BAKE SALE TODAY AIDS NEW CENTER; SENIOR CITIZENS WILL BAKE GOODIES

A bake sale today at the Cape Girardeau Senior Center will help raise money for the center's new building.

The sale will be held from 9 a.m. to noon. Homemade cakes, pies, breads, cupcakes, and some sugar-free items will be sold.

The Senior Center borrowed $400,000 for construction of the new building at 921 N. Clark Street.

Now the seniors must make monthly payments on that loan.

Jo Nelle Lingo, administrator, said, "We are doing a variety of fundraising activities. We have a ways and means committee out looking for donations. We are doing everything we can to help ourselves. We need that money to pay for our mortgage.

Lingo said preliminary construction work is nearly complete, and the concrete foundation at the new building is scheduled to be poured this week.

The new building will have 8,040 square feet of floor space and will be the first building the senior center has ever owned.

It currently rents space at 232 Broadway from the Cape Civic Center, a teen program. Senior officials have said the Broadway space is two small and has inadequate space.