Kincardine mayor helps deliver Meals on Wheels

Kincardine mayor Anne Eadie got her running shoes on Wednesday morning as she joined the March for Meals, promoting the Meals on Wheels program in the municipality.

Her job was to ride along with volunteers Eric and Lynda Williams on their delivery route, helping distribute the nine meals to clients on that day. Joining them, was Rachael Fritsch, team clerk for Meals on Wheels.

Their first stop was to pick up the meals at the Bruce Steakhouse, and then head out on the route, delivering the meals by about noon. Volunteers deliver these hot meals five days a week. The cost of the delivered meals is $7.50 each.
 

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First stop is picking up the Meals on Wheels dinners, Wednesday; from left, are Rachael Fritsch, team clerk with Meals on Wheels; Kincardine mayor Anne Eadie; John Adams of the Bruce Steakhouse; and volunteers Eric and Lynda Williams
 

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Client Art McCormick (left) of Kincardine, receives his delivery of Meals on Wheels from Kincardine mayor Anne Eadie, volunteer Lynda Williams, and Rachael Fritsch, team clerk with Meals on Wheels
 

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Operated by Home and Community Support Services of Grey-Bruce, volunteers deliver more than 21,000 hot Meals on Wheels in 15 communities in Grey Bruce, in a typical year.

Last year, 26 volunteers in Kincardine assisted with the delivery of 2,465 meals to 40 clients.

Meals on Wheels is more than just a meal. These programs offer many benefits:
 

• Access to well-balanced, affordable meals is imperative to the independence and sustenance of isolated seniors and individuals with disabilities.
• Research shows that healthy eating provides essential energy and nutrients for general welfare and maintenance of health and functional autonomy, and reduces the risk of chronic diseases at older ages.
• The benefits of Meals on Wheels are emotional and psychological, as well as physical. Sometimes, a friendly Meals on Wheels volunteer may be the only person a client interacts with in a given day.
• Meals on Wheels volunteers perform a valuable security check for isolated clients, and can notify the proper authorities in the case of accident or injury.

Learn more about your local Meals on Wheels program, and consider becoming a volunteer, making a donation, or calling to receive meals delivered to your door.

Home and Community Support Services of Grey Bruce delivers a variety of support programs. In addition to hot Meals on Wheels, frozen Meals on Wheels are also available throughout Grey Bruce. Dining Club programs are also offered in Hanover and Markdale.

For more information, contact 519-372-2091 or 1-888-881-4808 or mow@homecommunitysupport.com. Or visit
www.homecommunitysupport.com.