right this is the mcgregor anyway we are here in peter's township at the high school for the senior games and they're all kind of participants here they're all kind of all ages and  are and i have a guest here bracken burns one of our commissioners that perhaps he could tell us a little bit something about here well i've been here for the last several years the senior games is one of the highlights of being a washington county commissioner you get to come out cheer our senior citizens on the victory you know it's a very gratifying experience to watch these people in their sixty's seventy's eighty's and upwards of that competing like they were teenagers and they are as proud when they walk away with the gold or the silver the bronze as are the young folks so it's a great day in washington county thank you very much did i make what senior ye many people out here participating just great celebration of life and i'm glad to be out here to be a part of it it's just just a lot of fun to see so many people participating we welcome you here well thank you and  i love being involved with the senior games in the senior citizens great group of folks and we're going to continue continue seeing the participation thank you very much  quit two years ago and it kept me in shape in a winner in this in the summer biking and whatever that's wonderful i don't suppose you want to tell us how old you are seventy three wonderful only three good keep up with them is your years young yeah a kind of community action in union town pennsylvania come quite a way that you know that i've been doing the bochy this was my sport that i brought to the games and so i've been doing it every year for about the last six or seven years and you go to all the senior games and do this yeah well our games here i started the games back oh i don't know fifteen years ago or so in fayette county and then after about three or four years here agency on aging picked them up so now it's a tri county event rules or something of how the game is played yes this is a really easy game so anybody can do and you don't need a cord you can just do it on the lawn and what it is it consists of eight balls for red for green and a jack ball which is a little bit smaller and then you can play this until whoever is closest to the jack ball so the one that's closest gets two points the one that's next closest gets one and you can play we're playing till eleven or twenty minutes and then and then that's the winner for that yes you know i think we pay like about fifty dollars for the set of bud but you can get a mike for twenty five dollars and for your just practicing and but they're a fun it's a fun event for santa and it's nice to get people to participate in that  yes it is and it's it's easy some of these people have never played before and they'll just come and they said like one of the i have to do and if they're good at ball lane they're going to do well here and if there's no age limit on this i'm which there are any other events because they play in their age limits but i find that the older people are better at this than the younger the younger people are too macho you know ray so the older people are like more precise and then there's that the idea of like i can knock their ball out of you know pathway and get better points and it's kind of cool thank you very much and good luck with all your work on this new thing and i will and thank you very much and come out to the games this is too much as is too cool yeah this is a worthy game held next county near your income you just did a yea track guy the pink shirt that's one of my ninety year old guys he's nineteen wow one one mile walk and then he's going to the fifty yard dash and then he's going to do botching that he's going to do he has it all he does it all he says as long as i get through what difference i get a medal there's nobody else in my age group so he's out there so we're happy for him yeah yeah well thank you very much i'll let you get back to your work thank you very much thank you ok ok this is a mcgregor we found another very colorful to have a to do about thirty to forty do they go in different age groups yes yes could you tell me where they are fifty five to sixty nine sixty to sixty four sixty five to sixty nine seventy to seventy four seventy five to seventy nine and then eighty plus you mean eighty they're throwing oh yes definitely good for them  actually well i know it's the sixteenth annual i've only been working the last six or seven years and it was kind of based on the olympics you know with the torch you know thing and i guess they just wanted to  promote something that was exercise related for the fitness and wellness of the seniors in that they can still do the different things without being couch potato it's right that's right well thank you very much  oh wow ok and you are your walk and that's a nice track to walk on them oh yeah rea that's right this is a mcgregor we will continue on with some other events thank you ok we're back now on the fifty yard dash and i have a couple of cafeteria only three panshin the craft i showed should we have gone on in there we are such a wonderful group is just amazing irma thank peters township for all their help that they've given us and for all of the counties that showed up today who certainly dorn a bang up job here with everyone there must be five hundred seniors today really yes i've seen bus loads and everything here coming from all over this is we're under four we're very happy is perhaps you can tell us something about how this all happens and it's possible some about everything ok well actually this gets started back in january the planning stages get started each year around gene you were we get a task force of people to gather from the various whatever county happens to be hosting it we get a taskforce of people that are willing to serve on that committee to start to play in the game and not everybody has a job to do maybe you know going around getting gathering the water that you need for up on the field when people or exercising up there and doing that the various  have to pick your thing and you know you start from there and everybody has a job to do in the community so that's that's basically how you get storage getting to see you know things playing on the banners for  the parade and man you know a certain thing every year is the same one time now it's a different thing every year and due to the nine one one incident this past year we felt that a patriotic theme was  bowl they most of that money goes back to their sound or since they chose to be the ones responsible to do that today and naturally all the staff from the area agency on aging variety of staff and you know a lot of the people who work in these positions for a lot of years i myself have been here going on thirty two thirty two years or so with this job so you learn a lot about start and that maybe you're saying something about how you get center started or something and yeah i was just telling you when we were sitting over there watching the shuffle board that back in one nine hundred seventy one when i was some screenings or some are doing some health screenings as well as handing out a lot of information for the seniors pay packets you know they can go from table to table get all the necessary information we have the food court which was comprised of many of the senior citizen centers that chose to come today as a fund raiser and sell food and it was good basically it so dad i think by about one o'clock there's there's barely there was a little bit of something for everybody so there was super bowl going on in the library we can't forget we had super big going on and there was a little bit for everybody to do if you couldn't really men that were disappearing and they go yes there's a few of our our men from some of the centers that they go to the national senior games and the state senior games they just really get into a very competitive there in shape i mean these people can run circles around me so you have to give them a lot of credit