Meals were packed, wrapped, and delivered to seniors across Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n
SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 One boxful at a time, car after car.<\/p>\n
Close to 2,000 meals were bagged, packed, and delivered to families across Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n
“We pushed out over 2,000 meals, packed them and had them ready, and they’re now being delivered to all of our older adults that are in need,” said Jason Kavulich, Pennsylvania’s Department of Aging Secretary.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania Department of Aging Secretary Jason Kavulich and volunteers from Friends of the Poor, the Catherine McAuley Center, and the Lackawanna County Area on Aging teamed up to make sure everyone has a Thanksgiving feast.<\/p>\n
It is all part of the 49th annual Thanksgiving Community Program at Meals on Wheels along Wyoming Avenue in Scranton.<\/p>\n
“Really, older adults are at the top of everybody’s list. Everybody’s making sure that we’re doing our part to support them,” said Kavulich.<\/p>\n
“This morning was an incredible testament to teamwork, said Lindsey Skripka, Meals on Wheels Executive Director. “We had almost 30 volunteers here, and we were able to pack all of those meals in under an hour and a half, and that is absolutely incredible.”<\/p>\n
Skripka says each senior they serve will have a frozen Thanksgiving meal made up of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, vegetables, a dinner roll, and dessert.<\/p>\n
“Just how we were packing in here and in other areas of our building, we were packing meals to go to our daily clients, and especially since it’s the holiday and we’ll be closed for two days, it’s been a very busy day for us,” said Skripka.<\/p>\n
A slice of hard work that the organization is committed to dishing out, year-round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meals were packed, wrapped, and delivered to seniors across Lackawanna County. SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 One boxful at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-44619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}