senior nutrition funding

I Went Back To The Same County Meeting A Year Later And The Waitlist Number Had Barely Moved At All

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I Went Back To The Same County Meeting A Year Later And The Waitlist Number Had Barely Moved At All – A community diary entry on returning to a Pitt County Meals on Wheels funding presentation, watching a familiar crisis stay exactly the same size, and what it means to keep showing up for a number that refuses to shrink

I Wrote A Poem About A Waiting List Of Two Hundred Names And I Don’t Know If That’s An Act Of Grief Or Protest Or Both

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I Wrote A Poem About A Waiting List Of Two Hundred Names And I Don’t Know If That’s An Act Of Grief Or Protest Or Both – Lotte Heidenreich on the Pitt County funding fight, four hundred seniors fed and four hundred more waiting, and what poetry is actually for when the budget meeting gets ugly