TC Daily Planet features Meals on Wheels packing blizzard boxes.
“Clients are really depending on us to have meals delivered every single day …there’s times when we’re just not going to be able to get our meals out there. We need to supply them with a couple days extra worth of food,” said Jeff Aronen, volunteer for the Meals on Wheels northeast Minneapolis program.
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Eileen Hafften’s Letter to the Northeaster Newspaper
Thanks to Meals on Wheels Community and Volunteer Drivers
I would like to express enormous congratulations to the volunteers and donors in the communities of Northeast Minneapolis and St Anthony Village for 35 years of support of Northeast Dinner Bell, Inc. Meals on Wheels Program. Clearly this is a commitment and an accomplishment to be proud of. Meals on Wheels is a vital community service and we depend on your community support more than ever to continue our service.
As I celebrate my eight year anniversary as the executive director of Northeast Dinner Bell Meals on Wheels Program, I would like to say thank you to our kind and giving volunteer drivers for their continued support. Their generous volunteerism is the backbone of our entire program. I appreciate the time they give to us and I know the difference they make in the lives of most of our elderly, homebound neighbors. Our delivery may be the only human contact the homebound have on that particular day.
Some of our volunteers represent sponsoring churches, businesses or civic groups; others volunteer on their own. Northeast Dinner Bell, Inc. could not have survived over the years without their sincere volunteer dedication and financial donations.
Driving on a weekly or monthly basis may not seem like much to our volunteers, but to us their help is priceless. With 12 routes per day we need 60 drivers per week. This adds up to more than 240 route drivers per month and 2,880 route drivers each year. Those driver slots are filled, one by one, by kind and giving community volunteers. They are more valuable to us than they may realize. If you see them or if you know some of our drivers, please let them know how much you appreciate their help in making Northeast Minneapolis a better place to live.
Thank you volunteers and donors for a great thirty five years of Meals on Wheels support. Your dedication to Meals on Wheels and my association with each of you has made my eight years with Meals on Wheels very rewarding.
Most sincerely,
Eileen Hafften
Executive Director
Northeast Dinner Bell, Inc.
Meals on Wheels Program
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Rising food and fuel prices are taking a toll on Meals on Wheels programs locally and nationally. Please click links below to read more.
Volunteers can’t afford to deliver free meals
By P.J. Dickerscheid
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Below is the link to the story.
| North Anoka Meals on Wheels to fold, citing funding shortfall – … |
Meals on Wheels as a whole needs to reconsider how it delivers to homebound people, Simonson
said.
| North Anoka Meals on Wheels will shut down |
Fridley and Elk River.
| kare11.com | Twin Cities, MN | Gas prices, funding cuts kill North … |
program will come to a halt at the end of the month…
