Date: 6/2/2021
….as well we should have. The children have their playground and new school, the police have a new building and the firemen have their new building.
Now, it is time for the senior citizens in this grand town of Wilbraham to have their new senior center.
At the 1970 town meeting the Council on Aging was appointed and confirmed. The senior groups started out in 1975 with the Young At Heart, who met at the Veterans Post #451 building on Tinkham Road (now The Children’s Museum); then, in 1980, to the Mile Tree School on Main Street; then, in 1991, they met at The Pines on Stony Hill Road. As of 2003, we are located at the YMCA building on Boston Road. None of the locations were ever sufficient to house the large senior population.
No more temporary facility! A new senior center is the way to go.
Senior population (those 60+) statistics:
• June 2012, senior population 3,711, information from Senior Center Needs Study.
• April 2019, senior population 4,267, information from Town Clerk’s office of Wilbraham.
• December 2020, senior population, 4,428, information from Town Clerk’s office of Wilbraham.
• It is estimated the Wilbraham senior population will increase 30 percent to 5,747 by 2030. Presently, our senior population is 38 percent of the town’s adult population and growing.
Mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, and all of their children who are able to vote, we are counting on you – as you, through the years, have counted on us. Go out and vote for the new senior center!
Theresa Munn
Director of Elder Affairs
