Excerpted from The Center Newsletter, July, 2007, page 5.

CBS Radio country music super station KMPS, 94.1 FM, Seattle, has donated the most technologically advanced game system, the Nintendo Wii, (pronounced "we"), to our Senior Center!

 Radio personality Ichabod Caine, his wife Scallops, and the Waking Crew picked my entry proposal on behalf of our center in a contest to involve seniors with High Schoolers and "Wii" Won!

Seniors who are interested in learning how to play BOWLING, BASEBALL, GOLF or TENNIS on this exciting interactive game system can come to one or both demonstration and training events on July 6th and July 10th.  We will be using our HUGE 60" television in the main room to explore how this all works.   

We will be trained by technology savvy teens from the Boys and Girls Club and have fun playing these virtual versions of the games.  Nintendo's "Wii" has a cordless controller that lets you get in on the action and get exercise while having fun indoors! For golf you swing the controller like a club, and for baseball it is your bat. In bowling it is the ball, and in tennis it is your racquet.  You can serve, hit backhand and forehand strokes using the same motions you would use on the court. Work on your golf swing and putting without worrying about the weather!  Work on your bowling game without a heavy ball in your hand! Work up a sweat playing tennis against your computer opponents!  Swing for the fences in baseball and never have to run or slide! 

 After we are trained, the Teens will receive an identical Nintendo Wii game system for their teen room at the Boys and Girls Club.

Both organizations then get to keep and use this amazing equipment. This is a "Win-Win" for all of us.  I hope you will look forward with excitement to "Wii Play Together"!!

 If you are ready to play Wii at The Center, a schedule will be available in September.