lots of $$ for schools, none for our seniors

One of the sad things about Leigh is the zero services available for our elderly in the community. There are no Meals on Wheels, no Senior Center, and none of the other services that would be so very useful and indeed vital to our over 65's.

As someone who has an elderly parent living in Leigh, it would be tremendously helpful to have a Meals on Wheels service delivering a good meal once daily. Older people sometimes don't have the ability or inclination to cook themselves proper meals. I have talked to many others who have parents either in Leigh or the surrounding rural area who have mentioned how great it would be to have some senior services for their mom and/or dad.

Lindsay NE is a town very similar to Leigh. Yet they have a complete Senior Center and also meals on wheels.

Yet the "school fanatics" insist on a vast and expensive tax support sturcture to keep up a declining and outdated school system.

However there is one aspect to all this that is inescapable and undeniable. And it is this: the only population group that is certain to keep growing in the future in small rural communities (like Leigh) are people over 65. And the one population group that is CERTAIN to keep declining is school age children. There is no denying this. All you have to do is just check the census records and any reputable population trend prediction or study for rural areas.