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Dinner Wagon wheels keep rolling
BY JACK HANNA
ing facilities. Grace Hart-
The King's Daughters Din- wick, another Dinner Wagon
ner Wagon has been at it for founder, remembers delivera
quarter of a century -- ing meals in "tiny rooms
daily dispatching dozens with single beds."
of volunteers to deliver
Today, most of the roombig
meals and a little friend- ing-houses are gone, reship
to homes around the placed by apartment build-
Ottawa area.
ings, but the Dinner Wagon
As it marks its 25th
remains a necessary service.
anniversary, the Dinner
A hot meal delivered daily
Wagon's mission remains the can make the difference
same as it was when the
that enables an individual
service began: to deliver to live on his or her own
hot nutritious meals every rather than having to go
weekday to those who need into a seniors' home or
them. Most clients are el- hospital.
derly people, but some who The raison d'être has
are disabled or convales- stayed the same; but the
cing use the service, as service has grown in size.
well.
When it began, the Dinner
"I have always felt the Wagon had only a half dozfood
we deliver is only
en or so clients. Two
half of the service," says volunteers - one to drive
Gwen Richards, a pioneer the car and another to carwho
helped launch the Din- ry the meals to the client -
ner Wagon. "The visit when could handle the entire
you deliver the meal, even delivery. Today, over 60
if it is only brief, is
volunteers, still in pairs,
so greatly appreciated."
fan out across Ottawa,
Back when the service
Vanier, and Rockcliffe each
began in 1968, the core
weekday to deliver an avof
Ottawa had a lot more erage of 500 noon meals.
rooming-houses. Elderly
That works out to over
people frequently lived in 125,000 meals delivered in
single, rooms without cook- a year by a roster of 800
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inum for recycling.
The cost to clients has However, the pioneers of
remained low -- 75 cents the Dinner Wagon recall that
per meal in 1968 and $4.10 there was a form of retoday.
cycling employed when the
An aspect of the early service began. The volundays
has reappeared re- teer making a delivery would
cently -- recycling. In dish the food from the Dinthe
1970s and 1980s, the ner Wagon's aluminum con-
Dinner Wagon used disposable tainers onto the client's
aluminum meal containers,
However, a recycling project
was launched two years
ago. Today, clients are
asked to save the aluminum
containers in which the
meals are served and return
them to the volunteers once
a week. The containers are
then shipped to Alcan Alum-
own dishes. The volunteer
took the Dinner Wagon's
containers away for washing
and reuse.
And you thought recycling
was a new idea.
Are you a potential client
or volunteer? Call the King's
Daughters Dinner Wagon at
233-2424.
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