WHAT'S COOKING SENIOR LUNCH PROGRAM

The Senior Lunch Program is designed to help keep seniors healthy with a well-balanced meal and to enhance socialization. We have 11 meal sites that you can visit in Yellowstone County.

In the rural community, we serve lunch in Custer, Worden, Huntley, Shepherd, Broadview, and Laurel. In Billings we have 5 locations: Alliance 1505 Ave D, Billings Community Center, South Park Senior Center, King of Glory Church, and our Billings Heights location at 935 Lake Elmo Dr. Serving days, and specific addresses are listed below with contact phone numbers for you to make your reservation. Call the day before by noon to reserve your meal.

For Billings and Laurel Meal Sites, we offer either the hot meal of the day or a featured salad. In July, our featured salad will be a Club Salad with Buttermilk Ranch Dressing. Then in August, our featured salad will be an Oriental Chicken Salad with Honey Mustard Dressing.

For activities to keep your mind sharp and to have some fun, there are a wide range of activities like Bingo, Pinochle, Bridge, Rummy, Mexican Train, Rummikub and Shut the Box. There are also painting classes, and many Exercise Classes. These activities are offered at different locations throughout the county. Please call a location near you for more information on activities.

Come visit a meal site near you for a nutritious meal, participate in an activity, and meet some new friends!

I’m at home sitting in my recliner reflecting on a recent event in which I attended at Alliance. I keep questioning myself on whether or not I should send this, but here it is.

I’m talking about the Mother’s Day Luncheon. When I arrived, there was a place set for me. The tables were decorated with beautiful placemats and pink napkins. It was so festive and welcoming.

The staff all were wearing matching funny t-shirts, and as usual, also wearing big smiles. It was announced that the gentlemen we usually see gathered around a table together were going to be our waiters. What fun!

The meal was absolutely delicious, and as I sat there I was aware of the sound of everyone visiting and laughing. I just felt blessed to be a part of that gathering. Had I not come, it would have been a very quiet holiday, as most holidays are since I don’t have family here now. It made me wonder how many of the other attendees felt the same way about it as I did.

The guests at my table were such fun. We just laughed and laughed together. It feels so good to just laugh out loud. We don’t do enough of that!

I can’t say enough about the staff that greets us every day. What a wonderful group of dedicated people. They make it so clear to all of us that they are there because they love being there and they make us feel so welcome and special.

I’ve met such wonderful people that I never would have known if it weren’t for Alliance. As I listen to their stories, I realize I’m sitting among true Warriors as we all navigate our way through these wonderful Golden Years of ours.

In closing, I just want you all to know how much we appreciate you all, and thank you for just being you, and being there for us.

Thank you.

P.S. Right now the trees are blooming and I noticed that, as I walked across the parking lot, I was being showered with little white flower petals. The parking lot was totally sprinkled with them. It seemed fitting as it felt like we were being welcomed to Alliance.