hi this is when we greg go from seeing your perspective and know today we have a show we're something that i have been waiting for for years and years and we've converted they've finished school into a community center and our first big project is having the senior lunch is done at the finish school and my guest is angela lampy and she is going to be talking about the procedures of the senior space in your lunches so angela thank you so nice to be here with you today thank you so much for inviting me and like you i am so happy for this occasion because i believe  been in the process of trying to get this program together for four years at least we're here in so we're very happy that you finally accomplished this great feat of yours in you're going to be very successful at it we're like good now absolutely i know that in the last couple luncheons that they have had we're what we're doing is maybe i can give you a little explanation here of our agency i work for washington county services and our agency provides two times a month for the vinnies show heritage society that's city second thursday and the fourth thursday of the month we're supplying them with luncheons and these luncheons have been successful so far we've had three of them and we've already had close to sixty people with each one of them very very happy about that irma has done such a nice job with though all of her workers there are that she needs to be complement absolutely well you have to have people that you can count on and somebody that is interested in this program is you and i are absolutely and i have the same feelings and everything and it's something that really comes from your heart you do different things and you can tell that it absolutely comes from the heart because everyone is so into the program you know you have to be sixty years of age or older to be eligible for our program and what they do is are most taking reservations for up to seventy five people two times a month you can come in have a wonderful lunch and there it's one third of the daily requirements of what is required for an adult to keep you healthy and independent and the meals are just fantastic i'm sure that you can attest to that you know i'm last one was great we had really really good to males maybe i can explain where they come from they come from the volunteer years to come and pick up the meals they're shipped back to them in a buff a carrier which keeps the food warm at all times so there's never a problem with the temperatures going down the brought into the senior center and they're placed into steam table so that they are kept their proper temperature and with the help of volunteers than there they serve their lunch in there and everyone is just up for a great great time it's wonderful really i have three or four people that i can count on all the time to serve and you need at least that many to serve that many people short it's been working out really good and i am so thankful for the people that i have that do come to help and it takes every little bit makes something go yes it does and i think that you all have that combination of success down there because everyone feels the same way i think what this is is really a labor of love it is been as i mentioned before the outset of the program they've been working on this for around four years and really diligently i mean they've done so much to that building down there i'm sure that armor can tell you so stipulation was to put a kitchen in which we did and we spent every penny on the kitchen full kitchen really they're very well equipped in there it's as good as any restaurant that you go to in any area they have freezers those microwaves anything that you can gov there to help to make this a successful meal for our senior centers and our senior citizens who really advertises in all of the boltons are ch are church bulletins and on t v in word of mouth that's been the biggest accomplishment is people talking about that they really enjoyed themselves coming there and  they said well let's try it and see that i was really surprised erm i have to tell you i was just amazed the first time that we decided to do this it was four years of perpetration and then it was just like one day she called and she says we're ready to go and i thought oh my goodness where are we going to get these people and lo and behold norma i had thirty five people there the first day just picking up a telephone and calling people and then the second time that we did the mayo i believe there was close to we do is we have a suggested donation of a dollar and a half if you can afford it if you can't and you don't wish to contribute that's not a problem the meal is there for anyone that wants the coming he's long as they're sixty years of age or older and as we said we really do like to have reservations because of the quick needs to know how many meals to prepare for you know we don't want to you know over we want to over order we know when i under that you know really that's why  we know exactly what exactly is coming yeah and i also understand you were telling me this morning that you're doing an exercise program now that's great that's terrific you know you got to keep me interested in a lot of around starting this thursday which will be our next luncheon at ten thirty in the morning i have someone that is licensed to do this exercise program for arthritis arthritic exercise like wonderful and most of it will be like sitting down exercises and she'll be doing that first at ten thirty in the morning and for about a half hour and then we'll go downstairs and get ready for lunch or that's terrific and also i know that you've had peter groups from the high school middle school grade i tried to grade school but they said they can't do that too well because when you can't pick one little kid over another little kid we sort of stick to the middle school and that's great so you're not only have a wonderful meal but you also have entertainment and that's what we like to hear we'd like to hear that the seniors are getting treated well not only with their meal but also that they're being entertained and for them to keep coming back i know that story i'm sure you're all going to enjoy this we had a senator there in one of our centers that was giving a speech right after the meal and a couple the women got up and says to place can you do you think that you can cut your speech short because we want to  bit of banking and we appreciate that fact that you do that we don't know what we would do without all of your help absolutely this is a picture here of the vinicius school and  there are eight rooms in this school and we have the downstairs in the caf where the cafeteria used to be that's where we have the cafeteria and we put a new rug down and fix it all up and everything and this is our entrance to come this is the room where we have the munchies and these are some of the people that have participated in the lunch right away yeah really it's very efficient over there the girls are great in the kitchen the volunteers who do the serving they really know how to handle everyone and i've been there when the meal has been served actually it takes maybe ten themselves there looks like they have some delicious dessert there also how many people can you fit in this time we're going to try to get to seventy five it's going to be pretty crowded but arrangements as to how you could get to the senior centers also right you know they'd be happy to do that for you you would have to call in ahead of time and register but they would be happy to pick you up and take you to write i'm going to announce to the to snakes lunch really we have one gala does the decorating i mean that's her job she decorates yeah that's a question that i have for you do you have different committees for different things the activities that you have there is four hours like you said decorating committee and entrance that is that you can come into here and also we have the chair that goes up to this up to the second floor so anybody that is handicapped has a way of getting through this building so we'd like for you all to come some time to see what we're up to thank you requirements that you need to keep yourself healthy and they are then approved back to the area agency on aging and from there that's how we get our menus  formulated she in turn sends them to our senior citizen center folks our cooks do an inventory every two weeks for what they need according to what is on the menu and is shipped into them and so the program itself is funded by the southwestern pennsylvania area agency on aging aging services in the washington county commissioners so there's actually three different agencies that take part in this wonderful service that we give right and it's just not done like that i mean it takes a lot of planning everything you know we have a wonderful staff also coke's that really do a magnificent job the food is prepared on site in all of our centers which doesn't happen in every center in pennsylvania a lot of centers in pennsylvania they have meals that are catered in to them but we actually prepare our meals right on site in all of our senior centers and the volunteers just love that senior center they can get into and they get the city aroma of the food  volunteer their services you know that's just great as i said we certainly wish you much more success and i'm sure it's going to be a successful program from here on not i know that you've all done such a wonderful job it's been fun doing it you know it's been a long time coming but it's really there for a while we're didn't know for sure whether it was going to come or not to know that it's here but it takes time sure and i know that there's been a lot of volunteerism there that have helped with landscaping or hanging i know that the county had sent out a crew to paint for the girl scouts girl scout got her eagle by designing two gardens in the front of the building and then another boy scout got his i guess is not called eagle for the girls i don't know what it's the everybody still eating i see that he's got it looks like he has a bag of tricks there were his live reach oh he's reaching in for a ticket i guess you have brawling that day i see we're going to have a pancake sausage pancake breakfast on february the second is a fundraiser so we need money to keep operating and you know you like they say the light bill has to be pa well can you think of anything else and you know i think we covered just about everything you know we probably could go on talking for another hour about this program there are so many things that we could say but i know that our time is limited here and i just want to take this opportunity to thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to come here to explain a little bit about our program and our new satellite center well i want to thank you for all your help that you have done and we could have never done it without you i mean we needed we needed a leader and you were leader thank you so it was nice because it's easy being nice to nice people and i've always been nice and respect and i could see that your heart was in this and so it was easy for us to get this together thank you again we have a board about fourteen fifteen people and so we've all really worked absolutely for sure so if  you want any more information the my phone number is on the screen and as you see it's seven to four nine four one six nine five six and the legends are every second and fourth thursday of the month and that's year round the kitchen is closing cans very then we do not have it but you will be informed so the only other thing i want to get mention is our sausage pancake breakfast which we will be having like i said  february the fifth and again i want to thank you so much angie for all your help and everything and it was my pleasure it really was really was i am so glad that you were able to come i'm