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Area seniors may go hungry because of federal budget cuts
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Marguerite Bailey enjoys her lunch Friday from Meals on Wheels. - photo by CHARLIE WILLIAMS
Some seniors in Hall County may go without food through the Meals on Wheels program thanks to a looming second round of sequestration cuts in federal aid. Georgia started waiting list of programs as it waits on the next round of cuts. Sequestration, which began March 1, will total $1.2 trillion in the coming decade.