
The Senior Citizens League, an advocacy group for retired people based in Virginia, reported that Social Security benefits have increased just 55% over the past 20 years. In response, the group's is collecting signatures to get Congress to issue a stimulus check to every American senior for $1,400. "The decision to initiate a campaign for a $1,400 stimulus checks for seniors came about due to my estimates of the highest COLA (cost of living adjustment) in four decades, 6.2%," Mary Johnson, the organization's Social Security...
The Tulare County Resource Management Agency (RMA) held a ceremony on September 23 to open the new Transit Operations & Maintenance Facility. Members of the public were able to tour the building and observe a demonstration detailing the steps to mount a bike on a bus bike rack. Tulare County's newest Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) bus was on display, one of the 20 environmentally friendly buses that are part of the Tulare County Area Transit fleet. "Transit opens doors for...
Visalia City Council Member Greg Collins plans to make a PowerPoint presentation about the proposed aquatics facility at the joint meeting of the Visalia City Council and the Visalia Unified School District School Board in late winter. "The city council is curious as to whether the school district is one of the entities that will provide financial support," Collins said. "If there was some financial support, that would swing a couple of votes (on the Visalia City Council). Hop...
"It's everything I like in a movie," said actor/comedian Bill Kirchenbauer about his new film, "Taking Al Back Home." "It makes you laugh, it makes you cry and it makes you think," he said. "The only thing I'm leaving out is scaring you." "Taking Al Back Home" is about the road trip Kirchenbauer took with the ashes of his late father, Al, a World War II hero, to be scattered near his hometown in Michigan. Along the way, Kirchenbauer met people who shared their stories about hi...
Lights, camera, action! The Tulare Public Library has launched a YouTube channel designed to cover topics of interest to seniors, among other things. "The YouTube channel is there to highlight the various virtual programs that Tulare Public Library provides," said Heidi Clark, library manager for the Tulare Public Library, adding that "Senior Spotlight" is one of several program options on the site. The programming on "Senior Spotlight" is specifically for seniors, their...
When the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) decides on your claim, they will provide you with two important letters amongst all the paperwork they will send you. The first letter is called the award letter, and the second one is the rating letter. Both provide information that you will need to pay attention to. The award letter is broken down into sections; the first section will tell you your benefit information. In this section, the VA will list each disability that you fil...
The annual Heart of Seniors "Spectacular Resource Event" Luncheon, hosted by the Senior Coalition, usually held in mid-February at the Wyndham Hotel in Visalia, will not be held in 2022. The event, which includes a vital resource fair with vendors, a fashion show with the latest in fashion for the mature woman, a luncheon and a keynote speaker, was also canceled last year. "Unfortunately, the decision has been made to postpone the event one more year," said committee member...
Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for approximately 70 million Americans will increase 5.9% in 2022, announced the Social Security Administration on October 13. The 5.9% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin with benefits payable to more than 64 million Social Security beneficiaries in January 2022. Increased payments to approximately eight million SSI beneficiaries will begin on December 30, 2021. The Social Security Act ties the annual...
More than 200 area residents helped exceed the fundraising goal of this year's Tulare & Kings Walk to End Alzheimer's, which returned to Mooney Grove Park in Visalia on October 2nd. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, participants in last year's event walked as individuals or in small groups in neighborhoods and trails throughout the area. "It was so great to be back in person, and to see everyone in their purple Walk gear," said Sherrie Wallace, event chair. "I was in amazement,...
The holidays are here, and as sure as the chilly weather will soon be upon us, scammers will be resurfacing and cooking up creative ways to separate us from our money. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, devastating fires, and other world events over the past year, Kings County District Attorney Keith Fagundes and the Kings County D.A. staff have been pounding the pavement, both in person and electronically, to provide increased awareness to our community members about novel approac...