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The Xenia Adult Recreation and Services Center (XARSC) is located at 338 South Progress Drive in Xenia, Ohio 45385

Our telephone number is 937-376-4353. The DIRECT line to our Transportation Department is 937-376-3195

We are open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

To contact our Executive Director Judy A. Baker, you can email her at: jbaker@xarsc-seniorcenter.org

XENIA ADULT RECREATION AND SERVICES CENTER- WHO and WHAT are we?

Xenia Adult Recreation and Services center is a multi purpose senior center that offers MANY socialization opportunities for seniors 50 years of age and older. We want seniors to keep busy and find purpose in their lives. Staying ACTIVE and ENGAGED in life is a key to healthy aging! We offer a variety of daily activities, classes including Zumba, Line dancing, Yoga, Euchre, Bridge, American Mahjong, Billiards, quilting, Bible Study, Music,Bingo, Cornhole, Clubs such as Red Hatters & Grandparents Club, Luncheons, outings, trips.

Xenia Adult Recreation and Services Center (AKA:XARSC) is a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Organization, and a 1 stop resource for seniors 60 years of age and older. Resources such as Information and Referrals, Public benefits info and assistance, Medicare Counseling, Summer/Winter Energy assistance info/help with applications, Durable medical equipment Loans, Meals on Wheels, Info and linakge to the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP), Homemaker services, Medical and Non-medical Transportation services.

*WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS TO HAVING AN XARSC MEMBERSHIP?

Membership to XARSC is $25 per year for a single person and $40 per year for a couple. An XARSC Membership runs January-December each year, but you can join anytime. Your yearly Memberhsip includes a monthly jam packed informative newsletter mailed directly to your home. It is filled with everything you want to know about XARSC that month and includes a Directors report, Daily activity calendar (which includes programs and class times) special evnts, pool tournaments, euchre and Bridge game winners, The AJ EARLY Cafeteria menu, Upcoming trips and much more! AND did you know? Most classes are FREE to XARSC Members!! Not only ALL that but did you know that MEMBERS get reduced rates for Trips, class/activity fees. (if an instructor is paid) PLUS members who frequent the Cafeteria receive a ticket you can have punched each time you eat at the center, and your 11th meal is FREE!

Interested in Volunteering for XARSC? There are many ways to give the gift of time. Click on the link above left for the Volunteer Opportunities page! We LOVE our Volunteers!

The Senior Citizens "Club" was organized on November 1st, 1966 with 7 members, meeting at Christ Episcopal Church. It was organized as an outgrowth of a Community Action Council initiative under Dr. Vivian Lewis and Maggie McKnight became the Founder/Director.

In September of 1967 they opened their first thrift shop at 409 E. Main Street that formerly housed Greenes Shoe Repair owned by charter member Mrs. Eva Greene. Mrs. Maggie McKnight was instrumental in the growth of the senior center and became incorporated on 4-26-68

as a non profit agency. In 1968 Mrs. Edna McClelland was Program Chair, Mr. Dewey Jameson was the GASCC first Membership President and Mrs. Maggie McKnight was GASCC Coordinator. On January 1st, 1969 they moved downtown to the old Salvation Army building

located at 90 S. Detroit Street. In less than 2 years time they outgrew this building and moved to 117 East Main Street in 1971, formerly Pattersons Appliances. In 1972 GASCC they found a home in the former Methodist Parsonage at 101 W. Second Street.

In 1975 The City of Xenia offered the seniors use of a house at 108 W. Second St. $35,000 was raised by the senior center to remodel

the house. This was 'home" to the seniors until a new 10,000 sq. foot building was built on the land of the old Central Junior High School.

Naomi Trout, Executive Director since 1976, was instrumental in the opening of the brand new building located at 130 East Church St.

Mrs. Trout spent 27 years as Executive Director until 2003 when she retired and moved to California. Mrs. Trout passed away in 2025 but her memory lives on in our library. In 2003 Mrs. Judy Baker became the new XARSC Executive Director, and in 2017, under Judy's hard work and leadership, XARSC became a partner in the Xenia REACH Project along with the Xenia YMCA, Central State, Clark State and Kettering

Health Network. Ground was broken in 2018 and The REACH CENTER opened in January 2019.

REACH = Recreation, Education, Activity, Community and Health.