The Bay Hundred Senior Center opened June 10, 2019 in the new Perkins Family YMCA in St. Michaels, Md. The YMCA is located behind the St. Michaels High School at 300 Seymour Avenue in St. Michaels.
Based on the model of Brookletts Place, Talbot Senior Center in Easton, the Bay Hundred Senior Center offers active seniors age 60 or more opportunities for socializing, exercising, recreation, lifelong learning and community engagement.
It is not, however, an adult daycare center or a nursing home.
The Center, which is open Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 8 am to 3 pm, serves lunch at noon on those days for a suggested donation of $2.75. The current schedule of the Center’s programs includes exercise and stretch classes, arts and crafts, music, cards and games, needlework, basketball games and more. Water aerobics, a free legal clinic, book club, ballroom dancing, discussion groups and educational programs will be added in upcoming months. In the fall, St. Michaels High School students will get involved at the Center, providing instructional courses and performances, as well as opportunities to participate in students’school projects.
The Center is free to eligible individuals who register for membership. Members’ spouses who are under the age of 60 are also eligible. Bay Hundred members who want to access all the YMCA’s equipment and programs may decide to also join the YMCA.
The Perkins Family YMCA is the first facility to bring together the YMCA, Talbot County Public Schools, Talbot County Government, and Upper Shore Aging to provide expanded programs and services to residents of all ages throughout the communities in the Bay Hundred area.
For information on the Bay Hundred Senior Center and to register for membership, please visit brooklettsplace.org, or call 410-745-5963. The Bay Hundred Senior Center website will be available soon.
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