SENIOR NEWS

By LINDA BAUER

Published: May 19, 2006 12:00 am

SENIOR NEWS

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 the 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 65Â¢ each way for the Sand Hill Plaza trip, 75Â¢ 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

*The center is closed on Memorial Day, May 29.

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*REMINDERS: Call the Senior Center or stop for information or reservations for the various trips that are being offered. Come to the center for overnight trip booklets.

*Join LINDA CASEY for some ART CLASSES on Thursdays at 1 pm. Linda has had her work published in Connecticut Magazine. Join her for some quality lessons!

*ETHEL KAUFMAN is at the Senior Center on Mondays at 1 pm to lead a CHORUS GROUP. Come enjoy some festive music with your friends.

*CRAFT LASSES are every other Tuesday at 1 pm with RITA STEINER.

*Join DONNA BETTS every Friday at 10:30 am and CREATE A QUILT.

*A day of chance at MOHEGAN SUN on Tuesday, May 30, which includes $10 food coupon, two $5 pull tabs. Depart at 8 am; cost is $26.

*CRAZY FOR COOPERSTOWN is on Wednesday and Thursday, June 7â8; depart at 7:30 am. Visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Fenimore Museum, and Farmersâ Museum. Lunch at the famous historical Otesaga Hotel. Cost per person is $249 single; $199 double; and $189 triple, which includes deluxe motorcoach transportation.

*THE RICKY & LUCY SHOW is at Chez Josef in Agawam, Mass., on June 7. The bus will leave the Senior Center at 8:45. Cost per person is $68. Stop in at the Senior Center or call for a reservation or additional information.

*BALLROOM DANCE LESSONS, Thursday, June 8, 15, 22, and 29, from 4 to 5 pm, $28 per person ($7 per hour). Join Joseph & Nonnie Williams and dance the fox trot, waltz, cha-cha and more. Must attend all 4 classes. Space is limited. Call to sign up.

*See JIM NABORS at MOHEGAN SUN on Tuesday, June 13. The price is $65 and includes lunch voucher and two free bet coupons. Departure is 8:15 am.

*AARP DRIVING CLASSES will be June 19 and 20, from 1 to 5 pm. The cost is $10, payable on the day of the class. Call to sign up.

*ALL ABOARD on the Belle of Brattleboro for a cruise of New Englandâs longest river. Leave the Senior Center at 7 am, on Friday, July 7, for Putney, Vt. The cost is $76.

*Travel to the Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville on Tuesday, July 18, for a POLKA FEST. The cost is $58, and departure is 10 am. Enjoy a family style lunch of Polish food accompanied by the rousing music of Dick Pillar and his Polkabration Band.

*DATE CHANGES for Westchester Dinner Theater are Hot Mikado is changed from July 14 to September 14 and Full Monty is changed from September 14 to October 26.

*TRAVEL TO THE ISLANDS at Camp Conri Lodge in Ashford, Monday to Friday, July 24â28. For $190 per person enjoy three meals a day, physical, spiritual, and social activities, crafts, bible study, fishing, talent night, boating, and bingo.

Menu For Week of

May 22-26

Reservations must be made three days in advance.

Meals are subject to change.

Monday, May 22: Hearty chicken stew, egg noodles, broccoli florets, buttermilk biscuit, apple juice, butterscotch pudding with whipped topping;

Tuesday, May 23: Roast pork loin with gravy, rosemary roasted potatoes, California blend vegetables, 100% whole wheat bread, seasonal fresh fruit;

Wednesday: Cheese baked ziti, sausage, cauliflower, parmesan cheese, garlic bread, apricot halves;

Thursday: Roast beef with gravy, scalloped potato, Oriental blend vegetables, seedless rye bread, birthday cake;

Friday: Memorial Day Special: Turkey hot dogs on roll, chili, potato salad, pickle chips, mustard and ketchup, apple pie.

Also, for planning aheadâ

Monday, May 29: Closed Memorial Day;

Tuesday, May 30: Mushroom barley soup, unsalted crackers, hot open roast beef sandwich on enriched bread with beef gravy, garden peas, chilled pears.

Activities Schedule,

May 22â26

Monday: AM pinochle, hatha yoga, exercise, PM chorus group;

Tuesday: AM pinochle, country-western line dancing, PM bowling (at Brookfield Lanes), crafts;

Wednesday: AM pinochle, exercise; PM bingo, crafts;

Thursday: AM pinochle, hatha yoga, bowling, cards;

Friday: AM advanced mah jongg, sewing, quilting, PM knitting, cards.

Remember, you must call at least one day in advance to book a ride, 270-4310; the Senior Bus, 748-2511.

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Thank you for your service and thank you Brandon Moore. I come from a family of veterans that goes back decades. I am grateful for their sacrifice and have advocated for their rights, as an attorney. There is such a divide between the demands of military service and civilian everyday life that many do not appreciate. I watched my oldest brother manage the two cultures. In the current political climate, I want someone with a long track record of community advocacy that addresses the needs of the Newtown elderly, students, young families, the growing costs of everyday living expenses, gun violence, food insecurity, division amongst groups, long term strategizing for economic development and improvement of quality of life. I have lived in Newtown five years and still do not know all there is to know in order to address the needs of neighbors. Michelle has lived in Newtown for sixteen years and has a record of fighting for the needs of the entire community. At this moment in our existence that is the type of fighter that we need and that is why I am grateful for Brandon Moore's service but my family and I support Michelle Ku and hope that she will be the State Representative and that Brandon Moore will be involved in moving the needs of the Newtown community forward, with the rest of us learning the needs of the community.

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