HASL

09/08/2025

🌟 Join us at the Senior Resource Fair this Friday! 🌟
HASL will be there with a table full of helpful resources—come say hi! 👋

✨ Free entry
🍽️ Free lunch & refreshments
🎖️ Veterans ceremony
📚 Educational workshops
🤝 Tons of community resources

Don’t miss this chance to connect, learn, and celebrate together💙

🎉 The Grants Pass Senior Fair is BACK! 🎉
🗓 Friday, September 12, 2025
⏰ 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
📍 Josephine County Fairgrounds – Grants Pass, OR
💲 FREE ENTRY

💡 Everything you need to know about aging in Southern Oregon — all in ONE place!

With 80+ vendors specializing in:

✅ Retirement & financial planning
✅ Public health & chronic pain resources
✅ Alzheimer’s & dementia support
✅ Medication management
✅ Elder law & Medicare answers
… and so much more!

✨ Special Highlights:

~FREE Colon Cancer Screening (covered by Medicare)

~Live Entertainment – Saucy band + Grants Pass Dance Club

~Veterans Ceremony – 10:00 AM

~FREE Educational Workshops

~Disaster & Emergency Preparedness Event – 1:00–3:00 PM

~FREE Lunch & Refreshments for all guests!

📣 Vendors – Sign up here: https://www.teamsenior.org/seniorfair

📞 Questions? Call Jamie Callahan at (541) 295-8230
Hosted by Team Senior Referral Services, Inc. – www.teamsenior.org

👉 Mark your calendar and share this with friends & family — you won’t want to miss it!

09/04/2025

Paul Alexander, who passed away in 2024 at the age of 78, was one of the last people in the world to live inside an iron lung—a towering, tube-like machine that kept him alive for over 70 years.

At just six years old, Paul contracted polio during the devastating 1952 outbreak in Texas.

The virus paralyzed him from the neck down and left him unable to breathe on his own.

Doctors placed him in an iron lung, telling his parents he might not survive the night.

But Paul defied the odds, beginning a lifelong journey of survival within the humming, steel confines of the machine that would become both his prison and protector.

Despite his physical limitations, Paul lived a life of astonishing courage and determination.

Using a plastic stick held in his mouth, he taught himself to write, eventually earning a law degree and becoming a licensed attorney.

He also authored a memoir, *Three Minutes for a Dog*, typing each word painstakingly with his mouth.

Paul never allowed his condition to define his worth.

Instead, he became a symbol of resilience, dignity, and the power of the human spirit.

Friends and followers from around the world drew inspiration from his story and admired his sharp mind, wit, and unwavering strength.

Paul’s passing marks not just the end of a life, but the closing of a chapter in medical and human history.

His decades spent inside an iron lung are a sobering reminder of the devastating reach of polio, and the miracle of modern vaccines.

But beyond the machine and the diagnosis, Paul Alexander leaves behind a legacy of perseverance and purpose.

His life—brave, difficult, and deeply meaningful—touched thousands, reminding us all that even within the harshest limits, hope, intellect, and humanity can flourish.

09/02/2025

🌟 Join us at the Senior Resource Fair! 🌟

HASL will be there with a table full of helpful resources—come say hi! 👋

✨ Free entry
🍽️ Free lunch & refreshments
🎖️ Veterans ceremony
📚 Educational workshops
🤝 Tons of community resources

Don’t miss this chance to connect, learn, and celebrate together. 💙

🎉 The Grants Pass Senior Fair is BACK! 🎉
🗓 Friday, September 12, 2025
⏰ 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
📍 Josephine County Fairgrounds – Grants Pass, OR
💲 FREE ENTRY

💡 Everything you need to know about aging in Southern Oregon — all in ONE place!

With 80+ vendors specializing in:

✅ Retirement & financial planning
✅ Public health & chronic pain resources
✅ Alzheimer’s & dementia support
✅ Medication management
✅ Elder law & Medicare answers
… and so much more!

✨ Special Highlights:

~FREE Colon Cancer Screening (covered by Medicare)

~Live Entertainment – Saucy band + Grants Pass Dance Club

~Veterans Ceremony – 10:00 AM

~FREE Educational Workshops

~Disaster & Emergency Preparedness Event – 1:00–3:00 PM

~FREE Lunch & Refreshments for all guests!

📣 Vendors – Sign up here: https://www.teamsenior.org/seniorfair

📞 Questions? Call Jamie Callahan at (541) 295-8230
Hosted by Team Senior Referral Services, Inc. – www.teamsenior.org

👉 Mark your calendar and share this with friends & family — you won’t want to miss it!

09/01/2025

List of essentials for People with Hand Arthritis, details:
https://fibromyalgiawomen.com/hand-arthritis-products-tools-relief/

08/31/2025

Just a reminder that HASL is closed Monday September 1,2025 in observance of Labor Day and will reopen on Tuesday September 2,2025 at 9:00 AM

08/27/2025

08/06/2025

🛑 Disaster Preparedness Workshop – Southern Oregon Senior Resource Fair

Friday, September 12, 2025 • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Josephine County Senior Resource Fair

Do you know first responders might not be available when disaster strikes? Join us to learn how to stay ready and safe, especially along the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

What you’ll learn:

• Hear firsthand from first responders about the limits of emergency response during catastrophic events.
• Understand the risks of the Cascadia Subduction Zone—capable of a magnitude 9.0+ quake with potential tsunamis up to 100 ft high along our coast en.wikipedia.org.
• How to join emergency registries so responders know where to find you.
• Insights from Mercy Flights, Medford’s nonprofit air & ground ambulance, on disaster readiness, emergency transport gaps, and their Regional Disaster Relief Trailer stocked with supplies for mass emergencies

LOCATION:
Josephine County Fairgrounds
1451 Fairgrounds Rd, Grants Pass, OR 97527

Getting there is easy! When you enter the fairgrounds, parking attendants will guide you, and golf carts will be available to take you right to the resource fair!

SPONSORED BY:
Volare Health & Mercy Flights

🆓 No signup needed—just come to the Fair and walk in!
Don’t wait: learn how to help yourself and your loved ones be prepared when every second counts.

Please reach out to Team Senior with any questions.

www.teamsenior.org
(541) 295-8230

08/03/2025

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