Senior Activity Center - Brenham TX
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About Us

Public Purpose

Washington County Healthy Living Association (WCHLA), the Senior Activity Center, follows the mandates of the Older Americans Act in pursuing two primary goals. The first is to give quality and dignity to the lives of senior citizens by promoting community involvement, healthy habits, and independent living. WCHLA's efforts include:
     •  teaching good health and nutritional habits    
     •  creating interaction between its senior citizens
         and their community
     •  providing higher education classes    
     •  encouraging peer camaraderie and group
         support, and . . . 
     •  just plain "having fun"   

Each works toward giving strength and support toward independence for senior citizens throughout their "golden years."
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Lillie and Vincent Krupka (donor of the "Krupka Van")
The Senior Activity Center's second goal is to give relief to the huge and growing costs of medical and nursing home expenses, which are primarily paid for by our tax dollars through Medicare and Medicaid. The average cost of nursing home care is about $3,500 per month, per person. If a senior citizen requires help from home health care attendants giving support in a senior's home, which enables that senior continued independence, those costs average only about $1,200 per month.
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Ruth Necker, Gladys Winkleman, Ruth Emshoff
Baby boomers started reaching their senior years four years ago and there are 74 million on the horizon. Between 2011 and 2029, a 'boomer' will turn 65 at the rate of 1 every 8 seconds! The cost of their care has become a national crisis that is only going to worsen unless lifestyle changes are made now. It obviously benefits us all to support seniors in their endeavors to stay involved, healthy and independent.
There will always be a need for nursing home care, but we must look to the future with a new vision for our growing senior population. We are living longer, and we must focus toward staying healthy, active and independent. That is WCHLA's mission; that is who we are; and that is what we strive to do—not just for the 900+ senior residents of Washington County, but for the benefit of all citizens of Washington County.

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors sets the policies and procedures for WCHLA which are mandated & governed by the Older Americans Act
CHAIRMAN
Willy Dilworth
 
VICE-CHAIRMAN
Gary Appelt
 
SECRETARY/TREASURER
Steve Miller
 
SENIOR CENTER
REPRESENTATIVES

Colleen Murphey
Annie Schulz
 
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Toy Kurtz

ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHAIR
Don Voelter

IT CHAIR
Doss Pruitt
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Toy Kurtz (Executive Director)
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Frank Blizzard, Sallie Blackie Sengel, Steve Miller, Don Voelter
BOARD MEMBERS
Lete Phillips
 
Barbara Hemmer

​George Dillingham
 
Dottie Schaer
 
Deanna Alfred

​Clarence Gerke
 
Janice Kana
 
​Elen Moncrieff

CITY OF BRENHAM
​REPRESENTATIVE

Danny Goss
 
WASHINGTON COUNTY REPRESENTATIVE
Luther Hueske

Contact information
for 2016-2017 ​board members:
board_of_directors__2018-19.pdf
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