Don’t close senior centre

This is a letter of concern and support for the College Heights Seniors (North Central Seniors Club).

The decision of School Board 57 to close and board up the resource centre on Gladstone Drive has ousted them from the club meeting place. For the past five years, it has been a home for the senior club.

The options left are very limited. They are either to close, join a downtown senior club, or move downtown and rent space. In College Heights rental locations are too small and expensive, or are unavailable.

All these options are an added burden and stress on people of limited income, some with physical limitations. The ability to drive, the locations of bus routes and access outside the more stressful environment of the city centre, are also factors that have influenced a determination to serve the members in their own area.

Please add your voice to request the school board reconsider and allow the senior club to continue at Gladstone.

They don't break windows and, if the heat is on anyway and the school board continues to collect the rent, does the taxpayer not win?

June Hills

Prince George