Dear Editor:

I wanted to share what I discovered at our last AARP meeting, earlier today [11/4]. Our speaker was from the California Telephone Access Program. They are a state program that provides free phones to people with hearing, vision (like macular degeneration), speech, mobility or cognitive (dementia) impairments. Their offices are only in Burbank and Fresno, but their phone number is 800-995-6831 and they will send information if you call them. Many of us either have one or more of these problems or know someone who does, so this could really help.

I wanted to thank Maxine Jarvis, who arranged for this fascinating and valuable program.

Sue McKowen, Frazier Park