Columbia Senior Diners (Senior Citizens of Astoria, Inc.)

Sadly, the Columbia Senior Diners will discontinue in-house dining and deliveries at the Astoria Senior Center by the end of August, 2022.  The Northwest Senior and Disability Services  (NWSDS) nonprofit will take over lunch deliveries in September.  More info here.  And an article from The Astorian about the CSD closure.

Here's a little background on the CSD: In 1973, the Diners received non-profit status.  The founding mission was to provide reasonably priced lunches to seniors while they enjoyed the opportunity for conversation and socialization.​ For almost 50 years, the nonprofit has provided seniors a safe space to mingle and have lunches with one another.

The current feasibility of low cost, delicious lunches was accomplished by volunteer staff that served, washed dishes and ran the organization on a daily basis. In 2019, many hard-working volunteers contributed their time to serve almost 6,000 meals in the dining room and another 3,500 delivered lunches to seniors unable to leave their homes.  That is a total of 9,500 meals enjoyed by seniors in our community.

The aging demographics of Clatsop County created challenges that Columbia Senior Diners addressed by supporting seniors to live healthy, independent and socially richer relationships and lives.  The CSD can no longer sustain its nonprofit business model, so it is with heavy hearts that we announce the diner will be closing at the end of August, 2022.