The Layden Senior Citizens Center of Forney welcomes you at 101 Main Street in City Hall. We are open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feel free to enter the front or through Handicap accessible doors located at the back of City Hall, where reserved parking for seniors is also available.
We are a non-profit organization, so all donations are much appreciated.
Shout out to our generous, consistent donors: Panera Bread, Papa John’s Pizza, Smurfit Kappa, and our Bingo sponsors: Alinea Hospice, Cheyenne Medical Lodge, Empower, Rely on Credit Union, and Oak Street Health. Also, thank you to Fay Headley with Edward Jones, who always provides a beautiful birthday cake to celebrate our monthly birthdays. It is truly a blessing to have these terrific companies’ support! Please frequent them whenever you can.
If you are 60 or older and would like to join us for lunch at noon, please either drop by or call 972-552-6690 to sign up by 10:30 a.m. Danielle, our cook, does an awesome job cooking and serving up wholesome, delicious meals each day. There is also the opportunity to eat breakfast Monday-Friday at the center, 8:30-10:30am.
For those times you may not be able to make it to the Center, check out this week’s recipe for an easy fall recipe that can double as a yummy Thanksgiving side dish: https:// www.yummly.com/recipe/Roasted-Pears-_-Butternut-Squash-With-Sticky-Bals… If you have not already met our Center’s Director, Dena, it is worth the visit to Layden to do so. She not only does an amazing job looking after us, but also in ensuring there is always something meaningful and fun going on. If you have not already gotten your copy of this month’s schedule of activities, please be sure and grab your copy so as not to miss out on all the upcoming events.
Next week is, drum roll please…Thanksgiving! Can you believe it is already this fabulous holiday time of year? A couple of special notes: 1)The Center will be closed for Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, November 24, and Friday, November 25.
2)Please bring desserts for our Thanksgiving luncheon (to be held on Wednesday as below) on Tuesday, November 22.
Our annual Thanksgiving luncheon will be hosted by Share the Love at the Fellowship Baptist Church on Wednesday, November 23. Our recurring activities each week in November include:
Crafting at 9:00 on Thursdays (we are making gifts for Three Forks this year) Bridge at 12:30 on Tuesday & Thursday Bingo at 10:00 a.m. Mondays and Fridays Left Right Center on Tuesday, Thursdays at 10:00 Line Dancing, with a twist, on Thursdays at 11:00 Noodle Ball on Tuesdays at 11:00 Dominos and 42 are often played, as is Mah-jong, and a beautiful jigsaw puzzle is usually in progress.
Celebrated on the fourth Thursday of every November, Thanksgiving is an annual federal holiday in the U.S. and Canada. In the U.S, the holiday is largely modeled on a 17th century harvest feast shared by the English settlers and the Wampanoag tribesmen. This means that many families in the U.S. still use the holiday to celebrate the blessings and harvest of the past year. Besides observing common Thanksgiving traditions, Americans also observe this holiday by engaging in fun Thanksgiving activities with family and friends.
Did you know? According to the U.S. National Archives, the first federal congress passed a resolution in 1789 requesting the then U.S. President, George Washington, to name a national Thanksgiving holiday. He then proclaimed November 26 as the “Day of Public Thanksgiving” for that year.
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