Senior Center News, Jan. 15, 2021

North Central Senior Citizens Center Jan. 18-23

Menu by Earlene DeWinter, subject to change

Monday — Holiday — Closed

Tuesday — Salad, baked ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, rolls, apple crisp

Wednesday — Unstuffed chicken cordon bleu, potato wedges, vegetables, fruit

Thursday — Hamburger stroganoff, buttered noodles, broccoli, coffee cake

Friday — Soup, chef’s choice, dessert

The Senior Center is providing medical transportation only for now. Remember to call ahead for Friday’s appointments.

Remember to wash your hands frequently and thoroughly! Maintain your personal space. Stay hydrated.

The Senior Center’s doors are still closed to the public. We are providing limited services. Help is being given over the phone when possible.

We do have a couple of individuals in the community whom are in need of assistance getting to Great Falls three times a week for dialysis. I am working on getting financial help for the transportation. If you know of anyone willing to help with this transportation, please call the Senior Center.

With the isolation, challenges are being felt by some people. Contact a senior or a veteran who may be facing challenges just to see how they are doing. The personal contact will help them feel a great deal better.

Congregate folks: We are still continuing to provide meals at the Hill County Senior Center as grab-and-go meals while we are still closed. If you would like to pick up a meal, please be sure to call the center before 10 a.m. to order your meal. Your meals may be picked at the center from 11:45 until noon Monday through Friday. If you would like to, you may order a meal for one day or put in your order for the entire week. If you would please let us know which meals, you would be like ahead of time it would be beneficial in preparation so we are aware of how much food to fix each day.

With the individuals we’ve lost the last few weeks, I do have some openings for commodities for the Hill County area. Call 265-5464 for an application.

Important phone numbers

• Montana Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255) RAINN

• National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673

• Tumbleweed Runaway and Family Crisis Program: 259-2558 (local) 1-888-816-4702 (toll free)

• Friendship Line by Institute on Aging - The Friendship Line is both a crisis intervention hotline and a warm-line for non-emergency emotional support calls. It is a 24-hour toll-free line and the only accredited crisis line in the country for people aged 60 years and older, and adults living with disabilities. Toll-Free Line: (800) 971-0016

• For those seniors getting frustrated with staying home and needing someone to talk to you can call 1-877-688-3377 for Montana’s Warm Line.

Hardest “Would you rather” questions for grandparents to ask their grandkids

1. Would you rather have to live the rest of your life without a phone or television?

2. Would you rather have hardly any money but lots of friends or be rich and have no friends?

3. Would you rather sleep 20 hours per day or two hours per day for the rest of your life?

4. Would you rather live without heating in the winter or air conditioning in the summer?

5. Would you rather use your hands as your feet or your feet as your hands?

6. Would you rather be the speediest person in the world or be able to jump the highest?

7. Would you rather live way down in the sea or fly high in the sky for the rest of your life?

8. Would you rather be the most famous actor or famous singer?

9. Would you rather have hair so long that it touched the ground or have no hair at all for the rest of your life?

10. Would you rather possess the ability to smell like a hound dog or have the eyesight of an eagle?

11. Would you rather take one single one-month long vacation or four one-week long vacations every year?

12. Would you rather if your toes were your fingers or your fingers be your toes?

13. Would you rather turn into a dog or a cat for the rest of your life?

14. Would you rather time travel 100 years back in history or 100 years into the future?

15. Would you rather eat pizza each and every breakfast or cereal and milk for every dinner?

16. Would you rather live to be 100 years old or 1,000 years old?

17. Would you rather not ever have to go to school or never have to do chores for the rest of your life?

18. Would you rather possess the face of a 10-year-old and the body of a 50-year-old or the face of a 50-year-old and the body of a 10-year-old?