3-Year Grant to Help Feed Boyertown-Area Seniors: Money From the Pottstown Area Health and Wellness Foundation Will Be Used in Part to Benefit Eligible Residents Through Meals on Wheels.
Posted on: Wednesday, 12 April 2006, 09:00 CDT
By Reading Eagle, Pa.
Apr. 12--Boyertown Area Multi-Service plans to use a three-year, $200,000 grant to provide meals for Berks County seniors and other eligible residents.
The Pottstown Area Health and Wellness Foundation already has donated $100,000 to the Boyertown social-service agency and is committed to donate $50,000 in both 2007 and 2008, Dana L. Eichert, Multi-Service executive director.
Multi-Service will use the money to take over the county's Meals on Wheels program in the Boyertown area and hire staff to establish a complete food-service program at the senior center in Boyertown.
In January, Boyertown Area Multi-Service opened its new Center at Spring Street, a $2.8 million facility at Spring and Schaeffer streets. The facility includes the senior center.
Eichert said Multi-Service already has hired a full-time kitchen supervisor and plans to hire two part-time staffers. She expects the food-service program will be in place by late May, but she did not know when the group would begin providing food for Meals on Wheels.
"(That) is a monumental task," she said. "I'm hoping in the next few months."
A caterer currently provides food for the Meals on Wheels in Boyertown.
When both programs are established, Eichert expects to serve 100-150 people per day.
Next year, she hopes to introduce nutritional programs and food preparation classes for older people with medical problems. She also wants to start cooking classes for young people.
The well-publicized problem of childhood obesity is caused in part by young people not knowing anything about cooking or healthful eating, she said.
"A lot of kids, if they can't open a package or stick something in the microwave, they have no idea how to prepare a meal," Eichert said. "Our objective is just to expose people to better-quality food."
The Pottstown Area Health and Wellness Foundation is a charitable organization that promotes healthful living.
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