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 mini-bus 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 Week’s Programs

*TAI CHI  & CHI KUNG will offer two classes on Tuesdays. The first is from 1 to 2 pm but is full. The second class is from 2:15 to 3:15 pm. Only $1 per class so join now. Steve Kurimai will instruct the gentle arts of movement that promote mind-body connection, and improve balance, coordination and relaxation.

*BALLROOM DANCING class will continue on Thursdays from 4 to 5 pm. Cost is $7 per class or $28 for a four-week session. No partner is needed to take this class.

*Sign up for COMPUTER CLASSES on Mondays and Tuesdays from 3 to 4:30 pm.

 

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REMINDERS:

*HAWAIIAN HULA LESSONS on Thursday, August 10, at 1 pm. Bring your grass skirt or wear one of ours and join Jasmine for a lesson. Lots of fun and good exercise too. Don’t be shy. For men and women.

*HAWAIIAN HULA BINGO PARTY – Come in Hawaiian attire, dance the hula, and win at bingo. Great prizes and fun for all. We will have a limbo contest. Call the center to sign up.

*The tax assessors office will offer a TAX ASSESSOR WORKSHOP on Thursday, August 31, 1 to 2 pm, to reevaluate your tax benefits. Bring your questions.

*ANNUAL HARVEST BAZAAR is Friday, October 20, from 1 am to 4:30 pm, and Saturday, October 21, from 10 am to 2 pm. Those who would like to volunteer to bake or make items, call the center.

*BLOOD PRESSURE checks on second Thursday of each month or the last Wednesday of the month.

*SWEET HART BUS — Call 748-2511 for reservations and 830-4399, their direct line, to go home so you don’t have to wait at doctor’s office. Also, Saturday service between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm for weekend appointments or shopping.

*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.

OVERNIGHT TRIPS

*MAINE RAIL & SAIL — From September 26 to 28 enjoy a boat cruise on Penobscot Bay, lunch at Schoolhouse Restaurant in Portland; dinner at Rockland Trade Winds, Lobster Capital of Maine; tour Maine Lighthouse Museum, Farnsworth Art Museum and The Wyeth Building, and after a buffet breakfast, board the Maine Eastern Railroad’s “Lobster Land Train” for a scenic train ride through Wiscasset, Bath and Brunswick. The cost is $349 for double, $459 single, and $339 triple (includes two breakfasts and two dinners, including one lobster choice dinner).

*Enjoy the excitement of LAS VEGAS, the thrill of casino gambling, and entertainment around the clock from Sunday, October 8, to Friday, October 13. Tour includes roundtrip airfare, accommodations for five nights at THE FLAMINGO HILTON, three free show admissions, two day trips, and other city discounts. Cost for 65 and older: $689 pp double and $869 single; and for under 64: $749 pp double and $934 single.

DAY TRIPS

*See Full Monty at WESTCHESTER DINNER THEATER on September 14.

*CRUISIN CALMLY ALONG. On August 23, depart at 8 am from the Senior Center to Holyoke, Mass., visit the Wistariahurst Museum, a 26-room mansion, and have lunch at Delaney House. After lunch relax with a cruise along the Connecticut River on the Lady Bea, sailing between Holyoke and Northampton. Cost is $70.

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Menu For Week of

August 7-11

Reservations must be made three days in advance.

Meals are subject to change.

Sandwich wraps are available on Friday. Call three days in advance to order. The cost is $2.

Monday, August 7: Hot dog on bun, baked beans, sauerkraut, marinated cucumber salad, mustard and ketchup, seasonal fresh fruit;

Tuesday, August 8: Butter crumb fish, tartar sauce, baked potato with sour cream, broccoli florettes, seedless rye bread, pistachio pudding with whipped topping;

Wednesday: Shrimp-corn chowder, unsalted crackers, turkey grinder on a club roll with lettuce and tomato, mayonnaise, carrot-raisin salad, cinnamon apples;

Thursday: Tex-Mex chicken, rice & beans, fiesta corn, corn bread, orange juice, diet fruited Jell-O with whipped topping.

Also, for planning ahead—

Monday, August 14: BBQ chicken quarter, macaroni salad, three bean salad, buttermilk biscuit, orange juice, ice cream cup;

Tuesday, August 15: Baked Virginia ham with pineapple glaze, scalloped potatoes, green peas, seedless rye bread, fruit cocktail.

 

Activities Schedule,

August 7-11

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

Tuesday: AM pinochle, country-western line dancing, PM Tai Chi & Chi Kung, computer classes, 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.