Editor:
Meals On Wheels in White Rock and South Surrey needs your help if you have a caring heart, a good sense of humour and a wish to support your community.
A practical turn of mind doesn’t hurt.
MOWs has been in operation since February 1970. We are a volunteer, non-profit society, trying to protect the independence, dignity and safety of those who appreciate a little help in the everyday practicalities of life.
One of the common denominators of life is food. None of us can live without it. Some of us are injured and cannot cook it for a time. Some of us forget how to cook safely. Some of us have made so many thousands of meals in a lifetime that we are simply no longer interested in doing it. Sadly, some of us can no longer afford to buy the nutritious food we need.
This is where our volunteers come in. Good people. Many now retired who still want to be needed and useful in the support of our neighbours.
Others with young families to nurture want to be out there contributing needed work during school hours. During school vacations they bring children along to the delight of our clients and fostering the art of kindness in the next generation.
We all know that spreading a bit of kindness in the world makes our own lives more meaningful.
Our food provider is Evergreen Campus of Care, undergoing great changes at present that will allow more of our seniors to remain in their own community without being shipped off elsewhere, often with disastrous consequences, because “there is no room at the inn.”
These changes have resulted in us losing some longtime, very honoured, volunteers.
We pick up and return the meal boxes at the top of a very steep driveway, requiring a walk down and up again as they return their book and records to our wee office in another building. Bad knees and hips cannot manage the climb. We’ve suffered some regretful retirements, after five, 10, 20 and more years of constant service.
Should you be interested in joining us, training is provided, along with great camaraderie and the unmatched smile of doing your bit to keep our hometown a better place to be.
The hours are 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday. Check out www.whiterockmealsonwheels.com and call me at 604-541-6325.
It is, I assure you, a cheerful and fulfilling experience, pulling together in a caring and practical support of our friends, relatives and neighbours.
Pat Patton, Meals on Wheels
