Moscow Senior Center

1912 Center
412 East Third Street
Moscow, Idaho 83843
(208) 882-1562
(phone rings in kitchen and Senior Center)
E-mail: friendly.neighbors@yahoo.com

Seniors gather in the Senior Center (located in the 1912 Center) for many activities, including card playing (bridge and pinochle), bingo on Friday mornings, music, computer instruction and use, and socializing throughout the week. The Senior Center is free and open to the public from 9:00 AM until 4:00 PM Monday through Friday (closed on holidays). A new project, Operation Warm Up, has begun. This project includes knitting or crocheting caps, mittens, lap robes, etc. from yarn provided, for distribution throughout the community. Anyone interested in activities in the Moscow Senior Center can call the Center at (208) 882-1562.

The coffee pot is always on at the center. The center has a color TV with many cable channels along with a DVD/VCR player. There is a large library of books as well as a number of magazines. Some of the regularly scheduled activities include Friendly Neighbors meetings, Diabetes and Blindness Support Group, Travel Club meetings, bingo, genealogy, bridge, pinochle, computer assistance, jigsaw puzzles, movies, and more.

The center has four desktop computers (PCs) and one IBM ThinkPad laptop that are available for use by seniors (55+); all PCs and the wireless laptop can access the internet at high speeds, and all PCs can print to a color printer. We also have a web cam (web camera) for use with a free Skype account to make free video calls to other Skype users (anywhere in the world!).
The 1912 Center is a free wifi "hot spot," so bring your laptop.
(Internet access courtesy of First Step Internet and the City of Moscow.)

Photos of the Senior Center

Chart of Weekly Activities at the Senior Center

Bus to Worley Casino
There is a free bus to the Worley Casino one Wednesday of each month. For more information, call Shirley at (208) 882-5905.

Quad City Travel Club
The Quad City Travel Club has monthly meetings at the Senior Center the first Tuesday of the month at 10:30 AM. Meetings include refreshments, videos, and door prizes.

Friendly Neighbors Senior Newsletters (including issues formatted for the visually challenged)

Friendly Neighbors Senior Lunches

The Moscow senior meal site, operated by the "Friendly Neighbors," is in the Great Room of the 1912 Center and hot, low cost, nutritious lunches are served on Tuesday and Thursday with social time and program at 11:30 AM and lunch served at noon. The suggested donation for a meal for seniors (60+) is $4.00; meals for non-seniors are $6.00.

Meals can be arranged for home delivery, too. For information on meal delivery, call Jenny Zorens of the Area Agency on Aging in Lewiston at (800) 877-3206.

The Old Time Fiddlers entertain senior luncheon-goers on the last Thursday of the month, except they do not perform in the summer months of June, July, and August.

Photos of Senior Lunches

Lunch Menu for August 2010

Lunch Menu for September 2010

Map to locate meal site in Moscow's 1912 Center at 412 East Third Street (across from the Moscow High School)

Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and WA-ID Volunteer Center

The regional RSVP coordinator from Lewiston is not currently coming to the Moscow Senior Center. The WA-ID Volunteer Center, Inc. in Lewiston may be reached toll-free at 888-546-7787, or their toll number is 208-746-7787. RSVP is always looking for new volunteers and new placements in the community. Moscow area volunteers staff the Moscow Senior Center.

The RSVP program is part of the Senior Corps.