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A Day in the Life of Meals on Wheels Meals on Wheels volunteers in the Washington suburb Takoma Park prepare and pack food to be delivered to scores of area eldery and disabled resiedents. The program nationaly is facing possible budget cuts under the Trump budget plan. PHOTO- Autumn Dalton AUTUMN DALTON HUNS - It’s 9 a.m. and the savory smells of garlic, ground beef, and cabbage waft through the air of a quaint, but adequate commercial kitchen at Zion Lutheran Evangelical Church in Takoma Park. Jamie Griffin, 37, is using all the strength her roughly 5’ 4” frame can muster to stir a large pot of beef
and cabbage–a meal that will feed those who otherwise could not feed themselves, scores of residents just seven miles from the nation’s Capitol who are part of the 2.4 million seniors who daily rely on Meals on Wheels. Three retiree volunteers, Peggy Wade, 69, LaVerne Sommerville, 75, and Terese Bouey, 61, are assisting. Today they are packing meals.
While chatting amongst themselves. Sommerville can’t remember if she took her blood pressure medication this morning. She thinks she may have lost the pill instead of swallowing it. Griffin is the kitchen manager. She prepares hot meals five days a week for 40-45 senior citizens living in Takoma Park, Md., who participate in the program. She has been with
Takoma Park’s Meals on Wheels for nine months. Griffin said she tries to keep the meals as nutritious as possible. The cold meal contains a sandwich, piece of bread, fruit, salad, juice, and milk. Today’s hot meal is beef and cabbage, mashed sweet potatoes, and peas. “I try to keep extra carbs out of
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