Fairfield explained that with a limited budget, the staff didn't have the resources to do all that has been done through the center. So we needed the community to help run things, and we would make do. We'd invent stuff. Today more than 100 different activities go on each month at the Senior Resource Center and vary from city council chats to health discussions, from technical presentations to knitting circles, from cooking classes to Yoga and Tai Chi. Fairfield said his department has served a strong demand for blood draws, tax workshops, and health information.
People vote with their bodies.
They come in great swarms for these. We give them what they want. And it accidentally leveraged the senior community into doing it for themselves. They are such an integral part of what we offer-human beings need to share and the Senior Resource Center was the happy receptacle for the sharing. I've seen groups get born, grow, die, and we grieve.