IN a delightful afternoon full of companionship and celebration, a very special Centennial High Tea was hosted by Greater Shepparton City Council on Tuesday, October 29 to honour the region’s oldest residents.
As part of the many events and social activities curated for this year’s Seniors Festival Program, the high tea was held at The Woolshed. Filled with live music, laughter as well as a delectable array of assorted finger food including sandwiches, cakes and pastries, there was great conversation to be enjoyed amidst endless cups of tea.
Providing beloved jingles of old, Frank Powell invited attendees to join him in song as he moved throughout the seated audience with his guitar, enticing happy memories and smiles of reminiscence as he did so. Joined by caregivers, the afternoon was by all accounts a success and was fittingly concluded by the cutting of the Centennial Cake by the ever vivacious, almost 102-year-old, Joyce Oxenbury.
Highlighting this year’s Seniors Festival theme, “Explore. Engage. Envolve,’ the program of local events and activities not only fostered connectedness and engagement for our senior citizens but helped to shape a positive view of what it means to age well, celebrating the invaluable contribution of our elders.
