Senior center seeks more space

With a few rooms emptying out at the old Roosevelt Elementary School building, Golden Hour Senior Center is looking at expanding into some of the freed-up space.

Executive Director Beth Whitman said the center’s offerings are expanding and with additional space in the building as a result of relocations to the county’s Health and Human Services building in Rock Springs, believes the senior center can utilize more space.

“We are very busy,” Whitman told the Sweetwater County Commissioners Tuesday morning.

The building, which houses the senior center and the food bank, is owned and maintained by the county.

Whitman said seniors are the fastest growing population in the nation, with Wyoming poised to have the third-largest population of seniors per capita. As a result, demand for services offered by the center increases. The center already hosts a number of activities, along with lunch service and health clinics.

Whitman wants to utilize other portions to provide services like a movie viewing room that gives seniors a chance to stream movies and television shows from internet-based providers and a pottery and craft room, which would use a donated kiln the center received as a donation.

Commissioner Wally Johnson said the vacated areas have generated some interest amongst other organizations outside of Golden Hour Senior Center, while Commissioner Reid West believes the county should spend some time to evaluate the vacated space before promising the space to the interested groups.

However, Commissioner Don Van Matre, who was selected to help hear requests for the building, thinks a number of organizations looking at the additional space can be accommodated.

“You may be pleasantly surprised with what we come up with,” Van Matre told Whitman.

 

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