The Camp Verde Marshal’s Office is teaming up with the local Meals on Wheels program to help collect food to feed many of those in the community most in need.
Meal on Wheels is desperate for volunteers to help deliver the food. Anyone with a vehicle is welcome to volunteer, but potential volunteers should realize that regulations require a level-one fingerprint background check.
The volunteer work requires one hour a day for one day a week.
The program is administered through the Verde Valley Senior Center in Cottonwood, where the kitchen staff is busy turning out the dish and sides of the day — tens of thousands of meals a year to feed the elderly.
People partake of the meals served at the center in Cottonwood, but others depend on home-delivered meals throughout the Verde Valley.
For many, the Meals on Wheels delivery person can be the only social interaction they look forward to all day.
The meals can be a big help to what the program defines as “nutritionally at-risk senior citizens.”
The program delivers hot meals but also relies on non-perishable food items as well.
That’s where the marshal’s office is helping out.
To read the full story, see the Wednesday, June 24, edition of The Camp Verde Journal.
