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Moreno Valley senior center popular despite cuts -

Published on Sunday, February 07, 2010
By LAURIE LUCAS


Minnie Martinez is hooked on the crochet club at the Moreno Valley Senior Center.

Every Wednesday she and as many as 40 women gather to gab and turn out baby clothes, hats, scarves and blankets for Inland hospitals and churches.

"I'm really happy when I'm here," said Martinez, 70. "I hope they don't take this away from us."

There's no danger of that, but seniors have seen favorite classes and programs disappear. They've seen hours trimmed in the last fiscal year, casualties of the economy. Yet the 14,700-square-foot center, at 25075 Fir St., which opened in 1992, is as popular as ever, welcoming more than 100 users a day and 3,000 people a month.

On a recent day, a co-ed cluster gathers around an art deco-style radio and bobs to Big Band sounds. Not far away, a group jokingly called "the Spanish connection" chatters in its native tongue   Read Full Article...

 
 

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