Elmore County senior citizens hope they never have to experience a disaster but just in case, they are planning for the worst.
The Elmore County Successful Aging Initiative hosted ‘PLAN,’ a program to give seniors the tools to “Develop, Analyze, Manage, Change” for anything that might come up in life — especially disasters.
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