By Lindsay Sauvageau

Last Friday, the Lunenburg Eagle House Senior Center and the Friendly Seniors were honored to receive a donation of $1,000 from the American Legion Post 283 to be used to help fund the Center’s evolving parking lot project.

Don Paradise, past commander of Post 283 and former Council On Aging van driver for the Eagle House and Arnie Rill, Meals on Wheels volunteer, WWII veteran and past Treasurer of Post 283 presented Center Director Doreen C. Noble and Lloyd Carlson, center member and president of the Friends of the Eagle House Inc. with a check for $1,000.

“I pushed very hard for the Legion to be pro-active in helping the parking lot,” said Paradise, a Vietnam and Korean War veteran. “As a former employee I made great friendships with the people who rode my bus; I knew the needs that come up daily with elderly people were significant. It was a challenge to obtain money from the Legion because of our other commitments but it was a great pleasure to see that we could help the Eagle House with money for the parking lot.”

The Lunenburg Senior Center currently has only nine parking spaces on the property with some access to street parking on Memorial Drive. Plans for a new parking lot call for the creation of 17 new parking spaces for the Center.
 

In these plans, a one-way drive will be built to the right side of the building, between the Center and Kid’s Kingdom. That drive will include several parking spaces directly along the building and will then lead into a separate parking lot behind the building where the rest of the parking will be located.

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