Come join us and explore your creativity and imagination through a variety of craft projects that include painting, coloring, and clay work to name a few! Please call our office to sign up. Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: Women began forming sewing societies in the 1860’s where they would gather together and make quilts to sell at church bazaars.

Swimming events are held at the Kittitas Valley Memorial Pool & Fitness Center in Ellensburg, WA, and require sign up to attend. Please call our office to sign up as spots fill up fast! Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: The U.S. National Swimming Pool Institute was founded in 1956, and still sets safety standards for pools today.

Memory movie is held in our office’s meeting room and is a fun time to get together, kick back, and watch a fun movie. Please call our office to sign up as spots fill up fast! Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: In "The Wizard of Oz," the Tin Man's oil was actually chocolate syrup. The original oil used caused actor Jack Haley to have an allergic reaction.

Cooking class is held in the Liberty Bible Church kitchen located in the back of the building. Cooking class is a fun way to try out new recipes and improve cooking skills and confidence. Please call our office to sign up. Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun fact: The microwave was invented in 1945 by Percy Spencer, an engineer at Raytheon. While working on a radar system, he noticed that a candy bar in his pocket had melted. Intrigued, he experimented with different foods and discovered that microwaves could be used to cook food quickly.

Reading class is a fun mix of group story time and individual reading to help develop and improve reading skills. Come join Dan, our activities coordinator, in reading and discussing new books and poetry. All are welcome regardless of reading ability. Please call our office to sign up. Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: Your brain is like a muscle. Joseph Addison said that “reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body”, and he couldn’t have said it better. Reading brings existing neural pathways to life and keeps your brain elastic and active.

Come down and join us in supporting our local animal shelter. We will be helping to comfort and interact with some of the shelter pets as well as helping with clean up around the shelter. Please call our office to sign up! Open to ages 18+

Fun Fact: Dolphins have unique names for each other. They use distinct whistles to identify each other, much like humans use names.

Swimming events are held at the Kittitas Valley Memorial Pool & Fitness Center in Ellensburg, WA, and require sign up to attend. Please call our office to sign up as spots fill up fast! Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: The first swimming races were held in Japan in 36 BC.

Memory movie is held in our office’s meeting room and is a fun time to get together, kick back, and watch a fun movie. Please call our office to sign up as spots fill up fast! Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: "Friends," which aired from 1994 to 2004, remains one of the most popular TV shows of all time, with a massive fan base still today.

Come down and join us during our Game Activity where we get together and have fun playing board games and hanging out! Please call our office to sign up. Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: The name "Jenga" is based on the Swahili word meaning "to build". 

Come down and join us while we shoot some hoops at Rotary Park! Make sure to wear comfy clothes and shoes and bring some water! Please call our office to sign up. Open to ages 18+

Fun Fact: James Naismith, a Canadian physical education instructor, invented basketball in 1891 as a less injury-prone sport than football, designed for indoor play during winter months. 

Come join us and explore your creativity and imagination through a variety of craft projects that include painting, coloring, and clay work to name a few! Please call our office to sign up. Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: The first scented candles in the American colonies was bayberry, but it took a huge amount of bayberry leaves to produce a single candle.

Come down and join us in supporting our local animal shelter. We will be helping to comfort and interact with some of the shelter pets as well as helping with clean up around the shelter. Please call our office to sign up! Open to ages 18+

Fun Fact: Elephants are essential for biodiversity, which is why protecting them from poaching, habitat loss, and wildlife entertainment exploitation is so critical. By knocking over trees, they create open grasslands that benefit countless other species. Even their footprints collect water, creating mini reservoirs for insects and amphibians.

Swimming events are held at the Kittitas Valley Memorial Pool & Fitness Center in Ellensburg, WA, and require sign up to attend. Please call our office to sign up as spots fill up fast! Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: An outdoor swimming pool was added to the White House in 1975 by President Gerald Ford.

Memory movie is held in our office’s meeting room and is a fun time to get together, kick back, and watch a fun movie. Please call our office to sign up as spots fill up fast! Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: "The Simpsons," which debuted in 1989, is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American scripted primetime television series.

CWDR’s fitness activities are used to decrease isolation and help to provide a virtual workout for individuals who are unable to go to the gym. We select different local trails to hike that are accessible to all and accommodate different levels of fitness. Please call our office to sign up. Open to ages 18+

Fun Fact: "Hiking" is a relatively new word: The word "hike" came into use around 1809 and is thought to be derived from the verb "hitch". 

Come down and join us in supporting our local animal shelter. We will be helping to comfort and interact with some of the shelter pets as well as helping with clean up around the shelter. Please call our office to sign up! Open to ages 18+

Fun Fact: Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood. Two of their hearts pump blood to their gills and one to the rest of their body. Their blood is blue thanks to a copper-based molecule called hemocyanin.

Swimming events are held at the Kittitas Valley Memorial Pool & Fitness Center in Ellensburg, WA, and require sign up to attend. Please call our office to sign up as spots fill up fast! Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: Synchronized swimming was popularized by actress Esther Williams in her “aqua musicals” of the 1940s and 1950s.

Memory movie is held in our office’s meeting room and is a fun time to get together, kick back, and watch a fun movie. Please call our office to sign up as spots fill up fast! Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: "I Love Lucy," which aired from 1951 to 1957, was the first TV show to be filmed in front of a live studio audience.

Come join us while we get outside and cast out at Lake Mattoon. Fishing helps us to connect to nature, to each other, and to learn how to gather own food. Please call our office to sign up. Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: Early fishing lures were crafted out of bone, stone, or wood. In prehistoric times, people used to grab fish out of the water with their bare hands—or at least they tried to. With the advent of tool usage, humans began to craft hooks and lures to attract fish. Fishing enthusiasts have wanted to sit still and let the fish come to them for thousands of years! You’re engaging in a time-honored tradition when you and your friends set out on the water.

Chess class is held in our office’s conference room during the winter months and at the park during warmer months, and is a fun way to have fun playing and learning chess and strategy. Please call our office to sign up. Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: The queen wasn't always the most powerful piece; in earlier versions of chess, the rook was the most dominant. 

Chess class is held in our office’s conference room during the winter months and at the park during warmer months, and is a fun way to have fun playing and learning chess and strategy. Please call our office to sign up. Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: The first folding chessboard was invented in 1125 by a priest named Bishop Guy of Paris. 

Our film club is a fun time to get together to watch and discuss movies, with a different movie being selected every time. In our Film Club this week we will be watching and discussing School of Rock starring Jack Black. This activity is available online and in person. Please call our office to sign up. Open to ages 14 - 24.

Fun Fact: In Star Wars, Darth Vader's iconic breathing sound was created by an actor exhaling through a scuba regulator.

Come join us and explore your creativity and imagination through a variety of craft projects that include painting, coloring, and clay work to name a few! Please call our office to sign up. Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: From 1912-1948, the Olympic Games awarded medals for artworks inspired by sport

Swimming events are held at the Kittitas Valley Memorial Pool & Fitness Center in Ellensburg, WA, and require sign up to attend. Please call our office to sign up as spots fill up fast! Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: Benjamin Franklin invented swim fins to help move through the water more efficiently.

Memory movie is held in our office’s meeting room and is a fun time to get together, kick back, and watch a fun movie. Please call our office to sign up as spots fill up fast! Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: The digital code seen in "The Matrix" is actually based on Japanese sushi recipes. 

Join us as we tour the CWU Greenhouse located at the Science Building on Wildcat way. We will tour the different plant rooms and get to see Euphorbs, cacti, aloe, air plants, ferns, orchids, and if we’re really lucky the tortoise who lives in the greenhouse! Please call our office to sign up. Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun Fact: Bamboo is the fastest growing woody plant in the world. It can grow up to 35 inches in a single day.

Cooking class is held in the Liberty Bible Church kitchen located in the back of the building. Cooking class is a fun way to try out new recipes and improve cooking skills and confidence. Please call our office to sign up. Must be 18+ to attend.

Fun fact: Botanically speaking, strawberries are not berries because their seeds are on the outside and bananas are berries because they develop from a single flower with one ovary and have a fleshy interior with seeds embedded within.