Steele Senior Center getting a New Look!
The Steele Senior Center is in the process of getting an new coat of paint! Kathy Oster has been busy since last week scraping, priming and painting the outside of the senior center. A cool gray with dark gray accents give this building, that sees a lot of comings and goings, an updated look.
The center is owned by the Active Seniors Club and houses such businesses as Sandi’s Hair and Nail Salon, Kidder County Food Pantry and the Kidder Emmons Senior Services.
Sandi’s is open three days a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Sandi also does hair at the Golden Manor on Monday mornings.
The Kidder County Food Pantry is open by appointment only. Appointments may be made by calling Brends Schultz, coordinator. They also organize and distribute senior commodities and regular commodities.
Kidder Emmons Senior Serivies (KESS) provides the aging population in the are with great hot meals five days a week and meals on wheels to homebound people. Frozen meals are available to out of towners and Outreach is a service that helps connect people to needed services, And last but certainly not least is the adult bus service. Going to Bismarck twice weekly and to Jamestown twice a month allows many to get to doctor appointments with very little effort. Cost for the bus is just $7.00 round trip. Consider the cost of a priovate vehicle. Lets say that your car gets 25 miles to the gallon. It is 84 miles round trip to Bismarck from Steele (this does not include any in town driving). The price of gas is $4.00 a gallon. So, roughly, it will cost you at least $13.00+ to drive to Bismarck. Add the price of the fuel to your grocery bill and see if you really have “saved” by driving to Bismarck. This is definetly a plus to shopping
at home! No only is it extremely economical it is a real treat to be dropped off and picked up at the door to the clinic or shoppiong mall. No looking for parking or braving the cold or wind to find your vehicle. Any one may ride the bus by making reservation at the senior center. Children that must be in car or booster seats must have seats provided by the parent.