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Field Trip to Meals on Wheels in Aldergrove
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On Tuesday, May 17 th the New Directions Aldergrove LINC 4/5 class, with Teacher Maureen, enjoyed a field trip to the new Meals on Wheels facility in the former Firehall Station at 2900 272nd Street.

Langley Meals on Wheels (LMOW), a non-profit organization was started 42 years ago and has a stellar reputation of providing an important food service to the community. Students were given a tour of the facility by Program Director Barb Stack, who detailed the scope of the mission of Meals on Wheels from cooking meals in their expansive, new commercial kitchen to delivering hot meals five days a week or frozen meals for persons who prefer to heat their own. There is neither age restriction nor any discrimination to determine who receives the meals. They are for anyone in the community who is in need of a meal. Anyone interested can look at the menu provided online and make their meal selection. Barb explained that LMOW has built garden boxes outside their front entrance to grow some of their own produce with the possibility of using it as a teaching garden. LMOW also gleans produce from local farms and receive donations from local grocery stores. Also, the students learned about various volunteering opportunities from cooking and sealing the meals to driving the meals and office work. Barb also described how to fill in the volunteer application online and come to their facility for an interview. At this time there are over 100 volunteers working at Meals on Wheels and delivering 120 meals on different routes per day! Students were amazed at the productivity which they observed in the kitchen and the shelves laden with dark-green thermal bags containing hot meals awaiting volunteer drivers to deliver the meals. Future plans include a café with a computer station and workshops for skill building. LMOW welcomes community partners to collaborate by offering classes after hours in the lobby or use the expansive upstairs space for workshops. More information is available at https://lmow.ca/
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