State cuts could hurt developmentally disabled

Each working day, there's not a member of the North Valley Family YMCA at Porter Ranch who isn't touched by Cynthia Couture and Claire Sommers.Dana Bartholomew in the Daily News.

The two adults with developmental disabilities wash 1,000 towels a day for freshly scrubbed YMCA clients. And each bubbles with infectious laughter at their task.

"These guys work like little troopers," said Jane Stanton, executive director of the Northridge Y, which employs both women via the Tierra del Sol Foundation. "They enrich our lives, our members' lives, and themselves."