Beautifully and articulately said. 100% agree with your opinion. Sent from my iPhone
> On Nov 10, 2022, at 8:45 AM, Krystal Wood > <ccbccommunicationscommit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Community Center Building Committee- November, 2022 > > The vision: what is a Community Center, and why would Lincoln want to build > one? > > A Community Center not only reflects the community at whose heart it sits, it > strengthens that community. A Community Center is a year-round, > intergenerational > gathering place and activity center. A Community Center is a locus for a wide > variety of activities – health and fitness, social services, learning, > eating, socializing, creating, playing, participating. A Community Center > enriches the community by fostering organizational collaboration and by > housing an array of programs, for all ages. > > At its heart, the Community Center is a home for the Lincoln Council on Aging > & Human Services and the Parks & Recreation Department, both of which do much > more than most people realize, and both of which run constrained programs in > their current homes. The Community Center also provides a base for 25 other > community organizations whose work is critical to the quality of life in > Lincoln. But the vision of a Community Center on the Lincoln School campus is > of a building that exists not only to serve important organizational needs > and to optimize programming, though those might be adequate reasons for > building a new building, it is also of a building that will attract residents > of all ages to gather for coffee and meetings and informal activities. > > Lincoln has a sense of community – we have impromptu encounters at the > transfer > station and at Donelan’s, we have annual events like the Scarecrow Classic, > the Girl > Scouts Pancake Breakfast, the July 4 parade, and we have Town Meeting. But the > everyday contribution of a Community Center to the life of the community and > to the > sense of community can be far greater, and the possibilities are exciting – > because the number of people using the Center will be so much higher, because > the range of > activities will be much greater, because the opportunities for > intergenerational > interaction will expand, because the provision of social services will be > improved and > the organizations providing those services will be more robust. > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to Lincoln@lincolntalk.org. > Search the archives at http://lincoln.2330058.n4.nabble.com/. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/. > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. >
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