By Ken Goldstein, JCRC member I volunteer one day a week … and it’s the most meaningful thing I’ve ever done in my life. I have been a volunteer at the Baker Senior Center Naples’ dementia/respite program. It spans four hours, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., providing services for individuals with early- to …
Posted from Florida Weekly: Baker Senior Center Naples announced the recent appointment two new members of its Board of Trustees. George Kraus is a retired businessman with more than 60 years of experience, most recently serving as co-founder of JBS Associates in Ringwood, New Jersey. Before that, he was the founder of Data Line Corp., …
We are honored to announce that Dr. Faffer has been named as one of “The Naples 100” Collier County Most Influential Business Leaders. >> Click here to see the entire Naples Illustrated issue. <<
The number of homeless individuals in Collier County has gone up dramatically to 703 this year compared to last year’s finding of 462 homeless. The “point in time” count conducted by the Hunger and Homeless Coalition of Collier County provides a snapshot of homelessness where volunteers canvass the community and survey the homeless about what has transpired …
Thanks to the nonprofit Baker Senior Center in Naples, five seniors are getting a new lease on life after Hurricane Ian wiped theirs away. 83-year-old Marie Powell has spent her life holding her family together and letting her grandkids play office in her home. “I have to tell you, the best grandkids anybody could ask …
Seniors with damaged homes from Hurricane Ian will soon have new manufactured homes, thanks the Baker Senior Center Naples and funding from Collier Community Foundation. Rose Marie Powell is grateful her life is getting closer to normal after Hurricane Ian ripped through Southwest Florida. The 83-year-old who has lived in the Moorhead Manor mobile home …
The Baker Senior Center Naples has finally opened a new building that has been in the works for five years. “It’s bright, it’s big, it’s so spacious,” said Grace Chen, a fitness instructor at the center. “The building itself is 30,000 square feet,” said Dr. Jaclynn Faffer, CEO of the Baker Senior Center Naples. “We …
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A new year brings a new location and a new name for a popular center for seniors in Collier County. Employees and volunteers debuted the Baker Senior Center Naples with a soft launch Jan. 4 at its new location, 6200 Autumn Oaks Lane, which provides the program with its own permanent home and ability to …
Dear Members & Volunteers – The opening of the new Naples Senior Center has been delayed. Our last scheduled day of programming at Castello Drive is Friday December 30, 2022. There is no available Senior Center programming January 2-6, 2023. We are targeting Monday January 9, 2023 as our first day at the new location. …
Naples turns 100 years next December 2023, and in honor of the occasion we kicked off the Centennial in momentous ways. Throughout 2023, a series of commemorative events will honor the historic growth of the community leading up to its 100th anniversary on December 1, 2023. Celebration Beach Church and Baker Senior Center Naples began …
Seniors in Southwest Florida are facing their own specific challenges after Hurricane Ian. Many are on fixed incomes, living alone with no family in the area and disabled and now they have flooded homes or no home at all. WINK News talked to the Naples Senior Center CEO about the specific trauma these seniors are …