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The class of 1986 left its mark on Pacifica High School in Garden Grove early Friday.
"It's kind of sad," Carmela Lacayo was saying, "but at Christmastime folks are more interested in toys for kids" than in the plight of low-income senior citizens.
The Orange County Transit District board voted Monday to accept only $300,000 to subsidize bus fares for the elderly, returning $75,000 in federal funds to the county to help preserve senior citizens' day-care centers in Buena Park, Brea and Orange.
As the sky grew dark on a recent day, one small man dressed all in black stayed on the practice putting green after everyone else had left.
When members of the PGA Seniors Tour converge on Wood Ranch golf course next year, they will tee
station owners to help, saying: "Seniors should not be penalized for having infirmities."
Not too long ago Garnet Beattie, 86, lived in a retirement home on the Westside, where she said the treatment was bad and the food was horrible, and where she was often lonely.
The architects were baffled.
The developer of a proposed 91-unit senior citizens apartment building that was denied approval by the City Council this week said on Friday that he would appeal to individual council members who opposed it and resubmit the project.
Ken Haefliger stood in the end zone at Thousand Oaks High on Friday night.
Many free services, including flu shots and screening for eye, back and skin diseases, will be offered to the city's older residents during the OASIS Senior Center Health Fair scheduled for Nov. 8.
This is a city without sidewalks, without apartments and without much public transportation, a city of ranches and horse trails, a city that respects Western ideals like hard work and self-reliance.
Senior citizens who have been riding city buses at no charge will continue to do so, thanks to a unanimous vote by the City Council.
When the doors of the Brooklawn Country Club swing open this July for the USGA Senior Open, Charlie Owens will be standing there with a 50-inch putter and a short fuse.
Chi Chi Rodriguez shot a three-under-par 69 Friday to hold onto a one-shot lead after two rounds of the $260,000 PGA Seniors Championship.
Agroup of senior citizens believed to be from the Reseda area were injured Wednesday when their tour bus was involved in a 16-vehicle pileup on a rain-slicked interstate highway in Florida, but none were critically hurt, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
Ralph Peck, an outgoing octogenarian who used to run some memorable and fascinating rail tours to Mexico, and who now heads (with his wife, Dorothy) the tour program for the Whittier YMCA Travel Club, has written a handy tour planner for senior travel clubs.
The suspense lasted well into Sunday afternoon at the Vintage Country Club.