Christmas in July for Ottumwa Senior Center

Christmas in July for Ottumwa Senior Center
City, county pledge combined $14,000 to senior center

By SCOTT NILES and MATT MILNER Courier staff writers


OTTUMWA — Ottumwa’s senior center received two big boosts Tuesday and a spokesman said it would be the last time the center sought government assistance.


The Wapello County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to take $6,000 earmarked for the Seneca Area Agency on Aging from the county’s budget and gave it directly to the Ottumwa Senior Center. The county currently contributes $2,000 to the center. City Council members pledged $8,000 to the center

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