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Were Letting Meals on Wheels, One of Our Best Senior Programs, Slowly Wither and Die

Published: Dec. 29, 2017, 10:43 p.m.

Five times a week for nearly 20 years, Meals on Wheels program coordinator Leisa Cotten would bring warm meals to the immobile and elderly of Cochise County, in the rural southeast corner of Arizona. But for the past decade, she\u2019s had to switch it up. Now she delivers frozen meals, five at a time, once a week. \u201cI haven\u2019t seen you in a while\u201d says Mark, one of Cotten\u2019s clients (and whose name we have changed here), as she walks into his trailer.