Holiday Happiness on Wheels

Many who receive our daily meals enjoy the uplift of holiday happenings–not office parties or group celebrations, but visitors to their homes bringing gifts of groceries, pet food, or a wrapped present. For 12 weekdays in a row, each client receives a wrapped present, so the Ames Building is a hive

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A “hand out” or a “hand up?”

“Hand out” has a pejorative connotation–undeserved assistance, which may foster dependency. A “hand up,” on the other hand, has a positive ring to it–help toward self-sufficiency. When it comes to senior hunger, this is a false dichotemy. Three out of four people we feed have a low

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Columbine and TLC

Columbine High School has a name recognized nationwide for tragic reasons.  We have reason to broadcast something very favorable about Columbine, however.  We enjoy partnering with schools from several districts even though we occupy space in a Littleton Public Schools facility.  Our bond to Columbine began with our grocery

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Toyota 100 Cars for Good — Vote on Sat., July 28th!

TLC Meals on Wheels is proud to announce we’ve been selected as a finalist in Toyota’s 100 Cars for Good Program. Now we need your support! Tell your friends and vote for TLC Meals on Wheels at www.100carsforgood.com on July 28th. Toyota’s 100 Cars for Good is

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Gardening for the Gift of Nutrition

Roald Dahl  (in Rhyme Stew) wrote this parody of the familiar nursery rhyme: Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? “I live with my brat in a high-rise flat so how in the world would I know.” Actually, that probably describes the situation of many

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Time for a Salad

The other day we included a green salad with the lunch we served.  It required a plastic box we’d never used before, but we’re making some adjustments in our packaging, and this was a good time to try something different.  Our clients called all afternoon and left

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Giving People a Chance to Serve

One day a social worker came up to me with a story about a woman who, until recently, was one of our meal recipients. The woman has dementia but was living alone and neglecting her health. Eventually she was taken to a hospital, and now she lives

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Meal Delivery is Just the Starting Point

This is a motto for our program. So, for example, one of our volunteers discovered an elderly woman lying on the floor, unable to get up. After calling for an ambulance, which took our client to a nearby hospital, the volunteer heard the paramedic say, “If you

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Meals on Wheels – For Pets, Too!

TLC Meals on Wheels started our “We All Love Our Pets” (WALOP) program in 2007, following the lead of the Banfield Charitable Foundation and the Meals on Wheels Association of America. Each holiday season, the Banfield Pet Hospitals in four area PetSmart stores collect donations of pet

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