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Officials prepare seniors for emergencies

Published 09/14/05

Patricia O'Brien has long stashed nonperishable food and batteries in her Edgewater home - just in case of an emergency.

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But Ms. O'Brien wanted to make sure the rest of the county was as ready for a disaster as she was. Ms. O'Brien was one of the about 40 senior citizens to attend a program about emergency preparedness last week at the South County Senior Center in Edgewater. The Citizen Corps Council of Anne Arundel County and Annapolis hosted the event as a kickoff to National Preparedness month.

Scheduled weeks ago, the public education campaign had a new urgency following the disaster of Hurricane Katrina. This month also...

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