 The old Shade school has been converted to a community center, The Shade Community Center Association (SCCA), a registered non-profit entity set up to serve the community in many ways.The SCCA offers a lending library, open to the public; potluck lunches on Thursdays; musical jam sessions; a Senior Citizens Center and many other fun and educational services.The community itself exists mostly as it was in the late 1950s, with the relocation of the old store to a new building and new construction of homes in a rural setting only minutes from Athens.