Smelter City Senior Center open on Fridays again

Last Friday was the first one the Smelter City Senior Center at the Metcalf was open since the COVID-19 pandemic, a goal the center’s director Leigha Bates has held since she took the position more than a year ago. Bates said the opportunity to reopen on Fridays is solely due to the mill levies Anaconda-Deer Lodge County residents voted to approve earlier this year. “We needed the mill levies to become solvent again,” Bates said. “But one of my main goals, and the reason why I wrote that the way I did, was to reopen on Fridays and support the…