and it was once i don't know if any of you remember it or not as the initial school down on the nature road and i were going to make it into like i said a community center for all of peter's township and all are welcome we have a variety of programs that would be of interest to all the community one important one important part is going to be the senior lunches and i will introduce will first of all  day ok now that i goofed one time maybe i can do some more so right now though let's try to get back on track again and energy and you know lampy and she's going to tell us a little bit about what the area of the aging of washington county and how they have helped us get started like i mentioned norma thank you so much for having me here with you today and i certainly appreciate you inviting me and my agency to this wonderful show and we certainly hope to be a great part in the venetia heritage society in the very near future as you know we've been planning the kitchen facility so to speak with the there's an awful lot of work and a lot of planning that have gone into this beautiful kitchen that they have put up it certainly has come a long way and what we're planning on doing in the very near future is we're going to be doing a meal program twice a month and your meals will be prepared in cans berg senior center they will be satellited to vinnie chef and we hope to have him off a lot of people come in over there to eat this wonderful meal that we're going to be preparing for you in our centers we have nine centers right now that are established and we're happy to announce that we will be bringing you aboard as one of our satellite centers in the very near future and so again i'm very happy to be here on behalf of aging services of washington county also our county commissioners in the area agency on very good is there an age requirement for this age and for this these meals yes there is you must be sixty years of age or older to participate in the last your spouse is sixty years of age or older and you happen to be under sixty then you're eligible to take part in our senior program ok now do you charge for the meals we do not it's a suggested donation of a dollar fifty cents that if you feel as though that's what you want to donate fine if you do not want to participate in any donation there is absolutely no charge of all as i said it's just to suggest the donation and it's for all the community and that you can come there right now exactly and really our meals or what we do is we give you one third of the daily requirements of what you are required to keep you nutritionally sound and if you had to go to a restaurant and eat what we prepare for you it would be at least a six or seven dollar meal it's really very wonderful i'm sure you will try the one in washington and they all the same yes all of our menus are the same straight across the board we prepare the same meal for all of our centers every day once in a while we try to defer because maybe the meals or prepared in a different manner because maybe we didn't receive exactly what we were supposed to have for that particular day but great across the board there all the same so do you you don't have like meals on wheels or something like that delivered me i mean do we do our yes we do have a clue oh yes we do have a home delivered meals a matter of fact and six of our centers all through washington county that falls under my program and we do have mills on wheels for people that or homebound that can't get out that possibly there are two yr old or maybe they have no support system with them it's a very unique program we have many many clients on that program  would be certainly happy to take a referral for anyone that you feel would be in need of that program it's very very i have one in the township meals on wheels right you do have one right exactly the meals for peter's township is prepared from st david's start right that is not our program facing david's does a wonderful job they've been doing it for years and we usually don't like to go into a community where churches are already preparing for the home delivered me or the home delivered me yes but in some of our areas we do we do have home delivered meals they come out of six of our centers as i mentioned earlier in our conversation but if say they should need some help or something like that we would be available get them you would be absolutely they would have to be rethought referred through i n r which is refer only information they have a caseworker that comes out to their homes they interview them they see exactly what their needs are and they take it from there they send a caseworker out to see exactly what needs to be done exactly you know whether it be some type of support or whether it be a home delivery meal or if they can hope them up to a senior center with every we think that we can do whatever our services that we have rather they would suit that particular client you know well gee that's that's great to know that you know you can that we're starting something with the basics and that we can help a lot of people absolutely and how do you become eligible for the aid as i mentioned you have to be referred we have a toll free number that you can call and once you're referred to caseworkers assigned to you she comes out and she does and the fest months it's a lengthly assessment and at that point they decide exactly what your needs are  through conversation with a client and they take it from there they sign you to a caseworker and that's how you become eligible for our senior program ok now you've told us all about what the agency does  how can we be involved in that we consider as volunteers or something like gift for the program or something yes we do have volunteers in our program we have all types of volunteers we have volunteers a deliver a home deliver meals we have volunteers that work in our senior centers they do many many jobs the variety of things our volunteer program that we have that help deliver home delivered mills is absolutely wonderful it's very rewarding sometimes that person that delivers that home delivered meal to that client that might be the only time that they have any communication with someone in the outside world so it's a very very worthy program to me  that's my favorite program i'm sure that you can tell you see how one series i am about that and in addition to that our senior centers also we have volunteers that work in all of our senior centers well what do the volunteers do in in like what would they do down at our place ok many things you can help in your particular center you would be able to help set up the tables in the dining room for the meals you would be able to possibly wrap silverware maybe help prepare not prepare the meal but serve the meal once it's brought into you and then again there's always the cleanup and then there's a little bit of paperwork that is also involved with that so there's always something that you can do as a volunteer well i noticed up in washington when i was up there that they served you at the table exactly they do we can also work that out right now we're really in the talking stages of exactly what we're going to be doing in venetia because we just haven't got started as yet right we don't know how many people we're going to be participating so we're going to have to wait until we get in there and probably you know try different a few different programs to see exactly which one is going to see venetia but i'm sure that we'll be able to work something out well we're looking forward to it definitely yeah well now  crossroads we've lived there since one thousand nine hundred three and i have an interest i've always had an interest in history which took me through the community day program that the township has every year over  to the booth operated by peter's creek historical society so one thing led to another and then i found myself to be more and more active we have our monthly meetings that the family the community center which  served well since the beginnings of the society back in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven but the emphasis and the center of activity has changed over the years from finleyville to peter's township so therefore since our house is a wonderful i'm sure everybody would know of the eight hundred fifteen right house if you don't know it isn't because i didn't tell you we're looking for a community center that's in peter's township that would serve more of the center of our focus and so for that reason when i learned through sandy umbach who was really one of the prime movers to get this started developed this idea i thought well i'd like to become a part of that and it's been a learning experience a gratifying experience to work towards the formation of this i'm a human i were out in hickory chance of a new this past week and if any of you out there would like to know what a community center can do and how it successfully run operation benefits just go out there they have done a wonderful wonderful job so we hope to not necessarily emulate what they have done but we feel that the potential for success is great in peters township and i could i don't want to go on too long because i'd like to bring marlene in a little bit maybe i could if we bring marlene in a little bit if i could come back and tell you about some of the different areas in which we think the to her to society with the hoping to set up the community center and that's been at least four years ago and we've worked with sandy umbach she's gotten several grants to move this along and we're very grateful we're pleased to see angie coming in and developing the senior center and the lunch program and we also hope that we're going to have several groups using classes available to the public and other groups have contacted us we do have a wonderful theater area on top that we've developed and i know that dance and theater groups would appreciate using those facilities so we've come a long way and i know that the grand opening of the building is expected i believe in october so we're doing several fundraisers along those lines to  that and hopefully when up to over comes around we will have our grand opening i'm looking forward to that would have a big party that's right the most recent public outing that we had was a very nice car cruise over it all pro car agency right on route one team and i had had a similar activity for the peters creek a store called society in the backyard of the right house so i was pleased to go and to me that's an industry i don't know whether any of you out there have paid much attention to cars and car cruises and car shows but they're everywhere and we were successful in getting a little money as a result of that and perhaps invited back we can expand the idea a little bit it's so we've talked about the meetings at the meeting rooms and it would be a poll the public room as  an incentive i don't want to give out a number because i might not hit it right on the on the money but it's my understanding that if you have a public that you would like to invent invite people to attend  any of the existing buildings do charge rather significant amount of money to hold the event you know whether that's you know anything about the bill and we hope to do it is what i'm thinking  other people coming in will be more than happy to use the facilities there and because they are nice day to day to be our yes i don't want to let me too much time go by without mentioning others who have been very active in prior to my coming f i wouldn't have chosen those initials but they're there and what they did and i didn't know of the program till one day when i was passing the school on my way back from the right house i noticed these cars and trucks over there and curiosity went in and it turns out that they were work release prisoners if you will i don't want to give it a bad intonation at all but they did a very very good job of painting the all of the interior the whole building the whole building as it was it was quite a good job and playing off that to me a borrowed idea is every bit as good as when you think of yourself so i got them to do some work over at the right house so if i keep mentioning the right house i don't think i would injure any of my friends here on the panel by saying that we are and historic area of the township videoed down at the school and with the clayton spire with the one that took us around it was just last week so if you'll just be patient for a moment and we will show you some of the video there are other many other people who have helped on a more infrequent basis and i'm not going to try to name all of them because i'm sure omar forget to somebody  i do want to mention however the white lewis senior and his son the white have done all of the plumbing work for us and running the new gas line did all the plumbing in from the new kitchen and they have done very good work and very minimal prices for us news and we want to say thank you to them most think they deserve a lot of purchased the building you have been vacant for several years and breaking windows seem to have been a favorite pastime of some of the local kids i think  talking him up there were seventeen broken window and seventeen i mean seven over seventy broken window panes in the in the building so one of the first things we did was to get them  to thank clayton for the wonderful job he did on that interview and showing us all the things about our wonderful building and all the prospects that we have coming up in that and right now john who would like to give you a little rundown on some of the things that we are planning on doing and see what we're up to well i think the word planning is a little precocious perhaps but  plans are born of ideas and we're looking to involve as much of the community as possible one of the things that irma and i learned when we went out to hickory pennsylvania this past week was the way in which the activities have engaged the old classes they have reunions now they're fortunate to have class pictures of every class now the hickory school was high school initially and then it became an elementary school later we don't have that w s so we might not have as many pictures as we would otherwise but  let me just ask you the viewing audience if you have any pictures that would be of interest not only elementary school but high school or whatever in your personal collection if you would perhaps we could have seven get in touch with well either through the mail or lou kernan jr is the president you could contact him or i think the address would do fine and we would perhaps depending on the results we get maybe we could have reunions and in particular not only does it in gauge the public but it's frankly been a source of revenue they found a great response and we've in the limited time that i've been with the venetian heritage society we've had some excellent response from perhaps a smaller number but a larger number could potentially do even greater so we're looking for class pictures and also since we're following clayton spars fine delivery of what the building is currently i guess we don't really have any pictures of what the school itself looked like years ago so that would be kind of fun and you know if any of you are related to an architect and you have the elevations of the different floors or all we're trying to say is we're collecting information so no help is  appreciated something that i learned when i or my wife and i went out to boulder colorado for our older son lives he's married to a lady who  isn't happy if she isn't busy and she's got two children a house and all the rest but she decided to go into business for herself making pesto and she has this product which she calls the pesto manifesto and so where was she going to do this well of course if you're going to sell things to the public you better have department of health approval and they don't look too kindly on home cooks kitchens so found this place so approved and so she has her own embryonic business if you will and three others have their own separate businesses one of them is the boulder cheesecake company and yet another does gore main meals and so that's a source of income for the community center if we were to adopt that idea here and it's a very inexpensive way for  future business magnate to get started in a small way and it doesn't gauge the community so those are just a couple of ideas that i thought we could hope to hear about from some of you out art equipment writing and have you would get an individual prize everybody's got a price just a different magnitude it was just a fun day i think we made over close to eight hundred dollars with our raffles that particular day we also participated in a car cruise that frankly castro's all pro down on one team and i basically wasn't part of that my son was getting married that day but i understand that we also made over one thousand dollars that particular day and i'm involved with another fundraiser which i'd like to talk about right about that all their input this year the golf outing is one of our biggest fundraisers and the money that we raise goes to toward the building and grounds improvement we'd like to thank all of the people in the area outing is actually going to be held this year as it was last year or cherry golf club september seventeenth the shotgun time is ten am and we're using a scramble format that is the scramble for man well that means that they can still start playing at any particular hole and you know that for example you don't have to start at hole one i mean someone could be assigned another hole at eighteen and they still would simply go back in they pick up all the other holes so if you can start on three or eighteen or whatever but you can just write that depending on how many there are starting at one am to meet the right depending on how many golfers there are you know because you don't want to start them all at whole  it will go from ten am until probably two thirty three o'clock we'll have a cash bar reception after that from three to four and then dinner will follow it for we'll have lots of things going on we will  have various chinese options will have silent auctions we have a lot of donations from so many of the area merchants that we're very grateful for to invite all of our seniors to come out we have some very excellent golfers that take part in our senior games every year so possibly they might be interested in coming out and how can a worthy cause and also have a day of fun with you marlee we'd love that you know we also need hope spotters  we're and i'm going to get into this a little bit more detail with all of our sponsorships because we're very fortunate this year that we have a hole in one car all in one sponsor and actually all four of our par three will have  a hole in one great gifts attached to them wonderful and the cost yes what is the cost for that the cost of that for the an individual golfer is ninety dollars for for some it's three where would we suggest the golfers go to get their tickets well i tell you what we're going to put information through the chamber of commerce are going to be newsletters going out we're all ready on  they can call esther and i even have your name your telephone number ok they can contact you as well so they have a gravitar laces that they can go to to register and if they want to a registration form they simply have  if they don't choose to do that just simply send in your money and tell us how many people are going to be playing this is perhaps a sorry thing but i was pleased to learn that the four cheery golf facility is owned by vic d'arcy who's been a morning something was brought up something about a sponsorship went with them ok well we have several sponsorships that are available many of our sponsorships are already taken what is available is an event sponsor and just briefly tell you that that's the cost of that would be seven hundred fifty dollars which is a little high but that does allow that particular sponsor to have three horses we have a few contributing sponsorships left that permits one for some to play and again you're getting advertising in all of our literature we have a couple of tee box sponsorship still laughter that's one hundred dollars and you get your your name on a particular sign on the green or  again you can send send that information to the school or you can call us we'll be more than happy to give him a dozen golf balls would be a big help that would be great the wonderful i talked about several of our sponsorships being taken and i want to give credit where credit's to because our first place sponsor team sponsor was taken by my side these are second place sponsor is your company john and maybe you can tell us several drink cart sponsors this year which we're very pleased about we have the longest drive sponsor who is actually our commissioner and we have a cutting contest sponsored plan the sponsorship and i the first the major prize would be the car and then there are two different golf vacations once in st augustine florida the others in palm coast florida and then we have a one of the other one of the whole sponsorships is a two car to your car maintenance along with a putter so i'm really excited and i can't think charlie boyd but they are enough for coming through it is that sponsor for us the sponsors all th the community center so it doesn't happen by accident if you should happen to be caught by marlene or me don't hang up and i do want to tell you of some some of the lists of prizes that we've already received you know are amazing you know we have a lady's mercedes watch that's been donated by sisson we have artwork coming we have theater tickets we have symphony tickets we have all clad you know that's a very expensive kitchen where we have sports memorabilia donated by the pirates the steelers the penguins  absolutely marvelous what they have done in such a short period of time and i see nothing but success in the future will it takes everybody's cooperation absalom and in order to make anything goes and we're all very dedicated to this project in is there anything else you want to tell us you know i think you've covered i think we have i think businesses and individuals still can send in donations to us the golf outing is not until september seventeenth we'll give you a listing in our brochures we are and we want to do this because this is this is our big fundraiser and we're all going to put it into the the building and grounds and  this back to the communities so what you give us now you'll see back again that's right well it looks like we're probably coming to a close here and i do want to thank all three of you for your wonderful wonderful hopefully and what i'll tell you a little something about this this center will serve as an if you notice very young and old alike meeting places are available youth groups such as voice and girl scouts and for each members have expressed in just in the building the the mcmurry league will hold classes there which will be wonderful thing for artists in the township and the seniors will now have a central place to meet and there's a future to be a theater area upstairs that a dance or theater group has expressed interest in using we have ample parking to hold dinners and events at the community center and we welcome everyone's support we have memberships of vailable come and visit us better yet join us thank you and we hope to see you and if you have any like johnson any pictures or any memorabilia of any kind our memory room and if you can just tell us in any way at all we will be very very grateful and hoping to see you all and i hope it will be an october this is are my grego from seeing your perspective