Updated February 21, 2024, CASH Bingo, Shredding Event, Fraud Alert to protect your home's title from theft, Bolton's Farm Market, and Trips.  Please scroll down to see all the events. 

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Pennridge Community Center Events- Peggy Lewis, manager.pcsc@yahoo.com">manager.pcsc@yahoo.com

Call 215-453-7027 or 309-361-8300 for any of these events

Free Fraud Alert Service to Protect your Home’s Title from Theft – Held at Pennridge Community Center, hosted by Rep. Shelby Labs. On Thursday, March 7, Shelby Labs, will be welcoming Bucks County Recorder of Deeds Dan McPhillips to the Pennridge Community Center to discuss a fraud alert service to protect your home’s title from theft. Staff will be on hand to register your title after the discussion. Once signed up, you will be alerted when any documents in your name have been submitted to the Recorder of Deeds office. Additionally, Jen Schorn, the Bucks County District Attorney, will be speaking about current trends in criminal activity related to fraud and how to protect yourself. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to our district office by calling 215-489-2126. I hope to see you there.”

 

 Cash Bingo – Fundraiser to benefit Pennridge Community Center, Saturday, April 6, 2024. There are 17 regular games of bingo one winner will win $100.00 cash for each game. 2 special games each worth $250.00 cash (sold separately). Mystery Cash table money bags containing cash with $25.00 being the lowest amount and (3) $100.00 being the highest amount, a raffle with baskets, new designer purses plus wallets with $50.00 in each wallet and a 50/50 raffle, (all sold separately). We will be selling hot food, snacks, desserts, and beverages. Please refrain from brining your own food. Tickets are $30.00 each. Doors open at 11:30, games begin at 1:00. Call 215-453-7027 or 309-361-8300 or email: manager.pcsc@yahoo.com" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:manager.pcsc@yahoo.com" style="outline:none !important;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;orphans:2;widows:2;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;word-spacing:0px">manager.pcsc@yahoo.com, or visit the Center to purchase tickets.  Pennridge Community Center 146 East Main Street Perkasie, PA (physical location is Silverdale). pennridge community center.org for full details.


Bolton’s Farm Market – Wednesday, March 13th. Free event held at Pennridge Community Center. Come and enjoy a wonderful program from our neighbor Bolton’s Farm Market. They are a family owned and operated Poultry and Beef farm for almost 90 years. They raise their own turkey’s, chicken, and beef from start to finish. Call Pennridge Community Center for more information at 215-453-7027. Starts at 10:30.

 

FREE SHREDDING EVENT: Friday, May 17th, 10am-noon. Pennridge Community Center, 146 E. Main Street, Perkasie (located in Silverdale). Limited 5 boxes or bags. No folders with metal. No paper clips. While this is a free event, donations are appreciated. Area Agency on Aging is sponsoring this event. May is older Americans month.

Vermont Trip, June 10 -14, 2024 – There are still seats left for this trip. If you have already signed up for this trip your final payment is due by March 26h. If you are buying the trip insurance, they have changed how they are handling the insurance payment. You will no longer be writing a check separate to them and giving it to me. Anyone already signed up please call me so I can go over this new procedure. This trip is $870.00 for double room and a single room is an additional $245.00.

 

Beautiful Wellsboro, September 16 – 17, 2024 – There are still seats left for this trip, (see page 5 for full details). Anyone who has already told me they are going on this trip please call me and confirm you are still going on this trip. I will also need more information from you.


 

 Day Trips are with Perkiomen Tours departing  from our Center. Call 215-453-7027 or          309-361-8300, email manager.pcsc@yahoo.com" or stop in the Center for information. 

 Book Club - 10:00 am - 11:00 am,  Book Club every 1st Monday of the month from September - May. (no book club on Holidays and bad weather), 

  Our Thrift Shop is open every Tuesday, from 9:00 am - noon  (closed on Holidays and bad weather). Every 1st Tuesday of the month everything is 50% off.

 

Free Access to Pennsylvania Records on Ancestry

Visit www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/Research-Online/Pages/Ancestry-PA.aspx


LIHEAP/Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program

If you need help paying your heating bills, or have a heating emergency. LIHEAP may be able to help you. This program helps low income families pay their heating bills. LIHEAP is

a grant. You do not have to repay it. To receive help, apply between November 1, 2022 and April 28, 2023. Detailed information including income limits and applications are available at the Center.

 

Stop Telemarketing calls

Register for the national list and the Pennsylvania list.. Make sure to register all names in the household. You must call from the number you are registering. National Do Not Call 1-888-382-1222

Pennsylvania Do Not Call 1-888-777-3406

 

Computer Use Assistance

Ray Gilby will be using his many years of using a computer to help others do the same. He is providing assistance tailored to the participant’s need. The need can include using the computer (mouse, touch pad, touch screen), using Microsoft (Word, Spreadsheets, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint), Email or using the internet. Each session will consider the existing knowledge and additional needs of the participant(s). Assistance will be scheduled based on the participant(s) and Ray’s schedule and will be mornings Monday – Wednesday. If multiple participants need similar assistance, sessions may include multiple participants. Assistance can be conducted on the participant’s or center’s PC.

To schedule assistance, email Ray at RaymondGilby@gmail.com">RaymondGilby@gmail.com or call 215-453-7027 with the following information:

  • Name and phone number (cell if possible)
  • Desired training subject (if you don’t know, say that and we will start from there)
  • Mornings in the next two weeks that won’t work

Our Center is also available for rentals.

Our Membership renewal is on a Calendar year. We are now taking renewals and new Members.


 Pennridge Reopening

Masks are not required, but are strongly recommended if you are not fully vaccinated. If you are more comfortable wearing a mask, we fully support your decision to do so. Hand sanitizer will be available throughout the building. Increased cleaning protocols are in place. We strongly recommend that participants follow proper handwashing and respiratory etiquette. Please note, if guidelines for wearing masks change, our Center may be required to ask everyone to wear a mask. 

BCARSC Website -

The Bucks County Association of Retired and Senior Citizens has a new website.  BCARSC is the association that manages four Centers within Bucks County.  This new website has it own information as well as access to the four Centers it manages:  Neshaminy Activity Center, Central Bucks Activity Center, Pennridge Community Center, and Upper Bucks Activity Center.  Click here to access this new site.

 


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Please check our Events tab for details on programs and events that typically go on each year.  

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Details of events are listed in our Newsletter,

or you can always stop in at the Center

and check in the lobby for details and times.


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 Come inside and see our active members participating in activities

ranging from Line Dancing to Tai Chi, Chair Yoga,

Art Class, Billiards, Table Tennis, and more!  Members also play mahjongg,

bingo, and cards.  You may participate in frequent trips, monthly

 dances and make new friends over a nutritious lunch.

Our Calendar will provide more information about

activities, classes, trips and special events.

 

Please view some of the information on the tabs at the top of the page,

browse our Calendar, and  read our latest Newsletters.

Above all, visit us  at  the Center, if possible, and take a tour,

sit in  on a class or activity, or join us for lunch.


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 Center Closures

The Center will be closed for National Holidays.

Please refer to your Newsletter or our online Calendar for specific information.

 

Also, the Center will be closed due to inclement weather coinciding with the closing of

the Pennridge area schools (#757 on some radio stations).  If you are unsure of the

closure, WFMZ-TV69 (Allentown) will announce the school closing

by name, as does www.6ABC.com (TV station).


NOTICE - If the school district opens late the Center will also open late, by the same

number of hours.  Also, if the school district closes early, the center will close

early, by the same number of hours.  If the weather is bad and if the Center is open,

use common sense if you decide to drive to the Center.


CBS3 carries school closings online ahttp://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/schools/.  

 

You may also call the Center at 215-453-7027

 

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The Pennridge Community Center serves citizens ages 55 and older who reside in the boroughs of Dublin, Perkasie, Sellersville, Silverdale, and Telford (part) and the townships of Bedminster, East Rockhill, Hilltown, and West Rockhill Some members live outside this geographical area, and some maintain memberships at more than one Center.  All are welcome here.  The public is also welcome to join our classes, activities, special events, and trips, sometimes with an adjusted fee for non-members.
   

                                                 -Disclaimer-

All speakers, products, services or advertisements which are presented as part of the Pennridge Community Center activities or in this web site and our newsletters, are not necessarily endorsed in any way by this Center; nor are the opinions of speakers necessarily the opinions of this Center, nor are the representations and information presented tested or reviewed for accuracy or reliability by the Center.

 

 

 

 
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