SENIORNET UNLOCKS WORLD OF COMPUTERS 1,000 TO 1,500 STUDENTS A YEAR ARE GETTING CHAPTER AND VERSE IN HIGH TECHNOLOGY THROUGH PROGRAM.
Retired executive Ed Ostrowski, 74, of Delray Beach, gets his intellectual satisfaction from working for an organization that keeps seniors in the technology loop.
Since 1995, Ostrowski has been involved with SeniorNet and currently serves as the Boynton Beach chapter’s president. “We teach senior citizens to communicate with their grandchildren by sending e- mail,” he said.
SeniorNet teaches about 1,000 to 1,500 students a year and replaces its equipment about every two years, Ostrowski said.
The chapter has 70 volunteers. Elaine Gronert, 70, is one of them. She has taken computer classes for seven years. “I’ve taken just about every class that they teach,” she said.
Gronert became such an accomplished computer user that she now coaches classes.
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Home for the Holidays
December and January are nothing if not synonymous with the Holidays. Whether it’s Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, or if you chose to side with George Costanza father, Frank, and celebrate Festivus, a holiday for the rest of us, get out the aluminum pole, Christmas tree, menorah, kinara candles and meet me in the next paragraph.
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