Food and friendship : Meals
on Wheels volunteers deliver
program. For many of the clients, whose
richard.mahoney@eap.on.ca
families are far away, the volunteersmay be
H AWKESBURY
the only people they see in a day,” says
Lalonde.
OliveMoore, who has been volunteering
Damp snow falls as Betty Charron and
for fiveyears, andBettyCharron,who joined
OliveMooreprepare todeliver theirMeals
about three and a half years ago, will deliver
on Wheels.
meals to seven clients on this day.
But they are in good spirits. A dusting
The food, prepared at the Hawkesbury
fromOldManWinterwill not prevent them
and District General Hospital, caters to
from making their rounds.
individual requirements. As they load their
As volunteers, they are making a
vehicle, the volunteers point to colourful
contribution to the community by donating
dots on plastic containers.
afewhoursoftheirtimetobringnourishment
A blue dot indicates the meal is destined
to elderly, handicapped and convalescing
for a diabetic while a yellow dot denotes a
people in Hawkesbury.
container intended for apersonona low-salt
They know that they are also delivering
diet. Meals, which cost clients $4.50 each,
much more than food. The social aspect of
also account for any allergies.
MealsonWheels is important, notes Isabelle
Unfortunately, Olive Moore and Betty
Lalonde, who coordinates the program in
Charron are minorities. There are barely
the eastern end of Prescott County for the
enoughvolunteers tomeet thedemand. “We
Prescott-Russell Community Services
Photo Richard Mahoney
always needmore volunteers.We can count
agency.
Meals onWheels programvolunteersOliveMoore andBettyCharron prepare tomake
on about 20 volunteers to bring meals to
“The social contact is a big part of the
their deliveries.
about 25 clients in the Hawkesbury area,”
relates Lalonde.
Because of the lack of volunteers,
deliveries are made Monday, Wednesday
andFridayintheHawkesburyregion.“Some
of the deliveries contain two meals. We are
not able to deliver Monday through Friday
because we do not have enough people,”
says Lalonde. The program needs people to
deliver meals to between 11:30 a.m. and
12:30 p.m. Monday to Friday. Call Isabelle
Lalonde at 613-632-0939 for more
information.Thisweek,somenewvolunteers
were enlisted. During “Mayors for Meals”
Week, local politicians pitch in. The
CommunityServices organization is among
themanygroups relyingonvolunteers. Last
year, volunteers involvedintheCommunity
Services’ many programs donated 27,115
hours of work.
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Man reported missing
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H AWKESBURY
Dear customers,
The public is being asked to help the
Ontario Provincial Police in its search for a
30-year-oldHawkesburymanwhohasbeen
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missing for about a month.
Last seen at his residence at about 9 a.m.
February 27, FrançoisMantha is 1.83metres
(6 feet) tall, weighing 108 kilograms (238
pounds), with straight brown hair, green
eyes, and pierced ears. Concerned family
members contacted the Hawkesbury O.P.P.
detachment March 2. François Mantha’s
vehicle was later located in Calumet. With
the assistance of the Sûreté du Québec
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