Senior Citizens

Senior Services director caps two decades of caring, advocating for seniors

Sheila Casey will retire in January

DATE: Dec 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

53 units of affordable senior housing coming to Durango

Project will be built next to Mercy Regional Medical Center

DATE: Oct 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Durango woman glows with life at 104 years old

Josefita Herrera celebrated her birthday on Thursday

DATE: Jun 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Longtime Durango resident turns 95

Longtime Durango resident Margaret Turnell celebrated her 95th birthday April 14 with about 180 guests, including friends and family who live in Durango and others who traveled from all over...

DATE: Apr 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Ballroom dancers exercise bodies, minds at Durango/La Plata Senior Center

Classes aimed at beginners, but all skill levels welcome

DATE: Apr 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Senior Center to offer fall-prevention classes

Two eight-hour “Matter of Balance” fall-prevention classes will be offered from 1 to 3 p.m. April 4 and April 27 at Participants must be 60 or older, ambulatory and able to problem solve. ...

DATE: Mar 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Job training for senior citizens offered

Job training for seniors offered SER Jobs for Progress, a federally funded job-training program for economically challenged seniors, is currently accepting applications for enrollment in La ...

DATE: Feb 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Low-income, unemployed seniors invited to paid job training

The Senior Community Service Employment Program is seeking low-income, unemployed seniors 55 years of age and older to participate in a paid job-training program. Funded by the U....

DATE: Jan 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Senior swimmer Katherine Kronwall is floating high on life

Forest Lakes resident Katherine Kronwall started swimming at the ripe age of 64. Sixteen years later, she is still at it, scooping up medals in her age bracket at senior events across the co...

DATE: Dec 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Tri-County Head Start seeks senior for job

Tri-County Head Start is currently looking for one senior citizen to train as part of the Senior Community Service Employment Program, which trains seniors for gainful employment opportuniti...

DATE: Oct 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

State takes aim at issues of burgeoning aging population

DENVER – When Christina Knoell was younger, the last thing she was thinking about was aging. She was preoccupied raising children. Now, at 46, the executive director of the San Ju...

DATE: Sep 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

La Plata County residents caring for loved ones need support, resources

Forget climate change, the economy or terrorism for a moment because one of the great challenges of the next three decades is one most aren’t even thinking about – caring for the 78 million ...

DATE: Jun 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

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