As Gas Prices Soar, Elderly Face Cuts in Aid
5 July, 2008
Early last month, Jeanne Fair, 62, got her first hot meals delivered to her home in this lake town in the sparsely populated southwestern part of the state. Then after two deliveries the meals stopped because gas prices had made the delivery too expensive.
“They called and said I was outside of the delivery area,†said Mrs. Fair, who is homebound and has not been able to use her left arm since a stroke in 1997.