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Show Kays, gives land for senior center By TOM BUSSELBERG Reflex-Journal Editor FARMINGTON - The Kaysvil-le Kaysvil-le City Council has offered ground for construction of a senior citizens center. NORTH Salt Lake and West Point, meanwhile, feel their communities' com-munities' needs are currently being sufficiently met through Golden Years in Bountiful and Heritage Center in Clearfield. A facilities committee, chaired by Helen Hough of Fruit Heights, is studying needs to serve the county's coun-ty's 11,000-plus senior citizens. Centers are now located at Bountiful, Bounti-ful, Kaysville and Clearfield that are county-owned while Layton operates its own facility. NOTING the present Kaysville center, directed by Patsy Search, is "overcrowded, it's done very well" in attracting and serving senior citizens, Mrs. Johnson said "the location is very good." "A lot of elderly live nearby" and can walk or drive only a few blocks to the facility located on the city hall block. ALTHOUGH Kaysville has a senior center sketched into their master plan, Mrs. Johnson said she doesn't know if that's the best place for one. She turns to the county as a whole in pondering the question of whether senior centers (or libraries or other facilities) should be located lo-cated in each city. "The cost is prohibitive for every city" to have one. A VAN can pick up seniors and transport them to area facilities, she added, noting more emphasis is turning to homebound clients who don't need centers. While service patterns have been tabulated as part of the committee's com-mittee's survey, they're only a "small part" of future projects. "You'll have an entirely different" segment of eligible population in a few years, she emphasizes. THE COUNTY'S Aging Services reaches only a small percentage of seniors, Mrs. Johnson readily admits. In a recent month only about ab-out 1 ,500 different people came in that's only about one in seven of the seniors living in the county. "In one year, maybe we see a third" of the total, the veteran Aging Ag-ing Services director says. "The other two-third either don't need or don't want" the service, she continues. con-tinues. MOST OF the seniors are in that youngest 59-64 age group and "most of them work." The survey indicated a majority of those using the centers are in the 65-74 age bracket although the 75-85 bracket comes in second, followed by the 59-64. Of services offered, hot meals prepared by the Davis School District Dis-trict and served each weekday noon hour are the "hottest" items attracting 3,545 during the March sample month. Some 40 ate at Silver Sil-ver Age on an average day, 42 at Heritage and 92 at Golden Years. TRANSPORTATION drew about ab-out half that total. Some 425 males and 728 females were included in the survey. FORMATION of a non-profit corporation is being considered to help in construction of a new cen- Continued on page two m ipbw'wii sum fwnm m.t i.iifh lownjt.ni-iT Council on aging t Continued from page one tor. Aimed at "capital improvement" improve-ment" (construction) needs. Mrs. Johnson recalls a similar corporation corpora-tion was set up when Golden Years was built about eight years ago. The non-profit status allows for fund collection without govern- ment liability to inject tax monies to fill the kettle adequately. jp says. On top of that, tax-exemp A status for contributors can k J arranged and monies can't be bed by politicians for other put poses. j |