ZELIENOPLE — Starting Nov. 23, Butler County no longer will operate the Zelienople senior center, but the people who attended the center will be allowed to use services provided by the Lutheran Senior Life Passavant Retirement Community.

Laura Roy, executive director of the community, said center attendees will be able to eat meals, participate in activities and use the fitness center on the campus, among other things. Participants will not have to be Passavant residents, she said.

The center was located on the Passavant campus.

Beth Herold, county Area Agency on Aging administrator, said most of the people who attended the center at Luther Court lived on the Passavant campus.

AAA also offered field trips for attendees to the centers in Cranberry Township and Evans City to show off some of the other centers the county offers.

Herold said some of the people who went to the center in Zelienople also went to the Cranberry and Evans City centers sometimes.

The county has been in talks to have Passavant operate the center since June.

That month, the county renewed the contract with PCN Senior Center Management to run the county’s senior centers starting July 1. The $305,524 contract is $94,000 less than the previous contract.

The contract involved a reduction in operating hours for most of the centers, and the county now only provides meals at the West Sunbury center — with the West Sunbury Presbyterian Church doing the managing.