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FITNESS Fitness Center Holiday Schedule
Wednesday, Nov. 23 – Fitness Centers open
Michelle regular hours. Classes run as scheduled.
Mason Thursday, Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving Day) –
Fitness Fitness Center closed. All classes cancelled.
Director Friday, Nov. 25 – Fitness Centers open
regular hours. Classes run as scheduled.
Hours of operation
Be happy! Mental wellness in aging
Weekdays:
6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday, November 7, 10:30-11:30 a.m., SCB, $2 pp
Weekends Karen Valdez, DO
Saturday: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Psychiatrist
Sunday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Baylor Scott & White Health
Weekly orientation sessions for
new residents are no longer Specialties
offered at the Fitness Centers. Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry
Instead, required orientation
packets are available at the Sun Patient Care Emphasis
Depression - Elderly, Anxiety & Mood Disorders,
City Texas Community Psychotic Disorders, Mental Health, Psychiatric
Association Member Services Disorders, Psychopharmacology
Office, 2 Texas Drive, Building A
or at the front desk of either Karen Valdez, DO Board Certification
Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry
Fitness Center Diplomate of the American Board of Geriatric Psychiatry
Fitness Center Dr. Valdez will discuss the natural changes that can affect our mental health as we
Information Line age and provide strategies to chase away the blues.
512-948-7755 Tickets are $2 and are available for purchase at either the Texas Drive or the Cowan
Creek Fitness Centers.
Pool and hot tub closings,
class cancellations, inclement JB celebrates 20 years with Sun City Texas
weather and other pertinent
Fitness instructor Judy 2000. She combined
information updated “JB” Baier teaches that position with her
then part-time job as
Children’s swim hours a variety of group an instructor at the
fitness classes at the Fitness Center.
For kids ages 4-15 years
OCTOBER – MARCH Texas Drive Fitness JB’s initial stint as a
1-3 p.m. in the indoor pool Center, including
Children’s age restrictions
Children under the age of Low Impact Aerobics, fitness instructor was
four, per the CA Rules/Reg.,
are not allowed at the pools Balanced Body and JB Baier in 1980 when she used JB 1998
or in the Fitness Centers. Lite PBS. She’s also a racquetball court
Mr. Etiquette a personal trainer, certified through the to teach a Jazz-X-Rcise class at Austin’s
Please don’t enter the pools Cooper Institute to work with the general Royal Court Club, where she worked as
with a skin rash or open
wound. It will attract the population as well as older adults. As if that Activities Director. She would later go on
piranhas, and we can’t be
responsible. weren’t enough, she often joins forces with to operate her own business, More Than
Remember, Mr. Etiquette is watching.
her longtime friend and dance partner, Aerobix (MTA), for 13 years at a local dance
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Gregory Putbrese, to lead our popular studio in Georgetown.
dance series classes such as the Country She and Gregory have danced together for
some 25 years and have won numerous
Western 2-Step, the Triple Two-Step and awards for team dancing. JB was also one of
Sun City’s original line dancing instructors
the Country Western Waltz. and is still known for choreographing the
“Sun City Shuffle.”
This month, JB celebrates her 20th year
with Sun City Texas! Her first fitness class, “I can honestly say that for the past
at 8 a.m. on November 1, 1996, was Low 20 years, I’ve never had to go to work,”
Impact Aerobics at the Texas Drive Fitness contends JB, who still lives in Georgetown.
“Each day I wake up excited and happy to
Center. Original Sun City residents may be doing what I love.”
also recall seeing JB at the first Vacation
Getaway office on Larkspur Lane, where she
checked in future homeowners from 1997-
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