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Living Life After 50
February 2024
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Vol. 36, No. 12
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GOOD GAME — Mark Pinney, right, plays a game of mahjong with Frank Garro and Barb Pinney. Mahjong games are played Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the Senior Primelife Enrichment Center. Bridge games are Tuesday and Thursday, with euchre games daily. Photo by Lilli Dwyer.
Senior Primelife Enrichment Center
celebrates 20 years
LOOKING BACK — Norma Roose, right, and Vicki Johnson look over scrapbooks at the 20th anniversary celebration. Roose, a founding member of the senior center, also played piano for the attendees at the celebration. Photo provided by Nancy Gray.
at North Webster Community Center
By LILLI DWYER Staff Writer October 2023 marked the 20th anniversary of Senior Primelife Enrichment Center’s establishment in the North Webster Community Center. A luncheon was held in celebration. Norma Roose, who helped get the senior center started and will be turning 100 this year, played piano. Attendees were able to look through a scrapbook of newspaper clippings the senior center had been included in dating back to 2013. “We had an awful lot of people come in that maybe don’t come in anymore. We had some people bring in
their parents that can’t come in anymore. It was just a good way to commemorate. Twenty years is kind of a big step, especially being able to stay open during the pandemic and after,” said Director Nancy Gray. The senior center dates back to the early 2000s, a few years after the community center itself was established in a repurposed school building. “Larry Kinsey, Jerry Rhodes and Norma Roose, she was in on the beginning of it. We started out at the other end of the building and moved, I think, twice. ... They all just pitched in and worked hard and raised money on their own. Nothing in the building, as far as
I know, has ever been paid for by any taxes. This is all grants and donations, hard work, beating the bushes for the money, and it’s still that way today,” Gray said. In that time, the senior center has become a fixture of the North Webster Community Center. Seniors visit and engage with its many offerings every day. The senior center serves a hot lunch every day starting at 11:30 a.m. Euchre games are also played daily, with tournaments held the third Thursday of each month. Mahjong is Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Bridge is Tuesday and Thursday. The former school hallways are now a walking Continued on page 3
STEP BY STEP — Virginia Penn, front, makes use of the walking track with her grandson, Hendrix Starbuck, while Michael Duff listens to some tunes a few steps behind. Photo by Lilli Dwyer.
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