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Meals On Wheels driver shortage creates waiting list for meals on Cape, Islands
The Meals on Wheels program for Cape Cod and the Islands is facing a crisis for the first time in a very long while. In the more than 50 years that Elder Services of Cape Cod and the Islands has been delivering meals to seniors it is just the second time that people wanting meals have been put on a waiting list. ...
Fallon Health plans to expand inclusive care program into Southeastern Massachusetts
Fallon Health, a not-for-profit healthcare services organization based in Worcester with more than 45 years of experience providing care, has plans to open a new Summit ElderCare PACE Center in Dartmouth by the end of this year. PACE, a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, provides services to adults 55 and older, including adults with complex medical needs, so they can age with dignity in their home or community. It's the biggest PACE program in Massachusetts. ...
Weathering many storms, kids still trying to make world a better place
For over 20 years, teens from across the Cape have been meeting each fall and spring to discuss issues ranging from human rights to community service, and generally improving the environment of the schools they attend. This was originally the brainchild of the Barnstable County Human Rights Advisory Committee and it's called the Human Rights Academy. I was one of the faculty cofounders over 20 years ago and have not missed a meeting since. I am at this point an O.F.E. (Old Fart Emeritus) and the torch has long since passed to the next generation of teachers and mentors.
9 Massachusetts counties under a freeze warning until early Friday morning
On Thursday at 11:08 a.m. the National Weather Service issued a freeze warning valid from 11 p.m. until Friday 5 a.m. for Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Bristol, Plymouth, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket counties. The weather service comments, "Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28 degrees expected." "Frost and freeze conditions could...
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