Let our light shine! On Saturday, May 21, LSS will join with hundreds of Christian volunteers across the St. Louis region for a day of community service as part of Send Me Saturday, an event coordinated by Send Me St. Louis. In addition to hosting volunteer teams at Laclede Groves and Hidden Lake, LSS is [...]
Patch.com posted a story over the weekend about Lila Joy Strecker, a resident of Hilltop Manor and one of Eureka’s finest working poets. At 80 years of age, Lila creates poems that draw on eight decades of experiences, many of which were inspired by Scripture. Pictured here with her dog Zack, Lila has also penned [...]
More than 50 of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church’s youngest parishioners visited the church’s next door neighbors last Sunday for a huge Easter Egg hunt, held on the ground of LSS’ Hilltop Manor affordable housing community in Eureka. Hilltop’s residents pulled out all the stops for their young guests, coloring more than 700 eggs and donating [...]
Lutheran Senior Services invites you to a special forum on how new changes to health care laws will impact older adults in Missouri. Join Gov. Bob Holden (Holden Public Policy Forum, Webster University) and Dr. James Kimmey (President and CEO, Missouri Foundation for Health) as they discuss the Affordable Health Act, coming changes to Medicare [...]
Cathy Barton, LSS’ director of Living Safe Technologies, was interviewed by the Ladue News recently on the program’s new remotely monitored medication management program. The new offering combines a refillable MedReady dispenser unit combined with a monitoring device that hooks up to the client’s phone line. The monitoring device sends an alert to a caregiver [...]
Mark it on your calendar: Thursday, June 23, will be the third annual LSS Night at the Ballpark! Join LSS residents, staff, and families at Busch Stadium to see your St. Louis Cardinals take on the Philadelphia Phillies! Reduced ticket prices make it easy to take the whole family, and you can purchase the 2011 [...]
Laclede Groves residents Ray and Barbara Balzer were the subject of a full page article in today’s edition of the Webster-Kirkwood Times. From the article by Linda Briggs-Harty: Plane, train, automobile or cruise line: the Balzers of Webster Groves love travel by any means. But they prefer touring by trike, on a Honda Goldwing 1500 [...]
Ven Houts, a volunteer with LSS’ Volunteer Money Management Program, was recently spotlighted in an article by the Suburban Journals for his efforts. After his retirement six years ago, Houts dedicated himself to staying active; today, he serves on a variety of boards and helps seniors handle day-to-day financial tasks. “When you first meet your [...]
By Jeff Browning, LSS For some people, it can be one of the most daunting conversations they’ll ever have — bringing up the possibility that their parents might need to move into an assisted living community. With the average lifespan getting longer each year, many people will need additional care in their lifetimes. The question [...]
More than a dozen members of Webster Groves High School’s sophomore class visited LSS’ Laclede Groves community Tuesday, treating residents there to a free car cleaning. “All the sophomores are spending the day engaging in service projects,” says Lizzie Thomson, who, along with fellow teacher Philip Wojak, served as the faculty advisor for the event. [...]
