Category: Seniors

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It’s been a year.

A look back…
 
In addition to the over 2200 registrations and hundreds of participants we have served safely in summer camps, in-person classes, and virtual learning this year, as well as the ways we have tried to bring the community together with our social media-driven events, holiday contests, chalk art, drive-in events, and the like, we have been heavily invested in serving the essential needs of our community.
 
Many on our team found themselves doing a little bit of everything here– helping seniors socially and essentially, aiding rent relief programs, supporting teachers, providing childcare, creating safe places to shelter in fire and cold, dispensing clean water for the homeless, supporting downtown dining, making sure our parks, open spaces, and programs were safe to operate under ever-changing State and Public Health guidelines, learning new operations and software processes, and the list goes on. And, we still found a way to open the most magical and spectacular playground on the Peninsula!
 
Please take a few minutes to take in all we have endured together over this past year encapsulated in this video from the State of the City Address this past Monday night. If you missed it or want to re-watch it, no problem, visit www.redwoodcity.org/stateofthecity.
The pandemic may not be over, but it has been a pleasure serving you. We look forward to the days where we can see you, and your whole faces, regularly, again.

Basketball for Seniors

reposted with permission from SFGATE.COM,  Monday, January 24, 2011

by Sam Whiting

San Francisco Chronicle January 24, 2011

Senior Basketball
Photo: Jerome T. Nakagawa / Special to the Chronicle
Bill Beshore (center) plays with (left) Jay Kaufman, Tom Malfatti, Jim Pierce and Jim Callan.

Softball only goes so far, in terms of a workout. So Bill Beshore, 73, of Burlingame supplements it with basketball every Monday, playing half-court games for two hours.

Why: For eight years I have been playing senior softball three times a week, but felt I wasn’t getting enough cardiac exercise. So about a year ago some teammates from the Redwood City Seniors Softball Club formed a group to play basketball once a week. The group ranges in age from the mid-60s to mid-70s, and we play 3-on-3 or 4-on-4.

Greatest accomplishment: Being able to scrimmage for two hours, which is a thorough workout. Also: regaining my shooting eye and, best of all, reacquiring my hook shot for the first time since I was on the freshman team at Dartmouth College in 1956.

Gear you can’t live without: My Spalding TF-1000 basketball. It’s an indoor-only ball. I like the grip and the bounce on it. I wore the first one out.

Where you train: At Red Morton Community Center in Redwood City. Anybody 55 or older who wants to get back into shape can come out and join us.

Most annoying thing people assume about athletes in your sport: That we’re too old to play basketball or participate in other strenuous sports.

Advice you’d give a rookie: Start off slowly, and then push yourself a little harder each day. Remember that your fellow ballplayers are feeling the heat of play, too. Most importantly, nobody will remember the score tomorrow.