Montclair Health Presents ‘Stoop Time’ Meetup For Mature Women

Montclair, NJ – The Montclair Health Department will once again partner with Leah Johnston-Rowbotham to facilitate a “Stoop Time” group for local residents.

According to a town news release, Stoop Time is “a place for mature women to discuss the ups and downs of life throughout its different phases with a small group of others who are experiencing similar changes.”

Participants include community members who may be “experiencing a loss of a significant other, others may have lost a pet, a neighborhood, a job, a familiar home, adult children moving away or other changes in life,” according to the release.

The department will host one group which will meet for five weeks on Friday mornings, at 11 a.m., beginning June 3 and continuing through July 1, the news release stated.

Sessions will be held at the Edgemont Park House on Valley Road.

“My own grandmother often discussed these issues on the front stoop while shelling peas… my mother had the stoop by the clothesline as she folded frozen towels and sheets in the late fall,” Rowbotham stated. “Baby boomers re-invented their own stoops on the sidelines of Little League practices or outside of dance schools.”

To save a seat for the group, contact Montclair Health Educator Megan Ginter at 973-509-4969.

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