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Santa Ana staff outline senior‑center programs, transport and volunteer needs
Summary
City staff presented a comprehensive overview of programming at two Santa Ana senior centers, including congregate lunches, twice‑monthly commodity distributions, excursions and door‑to‑door transportation; staff also solicited volunteers and described an adopt‑a‑senior partnership.
At a recent Youth Commission meeting at the Santa Ana Senior Center, recreation community services supervisor Juan Lara summarized the City of Santa Ana’s senior‑services operations, saying the department runs two senior centers — the Santa Ana Senior Center and the Southwest Senior Center — staffed by full‑time coordinators and specialists and open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Lara said the centers offer regular recreation and fitness classes (from arts and crafts to Zumba), monthly themed special events, educational seminars (nutrition, fraud prevention), and a congregate lunch program served weekdays at 11:30 a.m.; lunches are free to enrolled seniors, with a $5 charge for public participants who register. He also described twice‑monthly commodity distributions of nonperishable food items that are open to the…
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