Carlsbad
Every year, more home-bound seniors are becoming “food insecure,” which means they don’t know where their next meal is coming from or they don’t have enough money to cover groceries for the month.
To help fill that gap, Meals on Wheels San Diego County offers low-price meals for seniors that are packed and home-delivered by an army of volunteers that includes Allan Thomas of Carlsbad.
The retired 68-year-old welder spends two and sometimes three days a week delivering meals to nearly 40 clients, and frequently helps out by doing free handyman tasks around their homes.
Charlotte Fan, a North County district supervisor for Meals on Wheels, said she can always count on Thomas to pick up an extra shift when needed.
box distribution event set for Friday, February 19 has been canceled.
Unfortunately, the ongoing winter weather conditions and travel difficulties have forced all pick-up sites to close. The Food for Seniors Program is made possible through partnership efforts from the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury’s Human Services Department, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Catholic Charities, and the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals.
This initiative provides boxes for SWLA elderly that are filled with nutritious, non-perishable foods once a month. Under normal circumstances, volunteers distribute food boxes from 17 sites throughout Calcasieu Parish to seniors 60 years old and older who meet the federal income guidelines.
CHICAGO (WLS) Josephine s Southern Cooking went door to door in the city s Chatham neighborhood dropping off meals Wednesday. It makes you feel good that we are able to give at a time like this, said Victor Love from Josephine s Southern Cooking.
The restaurant, which has been a pillar of the South Side community for decades, has been busy whipping up holiday meals. Today, we have baked chicken and dressing, mac and cheese, mixed vegetables, masked potatoes, and dinner rolls and peach cobbler, Love said.
The food deliveries started at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Volunteers hit the streets to make sure homebound seniors had something to eat.