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Mesquite Senior Center Reopens

By BOBBIE GREEN

The Progress

The staff at Mesquite Senior Center is happy to welcome everyone back into the building. The facility is clean and ready for all their senior friends to return. PHOTO BY BOBBIE GREEN/The Progress.

After more than a year of being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mesquite Senior Center is now open and the senior community is being welcomed back to the facility.

All through the closure, the center still provided the essentials. Senior Center staff continued to deliver meals-on-wheels to seniors’ homes, and also to served up the mid-day meal on-site with drive-thru meal pick-up at curbside.

The State of Nevada provided the center with COVID-related grants to help cover additional costs for the drive-thru meals. The center was thus able to keep all of its staff members on the job for the 15 months.

In addition, many volunteers helped to pass out the meals at the drive-thru. The volume of meals delivered increased thru the pandemic.

The Senior Center staff is excited to have the facility open again and to welcome back senior center members.
“Every thing is clean and waiting for your return!” said Krissy Hall Thornton, programs Assistant.

“Please come back. We have missed you all. The lights are on. The music is on. Hurry back. It has been like a ghost town around here.”

The Senior Center is reverting to being managed under the Mesquite Athletics & Leisure Services Department, under direction of Nick Montoya. Griseyda Belalcazar will remain as Senior Center Supervisor.

“We are so delighted to be open!” Belalcazar said. “We have missed the laughter and the noise and the people.”

All the activities at the senior center have also restarted. These include a variety of fitness programs like Sweatin’ to the Oldies, Gentle Yoga, Zumba Gold, Fall Prevention and Chair Exercises. Watch the newsletter for dates and times of the senior programs now scheduled. Also activities such as Craft Class, Quilting Group, Let’s Paint, Bingo and more have all returned.

The new lunch hours for June only are as follows: Drive-thru 10:30 a.m-11 a.m; Dine-In first lunch setting is 11:15a.m. Doors close at 12 noon. Second Sitting 12:15a.m. to 1p.m.

Beginning in July the lunch schedule will return completely back to normal with lunch served from 11a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

“We want things to go back to pre -COVID normal,” Belalcazar said. “We are starting our vastly popular Lunch and Learn programs beginning in July.”

On July 21, the Victims Advocate will give a presentation on “Fraud and Exploitation” at 12 noon.

Information about activities at the senior center is available on the Senior Newsletter which may be found at www.mesquitenv.gov/resources/senior-newsletters. Additional questions may be made by calling Griseyda Belalcazar at 702-423-0866 or by email at gbelalcazar@mesquitenv.gov.

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