Meals On Wheels

Pueblo Police Take Over Meals On Wheels For The Day

... for Meals on Wheels said. News 5 went along with Capt. Chris Noeller and the usual Meals on Wheels volunteer on this route, as he met with homebound seniors across the city. "It might be the only human contact that they have in the entire day," Behrendt said. Because in many cases, the drivers serve as somewhat of a lifeline to the seniors that rely on this program. "When the drivers come and talk to these clients, they get to know them, when they see that they're not acting right or feeling right, it's something that they pick up on and they're able to go back to SRDA and let them know," Capt. Noeller said. And it's the conversations, that human contact, that keep these seniors going. "It's a few minutes, and it could change somebody's day, week, or year. It could give them a reason to live, really," Behrendt said. Opening the eyes of the officers. "I hope it opened their eyes up to how we are as police officers, we're human beings just like everybody else so hopefully it kind of goes both ways," Capt. ...

Blackfeet Food Distribution Takes Over Food Bank

... of what used to be called the Blackfeet Commodities Program about six months ago, change has been the theme, beginning with his having taken over the Blackfeet Food Bank. Starting with bringing the program into compliance, he worked at obtaining new computers and updating all the forms used by the program. Next, Crawford set about securing partner-ships with three organizations to support the program, the Montana Food Bank Network, National Relief Charities of South Dakota and Montana’s The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP). Now called the Blackfeet Food Pantry Program, Crawford’s entity is gearing up to run the program. Scheduled to open next October, the new service has been completely revamped, starting with the three new suppliers. “My goal over the next one to three years is working on grants for funding so we can buy food from our suppliers at  lower cost and deliver well-balanced food baskets,” Crawford said. “Also, I’m working with the Tribal Council over the next couple ...

Local Meals On Wheels Program Director

... 2018 budget puts Meals on Wheels on the chopping block. The proposed budget would eliminate the community development block grant, which provides money for a variety of programs, including Meals on Wheels. Members at the Fitchburg Senior Center say those cuts would be devastating. "There would be a lot more hospitalizations, a lot more people going into skilled nursing facilities before they actually needed to," said nutrition site manager Mandi Miller, who says the program is only three percent federally funded, while the rest comes in personal donations. The program depends on several volunteers to deliver more than 30 well-balanced meals a day to senior citizens across the city who are unable to leave their homes. Last year, the Fitchburg Meals on Wheels program served "well over 13,000 meals". "We're combating senior isolation by ...

93-year-old Oregon Woman Delivers Meals On Wheels Column

... Those who live alone like the social interaction of meal deliveries. Other clients are unable, perhaps temporarily after a medical issue, to prepare a hot meal. Bigelow said about 60 percent of Lake Oswego's meal recipients are able to pay the suggested donation of $4 a lunch. Lake Oswego's Meals on Wheels was founded in 1972. Today, volunteers deliver an average of 90 hot meals three days a week. The city fronts the annual budget for the program, which was $143,000 in 2016. The Meals on Wheels board holds fundraisers throughout the year to pay that money back and make it cost-neutral to taxpayers. Johnson heard about Meals on Wheels from her daughter, who had volunteered with the Portland program. "For 25 years I was a volunteer in the Shriners Hospital in the outpatient clinic and my husband had a stroke, so for four years I was home with my husband until he passed ...

Utah News, Sports, Weather And Classifieds

...  Erica Werner and Alan Fram, Associated Press  |  Posted   Mar 16 th - 8:40 pm. Short of votes for their health care bill, Republican congressional leaders turned to President Donald Trump on Thursday to wrangle support for the divisive legislation they hope to push through Congress before Easter. The Triple Team: 3 thoughts on Jazz vs. Cavaliers.  Andy Larsen  |  Posted   Mar 16 th - 8:37 pm. Three thoughts on how Le Bron James took over in the fourth quarter of Thursday's game, Rudy Gobert's massive improvement and stretches dominance, and how the Jazz are receiving a lot of national love. Spring cleaning: Out with the old, in with your new eating habits and food choices. Suzanne Lewis, __link__ Contributor  |  Posted   Mar 16 th - 8:32 pm. As the winter months fade and spring arrives clearing out the clutter may help create physical and mental space. A fresh start to the season ahead may also support a healthier lifestyle ...

White House Says Cutting Meals On Wheels Is ‘compassionate

... the Trump’s budget cuts. (2) Trump’s proposal cuts many programs that are more intuitively valuable to coal miners in West Virginia — and single mothers in Detroit — than a 10 percent increase in defense spending. The president’s budget cuts funding for early-childhood education, public housing, transit, food assistance, and job training — all programs that disproportionately benefit single mothers in cities with low median incomes. And it also abolishes the Appalachian Regional Commission and Rural Business-Cooperative Service, while shrinking the Labor Department — all moves that disadvantage coal miners. (3) If the White House feels bad about taking money from coal miners and single mothers, then why is one of its top priorities to pass an enormous, regressive tax cut. CNN’s Jim Acosta asked Mulvaney to address some of the tensions in his argument at a White House press briefing Thursday afternoon. The White House is actually arguing that cutting funding for Meals on Wheels is the compassionate thing to do. Seriously. __link__/3 u 6 zn ZRr Aa. — CAP Action (@CAPAction) March 16, 2017. “Just to follow-up on that, you were talking about the steel worker in Ohio, ...

Girl Scouts Make Special Delivery To D-f Meals On Wheels Clients

... campaign, led by Meals on Wheels America, is an effort to fill the gap between the seniors served and those still in need, which is widening due to increased demand combined with declining resources and rising food, transportation and operational costs. Purchased and donated by Jim White’s Truck & Auto Center, the Girl Scout cookies were hand-delivered by the Scouts as a sweet surprise for area seniors. “Troop 20098 saw a post from Dunkirk-Fredonia Meals on Wheels asking for volunteers to help deliver meals. The girls felt this would be a great opportunity to bring some joy to our community while lending a hand to Meals on Wheels,” said Kelly Ziegler, Troop Leader. “The girls had a blast meeting new people in the community and finding areas in the towns they didn’t know were there.”. This is the second year that Girl Scout Troop 20098 and Jim White’s Truck and Auto Center have ...

Trump Administration Picks Strange Fight With Meals On Wheels

... Donald Trump’s budget director. “We can’t spend money on programs just because they sound good and great,” Mick Mulvaney said Thursday, referring to Meals on Wheels, a program that uses volunteers to deliver warm meals to more than 1 million older Americans in their homes every week. Block grants that states use to fund Meals on Wheels and other programs “are just not showing any results,” Mulvaney said. “We can’t do that anymore. We can’t spend money on programs just because they sound good. And Meals on Wheels sounds great.”. The Trump administration outlined a budget proposal Thursday that would increase military spending by $54 billion and offset the expense with cuts to a plethora of domestic programs. The budget’s many targets included grants from federal agencies that some states use to help support Meals on Wheels programs, among other things. Mulvaney said the grants haven’t been worth ...