Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multipurpose 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: Oct 08, 2010 12:00 am

Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multipurpose 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 203-270-4310.

You may drop in at the Senior Center 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 Walmart Route 6). Cost is 65Â¢ each way for the Sand Hill Plaza trip, 75Â¢ each way for out of town. Call 203-748-2511 TWO DAYS IN ADVANCE to book a ride and get the out-of-town Friday schedule.

This Weekâs Programs

*Enjoy an elegant lunch at the famous Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, Mass., visit the Crane Museum of Papermaking, and taste seven different wines at Furnace Brook Winery on Wednesday, October 13. Depart at 7:15, ETA at 6 pm in Newtown. Cost is $74 based on 40â52 people.

*Bingo will be Thursday, October 14, at 1 pm. Sign up for lunch on bingo days.

*Lunch and Learn series sponsored by Masonicare continues on Friday, October 15, at noon, with keeping yourself safe in the winter months.

*Newtown Senior Center is accepting donations for the White Elephant Room for the Fall Bazaar. Bring in your treasures.

Upcoming Programs

*Annual Fall Bazaar open house preview will be Thursday, October 21, from 6 to 8 pm. Regular hours will be Friday and Saturday, October 22 and 23, 9 am to 4 pm, and Sunday, October 24, 9 am to noon.

*Halloween Party Bingo will be Thursday, October 28, at 1 pm. Refreshments will be served and a prize for most original costume will be given. Also sign up for lunch.

*Informational meeting for Health Net members only on Tuesday, November 16, at 1:30 pm. Benefit changes for 2011 will be discussed and questions will be answered.

Day Trips

*Villa Bianca Halloween Bash, featuring a family-style luncheon, Halloween music, and magical entertainment will be on Tuesday, October 26, from 11:30 am to 2 pm. Costumes are welcome. Cost is $29.95.

*Oktoberfest, a Bavarian day of feasting, dancing music, activities, open bar, and entertainment will be at Huntâs Landing in Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, October 27. Depart at 9:30; cost is $80.

*On Wednesday, November 3, depart for Mohegan Sun at 8 am. Cost is $31; $15 food coupon is included.

*A tasty Thanksgiving at Mount Haven Resort on Thursday, November 18, includes music, comedy, singing, full breakfast buffet, complete buffet dinner, and four-hour open bar. Cost is $73; depart at 9 am.

*Save the date for UConn Womenâs Basketball vs Ohio State on Sunday, December 19, at Madison Square Garden. Departure time and cost to be announced at a later date.

Recurring Activities

*YOGA classes are Monday and Thursday at 10:30 am.

*Billiards room; poker/card room; ping pong; and Wii bowling, golf, tennis, and baseball.

*Wii BOWLING, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons.

*MAKE CARDS FOR OUR TROOPS every Tuesday from 10 am to noon and 1 to 3 pm.

*BEGINNERS BRIDGE LESSONS on Wednesday, 10 am with Mary Matern.

Monday: AM hatha yoga, exercise, PM chorus group, art class.

Tuesday: AM line dancing, cards for troops; PM Tai Chi, pinochle, poker, gin rummy etc, Wii bowling.

Wednesday: AM bridge, exercise; PM pinochle, poker, gin rummy etc.

Thursday: AM hatha yoga, pinochle, poker, gin rummy etc; PM Scrabble.

Friday: AM Mah Jongg, quilting, exercise, chair yoga; PM knitting/crocheting.

Menu For Week Of

October 11â15

Monday: Closed in observance of Columbus Day

Tuesday: Caribbean chicken, rice and beans, broccoli cuts, oat bread, pineapple juice, seasonal fresh fruit.

Wednesday: Greek lemon soup, haddock with spinach and tomato, brown rice, garden peas, wheat bread, coffee cake.

Thursday: Cheese lasagna, sausage, Caesar salad with croutons and Caesar dressing, garlic bread, diet fruited Jell-O with whipped topping.

And for planning ahead â

Monday, October 18: Tomato basil soup with crackers, hot open turkey sandwich on wheat bread with gravy, steak fries with ketchup, coleslaw, vanilla pudding with whipped topping.

Tuesday, October 19: Sweet and sour meatballs over egg noodles, cut green beans, herbed breadstick, chocolate cookie.

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I want to clarify something that was not clear in my letter. Newtown DOES have an affordable housing plan, put together with the aid of the Council of Governments (COG) in 2022 and approved by the LC that year. The strategies in that plan are to "encourage", "support", "explore", "promote" various aspects of state and local affordable housing programs. Those strategies are largely repeated in the Housing Chapter of the Plan of Conservation and Development being finalized now. Newtown needs to measure its performance against those strategies and refine them to reflect the current situation and evaluate whether we are eligible for a moratorium on 8-30(g) projects if we have met the criteria. It's a question of being more specific and more rigorous in what we as a community would like to see to address this real and serious need, rather than to be on our heels when a developer proposes a project on their terms. An independent look outside the application process would be best for that. Thank you. Peter.

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I on Glover Ave. walk my two Labs every morning and evening. Drivers are constantly cutting me off at the shopping center entrance and other driveways. There is no understanding of pedestrians rights. Drives make left turns onto Queen when its forbidden. Most cars cruse right thru the crosswalks without stopping for pedestrians. The Police have not issued one citation nor even a warming for crosswalk violations. The situation is out of control and now a loved resident, Pete, and a pet, Coby have been killed. Time for a plan. The problem is not Intersections, nor traffic, the problem 98s drivers and lack of enforcement. The plan need to create a culture that drivers obey speed limits and honor pedestrians right of ways. Isn't that the job of the Police Department and The Police Commission, to protect Newtowns citizens. This is a call to action.

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