SEQUIM — Luella Hilby laughs when the screen turns black as she tries to put color in an arrow she has just drawn.
It’s the computer center at Suncrest Retirement Apartments on East Prairie Street.
Hilby says she’s learning how to use drawing software on one of the six computers lining the wall while neighbor, friend and computer instructor Margaret McKay looks on.
The senior computer center, the first of its kind in the state, has a grand opening at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 20, but McKay and Hilby are regular visitors to the room on the second floor of Suncrest 1, part of a three-apartment complex owned by the Legacy Management Group.
Suncrest 2 is also on East Prairie Street while Suncrest Village is on South Fifth Avenue.
The computer center is the result of cooperation between Digital Promise, a nonprofit organization aiming at closing the “digital divide” in small cities, the state Housing Finance Commission, the USDA Rural Development office and Legacy Management Group.
Five of the computers for the program were donated by Digital Promise and the sixth came from McKay’s apartment.
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