Dear Editor,
About the senior center in Independence Township, I feel a new senior center is really needed.
In the past 10 years, it has been voted on, talked about, mulled over, and dissected by different groups and people.
An article in your paper caught my eye on the above thought. Next to ‘South Sashabaw to be demolished? (June 13 edition), for approximately $60,000, was ‘Senior center interim project gets the go-ahead,? for $250,000.
I understand the South Sashabaw school had been looked at by a senior-center advisory committee, with the cost being over $100,000 to fix it.
However, the school board wanted to lease it, not sign it over, to the township for a senior center.
We already paid for the building.
It would have just gone from one part of the community to another. Who is trying to look good here?
Give the building to the seniors and forget it. Don’t spend the money for nothing, on its demolition.
The township could have taken this $310,000 and fixed up South Sashabaw Elementary into a senior center. It had plenty of square footage, gym, and yard for seniors.
Let’s use some common sense and work together for a much needed senior center.
Leonard Graunstadt
Independence Township