With the awards of money just announced by the Lippard-Clawiter Foundation for 2015, "the Mountaineer" decided to look at one small but vital segment of our society and how they would fare without those funds and how they are doing generally.

We looked at the Big Sandy Senior Citizen's Center. Center Director Linda Rutledge stopped in last week and talked about funding the Center here in Big Sandy.

All the Senior Citizen's Centers in Chouteau County are funded by County taxes. That money is divided between Highwood, Big Sandy, Fort Benton and Geraldine.

"That money stays the same or is a littl...