Third and Center

05/31/2026

☀️ Check out what’s in store at the Ironton Senior Center in June! ☀️

The Ironton Senior Center program acts as a third space for area seniors, providing socialization, engaging activities, connection to community resources, and a congregate meal service program.

The Ironton Senior Center is located on the 2nd Floor of the Park Avenue Apartments, 202 Park Ave., Ironton, OH. The center is open each week on Monday, Wednesday & Friday. The Ironton Senior Center opens at 9:30 am for social hour. Programming begins at 10:15 am, and lunch is served at 11:30 am.
Title III- Congregate Meals are free for qualified seniors (age 60+). Guest meals can be purchased for $10. Please call or text (740) 377-5046 by 10 am on the day of service to reserve your meal. 30 meal reservations will be accepted each day.

The Ironton Senior Center is welcoming new members! 🩷

05/30/2026

Come create with us today from 11-1 at Briggs Lawrence County Public Library ! Lots of fun for the kiddos as we kick off the Summer Reading Program. 📖🩷

05/24/2026

♥️ May fun at the Ironton Senior Center 💙

The seniors have had an eventful month! We kicked off May with a trip to CCTC for Senior Citizen’s Day, celebrated Mother’s Day with beautiful flower arrangements from our friends at The Common Soil Collective, and took a road trip to Jackson, Ohio for shopping and lunch!
If you’re an area senior looking for fun activities, making new friends, community connections, and nutritious meals, the Ironton Senior Center would love to welcome you!
If you’re a community member or business interested in supporting the services provided at the center, send us a message.
The center is located on the 2nd Floor of the Park Ave. Apartments (202 Park Ave) in Ironton and operates on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from
9:30am- noon, with lunch served at 11:30am.

As a reminder the Senior Center will be closed on Monday, May 25th in observance of Memorial Day.

05/19/2026

Everyone loves a glow up! A huge THANK YOU to everyone that braved the heat yesterday to leave your mark on Downtown Ironton at the 6th Annual Crosswalk Painting Event ! We painted, laughed, danced, and ate popsicles until our hearts were content. Any day we spend in community is a day well spent. 🩷

05/16/2026

☀️Don’t let today’s weather fool you. We’re counting on a beautiful sun-filled day for tomorrow’s Crosswalk Painting Event!
Our friends from Sherwin-Williams of Ironton loaded us up with paint and all the supplies needed to make the project a success and the popsicles are already frozen! Our friends from Ohio State - Lawrence County Extension will be on site with fun activities & pedestrian safety tips. All we need is you! We hope you can join us for a great day of community & creativity!

🎨 Sunday, May 17th
🖌️ 1-3 pm, Rotary Fountain, 211 Center St.
Downtown Ironton

Volunteers- please arrive around 10 am.

🚦⚠️ The intersections surrounding the fountain area (2nd & Center, 4th & Center, and 3rd St. from Park to Center) will be closed to traffic from 9:30 a.m to 5:00p.m. to ensure the safety of participants and drying time for the artwork. ⚠️🚦

05/15/2026

Happy Birthday to one of our absolute favorites James Gordon!!! 🎉🎣💛

Whether he’s out fishing, helping with community events, painting downtown streets, showing up for local kids or carrying approximately 47 fishing poles at once 😂; James brings kindness, laughter and heart everywhere he goes!

James is the kind of person who makes people feel welcomed, supported and included just by being himself. He shows up for this community again and again; always willing to lend a hand, share a smile and jump into whatever wild idea we come up with next.

We are so grateful for his friendship, his dedication to Third & Center and the joy he brings to every project and event. ❤️

Help us wish our fishing loving, community supporting, all around wonderful board member the happiest of birthdays!! 🥳🐟

05/14/2026

♥️ Community Partner Spotlight ♥️

We are extremely grateful for our continued partnership with UK King's Daughters! They have been a longstanding supporter of our organization, enthusiastically granted use of the community garden space to our newest initiative, The Common Soil Collective, and this week gifted us an AED machine through their Community Outreach Program! This life saving tool will be with us at community events and at the Ironton Senior Center. We hope we never have to put it to use, but we are so thankful to have it on hand just in case. ♥️

Collaborative partnerships create thriving communities, and we are so appreciative of the support we receive!

05/07/2026

We are extremely grateful for the opportunity to provide services for seniors in our community and for the partnership with Area Agency on Aging District 7 - Ohio!

Representatives from the Area Agency on Aging District 7, Lawrence County Senior Center (Proctorville), and Third and Center / Ironton Senior Center (Park Avenue) met this week with Lawrence County Commissioners in Ironton for a proclamation signing in celebration of Older Americans Month in May. In 2025, the AAA7 served 1,052 individuals in Lawrence County.