Isabel Riofrio
The center was created to provide meals to seniors who were discharged from nearby St. Vincent's Hospital and had no one to cook for them and those brought to the hospital's emergency room with malnutrition.
After 41 years in the basement of Our Lady of Pompeii Church, Caring Community Senior Center is being forced out. Its clients wonder what that means for their afternoons, meals and friendships.
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