“I’m hoping it becomes something so that our small town has a better sense of community — that it just pulls people together,” said Cindy Amspoker, owner of the new Manson Event Center.

The center at 926 Main St. opened in October.

Since then it has been the site of a community Thanksgiving dinner and a New Year’s Eve party.

It is available to be rented for just about every kind of fun function people can think of: birthdays, anniversaries, wedding receptions, graduation parties, and retirement celebrations to name just a few.

DJ bingo, a form of bingo that makes players identify songs, will be coming to the center.

“I want to try to get a couple more things going in the community,” Amspoker said.

She said the building can accommodate 150 people. She said it has “all the tables and chairs you could want,” a full working kitchen, and a fully-stocked bar.

She said a bartender will be provided for events if requested. No catering is provided, so people will have to bring their own food and use the kitchen to prepare it.

Amspoker said some work will have to be done on the building’s exterior this summer because there are cracks in the facade.

“We’ll have to give it a facelift on the outside,” she said.

The Manson Event Center occupies a building that most recently was a restaurant. A couple different kinds of stores occupied it previously.

“I think it’s been many things over the last handful of years,” Amspoker said.