Gravette's mayor participates in March for Meals campaign

Gravette Mayor Byron Warren participated in the Mayors for Meals Day observed by the Billy V. Hall Senior Activity Center. He is shown delivering one of the meals to Shirley Clark. For information about the program, call the center at 787-5950.
Gravette Mayor Byron Warren participated in the Mayors for Meals Day observed by the Billy V. Hall Senior Activity Center. He is shown delivering one of the meals to Shirley Clark. For information about the program, call the center at 787-5950.

— Billy V. Hall Senior Activity Center took part in Mayors for Meals Day as a part of its March for Meals campaign. Mayor Byron Warren participated in the event on Wednesday, March 23, 2011, to show his support for our community’s homebound and hungry seniors.

“We are excited about having Mayor Byron Warren participate in our Mayors for Meals Day event,” said Mary Kay Kelley, director of the Senior Activity Center.

March for Meals is a national campaign during the month of March, initiated by the Meals on Wheels Association of America, which seeks to raise awareness of senior hunger and to encourage action on the part of the local community.

“We thank these local leaders for stepping upto the plate and joining our mission to end senior hunger in America by the year 2020,” said MOWAA president and CEO Enid Borden. “Meals on Wheels programs are on the front lines of our battle and need support from elected leaders to continue providing the nutritious meals and human contact that ourseniors so desperately depend on.”

Senior nutrition programs across the United States, like the Billy V. Hall Senior Activity Center, promote March for Meals in their local communities through public events, partnerships with local businesses, volunteer recruitment and fund-raising initiatives. Mayors for Meals Day is a component of March for Meals that utilizes the involvement of local mayors and other local elected officials.

Billy V. Hall Senior Activity Center Home Delivered Meals Program helps people live independently by delivering nutritionallybalanced hot noon meals to the person’s own home, Monday through Friday. Frozen meals are delivered for holidays and weekends to those participants who are in need. Frozen meals are also delivered once a week to those participants outside of the senior center’s hot noon meal delivery area. For more information, call Mary Kay Kelley, SAC director, at 787-5950.

News, Pages 8 on 03/30/2011