Senior Center News

Good start to 2012 at MRSC

The new year started off with a bang in Buena Vista with the receipt of significant in-kind donations. Grace Mullen, one of Mrs C’s Singers and a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints, arranged to obtain $1,000 in goods from The Bishops’ Storehouse in North Carolina. Nearly 20 LDS volunteers delivered hand soap, toilet paper, dish soap, laundry detergent, deodorant, shampoo, powdered cleanser, toothbrushes, and toothpaste. These items will be distributed, along with monthly food packages from Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, to about 35 low-income seniors.

Earl Edwards, an IT Specialist at Washington and Lee and long-time friend of MRSC, delivered 9 computers, flat-screen monitors, keyboards and mice (mouses?) along with a laser printer, to replace failed or failing equipment in MRSC’s Computer Lab. These items were replaced at W&L as part of an upgrade program. Earl reformatted each computer’s hard drive, installed operating systems, Microsoft Office, and DeepFreeze, and established the “new” computers’ network. With reliable equipment once again, we can restart our very popular Intro to Computers courses.

January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment