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Library and Mount Olympus Senior Center outline programs and services for Cottonwood Heights residents
Summary
Library staff and the Mount Olympus Senior Center manager gave updates during public comment about upcoming library programs and senior-center services, including staff training, preschool programming, daily lunch and transportation status.
Maggie Mills, speaking for the Cottonwood Heights library, and Olivia Snyder, manager of the Mount Olympus Senior Center, briefed the council during the public-comment period on Oct. 7 about programs and services available to residents.
Maggie Mills said preschool programming is under way with activities on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, and listed events including a teen origami session that will feature a pumpkin frame, a nonfiction book club selection (Polar Vortex) and a Babcock Performing Readers event at 7 p.m. She noted the library will be closed on Monday the 13th for an all-day staff training at the Viridian and said the library will offer seasonal craft programming inspired by H.P. Lovecraft.
Olivia Snyder introduced herself as center manager at the Mount Olympus Senior Center, which she said serves people living near Holiday, Mill Creek and Cottonwood Heights. Snyder described daily lunch service from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., a range of exercise and educational classes, monthly AARP driver-safety offerings and a virtual-senior program begun during COVID that provides online and self-guided courses. She said membership is free for people 60 and over and that lunch is a suggested donation.
Snyder said the center currently lacks a driver for transportation but is coordinating with city staff to restore pickup within city boundaries when staffing allows. She added that she has shared the center’s email blast with city staff for distribution and plans to provide printed calendars for display.
