The Rochester Senior Center celebrates New Year’s
Dec 31, 2019
Billy Couto engaged his audience by singling out individual seniors to sing to. Photo by: Grace Ballenger
One senior sets off a confetti popper, sending confetti flying everywhere. Photo by: Grace Ballenger
With the help of a pole, the balloons come tumbling down. Photo by: Grace Ballenger
Rochester Facilites Manager Andrew Daniel helps to serve sparkling juice for a toast. Photo by: Grace Ballenger
Three layers of cake! Photo by: Grace Ballenger
What’s a party without an impromptu dance party? Photo by: Grace Ballenger
ROCHESTER — The Senior Center was filled to capacity on Dec. 31, as seniors gathered to celebrate a new year and decade.
Volunteers and staff members from the center worked to set up, and serve Chinese food, cake and sparkling apple juice for a toast.
Artisan Bake Shop donated cakes to the Council on Aging for the event.
Asked what their resolutions were or what they hoped for in 2020, seniors had mixed responses. Several people said they didn’t bother to make new year’s resolutions any more, because they inevitably broke them.
Others were more resolute about sticking to their goals. One senior declared “starting tomorrow, I’m going on a diet!”
While it’s a common (and surely commonly broken) resolution, he explained that last year he was able to stick with it for a whole six months, and lost 16 pounds.
Others had more abstract goals, like “to appreciate what I’ve been given,” and “to try to stay well.”
After a toast, Director of the COA, Cheryl Randall-Mach, tried to pull on strings attached to balloons to let them down from the ceiling. Instead, she was left holding the string, and a helper with a long hooked pole had to bring the balloons down on everyone.
