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Brigham City Senior Center Director fights cuts to keep Meals on Wheels

Amy Macavinta Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 7:06pm

BRIGHAM CITY -- With budget cuts looming from all levels of government, Brigham City Senior Center Director Nancy Green said she is continually working to meet expanding requests for help with less money.

That fact makes her even more thankful for the volunteers who sustain the senior center and the Meals on Wheels program.

"But everyone knows that Meals on Wheels is my first love and the last thing I will cut," she said.

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Allene Mattson (right) delivers lunch to Kathleen Morse in Brigham City last month. Mattson and her husband, Glenn, have been volunteers with Meals on Wheels for 10 years.

Brigham City Meals on Wheels program fulfilling for volunteers, too

Amy Macavinta, Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Monday, April 11, 2011 - 11:37pm

BRIGHAM CITY -- Every morning, Carl Reichard heads over to the Brigham City Senior Center to have a cup of coffee and chat with the guys. Some days, he goes right home and spends the rest of the day with Revena, his wife of 56 years. But as often as three days a week, he fills in as a driver for the center's Meals on Wheels program.

Reichard, 79, has survived a heart attack and a stage four cancer diagnosis that took parts of his stomach, pancreas and his spleen. Still, he walks to the door of a home on his route with a youthful spring in his step and a smile on his face for the person inside.

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