A Senior Citizens Center
The park also serves as the center for an array of community services oriented towards the senior citizens community. Within the park are the offices of the non-profit organization running the park. It has an eight-member staff including a social worker, a nurse, and a recreation leader.
Some of the free services the park offers are:
- Health clinics with physicians
- Escorted transportation to medical appointments
- Especially adapted exercises and physical education programs, including strolls at other passive city parks
- Guided cultural day tours to out-of-town attractions
- Summer weekend-long outings to island beaches
- Annual Christmas, Thanksgiving, Holy Week, Mother's and Father's Day celebrations.
- Social exchange trips to other similar groups in the island
- Domino tournaments area schoolchildren
- Talent shows and educational lectures oriented to the senior citizen population.
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