VALLEY — Valley Senior Center’s Donald Perry Williams Activity Room was a fun place this past Friday. More than 100 seniors, not just from Valley but also from the senior centers in Lanett, LaFayette and Beulah, were gathered for a fish fry and gospel sing. Alabama Department of Senior Services (ADSS) Board Chairman Ray Edwards hosted the event. Also present to free the large gathering were Valley Mayor Leonard Riley, Chambers County Commissioner Debra Riley, State Representative Debbie Wood and other city officials.
Edwards opened the gathering by welcoming everyone, telling them to enjoy the day. “Anyone who knows me knows that God, family and seniors make my life go,” he said. “I want to thank Chief Jim Doody of LaFayette for helping me out in a weather radio distribution we recently had in Randolph County.”
The weather radios had to be programmed before they can be used. They arrived the day before the distribution at senior centers in Roanoke and Wadley. Chief Doody and fellow firefighters worked overtime the day before to have a total of 168 weather radios given out to seniors.