Seniors for Peace start the new year with a laugh

The Seniors For Peace Club will meet on Feb. 1 at 2 p.m. in Clubhouse, 3 Room 9. Joclyn Rabbit-Sire and Marilyn Palomino of the Climate Reality Project, a group founded by Al Gore and his supporters, will present on the present status of climate change, solutions and what everyone can do to make a difference.

The coming year will bring with it serious issues to deal with including ongoing wars, global warming, and crucial elections, so the club feels that some hearty laughter will do everyone good prior to facing stressful issues.

Dr. Susan Mathieu, adjunct faculty at the Alpert Jewish Community Center in Long Beach will also speak. Mathieu will highlight a happiness and humor model that encourages social connection and peaceful actions among older adults. According to research, in order for individuals to be successful in promoting social justice, they need to look inward and follow the “life satisfaction scale” for happiness. Mathieu consults with public and private agencies on the “Art of Getting Along with Difficult People” and is known in some circles as the “happy professor.”

Renowned LW resident and Certified Laugh Leader Bev Bender will add her humorous take on things as she does at her monthly laugh club at the LW Health Center called “Laughing For the Health of it!” Bender was a motivational-humorist speaker in San Francisco for many years and at the age of 57 went back to school to get her masters in gerontology. Her masters thesis was “Using Humor to Promote Healthy Living Among Older Adults.”

The program will be topped off by a special humorous presentation by club president Pat Kruger.

All residents and guests are invited to attend. Call Pat Kruger at 562-357-4040 for more information.