Celebration at Senior Center.Byline: Betty Lilyestrom The following correction was published Sept. 10, 2007: LEICESTER - State Sen. Edward M. Augustus Jr., D-Worcester, will hold a pie and ice-cream social ice-cream social n. Chiefly Upper Northern U.S. A picnic featuring ice cream, often held for the purpose of raising money for charity. Also called ice-cream sociable. at 12:30 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Leicester Senior Center, 40 Winslow Ave. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. his office, the date provided by the Senior Center for a story in Friday's edition of the Telegram & Gazette was incorrect. Also, Mr. Augustus will not have office hours office hours, n.pl See business hours. at the Senior Center Wednesday, as was reported. ---------------------- LEICESTER - The Senior Center will join with its sister centers in communities across the country next week with a program marking National Senior Center Week. Nationally, the event will mark the creation of the country's first such facility, the William Hodson Community Center, 59 years ago in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . That center spawned a movement that led first to similar projects in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and Philadelphia, then grew to 218 senior centers nationwide by 1961, and now to some 15,000 centers serving close to 10 million older adults every year. Leicester's center is one of the newcomers to the program, looking forward to celebrating its eighth birthday next month. But it has developed a full program of activities that continues to attract seniors each weekday to the single-story building at 40 Winslow Ave. The first regular inhabitant INHABITANT. One who has his domicil in a place is an inhabitant of that place; one who has an actual fixed residence in a place. 2. A mere intention to remove to a place will not make a man an inhabitant of such place, although as a sign of such intention he of the center was the senior nutrition program, which had been providing hot noonday meals on weekdays for Leicester elders for 20 years at St. Pius X Church Hall. The first such meal at the new center on Oct. 25, 1999, the opening day of dedication week, attracted a record crowd of 162 patrons. Though it is unlikely that number will be equaled at anything other than a special event in the future, the lunch program still holds its own, serving 25 to 30 senior diners each day. Adelle Lafayette, who has served as nutrition site manager since the St. Pius days, said some of those who were coming to lunch in the earliest days are still coming on a regular basis. One in particular is Ann S. Cutting, who shows no signs of dropping out of the program at the age of 94. The full-course meals include such main dishes as roast turkey, glazed ham or beef teriyaki ter·i·ya·ki n. A Japanese dish of grilled or broiled slices of marinated meat or shellfish. [Japanese : teri, glaze + yaki, to broil.] Noun 1. , complete with vegetables, dessert and milk. And the requested donation hasn't changed a bit over the years. It's still $2. The nutrition program also offers a Meals on Wheels n. 1. A program that delivers hot meals to persons, such as the elderly or disabled, who are confined to their homes and unable to cook for themselves; also, the meals thus delivered. Such programs are usually conducted by governmental or charitable organizations. program which delivers daily lunches to seniors who can't get to the center. Other services offered by the center are health and wellness programs, social networking See social networking site. social networking - social network opportunities, financial assistance, information and referral opportunities, arts and humanities, and transportation services. The Council on Aging van provides transportation to medical appointments and shopping centers five days a week. Seniors who enjoy such activities as card games, yoga, line dancing, cribbage cribbage (krĭb`ĭj), card game played by two persons with a deck of 52 cards and a scoring (pegging) device known as a cribbage board. , exercise, book discussions, or just plain socializing will find those opportunities at the Senior Center, as will those want to learn something new. For example, volunteer teachers recently completed a training program on the use of computers for seniors who don't want to be outdone out·do tr.v. out·did , out·done , out·do·ing, out·does To do more or better than in performance or action. See Synonyms at excel. by their grandchildren. Janice R. Nowicki, Senior Center director, said the scheduled activities for National Senior Center Week in Leicester will start with a pancake breakfast at 9 a.m. Tuesday, with reservations required. At 10 a.m. Tuesday, the Registry of Motor Vehicles will conduct an Elder Driver Workshop, covering such topics as the effects of age on drivers 55 and over, problems to look out for, equipment available to help senior drivers, and information on how to get disabled driver tags. State Sen. Edward M. Augustus Jr., D-Worcester, will hold office hours at the center at 11 a.m. Wednesday and join with seniors at an ice cream social at 12:30 p.m. A board game competition is scheduled to follow at 12:45. (SEE CORRECTION) Thursday's anniversary activity will be the showing of a movie at 1 p.m., accompanied by snacks. On Sept. 14, the center will celebrate National Cream-Filled Donut Day from 9 to 11 a.m. with coffee and doughnuts. The week's official celebration will follow at 1 p.m., with musical entertainment by Linda Jean. |
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