(307) 754-4223
Powell Senior Center
We provide people aged 60+ with a comfortable place to socialize and meet their educational, nutritional, and physical needs in one place. For those unable to come to the center, we extend services to their homes and provide them with transportation services.
Our mission is to empower and encourage individuals in our community to be independent. We accomplish this mission through numerous collaborations throughout our community.
Office Hours
Monday - Friday: 8am - 4pm
Saturday and Sunday Closed
Physical Address:
248 North Gilbert Street
Powell, WY 82435
Mailing Address:
PO BOX 1156
Powell, WY 82435
Phone: (307) 754-4223
Email: psc@tritel.net
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The Powell Senior Center Needs YOUR Voice to Save Senior Services
May 2025
The Powell Senior Center needs YOUR voice to help us advocate for the essential services that we provide to our community.
Here is how you can help:
Urge Federal Legislators to:
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Reauthorize the Older Americans Act
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Eliminate proposed budget cuts to the nutrition program. These cuts would affect meals at the Powell Senior Center, the Rocky Mountain Manor, and home-delivered meals.
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Keep IIIB Funding Stable OR Offer an Increase. This funding affects transportation, exercise programs, crafts, cards, games, cinnamon rolls, etc.
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Reinstate programs that affect seniors that are being eliminated in the White House's proposed budget, such as Medicare/Social Security Assistance, Open Enrollment Help, Preventative Health, Adult Protection, Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP), and more.
Share your personal stories of how services provided by the Powell Senior Center affect you, your friends, and family by contacting the following people:
Senator John Barrasso
307 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
202-224-6441
866-235-9553
Senator Cynthia Lummis
127 A Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
202-224-3424
Representative Harriet Hageman
1227 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
202-225-2311
The Powell Senior Center Provides the Following Services:
Transportation Services
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transportation available Monday-Friday from 8:15 am to 3:45 pm
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once a month shopping trip to Walmart
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ADA-accessible vehicles for public transportation
Nutrition Services
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noon meals at the Powell Senior Center dining room, Monday-Friday
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noon meals at the Rocky Mountain Manor dining room, Monday-Saturday
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home-delivered meals within a 10-mile radius of city limits, Monday-Friday
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daily frozen entree meals available for purchase
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nutritional counseling with a registered dietician
Socialization and Entertainment
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cinnamon rolls and coffee every Wednesday at 9 am
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card games
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board games
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lending library (books, talking books, movies, puzzles)
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craft group
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musical entertainment
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two computers with Wi-Fi for public use
Preventative Health and Wellness
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foot clinic twice a month
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exercise classes three days a week
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blood pressure or oxygen level checks
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annual flu shot clinic in coordination with Public Health
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medical loan equipment
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health professional presentations and educational talks
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registered dietician presentations
Forms and Assistance/Information & Education/Client Advocate
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income tax preparation and filing
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LIEAP (low-income energy assistance forms)
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property tax rebate/refund forms
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low-income housing forms
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monthly VA counseling
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monthly police presentations
If we cannot help you, we refer you to other local agencies that can.
$7,500 Grant Ensures that the Powell Senior Center Can Continue to Provide Services to our Community
December 2024
Powell, WY - While the demand for the services from the Powell Senior Center continues to grow, our Federal and State funding was reduced by $70,643 for our current year. All senior centers in the State were affected by these deep reductions. To accommodate these reductions, we have reduced our budget by $15,000 and increased our suggested contribution for our meals to $4.00 per meal. We have also applied for additional funding from other sources. The inflated costs impact all our daily needs, like food, healthcare, fuel, utilities, housing (property tax/rent), and auto and home maintenance.
These increases have especially affected our seniors, who are on limited income from Social Security and what they have been able to save for retirement. We see the daily struggle with many of our clients who cannot afford what they need, but do not qualify for Medicaid. This grant award from the Wyoming Community Foundation will help us to continue to provide our services to community members and accommodate the increase in needs that we are seeing in Powell.
The Powell Senior Center is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports the physical, social, and mental wellness of seniors in the Powell community and surrounding areas. We provide hot nutritious meals, transportation, medical equipment on loan, and education on topics like health, nutrition, and safety. We offer exercise classes, games, and crafts as well as a safe place for seniors to socialize.
During Medicare Open Enrollment, (October 15 – December 7) the Powell Senior Center provided cost saving information and explained important changes for over 200 clients that needed to review their Medicare prescription drug coverage. The funds that we received from the Wyoming Community Foundation will strengthen the work we do here.
To learn more about the Powell Senior Center or to donate, visit www.powellseniorcenter, call the Senior Center at 307-754-4223, or contact Linda Dalton at director@powellseniorcenter.com.
The Wyoming Community Foundation is a nonprofit organization that collaborates with donors to support the charitable causes they care most about. In 2023, the Wyoming Community Foundation granted over $8 million to charitable causes across the state.
For information call 307-721-8300 or visit their website at www.wycf.org.
Public Notice of Operating Assistance
March 10, 2025
This is to notify all interested parties that the Powell Senior Citizens Ago-Go, Inc. is applying for funding through operating assistance in the total estimated cost of $137,226.00 (federal and local) under the Wyoming Department of Transportation's operating grant programs.
The operating assistance grant is funded by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and State Public Transit funding and is administered by the Wyoming Department of Transportation. This application includes a request for operating associated with providing public transportation within Powell, Park County in the State of Wyoming. This application is on file at 248 North Gilbert Street, Powell, WY 82435.
If requested, a public hearing will be scheduled, along with a notice indicating the location, date, and time of the public hearing.
For additional information and special accommodation, please contact:
Linda Dalton, Executive Director
Powell Senior Citizens Ago-Go, Inc.
248 North Gilbert Street, Powell, WY 82435
(307) 754-4223 or director@powellseniorcenter.com
Wyoming Hunger Initiative honors local volunteers who work in the space of food insecurity
First Lady Jennie Gordon’s Wyoming Hunger Initiative in partnership with the Hughes Charitable Foundation hosted its sixth and final regional summit in Northern Wyoming recently to bring folks together who are working in the space of food insecurity and to honor volunteers.
The Wyoming Hunger Initiative was launched in 2019 with two tenants in mind: one, to never reinvent the wheel and two, to be in all twenty-three Wyoming counties. There are grassroots efforts in every Wyoming County dedicated to reducing hunger and combating food insecurity.
“Through the relationships that have been developed across the state specific to food insecurity, Wyoming Hunger Initiative has identified partners in every community which has resulted in opportunities to network, share resources, and collaborate” says First Lady Jennie Gordon. “Ultimately, this summit will lead northern Wyoming forward together while also producing realistic action items that are already underway.”
The event kicked off with a volunteer recognition celebration where anti-hunger organizations in northern Wyoming nominated a volunteer from their organization to be recognized. Without the countless volunteers across the county, this work would not be possible.
Carol Johnston, who has been a committed volunteer for the Powell Senior Center’s home delivery meal program for the past 4 years, was honored at this ceremony. “Carol really has a heart for our community members. She takes the time to talk with each person and considers each one of them as a friend. She lets us know who is in greatest need of food or other services. Carol is always one step ahead of us to offer to take on additional routes throughout the week.” says Linda Dalton, Executive Director of the Powell Senior Center.
The Wyoming Hunger Initiative seeks to find and support Wyoming solutions to the challenge of food insecurity, which affects approximately 86,000 residents statewide. Launched in October 2019, Wyoming Hunger Initiative is the official initiative of Wyoming’s First Lady Jennie Gordon and is governed by the Board of Directors of the Wyoming Governor’s Residence Foundation, a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. For more information, visit www.nohungerwyo.org.
For more information, please contact Trista Ostrom, Chief of Staff to First Lady Jennie Gordon at Trista.ostrom@wyo.gov (307)274-0365.
Pictured left to right: First Lady Jenny Gordon, Linda Dalton, Carol Johnston and Debbie Kelly, Northwestern Wyoming Hunger Initiative Team Member.