MEALS ON WHEELS Lakewood Meals on Wheels needs your help. Although there are many ways to help, first let me tell you about the program. Chef Jan LeBeau makes about 50 meals a day, five days a week, except on holidays. Meals On Wheels feeds people who cannot get out of their home for various reasons. For some of these people the volunteers are the only people they have contact with that day. Most of us working at Meals on Wheels are retirees, who donate a few hours a day. We are a nonprofit organization that works out of the Lakewood United Methodist church on the corner of Detroit Road and Summit Ave. A typical meal is milk, a sandwich, cookies, fruit for lunch; protien, vegetable, starch and dessert for dinner. We vary the entrees so people do not keep getting the same thing each week.

There are many ways you can help. Like every volunteer organization, we need money to keep our prices down; we charge $5.50 a day. One way we keep prices down is through the efforts of local gardeners like Emil Girod, who donates fresh vegetables from his Lakewood garden. If you can’t do that but would like to donate, please send money to: Lakewood Meals on Wheels, in care of Betty Bassi at 3167 Lindey, Rock River, Ohio, 44116. Make check pay to Lakewood Meals on Wheels. We are also looking for drivers to deliver the meals, hoppers who ride along to take the food into the homes, and helpers with preparing the meals. If you can help in any way, please call Jan at 216-226-8644 or Ann Wright at 440-331-0798. If you or someone you know would like Meals on Wheels delivered to your Lakewood home, or for more information, please call at 216-226-8644. By helping others, we are helping ourselves. The most important people are the ones we help. Therefore, Lakewood Meals on Wheels helps all of us.