PERRY HALL, Md. — Cathy Milando knows what it’s like to eat alone.

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She’s been coming to the Seven Oaks Senior Center since she retired from nursing in 2003. Her late husband used to come, too. He’s been gone nine years.

“That means a lot,” Cathy says of the senior center gatherings. “All of us who are by ourselves and spouses we have lost. It just brings happiness to us.”

That’s why ‘No Senior Eats Alone Day’ is so important.

Baltimore County’s Office of Aging started the event seven years ago. It’s held on the second Thursday of September yearly, offering a free hot meal at 21 senior centers, as well as housing communities and local churches, to people age 60 and older.

There’s also

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