CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – Before Thursday’s regular session City Council meeting, a protest was held to oppose the city’s plans to reopen their version of the Ajax Turner Senior Center, as well as the recent firing of the senior center’s executive director, Rita Allsop.
After the meeting, Clarksville Now spoke with another resident whose mother had been attending the Senior Circle of Friends Adult Day Center before its closure, and he spoke on the impact it’s already having on her day-to-day life.
Steve Licata said that similar to a source in an earlier Clarksville Now report, he too was blindsided by the Senior Citizen Board’s decision to fire Allsop, which led to the closure of the adult daycare center. “As a resident, we were shocked when we got the phone call that we weren’t able to send my mother to the adult daycare,” he said.
Licata said his mom is 78 and has been diagnosed with mid- to late-stage dementia. “My mom relies on social interaction with other people,” he said. “To hear that the executive director was fired without a good cause – why was she fired?…