Liberty seniors get advice on new assistance at annual breakfast today

LIBERTY

In a corner booth at the West Fork Roadhouse on Belmont Avenue on Tuesday morning, Barbara Berndt sat contemplating why she’d come to the township’s annual Senior Watch breakfast.

Yes, she said, she’s used the program for a few years now. It offers wellness checks, lockboxes for emergency police and fire rescue entries, and free smoke alarms.

She gets a wellness check from township police and fire secretaries who make those phone calls through the program. Hers is once a week, and that’s appreciated.

But she’d come to the breakfast for another reason: She just wanted to get out of the house and maybe try to meet some people.

It did seem to be a nice treat — an invitation-only buffet breakfast for program members that the township pays for with Trumbull County senior levy taxes.

Berndt smiled as she looked across the room at the tables filled with people eating and chatting.

They’d just finished listening to a speaker — Megan Conzett from the Trumbull County Area Agency on Aging. She’d talked about a new home-repairs program the agency is offering that will replace hot-water tanks, deal with leaky pipes, repair roofs and install handicap ramps.

Read more about the event in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.