Weddings, wakes, and wake-up calls.
These gatherings and similar assemblages — celebratory, ceremonial, enlightening, or sanctifying — unfolded for nearly 100 years in the Opportunity Community Club.
The Opportunity Community Club had been closed for seven years and was vulnerable to a roof collapse when volunteers joined forces to save the 100-year-old building. The renovated building is hosting an ice cream social Aug. 24 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The modest building came within a whisker of demolition in recent years. Its deterioration was tied to Covid-driven closure and neglect, heavy snows, and an inadequately trussed roof.
The building at the corner of Stewart and Hauser streets stayed closed for seven years.
Opportunity natives Linda McGillen and Sundra Anderson and other volunteers began a campaign in September 2022 to save the circa-1924 building and its repository of memories.
“Everybody who walks through the door has a story because almost everybody in Opportunity and Anaconda has been in here — from anniversary celebrations to bake sales to turkey dinners and craft bazaars,” McGillen said Wednesday during an interview at the club.
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Now, the Opportunity Community Club is poised to make new memories. The club will host an ice cream social from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The ice cream is free. For fundraising, there will be a silent auction and a raffle.
“And there will be lots of time for storytelling and remembering,” McGillen said.
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