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The Parthenon Diner in Branford is returning to a special meal service on Easter. For the third year, the diner will offer free to-go meals to seniors, veterans, and those in need.
Drive-thru event helps people prepare for Easter dinner By Sam Shriver - sshriver@limanews.com Joe Parent, of Tom Ahl’s, passes out food during the drive-thru Easter dinner held in front of the Wingate on Saturday morning. LIMA — Hundreds of needy people were helped Saturday through an effort supported by Tom Ahl. Usually, Ahl sponsors the annual Easter Dinner at the Veterans Memorial Civic Center but due to the pandemic, the plans changed for this year’s event. Instead of being held on Sunday, the event was moved to Saturday and Ahl and his many volunteers supplied the ingredients for...
Among the volunteers this year will be Virginia Whalen, a 63-year-old woman whose struggle with homelessness eventually led her to a new calling during an urgent crisis-serving Easter hope in the Downtown Eastside, during the third wave of the pandemic. “People have lost hope. They’re scared. They don’t know from one day to the next, where they’re going to be or if this pandemic is ever going to end,” Whalen said in a statement from UGM. “That’s why we need to be here on Easter, showing that there is hope amidst the suffering. I remember what it was like to feel like no one cou...