Belmont Senior Center

The Belmont Senior Center in Butte is ready for the dog days of summer with a full slate of events, activities, classes and functions for the Senior population here in Butte. Of course, the Belmont is a popular place for a weekday lunch or even a cup of coffee and a cinnamon roll and August has a lot more to offer, from bingo to exercise, as their August schedule of events will attest.

Here we are already into the second week of July and the Belmont Senior Center in Butte is bustling with activity. Let's take a look at the events, services and fun that are happening this month.

Accessing preventive care like mammograms is crucial for saving lives, with most insurance plans covering these screenings.

The Elks Lodge here in Butte at 206 W. Galena will be the site of a fun bingo night and silent auction fundraiser. The doors open at 5pm and admission is $10 which will include 2 bingo packets including 3 cards of 10 games each.

This month the Belmont Senior Citizens Center in Butte has a couple of sessions with Intermountain Health Care (formerly St. James) and A1 Ambulance that you need to know about. Coming this Monday, November 14th at 11am is an opportunity to learn about early heart attack recognition and care followed by a session on medication safety and adherence on Tuesday the 15th. These important clinics are in addition to a busy month of activity at the Belmont.

Whether you need to run a few errands, are looking for a friendly game of bingo or just want to sit and chat over a hot cinnamon roll and coffee, September is a great time to stop by Butte's Belmont Senior Center to take in all that is happening.

The month of May is going to bring a wide variety of activities and events to Butte's Belmont Center.

Once the hoist house of the proud Belmont Mine, the Belmont Senior Center for years has been known as a hub of activity for senior citizens in Southwest Montana. Services, socialization and assistance are provided to anyone 55 years of age or older as there are no memberships. And some of the services they are providing are not only helpful but incredibly affordable.

I love Senior Night. I will be honest and say that it hasn’t always been that way. The guy that put it in perspective for me was Ron Hasquet. Hasquet is a proud Shelby Coyote and Montana Tech Oredigger. He is still in the Oredigger record books with 7 interceptions in a season (Senior year?) He ...

Towering headframes once stood above many Butte mines and dotted the Uptown landscape. Today, only a few are still standing. Can you name them? If you can't, here they are.