nothing to do are you tired of watching t v or you're bored but what can you do in peter's time ship if you're over fifty five you can go swimming this is emigre go from se perspective and where you're at the peter's time chip the high school pool and there's some seniors here that are doing the swim fit program and i have two guests here are male a stark and  at eight weeks in a land several times a year and we enjoy it it's tremendous exercise and we enjoy the fellowship of getting your microphone who don't swim in the shallow and do my exercise here then i'd be safe to do that if you say you don't have to swim i mean yeah the water is not that deep that you're going to drowned and there's many of the exercises that you can do without being a swimmer oh that's good to  that's one of the exercises them mike which you were doing you can attend a single lunch and i this is the only grego room seeing your perspective today we are at the senior luncheon and i have several guests here that i would like for you to meet and i to have your name please i'm jeanne gaul and this sure i don't really know i mean it's been a wow we have had them and they've been very enjoyable have you enjoyed them also very much very much very well so i want to ask you now how were you able to come to this event how yeah we drove here and drove you ok yeah that's right ok well you know there is the senior transportation for anybody that cannot drive and cannot get here that they can use the taxi to get here so if you know of anybody that staying away because they can't drive they have been nice for you to tell them about their convenience and we know of some people who take advantage of that yes it is a day really helps a lot of people probably better if we walk think marianne right you know she has some good ideas now that that are coming up and i think they're very good and so are we we've been enjoying every every time we came out she has some very meet it the old fire hall down at the gazans crossroads if you recall and then when joanne took over they switched it up here to the library so it's been a long time  do you come to the senior lunch while i come here to meet the people and mostly the people is what interests me we have a lot of camaraderie here very nice people that come here and i can't wait to get more of the people from  what's going on with the senior citizens i agree we hope they're all going to get old but it's nice to do this we're all going to be there some day yes that's a lot of fun so we are ok were you able to drive to this oh yeah we come here it's just a little drive about two and a half miles down and there's no problem and there's a program where the state will if you can't come you call it in the taxi and they'll bring it down here in the state i was just going to groups do they have a good scene and any time i know of anybody that wants to come if they can have no transportation i'll pick them up and bring them if anybody wants to come in just let me know i'll get them here you know i'll find transportation for th i agree well you know well the people that should come here is through a program like we're doing right now if we put this out on the air and a lot of people in peter stothard get to see this i know there are over two hundred people that i know of in peter's township that come for their flu shots and all these other amenities that are available to them if they would only come out and join us we would be pleased to have them and we would enjoy their calmer and we also have just get out of the house it's one thing right now we don't want to be couch potatoes after all i mean we're still able to get around that and while i do i brought my wife and has had heart surgery bypass surgery and she's not able to do anything at home price well this is our mcgregor from senior perspective as i said we are at the senior luncheon says i see you have another affair thank you you can attend a fifty five driving course this is only grego from a senior perspective and right now i'd like to introduce carl stark who is the instructor for the fifty five alive mature driving course so carl maybe you could tell us a little something about this course well this is a course that anybody age fifty five or over should avail themselves of something that as their skills you'll dexterity changes they can they can benefit from ways to compensate for this process of aging and someplace around the age of fifty five i know when i took the course i  learn some things that i guess had been doing wrong and sort of corrected myself on some of those maybe you could tell us how long does the course take well normally we present the course not more than four hours  day and that's normally two four hour sessions what benefits do you gain by taking this course first of all we hope that you become a better driver by taking the course secondly of course you can benefit by having perhaps earning a five percent discount on your insurance we can all stand that what does fifty five ly stand for them well the fifty five is the age which our body may signify that we're changing someone and we have to learn to cope or that lack of movement and this taking this course will give you some clues as to how you can still become and remain a good driver and not let any impairments affect your driving here's a good one do you have to drive to take i mean do you have to drive during the course  know a lot of people are have refrained from taking the course because they felt that we had to drive and they would be nervous and of course that isn't the case no driver's test good either a written test well we we have some quizzes and so forth but we do in the way in which you correct your own paper so it's not threatening in any way but if you come to the course and  a good instructor will keep you at least interested in what's going on and we urge you to participate remember we're all older drivers and it's taught by by senior citizens as well oh and we have to we we understand what's happening in their allies and so we are doubly armed with the idea of knowing that we are going to continue to be safe drivers when i know i really enjoyed the course when i guess you were my instructor you have not i really enjoyed it and i did learn some things that i was doing wrong and then that learned i had to do it the right way well a lot of our class are people who have driven many years some of them are truck drivers and some of them are some i want to live and and of course salesman people and we learn from each other and we try to draw this out and in fact if somebody has been doing something wrong it's most effective that we can have a group participation and thought out in the right  from ation then can you give me the number that you would call called one four to five thousand and ask for more information on this this course needs to have more people sign up for it nation nationwide in the specially in pennsylvania i think only about five percent that are eligible are actually taking the course and when you take this course that disc is good for three years so  once you take the course it's good for three years i will speaking of discount and that is there a charge for the course there is an eight dollar fee for the course materials can it's made out to it's well  this is a roadway with bad lighting a road you need to avoid remember that as we age our eyes don't allow as much light in and driving at night is a real problem this is a roadway with good li and better to hit that another car these be panels collapse on impact to bring the vehicle to a safe controlled stop it's better to hit them them another car this can pose a hazard to drivers who are increasingly having accidents and work to be particularly alert for construction workers signaling traffic here's what a changing traffic pattern can look like only drivers must be especially alert to the situation and react early