Senior Center may reopen before fall
RICHMOND – Changes looming for the Ray County Senior Center include a possible summer versus fall reopening.
Center Director Pat Mills talked about reopening in about five weeks.
“Things are changing so fast,” she said. “We’re trying to shoot for a July opening.”
Because the Mid-America Regional Council in Kansas City provides food the center feeds patrons, Mills said the center takes directions from MARC, which closed the center until fall. But that might change because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has relaxed health guidelines, now that people are getting COVID-19 shots.
“Ray County Health Department has to OK my (reopening) plan, and then I have to send it to the Mid-America Regional Council to get it OK’d up there,” Mills said. “We’re hoping that gets done, and we can go forth in July.”
If all goes as planned, the center will reopen Thursday, July 1.
Senior centers in Liberty and Blue Springs also have submitted reopening plans to MARC, she said.
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