ACCESS (Albany County Center for Essential Supportive Services) is back! This service is not just for seniors but for everyone.

If you’re looking for information on any health-related issues, SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), HEAP (Home Energy Assistance Program) or any other programs, you can make an appointment by calling Dee Albert at 518-447-7192.

She is the acting deputy commissioner and is making appointments at the Berne Community Center at 1360 Helderberg Trail in Berne.

Game day is back! Join us for some socializing and bingo, Mexican train, or other games. When bingo is played, winners receive prizes. Games will be played following lunch on Friday, Nov. 5 and 19.

Seniors aged 60 and older are welcome to enjoy a nutritious lunch offered by the Helderberg Senior Services lunch program. Meals are offered Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays at the Town of Berne Community Center at 1360 Helderberg Trail.

Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Doors open at 11 a.m. Masks are no longer required to enter the building. A $3 donation is suggested.

You must call Karen Stark at 518-937-5963 by 10 a.m. the day before you plan on attending. She needs 24-hour advance notice to ensure enough meals are provided for everyone.

Menus

Menus provide choices each day:

— Friday, Nov. 5: Roast beef with mashed potatoes and gravy or baked fish with mashed potatoes, broccoli and fruit, or tuna salad plate with chickpea salad;

— Monday, Nov. 8: Lemon-garlic fish or baked chicken, mashed potatoes, peas and carrots and a cookie;

— Tuesday, Nov. 9: Spinach beef macaroni bake or baked fish and potatoes, green beans, fruit and cake; and

— Friday, Nov. 12: Macaroni and cheese or baked fish, stewed tomatoes and brownie, or tuna sandwich with carrot and raisin salad.
 

ACCESS (Albany County Center for Essential Supportive Services) is back! This service is not just for seniors but for everyone.

If you’re looking for information on any health-related issues, SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), HEAP (Home Energy Assistance Program), or any other programs, you can make an appointment by calling Dee Albert at 518-447-7192.

She is the acting deputy commissioner and is making appointments at the Berne Community Center t 1360 Helderberg Trail in Berne.

Game day is back! Join us for some socializing and bingo, Mexican train, or other games. When bingo is played, winners receive prizes. Games will be played following lunch on Friday, Nov. 5 and 19.

Seniors aged 60 and older are welcome to enjoy a nutritious lunch offered by the Helderberg Senior Services lunch program. Meals are offered Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays at the Town of Berne Community and Senior Services Center, 1360 Helderberg Trail in Berne.

Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Doors open at 11 a.m. Masks are no longer required to enter the building. A $3 donation is suggested.

You must call Karen Stark at 518-937-5963 by 10 a.m. the day before you plan on attending. She needs 24-hour advance notice to ensure enough meals are provided for everyone.

Menus

Menus provide choices each day:

— Friday, Oct. 22: Beef and veggie stir fry over rice or baked fish and potatoes, carrots, applesauce, wheat bread, and applesauce cake, or BLT pasta salad with chicken and V-8 juice;

— Monday, Oct. 25: Chicken cacciatore over rice, or baked fish and potatoes, broccoli, wheat bread, and peaches;

— Tuesday, Oct. 26: Roast pork with gravy or baked fish, mashed potatoes, green beans, wheat stuffing, applesauce, and birthday cake; and

— Friday, Oct. 29: Lemon-garlic baked fish or baked chicken, roasted potatoes, sautéed spinach, wheat bread, and brownie, or tuna salad sandwich with cucumber and tomato salad.
 

Bingo is back! Join us for some socializing and chances to win prizes. Bingo will be played following lunch on Fridays, Oct. 8 and 15, and Nov. 5 and 19.

Seniors aged 60 and older are welcome to enjoy a nutritious lunch offered by the Helderberg Senior Services lunch program. Meals are offered Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays at the Town of Berne Community and Senior Services Center at 1360 Helderberg Trail in Berne.

Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Doors open at 11 a.m. Masks are no longer required to enter the building. A $3 donation is suggested.

You must call Karen Stark at 518-937-5963 by 10 a.m. the day before you plan on attending. She needs 24-hour advance notice to ensure enough meals are provided for everyone.

Menus provide choices each day:

— Friday, Oct. 8: Spanish rice with beef and beans or baked fish and potatoes, green beans, cornbread, and tapioca pudding, or chicken-curry-salad sandwich on wheat bread, broccoli salad, and apple juice;

— Monday, Oct. 11: Baked fish or baked chicken, mashed potatoes, broccoli, wheat bread, and chocolate pudding;

— Tuesday, Oct. 12: Sloppy Joe or baked fish, roasted red potatoes, sauteed summer squash, and rice pudding; and

— Friday, Oct. 15: Roast pork with gravy or baked fish, roasted sweet potatoes, peas and carrots, wheat bread, and applesauce, or ham-salad sandwich and chickpea salad.

The Hilltown Seniors met for their regular monthly meeting on Sept. 11 and welcomed three new members. We recognized that it was the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and had a moment of remembrance.

I relayed that I was in a meeting along with a few others in the community with the Director of Public Health Emergency Preparedness about a possible pop-up vaccine clinic that will be held in the town of Berne. We discussed how to get some people who are hesitant to get the vaccine.

Then on our agenda were all the birthdays and anniversaries for which we like to raise our voices and sing, so we did just that! We all sound like we should have our own Hilltown Choir, nice singing folks! 

Our trip on the 18th to the Charles Wood Theater in Glens Falls in conjunction with the Lake George Theater is in the final stages and we look forward to a trip once again (on the road again!). 

The Hilltown Senior Book Club met at O’Tooles for lunch to discuss our reads and suggestions on some we should definitely put in our library. Next month, we will meet once again at Bellevue Diner and talk about the new books we will share with one another. Kathy Stemple from the Town of Berne Free Library will be joining us at our October meeting to talk about books, books, and more books!

The centerpieces this month on each table were baskets of apples. To receive one of these beauties, one had to read a tongue-twister! What a hoot! Then we decided to have each table read another since I brought plenty and that would decide on which table went first to eat — not sure that worked out as planned, but much laughter just the same.

We discussed our Christmas party/luncheon and assigned one of our great gals to help us decide on a gift exchange — can’t wait to see what she comes up with. I will try to put together a show — so stay tuned! See you all next month.

Noticed a few of my friends were missing so, if I come knockin’ on the Conklin door, don’t be surprised — lol.

There is one kitchen chore I don’t mind — polishing off the cookies!