Scottsboro Senior Center has long been a place where senior citizens can socialize and enjoy activities. When COVID-19 began to make its way stateside, senior citizens were immediately placed near the top in vulnerability and measures needed to be taken to ensure their safety.
While Gov. Kay Iveyâs Safer Apart order allows for senior centers across Alabama to re-open beginning Monday, April 19, the seven senior centers in Jackson County will remain closed for the time being.
In a press release, Jackson County Nutrition Coordinator Linda Larcom of the Jackson County Council on Aging cited that while senior centers are allowed to re-open, the guidelines for re-opening âare so restrictiveâ that Jackson County Senior Centers decided to remain closed for the time being.