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Vicari Vows To Continue Senior Nutrition Program Despite Federal Sequestration Cuts
Freeholder wrote letter to President Obama asking that Ocean County senior programs be excluded from possible cuts
Ocean County will continue nutrition programs for the elderly, even if the proposed sequestration cuts go through on Friday, Freeholder Joseph H. Vicari said today. Without the nutrition program, elderly and disabled people who are unable to cook for themselves will "wind up in the E.R.," Vicari said at a Ocean County Board of Freeholders caucus meeting today. "We will do something to maintain services," he said. "We will continue the program. You don't cut programs as important as the senior programs." Vicari wrote to President Obama on Feb. 25, asking his help to prevent "severe cuts" in the nutrition program. "We would need to cut 26,000 meals in Ocean County, when we already have a wait list of almost 200 people for home-delivered …
Keeping whats mine
9:00 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
For all the money do nothin joe has gotten from this county and state he should invite all seniors to his house to eat. After all isnt he double or triple dipping? more ›