The long-standing volunteer program provides nutritious meals to Redlands residents who cannot prepare their own, ensuring both nourishment and well-being with weekday deliveries.
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The long-standing volunteer program provides nutritious meals to Redlands residents who cannot prepare their own, ensuring both nourishment and well-being with weekday deliveries.
BY: NELDA STUCK, Community Contributor
REDLANDS - Redlands Meals on Wheels is encouraging Redlanders who cannot prepare nutritious daily meals to enroll in this long-standing home-delivery program.
Volunteers have been delivering meals within the Redlands city boundaries Monday through Friday for more than 50 years.
Age is not a requirement to be on a delivery route, but rather a need for assistance.
"If you are unable to go out and get food or cook, Meals on Wheels wants to help," said Cindy Perkins, who coordinates the client application process. Quite often an adult child is the one phoning and making the arrangements for an ailing parent to receive good meals.
Clients are billed a monthly charge that covers the cost of the preparation of food through the Plymouth Village Retirement kitchen.
Each day, a set of eight volunteers (a driver and a navigator reading off individual directions to each client's home) meet at the First United Methodist Church to load their assigned delivery box of meals for the four standard routes covering all sections of Redlands. This meal includes a hot entrée, hot vegetable, a starch such as potatoes or pasta, bread, fruit, dessert and milk.
Two other volunteers deliver special diet meals from Redlands Community Hospital.
The volunteer deliverers also are making quick contact with the clients to make sure they are all right.
Those interested in obtaining daily help with a noon meal can phone the RMOW delivery kitchen between 9:30 and noon any weekday for initial assistance information: 909-792-0716.
RMOW, organized locally, emphasizes they deliver only within Redlands. Those needing help outside our city in San Bernardino County can phone 951-342-3057.
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