Food Stamp Office

Apply at www.myflorida.com/accessflorida, or find applications at these addresses:Avon ParkCentral Florida Health Care, 950 CR 17A Child Development Center, 800 S. Delaney Church Service Center, 198 W. Walnut St.Health Department, 400 S. Lake Highlands County Library, 100 N. MuseumOaks at Avon, 1010 US 27 N.

From lavish dining to food stamps to prison grub. Patti Buffington — the onetime head of a West Side charity devoted to assisting prostitutes — was sentenced to a year in prison Thursday. The sentence comes 3 ½ years after she was charged with looting $479,000 from the charity and spending some of the money on swanky vacations to the Bahamas.

WENATCHEE — Food stamps fed a record number of North Central Washington residents last year — about one in seven people. “As far as I can tell, it’s higher than it’s ever been,” said Timothy Baker, supervisor of the financial unit at the state Department of Social and Health Services office in Wenatchee.

The proof that the recession continues to reach into the middle class is this number: 14,219. That’s how many men, women and children in Highlands County now need food stamps.