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Plum Senior Community Center

499 Center - New Texas RD.

Plum, PA 15239

Welcome to Plum Senior Community Center our area’s expanding focal point for all the lively senior adults in the community. We want to make you feel enthusiastic about this visit and hope you’ll return many times. Our folks are friendly and we strive to make the entire experience the very same.

If you don’t find an activity that’s of particular interest to you- and there are a lot of interesting ways to spend time here- you may be able to start something new. Our office staff will be glad to take a reading on your idea.

We have over 1700 people registered with us for various purposes, most of them helpful in one way or another not only to us but to the community. Join us, try to exercise a little patience, and find out for yourself that there is fun and satisfaction among us, your new friends.

Mission Statement

The Plum Senior Community Center is a focal point where people 55 and over have access to traditional senior services with an opportunity to socialize and invest their time in the community and each other.

Vision Statement

To be a haven for individuals to grow, stay healthy, find companionship

Please remember to start your visit to the Center by stopping at the Greeter's’ desk

What days are we closed during 2008-2009

New years day

Martin Luther King Day

Good Friday `

Memorial Day

Fourth of July Holiday

Labor Day

Thanksgiving

Day after Thanksgiving

Christmas

What about snow days? Please listen to local radio and television stations for cancellation notices. If you need help call the center (412-795-2330); We try to be here or at least to monitor the answering machine. We’re sorry but if the power is out, the phones will not work.

If Pittsburgh schools are closed, OPT will not run. Tune in to school-closings on radio or TV for closing information, or log onto cancellations.com, enter zip code.

Hours of Operation

Monday-Friday, 8:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.

Phone Numbers

412-795-2330, 412/795-2339

412-795-2342 (meals and transportation)

724-335-3699 (New Kensington only)

412-573-0057 (TDD service for deaf)

412-795-4199 (Fax)

Office Staff

Executive Director Nina Segelson

Assistant Director, Information and Referral Coordinator Earlene Wolfe

Center Coordinator Chuck Mossburg

Bookkeeper George Carabin

Administrative Assistant Linda Boyer

Food Service Coordinator Toni Franco

History

Plum Senior Community Center has been in operation since 1980, helping older adults and their families make the most of their opportunities. The Center was also responsible for bringing federally subsidized housing for seniors into the community. The 36-unit facility, built next door to the Plum Senior Center, is the first of its kind in Plum Borough. We have expanded twice by adding new rooms, and we are ADA-compliant in all areas. .

Important Events

Birthday Luncheons – Joint monthly celebrations among members.

Monthly Advisory Council Meetings- Every Second Mondays, all members invited to attend.

Valentine’s Party

Volunteer Banquet- honoring all who have volunteered 75 or more hours in the previous year.

Senior Center Week and Older American’s Month in May (honoring the 85 and over)

Health Screening- flu shots, weekly blood pressure, health screenings and information

Halloween Party- late October, provided by Plum High School GLA and friends.

Holiday Party-In December

Some of the things happening here…

Congregate Lunch Program- Please join us by calling 412-795-2342 (or one of our other numbers) by noon the day before to order a meal. We ask for a donation of $1.50. If you need transportation to and/or from the center, you may schedule it at the same time. Please place any donations into the wooden box at the greeter's desk.

Activity Fee Donation: We ask for a $1.00 donation for each event you participate in. Donations help the Center's operating expenses. Thank you. Please place any donations into the wooden box at the greeter's desk.

Continental Breakfast – Coffee/Tea 50 cents per cup, Dononts-50 cent donation per donont

Home-Delivered Meals Program- Meals for home-bound elderly are available. Call 412-795-2330. We ask for a donation of $10.00/Week, or $2.50 per day. See Toni

Transportation- You can register at the senior center for the shared-ride senior transportation systems ACCESS and OPT and for the PAT senior bus pass. See Linda after 1 pm Monday to Friday

IF you are 60 years or older and registered with the county, you may be eligible for OPT, Older Persons’ Transportation shared rides including “grocery shopping” “social/recreation,” and “nutrition” trips to and from the center. Medical transportation is also available if needed (ages 65 and older, 2 per month; age 60-64, special permission each time.) To sign up for a social/recreation trip, see the newsletter, the sign-up boards, or our Center Coordinator for days and times.

You must be 65 to apply for ACCESS, the state-sponsored, shared-ride system. Tickets for ACCESS can be obtained by mail (We have order blanks) or at the downtown ACCESS office.

Tickets for OPT are sold here at the center. See Greeter or Linda after 1pm Monday to Friday

For Ticket information, call 412- 795-2330 Plum 412-562-5385 Downtown

Volunteer Opportunities

The Plum Senior Center is run on volunteer power. Perhaps you could help with an activity such as driving for Home-Delivered Meals, instructing an art or craft, serving the Center’s meals, reading to elementary school students or telephone reassurance to the frail and elderly. Each volunteer records his own hours of service on our volunteer sign up sheet located at the greeters’ desk. All volunteers with 75 Hours or more of service are invited to our annual banquet in their honor. We’d love to have you join our “family”.

Information and Assistance

Earlene, our information specialist can give you information about programs such as tax, utility, and garbage rebates, income tax preparation, PACE applications, Apprise (medical insurance counseling) SSI and food stamps, PAT bus passes, ACCESS and OPT senior transportation, handicapped parking permits, reduced license fees, energy assistance, and Neighborhood Legal Services.

Trips

The Center schedules several trips each month within Allegheny County, to various shopping centers as well as local attractions such as Carnegie Science Center, Heinz Regional History Center, and Phipps Conservatory.

Trips out of Allegheny County are available through our Trip Coordinator. Information on the upcoming offerings is found on the clip boards outside of the Kitchen door. See Chuck for more information.

Prime Time Health & Fitness

Tailored for older adults, this program focuses on strengthening and endurance, flexibility, cardio vascular and functional fitness training. Adults 60 and older who are healthy or working on renewing health are excellent consumers for this program in which individuals work within their limitations. Water Aerobics and other fitness classes like Yoga and Tai Chi are offered periodically. (See Coleen,our instructor, or Chuck for more information on these as well as a new program for Highmark subscribers)

What keeps us Going ?……You!

The Plum Senior Community Center is run in part by grants from the Allegheny County Department of Aging and Plum Borough. Another means of helping us defray costs and to keep the center growing is through individual contributions. Once a year, we ask for a contribution from each member to ensure the continuation of services at your senior center. We also display a Memorial Wreath each Holiday Season to remember your loved ones.

The Center is also a United Way donor option designee. Please ask the office staff for information on how your family and friends can choose to designate a United Way pledge to the Center. Our United Way Contributor Choice Number is 297.

Aside from grants and contributions, the Center also appreciates charitable gifts. Quite simply, these ‘gifts’ in the form of specific items or monetary bequest, can serve only to benefit Plum Senior Community Center.

These grants and contributions do meet many of our expenses, but they fall short of meeting all of our needs. We need your donations to keep our program running. We suggest a daily donation of $1.50 for the congregate meal as well as for the participation in any of the centers activities. An appropriate container for your donation is located at he Greeter’s desk where you sign in, others are found throughout the Center.

With these various gifts and donations, the Center can continue to grow and develop into a facility which offers a warm and hospitable atmosphere for the adults in the area.

Thank you for Helping!

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412-795-2330 Fax 412-795-4199

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