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

By LINDA BAUER

Published: Feb 09, 2007 12:00 am

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 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 Senior Center will be closed on February 19 for Presidentsâ Day.

*CASINO GAMBLING AT MOHEGAN SUN on February 13, snow date is February 15. Depart at 8:30 am; cost is $27 per person, which includes motor coach transportation, $10 food coupon, and $10 free bet on the big wheel.

*On Wednesdays at 10:30 AM make CARDS FOR THE TROOPS serving overseas. Every month they have been sent out.

*AARP INCOME TAX ASSISTANCE available on Mondays only through April 9, 9 am to noon by appointment only. Bring last yearâs tax return and any other pertinent information. Call 270-4310 to set up an appointment.

*BABY CONTEST FOR MARCH. Bring in your baby picture by the second week in February. We will have a contest in March to guess whoâs picture is who.

*Join us every Wednesday at 10:30 am to make cards to send to the troops serving overseas.

AARP DRIVER SAFETY PROGRAM will be on Thursday and Friday, March 22â23 from 12:30 to 4:30 pm. Must attend both classes. The cost is $10 per person payable on the day of the class.

*Newtown Social Services will be taking heating applications for deliverable fuels for oil, propane, and kerosene. Assistance is for delivery until March. Call Ann Piccini at 270-4330 for more information or an application for Yankee Gas or CL&P.

*FOR WEATHER CLOSINGS, watch channel 3. The center will close if the Town of Newtown closes, although classes and lunch may be canceled.

Day Trips

*Wednesday, February 28, at Westchester Dinner Theater see Nunsensations. Depart 9:30 am from the Senior Center. $71 per person.

*Itâs Showtime with TONY KENNYâS IRELAND, Thursday, March 15, WITH LUNCH at Venus De Milo in Swansea, Mass. Cost is $85 per person. Depart The Senior Center at 7 am.

*Madame-Butterfly will be presented by the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center on 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.

Overnight Trips

*FUTURE TRIPS include a 3-day trip to Pennsylvania Dutch countryside and visit the King Tut exhibit, July 25â27; an 8-day tour of Scotland, August 22â30; and an Atlantic Canada Cruise September 3â8. Trip booklets are now available at the front desk.

Menu For Week of

February 12â16

Reservations must be made

3 days in advance.

Monday: February 12: No lunch served today.

Tuesday: February 13: Beef tips with mushroom gravy; parsley boiled potatoes; green peas, whole wheat bread, seasonal fresh fruit;

Wednesday: Valentineâs Day Special: Chicken cordon bleu, rice pilaf, broccoli florets, Italian bread, Valentineâs day cake;

Thursday: Chicken quarter with garlic sauce, rice and beans, Italian blend vegetables, dinner roll, grape juice, mandarin oranges.

Also, for planning aheadâ

Monday: February 19: Closed for Presidentsâ Day

Tuesday: February 20: Chinese New Year Special: Stir fry beef & broccoli, fried rice, Oriental blend vegetables, oatmeal bread mandarin oranges.

Activities Schedule,

February 12â16

Monday: AM AARP income tax assistance, pinochle, hatha yoga, exercise, PM computer classes, chorus group.

Tuesday: AM Mohegan Sun, pinochle, country-western line dancing; PM Cards for the Troops, Tai Chi & Chi Kung, walking for fitness, computer classes, crafts.

Wednesday: AM exercise; PM bingo, crafts.

Thursday: AM Breakfast Club, hatha yoga, cards; PM walking for fitness.

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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How do you propose tapping the brakes, Dave? 8-30g already trumps any local regulations- you don't have a brake pedal to push. Brookfield, Trumbull and now Ridgefield have a clear case for a moratorium based on the development (thanks to 8-30g) that has already occurred. I don't see a clear case for Newtown to request a moratorium... yet.

Backs Moratorium On Dense Development Applications

Nobody is suggesting shutting the doors on new neighbors. What neighboring towns are doing, and what we should be doing too, is to tap the brakes on all of the multi-family residential development proposals so that we can spend 6 months updating our regulations such that if you want to build dense residential housing here, XX percent of it needs to be affordable (we will never make any headway on increasing our percentage of affordable housing otherwise, short of 8-30g), and the rest needs to be done in as low an impact manner as possible. Low impact on traffic, health & safety, the environment and on the cost of town services.

Hey, there you go! Richard solved it. Thanks, that seems so easy- we'll just get rid of the 2nd amendment and the Supreme Court. Seriously, the 2nd amendment doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The Supreme Court doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The problem is not the tools, but the criminals & the mental illness. The state of Connecticut seems to be focused on the tools, like Richard, while ignoring the users of those tools.

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Ned, please familarize yourself with 8-30G, and then please share the unique flaws that may be helpful in formulating a denial An 8-30g project can be denied only on very narrow grounds – i.e., if it presents health, safety or other concerns that exceed a town’s need for affordable housing. According to the TOG website, “projects cannot be rejected for incompatibility with a Town’s Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD); density; traffic congestion; height; aesthetics; concerns of neighbors or the community; and failure to comply with local zoning regulations.” 8-30g proposals are rarely denied by planning and zoning officials because the burden of proof on appeal is on the town. Appeals are costly, but a municipality can be successful in a court case if it has sufficiently established that the concerns leading to denial are factual and substantive.

P&Z Should Reject Vessel Proposal

The town should certainly measure its performance against the statewide strategies. Unless I missed it I only know of one small cluster of homes that would meet the affordable housing program. Given the 500 or so new units being added in the last 10 years I think that 4/500 would not meet the metric to allow for a moratorium. I mean, fingers crossed for a Christmas miracle but I suspect we will see a few 8-30's sent our way in a method to avoid the Nimby mob. Thanks, Nimby mob.

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