Senior News
Seniors can get a tasty meal for $1.75 now that a boxed lunch program has begun.
Senior Center Director Sharron Brown said the program began this week and is funded with federal stimulus money. Each weekday, 50 boxes are delivered to the center at 305 East Front Street. A menu for the month has been distributed and on Wednesday a line formed to get boxes filled with tuna salad on a roll with lettuce and tomato, potato salad, fruit punch, fruit cocktail and milk.
Some seniors will be absent for the meatloaf sandwich special on July 16, because they are going to see President Barack Obama at Rutgers University. They were invited to attend by Assemblyman Jerry Green. Obama is coming to New Jersey to bolster Gov. Jon Corzine’s re-election campaign.
Meanwhile, the knitting corner at the center was very busy Wednesday. Josiebelle Johnson was working on a child’s sweater with an intricate “Diamonds and Bobbles” pattern. Johnson said she likes to keep several projects going at once, so if she becomes bored with one, she can just pick up another.
Down the street at 400 East Front Street, the new senior center had its windows splattered in a paintball attack. Seniors who saw the images on Plaintalker’s digital camera were appalled to think anyone would vandalize the new center.
A new sign marks the portion of the building reserved for veterans. No date has been set for the big move that seniors are eagerly anticipating.
--Bernice Paglia
Senior Center Director Sharron Brown said the program began this week and is funded with federal stimulus money. Each weekday, 50 boxes are delivered to the center at 305 East Front Street. A menu for the month has been distributed and on Wednesday a line formed to get boxes filled with tuna salad on a roll with lettuce and tomato, potato salad, fruit punch, fruit cocktail and milk.
Some seniors will be absent for the meatloaf sandwich special on July 16, because they are going to see President Barack Obama at Rutgers University. They were invited to attend by Assemblyman Jerry Green. Obama is coming to New Jersey to bolster Gov. Jon Corzine’s re-election campaign.
Meanwhile, the knitting corner at the center was very busy Wednesday. Josiebelle Johnson was working on a child’s sweater with an intricate “Diamonds and Bobbles” pattern. Johnson said she likes to keep several projects going at once, so if she becomes bored with one, she can just pick up another.
Down the street at 400 East Front Street, the new senior center had its windows splattered in a paintball attack. Seniors who saw the images on Plaintalker’s digital camera were appalled to think anyone would vandalize the new center.
A new sign marks the portion of the building reserved for veterans. No date has been set for the big move that seniors are eagerly anticipating.
--Bernice Paglia
posted by Bernice at 2:36 PM
6 Comments:
Lunch for Seniors ???
Where do I [a senior] sign up ??
That area has been targeted with paintballs before. About six months ago there was damage at the blue townhouse complex along East Front. What really surprises me is that no one at the new center has attended to the damage.
It was fairly fresh when I took photos Monday morning at about 6 AM. Un-burst paintballs were all over the sidewalk. Thankfully the damage seems confined to the glass and not into the cement of the building. It can be scraped off or taken off with a solvent. But ... why haven't they? Very odd when they're showing the condos inside.
To 5:39 p.m. - You can join the senior center if you are 55 or older. Go to 305 East Front Street and sign up. There is a fee, but you will get the newsletter and many other benefits. I joined when I turned 55 16 years ago but I have still been too busy to spend a lot of time at the center. The members are nice and I wish I had more spare time to hang out with them.
The condo building has space reserved for seniors and veterans, which the city will have to pay for, in terms of condo fees. When will it open? Why does the mayor continue to say its a senior center building when its really a condo building? How much are the condo fees that the city will have to pay? When will it open, can you be more specific?
And I bet the seniors voted for the mayor because of the "opening" of the senior center.
Hopefully, they will have learned that the mayor does not deliver - for them or anyone in Plainfield - and will vote accordingly.
Why is federal stimulus money paying for lunches for anyone?
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