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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1979
Programs serve 2-county region
CAA aids 26,500 poor, elderly
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By CRAIG ROGERS
Battalion Reporter
The Community Action Agency
(CAA), a non-profit government
corporation offering a variety of pro
grams to low-income clients in
Brazos and surrounding counties.
Operating with a budget of
around $3 million, the center sup
ports work for elderly, poor, and
children.
Through all its programs, the
CAA last year helped 26,5000
people who were mostly low in
come, Or on fixed incomes in
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Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon,
Madison, Robertson, and Washing
ton counties.
“Some of the counties around
here have the highest incidence of
poverty, not just in Texas, but in the
nation,” Dale Marsico, executive
dierector of CAA.
According to the 1970 census fig
ures, Robertson county has the
highest poverty level in the BS Val
ley, with 43.5 percent of the popula
tion living below the poverty level.
In Brazos County, 22 percent of the
population live below the poverty
level.
A nationally recognized poverty
area, the Appalachian mountain
area has a 35 percent poverty level.
Most of the people who qualify for
aid do not participate, according to
Marsico.
Sarah Goodman, is a client in the
“Years for Profit” center in Bryan,
one of the programs ofiered by the
CAA.
The center is a place for senior
citizens to gather, enjoy a hot meal,
and conduct group activities. The
center at 30th and Bryan streets is
one of 14 centers operated by the
CAA within the Brazos Valley.
“I come here mainly for the food,
because I don’t like to cook,” says
Goodman.
Marsico says the day-care projects
run by the agency are designed to
help mothers who are on welfare to
leave their children and find a job. A
100 percent poverty guidline is used
to determine a eligibility for the
program.
In Brazos county there are two
day-care centers, handling a total of
64 pre-school children.
There is also a home-based pro
gram in which the staff members
visit rural areas two or three times a
week to help educate mothers in nu
tritional education.
The Women Infants and Children
(WIC) program is an educational
and nutritional program for mothers
and infants. The CCA has 1,500
clients who receive supplemental
food through the program.
“Being as money has become so
scarce, we try to provide self-help
kinds of things,” said Marsico. The
agency also helps pregnant mothers
and mothers with infants receiving
food stamps. Mothers enrolled in
the course are educated about the
nutritional value of foods. In addi
tion, they are provided with
coupons to pay for dairy products,
nutritional cereals and fruit juices.
Every client must have a physical
before entering the program to de
termine if they are low in iron and
they are re-evaluated every six
months in the program. Normally,
when they are re-evaluated they
will leave the program, making an
opening for new clients.
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United Press International
A man suspected to be the shotgun-toting
HOUSTON
robber faced down by a woman security guard with a .357 Mi
pistol has been arrested.
Elizabeth E. Wilkins, 38, said her boss at a United SavingsAt^
tion of Texas branch recognized a customer entering the banhtnj
Tuesday as a robber.
She drew her pistol as a 25-year-old man pulled a sawed-offsl*
gun from his clothing. The two stood face-to-face with their
pointed at each other.
Wilkins spoke first, ordering the gunman to put down the shofe
He refused and told her he would kill her if she did not droplj
pistol, the woman said.
“I told him I wouldn’t shoot him in the back if he would justh*
she said. “My first concern was for the safety of the employees
the second was not to let him get any money.
The man turned, ran to his station wagon and sped away.
Less than two hours later a suspect was arrested after rolt^
Liberty Savings Association of $800. He was found to have a 1
a .22-caliber pistol and a knife.
“I hope,” Ms. Wilkins said, “that this changes people’s opinioisj
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A family planning service is also
offered by the CAA. It provides fam
ily planning education and birth
control counseling at no charge to
clients.
The total family planning services
reach about 70,000 patients a year.
For the elderly, the CAA will
weatherize the homes at no charge if
the houses are owned by the clients.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Rep. Pat
ricia Schroeder is hopping mad
about reports she wore a bunny
costume to the Great Wall of
China.
“I don’t know where that came
from,” Schroeder said concern
ing a wire service report that she
wore the costume to distribute
Easter eggs and jelly beans to
American tourists and Chinese
while visiting the wall Easter
Sunday.
Schroeder said Monday she
did wear the costume twice dur
ing her Chinese visit as a
member of the House Ari
Services Committee,
pearance was Easter Siind*
Americans gathered at tin
hotel for breakfast, and the*
ond was later that day at at
Embassy Easter party ford
dren.
Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wi(
another committee meml^
said he thought Rep. Sehrodti
gesture was “very nice.” A
said the erroneous reportb\
Associated Press involving j
incident at the wall was
bad.”
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