The first comment we would like to make about March and April 2020 is that we hope you all stay safe and healthy due to the coronavirus pandemic. We are all praying for each of you and the entire World.
This pandemic hit York County and gained much notice beginning on March 6th. On Tuesday, March 17, 2020, White Rose Senior Center changed our meal service, including our congregate lunches at the Center as well as the Home Delivered Meals we serve. We began “Take Out Meals” from 10:30-11:30 Monday through Friday which went on until Friday, March 27th. Beginning the week of Monday, March 30th, we are offering HOT “Take Out Meals” on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. On Wednesdays we are giving the participants 2 FROZEN Meals for Thursday and Friday. We are limiting contact with others by going to 3 times a week.
“How do I get “Take Out Meals?”, you may ask. Call White Rose Senior Center at 717-843-9704 and place your order. To ensure a meal, you must pre-register 2 days prior to when you would like a lunch. If we have meals left over from somebody who pre-registered for a meal and they did not attend, we will offer it (in order) to whomever is still in line. Our numbers are growing the longer this pandemic lasts but we don’t want to waste meals either, so only sign up if you are going to come and get it please! If you are 60 or over, you may come and get a meal if we have any left. We will encourage you to get signed up as a member of WRSC and York County Area Agency so we get credit, keep track of the numbers and new people attending due to the virus, and you can continue to join in the fun after COVID-19 ends.
The Home Delivered Meal clients will receive 5 FROZEN Meals on Monday, March 30, 2020 and 2 FROZEN Meals on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. Beginning Monday, April 6, 2020, they will receive all 7 FROZEN Meals on one day. White Rose Senior Center is blessed to have awesome HDM Drivers and we even had a call from a new man who wanted to deliver meals after reading the York Daily Record article that Frank Bodani wrote about WRSC! Click the following link to read the article: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/heart-of-york/2020/03/19/coronavirus-pa-meal-wheels-drives-higher-calling-now/2869126001/. Welcome our newest HDM Driver, Richard Sindlinger, as a result of the article!
As far as programming with COVID-19, White Rose Senior Center has modified many activities, cancelled activities, cancelled the entire Spring Session of the STARS program with Springettsbury Township, created helpful service for you, prepared word puzzles, simple crafts, seed starter kits, Easter card making kits for you to do at home, used Facebook and played games like “Name the Lyric” and The Price is Right” on Facebook Live, created fliers to give you about food shopping hours for older adults, distributed fliers listing the symptoms of the coronavirus, distributed a modified box with staple items in a box for Fresh Express Thursday, March 26th and 27th (We still have 5 boxes for WRSC Members &/or Broad Park Manor residents), gave out fliers with HAND WASHING INSTRUCTIONS WHICH IS KEY as well as trying to show you SOCIAL DISTANCING (what 6 feet apart) LOOKS LIKE BY DRAWING CIRCLES ON THE SIDEWALK WHEN PICKING UP YOUR “TAKE OUT MEALS”. With those circles on the sidewalk illustrating “SOCIAL DISTANCING”, on many days, we play “Twister” and give away canned goods and items that we have on hand at the Center. We all love our jobs and are trying our very best to keep everyone safe while providing the food services that we are mandated to serve as an essential provider. We all appreciate the kind words you say and comments we see on our Facebook page. “We Are All in This Together!”
Click on the calendar and menu for April to see what we will be offering. The calendar is a 2-week calendar because we are putting the activities in English and Spanish on one sheet for easier distribution. REMEMBER: the calendar and menu are subject to change but we are trying our best to follow it one day at a time as well as The Nutrition Group who prepare the meals! We owe them a huge round of applause from the drivers coming to the senior centers, the preparers and the staff who order the food, the managers for their leadership and “hands-on” mentality at helping in every role, and the truck drivers still hauling the food all across the country (and the list goes on!).
NOTE: We are distributing the COMMODITY SUPPLEMENTAL FOOD BOX PROGRAM FOR SENIORS (Caja de Compra para abril y mayo) for APRIL & MAY on Thursday, April 2, 2020. Please come and get these!!! We hope the Federal Government does not close all/or any of the States but we need to prepare. If you receive the box from us, you will receive a call from The York Food Bank the week of March 30th to come to the Center and pick it up. The hours will be 9:00 AM-3:00 PM at the front door unless you drive (read further in this paragraph if you drive). If you are 60 or over and do not receive the box from us or any other agency, bring either your latest bank statement or your Social Security Award Letter that you receive in January from the government, PLUS your ID. If you walk, bring a cart for the 2 Boxes! If you drive, we will have signs/and a staff out directing you to pull around to the side door closest to E. Market Street, pop your trunk open and we will place both boxes it in there. We will sign your name on the form. We are trying to limit exposure to others as much as possible.
We mentioned in the 4th paragraph that we are offering helpful services for you. We have purchased some toilet paper, facial tissues, dish soap, aluminum foil, and paper towels that we are selling in our WRSC Pop Up Shop. These are selling for what we paid for it. Click on the WRSC Pop Up Shop Flier below for the prices.
Other fliers that have been distributed are listed below for you to click on and gather more information. Some have been compiled from fellow colleagues that we work with from other organizations. Remember the saying, “We Are All in This Together and We Will All Come Out of This Stronger”!!!
We are EXCELLENT at doing Facebook daily but as you can see by this lengthy post with a lot of great information, maybe not as up-to-date and I (Lisa) apologize for that. Things were changing constantly these past two weeks and Facebook was the easiest to get to daily. We realize that not everyone is on Facebook or even our page. If you search on Facebook, type White Rose Senior Center (It may come up as Rose White), chose the one where people are their football sports jerseys. This is the one to follow for up-to-date information. The other one is the WRSC wooden sign. We abandoned that one a couple years ago.
Stay safe and stay healthy. If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the Center for any reason. Stay at home. If we get sick, the staff at WRSC that is serving you, we will not be effective at helping anyone! Call if you need assistance and hopefully we can help or direct you to somebody who can…We Are all in This Together!
April Calendar in English and Spanish
York County Food Alliance Flier (save Money and Eat Healthier) flier
Share Facts About COVID-19 flier
3 Easy Steps to Protect Yourself & Others (Clean, Cover & Contain)