MANISTEE — The Manistee County Council on Aging is gearing up to seek grant dollars to help them move forward with construction projects at their new home on St. Mary’s Parkway.
Dedicated as the Wagoner Community Center in 2018, the former church, rectory and parish hall are much more suited for providing services than the 4,000-square-foot River Street location that previously housed the council.
“We moved into the Wagoner Community Center in December of 2020, amid COVID-19, as we knew it was better to move while we were mostly shut down,” said Sarah Howard, the council’s executive director. “There is a tremendous amount of work to be done, and we will do it in stages, but getting folks safely back together is our primary goal.”
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