Senior centers get laptops
The city is closing half of its senior centers due to budget cuts, but it will add at least five new laptops at those that remain.
At a meeting of the Board of Alderman Human Services Committee on Tuesday night, the eight board members present voted to apply to and accept a $10,000 grant from the Connecticut Department of Social Services to purchase 10 laptop computers for the city’s three senior centers — Dixwell, Eastshore and Atwater — and the Department of Elderly Services.
The decision comes about three weeks after Mayor John DeStefano Jr. announced that three other...
I think is is great that the city is taking steps top bring technology into the senior centers. It is a basis to broaden the programs offered to seniors and to attract the boomer population in the area.