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To the Editor,

As we make our weekly grocery lists this week and wonder what to do with leftovers crowding our refrigerator, let us not forget those seniors and disabled among us in Osceola County who do not even understand those issues because their refrigerators are almost bare and they never make a grocery list.

The Osceola Council on Aging has been forced due to fiscal cuts to establish a Waiting List for Meals on Wheels. That translates to seniors in wheelchairs or walkers trying to make a peanut butter sandwich or warm a can of soup and calling it dinner. Could you cook a meal without standing up?

It seems like only yesterday that the Council on Aging was crowded each morning with senior volunteer drivers anxious to deliver their routes and see the waiting faces of their regular clients. Perhaps it cost them $2 a week for gas to deliver a few days each week. Most of those wonderful, generous volunteers have had to forsake this daily activity when the cost of gas went to $10 or $12 a week and their own Social Security has not gone up to compensate. The list of clients has grown with the downturn of the economy and the aging of our residents. There are still volunteers but the demographics have changed drastically. The council has solicited generous corporations to allow employees to deliver Meals on Wheels during paid working hours and many younger unemployed are doing what they can to help as well, but the staff of the Council has had to fill the gap.

We need the entire community to be made aware of this pitiful situation. Men are still paying $300 for a suit and women are buying $150 shoes and having weekly manicures and pedicures and our unseen seniors cant get a hot meal or a pint of milk every day because there arent enough dollars to provide these basic services. These arent people who have squandered their money. Most have had illnesses which wiped out their savings, have no local families to see to their needs, have outlived their peers, and are too proud to yell help when they need it so badly.

So, on their behalf I appeal to you. If you are a stay-at-home mom or temporarily unemployed and can donate an hour and a gallon of gas one day a week, let the Council know youd like to deliver. If you are an employer who can spare even one employee or more as little as one day a month, your help is needed. The needs are so great and the funds are so short. The councils No. 1 priority is providing nutrition to those who cant properly feed themselves.

Kissimmee, St. Cloud and Osceola County have some of the most generous people on earth. I believe they simply dont know how much need there is for their generosity through donations of time and money to the Council on Aging. You dont have to win the lottery to do good works for people. $5 buys a hot delivered meal. Save one shopping trip and use that gas to deliver a route once a month. Good things start in small measures. Think of those frail seniors who cant stand at their doors and plead for your help as you speed by. They are really there..... behind those closed doors.

Pat Scarborough

Kissimmee

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You may be seeing fewer news sources refer to immigrants as illegal in the upcoming weeks.

After increased pressure from organizations such as the Drop the I-Word campaign, the Associated Press (AP) announced yesterday that they would discontinue their use of the word illegal to refer to immigrants in the United States without the paperwork indicating official citizenship.

Colorlines; a daily news site covering race, culture, and organizing;and its publisher, the Applied Research Center (ARC), launched the Drop the I-Word campaign in 2010 as a public education campaign that challenges various media outlets to stop referring to immigrants as illegal, which the leaders behind the campaign say is a racially charged slur that fuels violence, according to the Colorlines website.

The new entry, to be immediately added to the AP Stylebook Online as well as the Spanish-language stylebook, states that the phrase illegal is only to be used to refer to an action, not a person.For example, illegal immigration would be acceptable, but not illegal immigrant, except in direct quotes essential to the story, the AP website states.

This proves a big victory for the campaign because print and broadcast journalists around the world use the AP Stylebook as a primary writing style guide for the purpose of consistency of all writers and editors.

Its great to see the Associated Press stand up for responsible journalistic standards. The style guide is the last word on journalistic practice so its particularly important for the AP to set this standard, said Rinku Sen, the executive director of the ARC and publisher of Colorlines, said.

In October of last year, the AP defended its use of illegal, by noting that it is more accurate than undocumented, or unauthorized, choices that are preferred by the Drop the I-Word Campaign. According to a newsletter by Deputy Manager and Editor of Standards and Production, Tom Kent, the usage of terms other than illegal hid the essential fact that such people are here in violation of the law.

Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll attributes the decision to eliminate the phrase illegal immigrant from their stylebook to the ever-changing English language.

Changing is a part of the AP Style because the English language is constantly evolving, enriched by new words, phrases, and uses, she wrote on the APs blog. Our goal always is to use the most precise and accurate words so that the meaning is clear to any reader anywhere.

Since the Drop the I-Word campaign launched, media outlets such as NBC, ABC, CNN, Univision, and Fox News Latino, have pledged to stop referring to people as illegal in their news coverage.

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