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Senior advisory members push pantry outreach, confirm senior center ground‑breaking timeline
Summary
Members and residents described a pantry distribution that reaches about 520 people each month, urged broader neighborhood distribution and signed up for an email list pilot; staff said bids closed for a new senior center and optimistic groundbreaking could begin late this summer.
Local senior advisory members and residents used the commission meeting on June 5 to press for expanded pantry distribution, volunteer outreach and better communication with seniors.
One member said the pantry schedule is produced in partnership with Catholic Charities and the North Texas Food Bank and that she distributes printed schedules each month to about 520 people. “That’s 520 seniors,” she said, and urged commission members to identify senior-living managers and other local outlets to…
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