What does the Shawnee Senior Center mean to you?
Dennis Duvall:
It means a whole lot because I can eat a good noon meal and I have somewhere to go and something to do. And I can exercise, walk and play cards, pool and things like that. It means a lot.
Louis Cheatwood:
Oh, it means a lot because I’m 86 years old and I come down here every morning at 8 o’clock, play pool for about two hours, then I go do whatever I’ve got to do that day.
Wayne Lollar:
Lord O’ mighty, it means a lot. This is the best place that’s happened to senior citizens.
Jeanie Reimer:
I come every day, I love it. I come to eat, come to socialize, play dominoes, meet your friends. If we didn’t have this, it would be awful because a lot of us come here just to have company. Most of us are here by ourself. I don’t know what we’d do if we didn’t have this. I’m down here all the time.
Peggy Hartman:
It’s a place for me to come because my kids don’t check on me. The people up here are great, we’re all caught in the same boat. If this is shut down or they take this away from us, we got no where to go. We’ll just sit at home and die.
What do you think of the funding crisis?
Dennis Duvall:
Well, I’ve been reading what Kris has wrote about you know the funding and everything, and I would sure hate to see this place close. I mean, if they have to cut down on some of what they do, I would rather see them cut down than cut it out. I don’t want to see it as not a place to go or a place to go eat.
Louis Cheatwood:
Well, I’d hate to see it close because I come down here every morning and at my age, I’d hate to see it close.
Wayne Lollar:
We need to get a hold of the legislature and tell them to appropriate money for this. They got stimulus, all kinds of stimulus money. The federal government’s putting money everywhere, why don’t they give enough money here to help the states with senior citizens.
Jeanie Reimer:
I think it’s terrible. We’re all really worried especially in January when things are going to change.
Peggy Hartman:
Well, they’re trying to take money away or shut us down. You know they’re trying to make our lives miserable and we’re all upset about it. And I’m very upset because I have to depend on the Meals on Wheels. They shut down Meals on Wheels, I’m going to hurt, I don’t get a meal that day. I come up here to get a meal.
