About 25 people attended last night’s Wallingford Community Council meeting at the Good Shepherd Center, including Wallingford Community Senior Center and WCC Board members, Senior Center members and local residents. The first hour of the meeting centered around a discussion of the WCSC’s future, which addressed potential donors who have recently stepped forward and the necessity for a stronger and better-equipped Board to help draw up a sustainable business model.

Kathleen Cromp of the Senior Center, who led the discussion, started off by praising the joint efforts of the community in raising a whopping $11,000 over the past few weeks. …

While they originally planned to make a decision by Thanksgiving, the Wallingford Senior Center is still on the fence about whether or not they’ll remain open. Surprising gains in community support over the past few weeks have given the Center new hope and the potential to keep their doors open after all.

Due to the unexpected outpouring of community backing from the online auction and the soup-line fundraiser two weeks ago, the WCSC Board and Wallingford Community Council believe that the community will play a far larger role than they initially imagined and the public is now being figured …

Three weeks into the closure of the Wallingford Senior Center, save for a few programs and one remaining staff member, the now ghost town of a building exploded with bluegrass music and the energized voices of well over 100 people last night. In attendance were staff members, the Center’s Board of Directors, members from the Chamber of Commerce and the Wallingford Community Council, local seniors, families and notable local politicians: 2009 mayoral candidate, Joe Mallahan and city councilmember, Tom Rasmussen.

The line just to get in was out the door and down the hall. People doled …