July 2016
Volume 16, Number 3
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President Lynne Linger with parents Gerry and Sally Ruth.
South Side Senior Citizens share fellowship, trips and fun times By Gina Mazza For Beaver County Senior News Back in January of 1986, a small group of women from three or four Beaver County area churches decided to get together and form a social group for older adults who wanted to get out of the house, have some fun and even travel both near and far. Today, the South Side Senior Citizens group has 127 members—about 90 of them are regularly active members—
mostly from Hookstown, Georgetown, Shippingport, Hanover and other communities within the South Side School District. At the group’s monthly meetings, the members share lunch, fellowship and a few laughs. “We don’t always have a set program,” explains Lynne Linger, who serves as president. “But we do have an activities coordinator who schedules speakers to do presentations just for us. For example, we recently had
a master gardener from the Penn State Extension Office come to talk about gardening. That was really interesting. Last Christmas, had a group come and do a play about the Nativity. We have musical groups come on occasion, or we’ll just play games and have drawings. During the winter months when the weather might be inclement, we do a covered dish lunch instead of preparing or ordering in the food. 2015 King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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