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Gold Country Community Council, Inc.

11350 McCourtney Road, Gate 2, Nevada County Fairgrounds

530-273-4961        Fax 530-273-0785

P.O. Box 968, Grass Valley, California  95945                  goldcountrycenter.org

Community Center Update:  March 2008

Incorporated on December 10, 1976,
Gold Country Community Council, Inc.  (formerly the Senior Citizens Foundation of Western Nevada County), operates the Gold Country Community Center and the High Noon Senior Nutrition Program. 

In addition GCCC, Inc. sponsors the Nevada County Youth Center and the Jean Lutz Firewood Program (each with its own expenses and streams of income)

The past year posed many challenges affecting participation and income.  Starting January 2^nd, half of the building was closed for repairs to the foundation under the kitchen.  All of the equipment was removed from the kitchen including the walk-in refrigerator and freezer and stored in the dining room. 

The nutrition program operated from the Nevada City Senior Apartments on Old Tunnel Road in the Brunswick basin.  There was an amazing effort of cooperation while we shared space with the staff at the apartments and meal delivery drivers figured out where to park and load the carriers with the meals.  During this time we also served meals in the dining room at the apartments, although fewer people than usual participated.   

There was approximately $7,000 in additional costs to the nutrition program directly related to serving in a remote location.  Severe weather and power outages also impacted service. 

The regularly scheduled fitness and dance classes were relocated to other buildings on the fairgrounds.  Students persevered in rainy and cold weather hiking to from the parking lot to these locations. 

We finally returned to full operation at the Community Center on March 12^th.    Two days later with more than 100 expected for our Corned Beef and Cabbage St. Patrick’s Celebration, we came to work only to find that the refrigerator had been improperly reinstalled and failed during the night causing a loss $600 in perishable food.  Ham was purchased to replace the spoiled food and we sort of saved the day.  The Friendship Wednesday volunteers helped to ease everyone through the disappointment of no Corned Beef and to enjoy the entertainment and being together.

Things looked brighter toward the end of March and we set to work on the best Celebrity Waiter Dinner ever, a Pirates’ Soiree.  We also convened a Town Hall Meeting to address the future of the Community center and then set about to have a Rent Party and attempt to raise the $36,000 required for rent for the year commencing July 1^st.  

Accomplishments

•        2,208 fitness/education/recreation class and activity hours offered
•        33,580 participants.
•        2,863 benefited accessed free services.

•        Volunteers delivered over 105 cord of firewood to Nevada County
•        HICAP - 172 counseling sessions for those on Medicare.
•        Monthly blood pressure monitoring - 165

•        Lab time with assistance twice a week for Computer     Learning Center 276 students

•        Friendship Wednesday – Lunch with entertainment and birthday celebrations
•       (Average 65 people x 33 weeks of operation) 2,145.

•        The Community Center received $9,193 in private donations.
•        $3,050 – Roamin’ Angels Car Club and Day of Giving Telethon
•        $6,143 – 78 individuals (average contribution, $79)

•        High Noon served 59,768 meals, 43,378 to 340 homebound seniors.
•        High Noon received $24,227 in private donations.
• 47 seniors were adopted to receive home delivered meals
•        $19,367 – from individuals (36 seniors adopted/9,000 meals)
•        $4,860 – from organizations and business partners (9 seniors adopted/2,250 meals)
• (Empire Mine Rose Garden, Grass Valley Rotary, McSweeny & Associates, Soroptimist International of the Sierra Foothills, Sierra Singles, Bruce Ivy Construction, Sierra Foothills Construction, Nevada County Contractors Association, Vietnam veterans of America)
•        Nevada County Community Service Block Grant provided $9,000 to serve 18 seniors 4,500 meals
•        Nevada County Community Partners funding provided $12,100 to serve 24 seniors

 

•        Over 100 volunteers for the Community Center and High Noon Nutrition
•        Contributed 15,616 hours of service – delivering meals, teaching computer classes, providing technical support, working events, booking travel, helping visitors, inputting data, helping to prepare meals, and more.
•        Valued at minimum wage (and no benefits), this amounts to $117,120 worth of labor donated to the Community Center and the Nutrition Program.

 Contributions to Rent Dollars

The Roamin Angels                                    $1,574

The Fruit Jar Pickers                                      522

The Knights of Pythias                                    500

Nevada City United Methodist Women              100

Craft Guild of Nevada County                          500

The Stroke Support Group                              100

Nevada City Lions                                          500

and hundreds of individuals with gifts of
of one dollar to several thousand for a total of
   $16,233

 

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Community Center Volunteers:

New: Volunteer positions available: Reception, Travel Escort and Booking, Kitchen Assistant, Meals on Wheels Driver, Event production, Publicity, Firewood Cutters and delivery.

Call 273-4961 for more information

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