LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – Lubbock leaders volunteered their lunch breaks to make sure more than a thousand people received a meal on Friday.<\/p>\n
Big Wheels Deliver Meals gives homebound, elderly and disabled people a chance to eat a hot meal and see a familiar face.<\/p>\n
Lubbock leaders – law enforcement, business leaders, city officials, and some familiar KCBD faces – rode around in unique cars delivering Sonic hamburgers to Meals on Wheels clients.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really just a way to get the community involved in our mission. It\u2019s not a fundraiser, this is all community supported,\u201d Lisa Gilliland, the Executive Director of Lubbock Meals on Wheels, said.<\/p>\n
Lubbock Meals on Wheels serves more than one thousand clients across 81 routes every day.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have about 1,700 [volunteers], but as we add more routes, we always need more to get those meals delivered and get the operation going,\u201d Gilliland said.<\/p>\n
For many of the clients, the Meals on Wheels visits are about more than food. It could be the only social interaction they get for the day.<\/p>\n
One client, Kenneth Landert, said he has serious health issues and appreciates the daily check ins.<\/p>\n
Volunteers also bring pet food for clients, as most are unable to leave the home for regular grocery runs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey bring dog food. That\u2019s important because I have two dogs,\u201d another Meals on Wheels client said.<\/p>\n
All of Lubbock Meals on Wheels\u2019 efforts are community efforts, Gilliland said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not government funded and we\u2019re not a United Way agency,\u201d Gilliland said. \u201cWe rely completely on the support of the community and the donations that we ask for stay right here in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone with a driver\u2019s license can volunteer<\/a> as a Meals on Wheels driver. The organization will provide training and will work around your schedule.<\/p>\n You can also donate from their website<\/a> or through the PayPal Giving Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – Lubbock leaders volunteered their lunch breaks to make sure more than a thousand people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-419885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}