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labor market information. Employers in turn post current job openings and use the Place conference rooms for on-site interviewing and recruiting. The Career Place is supported by 30 funding sources. At times of large downsizing in firms in the area served, it gets emergency grants and additional funds to assist with large numbers of unemployed workers. The use of the Place is increasing year by year. Letters of termination that workers receive from their firms often contain information about the Place. The Place holds four large job fairs each year. People from Lexington also utilize the Career Place based in Cambridge. This Place is a bit larger and served 11,500 persons last year; the number from Lexington is unknown. 15. Joseph M. Smith Community Health Center. This is anon-profit agency in Waltham whose mission is to provide comprehensive, culturally competent, and affordable primary health care and selected family specialties to all individuals and households in surrounding communities. It has been operating, primarily in Allston, Brighton, and Waltham, for 35 years and receives funds from both state and federal sources. Its services include mental health, dental, diabetes management, prenatal health care, gynecological care, WIC services, youth therapy, and general medical diagnostic care. The Center was visited by 42,000 persons in the past year, 22 of them from Lexington. The overall numbers are rising annually. 16. Food Programs. There are food programs and pantries outside of Lexington that are used by Lexington residents. These include the Bristol Lodge Soup Kitchen based at the Immanuel Methodist Church in Waltham, which provides hot meals at 5:00 p.m. every day; Grandma's Pantry at Christ Church in Waltham, limited to clients 60 years of age or older; the Immanuel Methodist Food Pantry; Sacred Heart Food Pantry; and breakfasts and lunches at the lh