The Houston Senior Center is Open Monday thru Friday 8:00 AM till 4:00 PM, except holidays. Meals are served from 11:30 - 1:00. If you are 60 years of age or over, or the spouse of a person 60 or over, the recommended contribution for the meal is $1.75. Persons under 60 must pay the cashier $3.00 rather than drop their money in the box.

Coffee and Tea are available for an additional charge of .10 per cup or glass (put money in container on the tables). Your choice of low fat, buttermilk or chocolate milk is furnished with each meal. Additional milk is .25 per carton (pay the cook upon receipt).

Services available thru the Center include Blood Pressure Checks, Discount Cards, Speakers, Newsletters, Programs, Homemaker Services, Information & Referral, Low Vision Center, Senior Fitness, Tax Counseling, Telephone Reassurance, Transportation and Volunteer Opportunities.

Activities include quilting, band, bingo, bowling, cards, ceramics, checkers, dominoes, exercise, games, music, parties, piano, poof ball, pool tables, puzzles, rummikub and shuffleboard.  We also offer an evening of  entertainment each Thursday at 6:30 PM.  Come and Join us!

HOME BOUND MEAL PROGRAM

HELP! Do you know someone that is home-bound and is 60 years of age or older, who would enjoy a hot lunch delivered each day ? We would like to extend our home-bound meal program and feel there must be a lot of people who could benefit from our program -- but we need to know who and where they are. You do not have to be permanently homebound to qualify. Quite often an individual may only need meals for a short period of time while recovering from surgery, ect. Others may need them from now on.

We currently have a delivery route which covers a radius of two miles outside the city limits of Houston. We have a few volunteers who will deliver meals outside that area when we find eople who need and want the meals. We would like to extend our program to the Raymondville, Yukon, Elk Creek, Simmons, Bendavis, Bado, Bucyrus, Success, Huggins, and Roby areas, and all points in-between, so we need more volunteers and names of eligible people in those areas. We will reimburse volunteers 30 cents per mile for delivering meals.

If you know of anyone in Houston or the surrounding area that would benefit from this program, or if you would like to volunteer to deliver meals one or more days each week, please contact Bernadine Hohlt  houstonsca@pcis.net here at the Senior Center or call 417-967-4119 or 417-967-2013.