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WILL KOWALSKI
Sports Editor/Asst. Editor

An open house called the Kool
Center Senior Center Workshop
took place on June 27, during which
citizens filled out surveys regarding
what programs and amenities they’d
like to see come to the Kool Family
Community Center in downtown
Battle Creek by year’s end.
The workshop was headed by Rod
Auton of Calhoun County Senior
Services, Kellogg Co. retiree and
senior ambassador Cheryl Roberts
and Anne Clark of Senior Health
Partners.
Auton on June 27 explained what
the workshop was all about:
“This facility quit being a senior
center before COVID time. It started
off as a senior center with Burnham
Brook, but then over time it was
found that it wasn’t financially stable
with that structure,” Auton said.
“So, the Battle Creek Community
Foundation got involved, the Kool
Family Community Center went

Behind (left to right) Anne Clarke, Rod Auton and Cheryl Roberts in this photo

are senior center surveys being filled out by local citizens. (Shopper News photo

by Will Kowalski)

Senior center survey to help guide Kool Family Community Center’s future

from being a senior center to a gen-

eral community center with other

types of activities along with some

continued senior activities – they had

a pool table and cards and stuff – and

the site also continued to have sev-

eral agencies here, including Meals

On Wheels, with the meals being

prepared here.

“But what we’ve been doing the

last four months here is planning,

because we want to build a much

stronger program base for seniors,”

continued Auton. “This site will

continue to be the Kool Center, but

we just want to enhance the senior

center aspect by adding more senior

center activities – making it kind of

a one-stop shop for seniors so that

when an older adult comes here, they

get activity services to go along with

the service agencies here, so they

don’t have to go all over town to find

them.”

Auton said more activities and pro-

grams for seniors at the site would

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