Pasadena offers a 10% refuse rate reduction to seniors over the age of 62. Roughly 1,000 seniors benefit from the program, which costs the city about $29,000 a year, said Pasadena City Engineer Dan Rix.
Representative E. Clay Shaw Jr., Republican of Florida, said, "Democrats have scared seniors away from the program by bad-mouthing it".
Mr. Hedmond and the other seniors from the Schermerhorn Program at the New York Institute for Special Education in the Bronx are all legally blind.
The series will also include readings of new work in December and May by selected students in Creative Writing courses and readings in May by seniors in the Program from the novels, collections of short stories, poems or translations, or screenplays written as their senior theses under mentorship by the Creative Writing faculty.
The series will also include readings in May of new work by selected students in spring creative writing courses and readings by seniors in the Program from the novels, collections of short stories, poems or translations, or screenplays written as their senior theses under mentorship by the creative writing faculty.
Students in creative writing courses during the spring semester will read from their recent work on April 29, and seniors in the program will read from the novels, screenplays, translations and collections of poems and short fiction created as part of their senior thesis projects on May 4 and 6.
An impressive number of senior theses have emerged from the program, exploring questions that range from "Motor Neuron Resistance to Degeneration in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis" to "The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Working Memory and the Role of Caffeine"—questions that require students to delve deeply but with multidisciplinary tools.
The Lighting missed their senior against the program from La Jolla.
Mr. Keane said it was no surprise that some beneficiaries were confused, because, he said, "Democrats have demagogued the issue and tried to scare seniors away from the new program".
Home Instead Senior Care, the nation's largest provider of in-home companion care, recently announced the launch of its Protect Seniors from FraudSM program -- an initiative to provide older Americans and their families with information and tools to help protect against con artists targeting the elderly.
