Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multi-Purpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of The Commission on Aging. The center is run by Senior Services Director Marilyn Place. For more
Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multi-Purpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of The Commission on Aging. The center is run by Senior Services Director Marilyn Place. For more information about programs offered at the Senior Center call 270-4310.
You may drop in at the Senior Center on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook weekdays between 9 am and 4 pm. A hot meal is served at noon for which you must reserve three days in advance.
Newtown has daily door-to-door minibus service Monday through Friday. Buses also run all day from the Senior Center to Sand Hill Plaza. On Fridays, the bus alternates between rides to Danbury Fair Mall and Berkshire Plaza in Danbury (to Wal-Mart Route 6). Cost is 65¢ each way for the Sand Hill Plaza trip, 75¢ each way for out of town. Call 748-2511 TWO DAYS IN ADVANCE to book a ride and get the out-of-town Friday schedule.
This Weekâs Programs
*Our young people and adult volunteers will help with spring cleaning, yard work, window washing, or other basic chores on INDEPENDENT LIVING DAY, Saturday, April 28. Call to sign up.
*MADAMA BUTTERFLY will be presented by the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center Sunday, April 22. Butterfly is sung in Italian with English supertitles. Lunch is included at Les Sans Sulottes. Departure is at 8:30 am. Cost is $160 per person. Final payment is due.
*APRIL 25, at 1 pm, TRAVEL SEMINAR. Get all the details from A to Z on this yearâs overnight trips being offered. Join Marilyn and Blair Soucy, owner of Getaway Tours.
*COMPUTER LESSONS are given every Monday and Tuesday at 3 pm.
*BINGO: April 25
*BOARD GAME DAY is every Thursday at 1 pm. Coffee or tea and snack will be supplied.
*MOVIE TIME on Fridays at 1 pm. Enjoy a good âfavoriteâ movie with a friend. We supply the video and popcorn.
*May 8, 1 pm, make CARDS FOR THE TROOPS serving overseas.
*MOTHERâS DAY TEA & BINGO on Wednesday, May 9 at 1 pm.
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Day Trips
*ITALIAN FEST at Mount Haven Resort, May 11, in the foothills of the Poconos, only an hour and a half by bus. Complete breakfast and dinner buffets and live entertainment of Italian music. Cost per person is $66; bus departs at 8 am.
*Tour The CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA Thursday, May 31, in Hyde Park, N.Y., enjoy a Northern Italian cuisine at Caterina De Medici, and then onto Millbrook Vineyard in Millbrook, N.Y., for a wine tasting. $82 per person; bus departs at 8 am.
*THE ROCKETTES at Radio City Music Hall on Friday, November 9, with lunch at Rudyâs. Early booking special, $105 per person.
*Visit Broadway and see JERSEY BOYS and have lunch at Oscarâs at the famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Wednesday, December 5. Depart the Senior Center at 9:15 am; cost is $193 per person.
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Overnight Trips
*FUTURE TRIPS include a 3-day trip to Pennsylvania Dutch countryside and visit the King Tut exhibit in Philadelphia, July 25â27; an 8-day tour of Scotland, August 22â30; and an Atlantic Canada Cruise September 3â8. Trip booklets are available at the front desk.
Menu For Week of
April 23-27
Reservations must be made
3 days in advance.
 Monday: April 23: BBQ beef, coleslaw, mixed vegetables, hamburger bun, fruit cocktail.
 Tuesday: April 24: Maryland crab cake, scalloped potato, french cut green beans, tartar sauce, wheat dinner roll, apricot halves.
Wednesday: Chicken noodle soup with crackers, cold cut grinder with turkey salami, turkey, cheese and mayonnaise, coleslaw, pickle, pistachio pudding with whipped topping.
Thursday: Yankee pot roast with gravy, mashed potato, mixed vegetables, seedless rye bread, birthday cake.
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Monday: April 30: Crunchy fish fillet, mashed sweet potatoes, bean & carrot blend, tartar sauce, seedless rye bread, diet fruited Jell-O with whipped topping.
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Activities Schedule,
April 23â27
Monday: AM pinochle, hatha yoga, exercise, PM computer classes, chorus group.
Tuesday: AM pinochle, country-western line dancing; PM Tai Chi & Chi Kung, walking for fitness, computer classes, crafts.
Wednesday: AM exercise; PM Travel Seminar, bingo, crafts.
Thursday: AM Breakfast Club, hatha yoga, cards; PM walking for fitness, board games.
Friday: AM advanced mah jongg, sewing, quilting, PM movie time, knitting, cards.
Remember, you must call at least one day in advance to book a ride, 270-4310; the Senior Bus, 748-2511.