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Tom Peterman, a Meals on Wheels volunteer driver, picks up his deliveries before heading out on his route. What does a strong community look like? ADDIE SLANGER worried that they wouldn’t be Montana 55 able to receive meals anymore,

I once heard that if you truly drivers ramped up their efforts — want to see safely delivering more than 3,000 the character meals each week since the end of of a person, March. don’t look at Despite economic uncertainty how they act many donors, businesses and when things foundations continue to step up are easy, to donate anyway to help their but instead older neighbors. look at how As events have needed to be they act postponed, sponsors have elected when things Susan Kohler to continue their support, often are hard. If CEO Missoula redirecting funds where they’re that sentiment Aging Services needed most. extends to comWhen the pandemic first munities, then I think we have a started, we received so many volpretty clear picture of Missoula. unteer applications that staff had

In a time of crisis, your actions to create a new system to manage have been filled with generosthe overflow. ity and empathy. It’s not that we So what does a strong commuever doubted the kindness of nity look like? It looks like all of our donors, volunteers, sponsors you — standing together, doing and partners — rather that your what you do best. outpouring of support has gone These may be unprecedented above and beyond anything we times, but we are figuring this could imagine. out together, one day at a time.

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