HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY DONATES $1,000 TO SENIORS’ CENTRE TO HELP THEM KEEP GROWING POST-COVID

GRAVENHURST — Membership is returning to pre-COVID numbers here at the Gravenhurst Seniors Active Living Centre.

Attendance at activities is busy including a round-robin shuffleboard tournament and lunch today.

Yesterday’s weekly Tuesday bingo had about a dozen out with president Loulla Witney calling the numbers.

It’s been a tough couple of years, but she says they’ve gotten through it as the pandemic forced them to be closed for much of it.

But costs continued as membership plummeted.

Now, though, seniors and their supporters have signed up again.

There are 470 now — down from 526 pre-COVID.

They expect more snowbirds will be remaining home and joining again.

It’s one of the busiest Seniors’ centres in Muskoka — if not Ontario.

And to help them out, the Gravenhurst Horticultural Society donated $1,000 to keep them yesterday to keep them going — while paying their rent for upcoming year.

It will help them with their gardens and new plantings along a south wall next to an apartment complex and townhouses being built next door.

The “Hort” meets the third Tuesday evening of the month and wanted to ensure they continued to have a meeting hall for their speaker and activity nights and summer plant show.

Gardeners and wannabe green thumbers are always.

See their Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/gravenhursthorticulturalsociety/

Also see the Gravenhurst Seniors’ Centre website for the list of activities at: https://www.gravenhurst.ca/en/services-and-info/senior-centre.aspx