Lori Contadino, director of the Greenwich Commission on Aging, and the staff at the Greenwich Senior Center, made holiday meals extra special for their senior members, including two giant sugar cookies, compliments of the Commission on Aging sponsors. Chef Teddy Torchon and the senior center chefs cooked the feast and participants lined up in their cars at the Senior Center Circle, at their allotted pick-up time, as Greenwich Police Chief Jim Heavey; Special Officer Chris Webster; Contadino; staff members Deana Salerno, Lynn Mason”™ and Greenwich Senior Center Administrator Laurette Helmrich; plus volunteers Joanne Brustman from Atria Senior Living and Corinne Flax placed the meals and cookies in their cars.
A special New Year”™s surprise was also cooked up for the seniors. As an overall planning department for older persons in Greenwich, the Aging Commission has been an official
department of town government since 1975.