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Area Agency on Aging for Southwest Florida Turns 40

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The Area Agency on Aging for Southwest Florida has been serving the community for four decades now. The nonprofit serves people over 60, and adults with disabilities, in Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hendry, Lee and Sarasota counties.

And, sometime this week the agency anticipates picking up the phone on its elder helpline for the 500th time. We're joined by its director of communications,Kirsten O’Donnell, to talk about the milestone, and how they plan to observe the half-millionth call.

 

 

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Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.