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Brattleboro Senior Meals is a private nonprofit agency located in Brattleboro, VT, dedicated to providing nutritious daily meals to individuals over the age of 60 in the local community. Operating out of the Brattleboro Senior Center, their mission is to support the well-being of elderly residents by offering a variety of meal options, including group dining at the center and home delivery through their Meals on Wheels program. With a focus on promoting healthy eating and social engagement, Brattleboro Senior Meals aims to enhance the quality of life for seniors in the area. Their dedicated team of staff and volunteers work diligently to ensure that homebound individuals receive nourishing meals, fostering a sense of community and care for the elderly population they serve.Generated from the website

The New England Coalition has been the people's advocate for safe energy since 1971. Originally the New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution, the Coalition was founded by several groups of citizens and scientists concerned about the nation's growing civilian nuclear power program. Our mission has not changed: we investigate the safety, suitability, and environmental effects of nuclear power plants ; we participate in government hearings ; and we inform the public and government agencies of the hazards and risks of nuclear power. Today, in the face of the nuclear renaissance, the green washing of nuclear power as a response to climate change, the aging of our existing nuclear power plants and extension of their operations and storage capacity far beyond their design lifetimes, our mission is as urgent as it was forty years ago. The Coalition has set many precedents, forcing the NRC and the nuclear industry to more thoroughly address the aging of nuclear reactors, federal oversight, and safety. The Coalition has intervener status with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and participated as a full party in licensing proceedings for Seabrook, Vermont Yankee, the shut down of Rowe Yankee and two other plants now cancelled, and we have been continuously representing our members in legal interventions before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, the Vermont Public Service Board, and Vermont's Environmental Court. Seabrook is again on the Coalition's agenda, as its owners applied for a license extension a full 30 years before the license is due to expire. With a coalition of groups, we have petitioned the NRC to change the minimum amount of time a plant can request renewal. The Coalition has intervened before the NRC, Vermont Public Service Board, and in the Vermont Yankee sale, extended power up rate, on-site storage capacity for highly radioactive "spent" fuel ( both in 1977 and 1987 ), dry cask storage, water discharge, the license extension of Vermont Yankee and related dockets. NEC testified before the Vermont Senate during hearings prior to the 26-4 Senate vote in February 2010 denying license renewal to Vermont Yankee. Our technical advisor's report on the economic impact of Maine Yankee's closing played a key role in bringing facts to the emotional discussion during the Senate's historic vote. Members of <?New England's Congressional delegation call upon the New England Coalition for unbiased, factual advice. The Coalition has testified before the Vermont State Senate, the Vermont House of Representatives, the New Hampshire Senate, the Massachusetts legislature, and through the media before the court of public opinion. We have worked alongside the Union of Concerned Scientists, Citizens Action Network, Friends of the Coast ( Maine Yankee ), Beyond Nuclear and many other citizens groups.

Brattleboro Area Hospice is an independent, community-based, non-profit volunteer hospice organization. All of our services are free of charge to anyone living in Southeastern Vermont or bordering New Hampshire towns. Referrals to any of our programs can be made by a physician, home health care provider, nursing home, or family members. Brattleboro Area Hospice ( BAH ) was founded in 1979 by a group of community members concerned that their dying and grieving neighbors receive compassionate, appropriate assistance. BAH provides grassroots, volunteer-staffed programs to supplement and provide alternatives to the professional services utilized by dying and grieving community members. We also provide education and outreach to increase our community's understanding of and ability to cope with the issues of death and dying. According to Hospice philosophy, until the moment of death people have physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs. Our Hospice Care Program addresses these needs and helps dying people live as comfortably and meaningfully as possible. Our culture does not endorse many processes or rituals that help bereaved people accept the painful but inevitable stages of grief ; unresolved grief can lead to serious, sometimes life-threatening physical and psychological difficulties. BAH Bereavement Care Services facilitate healthy adaptation to grief. Many people avoid thinking about the cycle of life and death, and suggest that working with the dying and grieving "morbid" and "depressing." Our Education and Outreach programs seek to address this avoidance, to increase acceptance of death and grief as natural aspects of life.