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Good morning!  ACCA had it’s first float in Athens annual Holiday parade, the Parade of Lights.  Featured on the float was Ms. Senior Athens and some wonderful staff and children who waved and gave out candy to the crowd.  It was a beautiful night and the atmosphere was full of holiday cheer.  Thanks so much […]

Daisy Troop # 12195 of Watkinsville, GA donated miniature Christmas trees to ACCA’s Meals on Wheels programs. The young Daisy’s, Kiera, Madeline, Regan, Chloe, Anna, Julieana, Sophia and Sara under the guidance of troop mothers, Jennifer Hadden and Missy Palafox decorated the trees so ACCA could give them away to Meals on Wheels clients. Thank […]

Fred and Joyce Reifsteck along with her grandson, Fred IV, have made goodie bags for ACCA’s Meals on Wheels volunteers here in Athens and Winder each Christmas for the past 3 years!!  They fill the bags with fancy items like good chocolate and coco. ACCA would like to thank you so much for this effort… […]

Click on the cover of our newest issue to see what is coming up and what has happened at ACCA.  Inside is information about signing up for the next Ms. Senior Athens, the annual Holiday Tea, photos from Harvest Festival, Legislative Breakfast, and Night of Lights. Also inside is our Winter program catalog for the […]

On Monday, October 31. the Grandparents Raising Grandchildren hosted “ACCA – A Great Place to Work” with a spooky themed morning party at Bentley Adult Day Health.  The staff and clients participated in a costume contest and Lady Liberty (Dee Windate) took home the prize.  The members of the Center for Active Living + visited […]

Cuddly robot makes friends at adult day care program Evelyn Perkins doesn’t like to communicate with most people anymore, but she will cuddle and sing to Bentley — a robotic, plush harbor seal — all morning long. Bentley is a therapeutic robot, one of a handful of robots used in American adult day care programs […]

Staff, clients, volunteers, and visitors dressed to impress today at ACCA for Halloween.  Grandparents Raising Grandchildren hosted a fantastic “ACCA-It’s a great place to work” event at Bentley Adult Day Health.  Everyone came out and enjoyed refreshments and seeing each other dressed up.  Dee Windate won the overall contest as “Lady Liberty.”  Thanks to all […]

UGA Student Group Aims to Reduce Food Waste, Feed Hungry  A new University of Georgia student group has found a way to tackle two problems at once — wasted food and hungry Athenians. “That’s the great thing about this. On the one hand, it’s doing something about food waste and consumer waste, and on the […]

ACCA was featured in today’s edition of the Los Angeles Times and our robot, Bentley was made famous.  Eve Anthony, chief operations officer, was called and interviewed by the reporter a couple of weeks ago.  Paro was introduced to our clients almost a year ago and has had a huge impact. [Click here] to read […]

Check out the Spotted Gallery at OnlineAthens.com to see if you were spotted at the Harvest Festival on Thursday, October 13 and a big thanks to our MOW volunteer Warren for taking these great photos!!

Last Thursday, October 13, Athens Community Council on Aging’s RSVP and Lyndon House partnered to hold the 37th annual Harvest Festival.  Over 1600 children from the Northeast Georgia area learned arts from back in the day including butter churning, black-smithing, making corn husk dolls, soap making, knitting to name a few.  The rain held out […]

The Athens Community Council on Aging (ACCA) will host its 3rd annual Holiday Afternoon Tea in celebration of the winter holiday season.  Tea will be served at the historic train depot at 135 Hoyt St. on Sunday, December 11, 2011. This festive afternoon event is modeled on the same tasteful style found in luxurious hotels […]

The Georgia Gerontology Society (GGS) held its annual conference in Athens at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education from September 19 – 21, 2011.  Jennie Deese received the respected Elsie Alvis for her service to the Georgia Gerontology Society and to gerontology in the state of Georgia.  The Elsie Alvis Award is presented to an […]

The Athens Community Council on Aging’s Retired & Senior Volunteer Program in partnership with ACC Leisure Services’ Lyndon House Arts Center is hosting the 37th Annual Harvest Festival on Thursday, October 13, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at both of our locations on Hoyt Street in Athens, and is open to all elementary […]

Athens Community Council on Aging (ACCA) held two legislative breakfasts the week of October 17 for local and state legislators to get a firsthand look at the services provided by the agency.  On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 the legislators were invited to the Athens campus and invited to the Winder facility on Wednesday, October 12.  […]

Ms. Senior Athens, Annette Barfield, was invited as a guest speaker at Milledge Avenue Baptist Church’s event, Life in the Third Quarter.  She talked to the large audience about how much fun her retirement in Athens had been for her and her husband, Buddy.  Other speakers at the event that celebrated living and aging well […]

On September 19, Athens Adult Day Care, The Bentley Center, kicked off ACCA’s new program: ACCA – A Great Place to Work where the staff will celebrate each what a great place ACCA is to work.   Everyone was invited to dress in their pajamas and ADH staff provided breakfast for the entire agency. This was […]

Athens Community Council on Aging was excited to be hosting the first Meals On Wheels of Georgia (MOWAG) conference September 21 and 22, 2011.  Georgia ranks sixth in the nation for prevalence of food-insecurity in older adults.  However, Athens-Clarke County leads the state and nation in poverty according to the most recent data released from […]

On Wednesday afternoon, September 14, a wonderful group of volunteers and staff from ACCA packaged and distributed commodity bags to seniors in need.  We had over 20 volunteers show up and we got over 300 bags of commodities out to local seniors.  Earth Fare of Athens not only donated reusable bags to the program but […]

Care Improvement Plus hosted a networking luncheon for caregivers on Wednesday, September 14 at ACCA.  It was in their series entitled “Staying Healthy Together” and those attending were able to discuss the challenges faced by those caring for chronically ill seniors and how they can help each other.  There were informative presentations by the Alzheimer’s […]

Wednesday, September 14 was a busy day to say the least… local farmers welcomed our seniors to ACCA that had U.S.D.A vouchers that they could use to purchase locally grown, fresh fruits and vegetables.  They had fresh cabbage, bell peppers (red and green) squash, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, and much more.  They enjoyed picking out their […]

NIGHT OF LIGHTS HONORS THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel once said, “To live through catastrophe is bad; to forget it is worse.”  Americans lived through catastrophe on September 11, 2001 and it changed our nation forever.  This year, the Northeast Georgia Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) at the Athens […]

It’s that time of year again.  ACCA needs your help for a very important day.  We will be distibuting commodities to seniors and need your help in getting the bags ready for pick up.  We will start at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 14.  We are so lucky to have Earth Fare working with us […]

The Athens Community Council on Aging (ACCA) was awarded a Merit Award from the 2011 National Mature Media Awards. Winners were announced Tuesday, July 19. ACCA won in the Community Organization category for their quarterly newsletter, Connections.

ATHENS, Ga. — Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, a program of the Athens Community Council on Aging (ACCA), is a recent recipient of grants from the Jackson EMC Foundation and Walton Electric Trust through Operation Round Up. Operation Round Up, a program that provides financial support to organizations and individuals, is a grant made in the name […]

Ok, here is the scoop about Zumba. We will be offering it Wednesday nights in Winterville from 5:30-6:30 p.m., starting July 27 with one of our newest employees, Jaime Lang. Jaime has been teaching Zumba® fitness classes for over 2 years. In the past, she taught fitness classes at the Canyon Ranch Health Resort in […]

ATHENS, Ga. – The Athens Community Council on Aging (ACCA) and Home Delivered Meals program (Meals on Wheels) is excited to announce one of their volunteers, Dorothy Newland, is a contender for the Meals on Wheels Association of America (MOWAA)’s Annual American Volunteer contest. Dorothy has been volunteering with the Home Delivered Meals program for […]

2011 ELDER ABUSE SYMPOSIUM COMING TO THE OCONEE COUNTY CIVIC CENTER ATHENS, Ga. – The Athens Community Council on Aging (ACCA), Northeast Georgia Area Agency on AGIN (AAA), Oconee Area Resource Council, and local Georgia Cares Program are gearing up to bring the Northeast Georgia region the 2011 Elder Rights Symposium.  It will be held […]

ATHENS, Ga.— The University of Georgia Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, Inc. held the 26thAnnual Awards Presentation at the Athens Country Club on April 18, 2011.  Jennie Deese received the Coca-Cola Helping Hand Award for her service to the Athens community through the Athens Community Council on Aging (ACCA). […]

Volunteers make the biggest difference in an organization like Athens Community Council on Aging and we have the best volunteers in the world (at least that’s what we think).  On Tuesday, June 21, we celebrated all of our volunteers with a Fiesta here at the council in the beautiful Harris Room.  We had chips, salsa, […]