Food For Thought - Corning Meals on Wheels

Food For Thought
As I write to you today, it is the morning before Thanksgiving
and we are in the final hours of a ‘winter weather event’. Despite the cold temperatures and the rain, sleet and snow that fell
across our area overnight, Corning Meals on Wheels volunteers
are here diligently working away in the kitchen. The team, having braved the weather, is donating their time and talent preparing a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for the homebound and
frail seniors we serve. The chef and volunteers are pouring their
hearts into today’s menu of roast turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, carrot-raisin salad, and freshly baked
pineapple-coconut bread.
The volunteer driver-visitor teams will be arriving shortly.
They, too, are donating their time and resources (fuel, vehicle
wear & tear) to ensure our elderly neighbors have a warm meal
on this cold day before Thanksgiving. While the majority of our
13 delivery routes are in or close to town, many of the drivervisitor teams will be faced with less than ideal road conditions
on the far reaches of our service area. One team will be on
snow covered roads in Lindley, another in Beaver Dams, another in Coopers Plains, another in Caton, and another in Hornby.
They will go on those routes knowing that, along with delivering much needed nutrition, they may be the only person the
homebound senior sees and speaks with today.
We will be sending today’s meals to 105 homebound and frail
seniors. We couldn’t provide for them today or throughout the
year without the committed and dedicated effort of the ~160
volunteers currently active on the Meals on Wheels team.
When we consider local pay rates for equivalent work, our volunteers donate just shy of $133,000 in labor each year. As generous and robust as that effort is, we are in need of additional
help. If you are interested in helping in the kitchen or with deliveries, please call to learn more about the opportunities we
have available.
It takes resources beyond the physical efforts to prepare and
deliver the 50,000 plus meals we will serve this year. It takes
funding to pay for the equipment, ingredients, insurance, rent,
staff… We do receive a small subsidy from government
sources; however, public funding comprises only 16% of the
funds needed to operate Corning MOW. We depend mainly on
contributions from those receiving the meals or their loved ones,
and on the generosity of the community through direct donations, fundraisers, civic and church groups, and giving through
local grant programs.
As we consider our blessings this Thanksgiving, I know over
100 homebound and frail seniors in the Corning-Painted Post
area who are giving thanks to the volunteers and supporters of
Corning Meals on Wheels for providing meals, and so much
more. You can help us continue to help them by making a donation today.
Warmest Regards,
David
Winter 2013-2014
Inside this issue:
The turkey is roasted.
Director’s Message
Testimonials
New Volunteers
Duck Race Results
Tributes & Gifts
Spotlights
Carving begins.
CMoW HOLIDAY
CLOSINGS
December 25th
January 1
Plating is underway.
Delivery teams have arrived.
Thank you to all who shared
your gardens with us! Our
seniors enjoyed the delicious
plums, green beans, zucchini,
summer squash, tomatoes,
cucumbers, and fresh herbs. Your
donations help us save on food
costs while serving fresh locally
grown nutritious food.
Dinner is served!
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New Volunteers:
STAFF
Adelaide Card, Janet Dodge, Daniel
Durgala, Karen Hart, David Holmes,
Gail Murray, Veronica Rouse, and
Elders King & Jones
Executive Director
David Smith
Kitchen Supervisor
Brian Rook
A note from a senior we serve:
“Thank you so much for all your
excellent meals. They are terrific and
Assistant to the Director
Lisa Carl
Administrative Assistant
Amanda Taylor
so are the people who deliver them!
Many, many thanks.”
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
Rich Graham
A note from a daughter whose parents we serve:
“Thank you so much for the meals for my parents!! It gives me
1st Vice President
Ronald Klokus
2nd Vice President
great peace of mind to know they are getting great meals each
Joyce Vincent
day!! May God bless you all.”
Michele Corby
Treasurer
Secretary
Melissa Colacino
We want your old inkjet &
toner printer cartridges and cell
phones!
Bring your used printer cartridges
and cell phones (ANY condition)
into our office, the UPS store or
Treu Office Supply and help us to
raise money to feed the hungry
and recycle at the same time!!
Eye Glasses,
Hearing Aids and
Battery Collection
The Lions Club is a generous donor to
our program. The glasses are collected
and sent to developing countries where
they are needed the most. The hearing
aids are refurbished and recycled locally
and are available to those individuals in
need. Please bring in any unused glasses
or hearing aids to us, and we will pass
them along to the Lions Club.
Beverly Frost
Mary Beth Maxa
David Moses
Jill Palmer
Jackie Rossi
Jennifer Salley Ruland
Lisa Smith
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Corning Inc. Human Resources Delivers - Diane Card, HR Coordinator at Corning Inc. Workforce
Development & Learning gathered this great team of people to deliver 3 routes on September 16th. We
greatly appreciate their help! Pictured form left to right are Nancy Quattrini, Bonney Hettinger, Debra Kittner,
Hank Jonas, Sherry Pinault, Christine Hernandez, Mary Brink, Gail Baity and Robin Teachman.
Safety First! - Thanks to volunteer Rich Dreifuss for making new holders for
our hot bricks. Thank you, Rich, for donating your time & talent to provide a safe
way to handle the hot bricks and to keep them from melting the coolers.
Speaking of the hot bricks, thank you to volunteer Beth Monahan for coordinating
the donation of additional refractory bricks from the fine folks at Corning Inc.
Refractories. We heat those bricks to 500 degrees in our oven and place them in
our delivery ‘coolers’ to keep the hot meals at a safe temperature for our seniors.
OPERATION BREADBOX
The Community Foundation awarded Corning Meals on Wheels
$2,840 during the Foundation’s grant award presentation
ceremony at the Clemens Center on Tuesday, July 9th. The grant
will fund six months of whole wheat bread for the more than 100
homebound and frail seniors enrolled in Corning Meals on
Wheels’ home delivered meal program.
At left, volunteers Brittani
Raub and Diane Nessle assemble the day’s cold meals,
including whole wheat bread
funded by a grant from the
Community Foundation.
Shuffle off to
Buffalo…Chopper
On November 19th, the Community Foundation
awarded Corning Meals on Wheels $5,500 to
replace a piece of kitchen equipment known in
the business as a buffalo chopper. We use the
machine to prepare fresh nutrition-rich soft
foods like protein salads including ham,
chicken, & turkey salads, and vegetable salads
like finely chopped
coleslaw. Our old
buffalo chopper is
believed to have been
with our program since
our inception in 1966.
Wish list:
4” Deep hotel pans & pan lids
4” Deep perforated steam table pans
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Holiday Placemats - Many thanks to Addison’s
Tuscarora Elementary School 3rd graders for making
double sided placemats for our clients. One side is
Thanksgiving themed and the other is Holiday themed.
Pictured at left is volunteer Tom Gehl and his grandson.
Tom’s grandson volunteered to help during his
Thanksgiving break from the Alternative School for
Math and Science.
Christ Church Grant for Operations!!!! Many thanks to Christ Episcopal Church’s Missions Committee for granting us $2,000 to help fund operations! A
special thanks to CMoW volunteer and Christ Church
member, Barbara Cook, for sponsoring our grant application. The generous grant will fund 482 hot meals for financially challenged homebound and frail seniors in our area.
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TRIBUTE GIFTS & CONTRIBUTIONS
June 22, 2013 - November 30, 2013
FROM
IN MEMORIUM
Jimmie Joe & Lisa Carl
Raymond N. Curry
Bev Tompkins
Barbara Hampson, William & BJ O'Mara
Dr. Cornell & Lorry Hoff, Linda (Candy) Daniels
Sarah Hoffman Pinkston
Eugene Macauley
Sarah (Sally) Pinkston
Ken Burmeister
Bob Richter
Richard Howe
Eugene Macauley
Kenneth Burmeister
Doris Hunt
Joanna Boettner
Elissa Small
Robert Bodfish
Thursday October
Eleanor Gauss
24th we said
David Paggen
Carole Reif
farewell to kitchen
Mary Corby
volunteer Patricia
Ella Shauger, Kenneth Smith Jr.
Johns. She and her
Patricia Dann
Steve Forman & Mary Darcangelo
Jeanne E. Grant
Judy Hagerty
John Mayes and the "Boys at Camp"
Diane Nessle
Patti Painton
Betty Ramberg
Tom & Theresa Rossettie
Janet Simon
Lisa Smith
James Sutterfield
Alan & Mary Wakeman
Dave & Jan Williams
Dave & Jan Williams
Beverly Woodhouse & family
Beverly Woodhouse & family
FROM
John & Margo Brown
Alfred Delluomo
Steve Lewis & Diana Pratt and families
Pat Osborn
Delphine Pierri
Diane Pierri
Bill & Meg Scheidweiler
IN HONOR OF
Mr. & Mrs. Brian Hill
Mark Delluomo
Evie & Ed Lewis
George Hunt's 90th Birthday
Delphine’s 90th Birthday
Delphine Pierri
George Hunt's 90th Birthday
GIFTS FROM
Frank Anastasio
Lance Babcock
Sylva Baldini
Russell Bancroft
Beth Bentley & Edward Dougherty
Carpenter's Funeral Home
Chemung & Steuben County
Combined Federal Campaign
Dan & Sarah Collins
Vera Dauman
Mary Esgrow
First Baptist Church of Corning
First Heritage Credit Union
Karen Fusco
Sylvia Ginnan
Phillip & Amy Gorham
Amy Gush
Harrold Family Foundation
Ed & Joanne Herman
Jean Horigan
Clinton S. Janes, Jr.
Market Street Trust Company
MOMS Club
husband are retiring
to Alabama. We
wish you the best
and we will miss you
Patti! Pictured
below is Patti and
Chef Brian Rook.
Bonnie Morton
Tom & Barbara O'Brien
John & Ellen O'Hare
Gary & Patricia Pease
Richard Peck
William Plummer
Priscilla Rial
William Rosch
Don & Ona Rouse
Jeffery & Andrea Rubin
Ken & Georgine Salisbury
Simon & Mary St. Laurent
Steve & Nancy Staggs
Steuben County SEFA
Anthony Tallarida
David Tammaro
Faye Tong
USW Local 1000
Matt Vine
Joyce Walter
Willowcreek Couples Golf League
Marianne Young
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Successful 14th Annual Crystal City Duck Race!
Many thanks to all who supported the Duck
Race. Thanks to you the Duck Race netted
$9,300 dollars to help Corning Meals on
Wheels deliver freshly prepared meals to our
area's homebound and frail seniors in need.
1st Prize -- Karen Fusco -- $500 cash & $500 local merchandise
2nd Prize -- Louise Freedman -- Backyard BBQ from Corning Catering
3rd Prize -- Mary & Jack Cleland -- Costa Flying Service scenic air tour
4th Prize -- Tom Loughridge -- $25 Wegmans gift card
5th Prize -- Laura & David Austin -- $25 Wegmans gift card
6th Prize -- Missy Hogue -- $25 Wegmans gift card
7th Prize -- Jill Palmer -- $25 Wegmans gift card
Karen Fusco, holder of the winning duck
race ticket, receives a basket of local merchandise from our Executive Director.
Bonus Drawing -- Louise Freedman -- Two reserve seat tickets to the
NASCAR Race at the Glen.
Thank you to all who make
the Duck Race possible!
The 14th Annual Crystal City Duck
Race would not have been possible
without the sponsors, ticket holders, all the volunteers, including
the Corning Fire Department, the
Colonial Days Pageant Princesses,
those who inventoried the ducks,
and our board members.
Many thanks to our Duck Race sponsors and prize partners:
J & T’s Auto Café, Corning Global Supply Management, Costa Flying Service,
Corning Catering, Inn at the Gaffer, Posh Boutique & Salon, Beyond Baskets,
Spencer’s Restaurant, Vitrix, Palate Café & Juice Bar, Pizza Hut, and Old World Café.
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We’re partnering with Simmons Rockwell Subaru to “Share the Love”!
The Meals on Wheels Association of America (MOWAA) has once again been chosen as a charitable partner of the Subaru “Share the Love” event. Corning Meals on Wheels, along with Meals on
Wheels of Chemung County, are proud to announce that we have partnered with the Simmons
Rockwell Subaru dealership for the “Share the Love” event his holiday season to nurture health,
dignity, and independence for homebound and frail area seniors enrolled in the Meals on Wheels
programs.
Here’s how it works:
Subaru will donate $250 for every new vehicle sold or leased to the customer’s choice of participating charities between November 21, 2013 and January 2, 2014.
Meals On Wheels Member programs engage their communities and local dealerships to increase
awareness of the campaign and the services they provide.
The more new Subaru owners that check the box next to Meals on Wheels, the more MOWAA is
able to award to local programs and the more seniors we’ll be able to feed.
To tie it all up, participating local programs, like ours, apply for a grant describing how they’ve
been involved in the campaign and MOWAA then award programs based on that effort.
This is the second year both local Meals on Wheels programs are teaming up with the Simmons
Rockwell Subaru dealership. Simmons Rockwell Subaru employees will deliver a route for one of
the programs each week in December. On December 23rd, Simmons Rockwell employees will be
stepping up to cover several routes for both our Corning program and Chemung County’s program.
New this year, Simmons Rockwell Subaru is making their dealership available for people to donate stocking stuffer items for Meals on Wheels recipients. Please consider visiting the Subaru
dealership in Big Flats to help fill a Subaru with stocking stuffer items like travel-size shampoos,
lotions, soaps, tissue packs, tooth paste, and small fun things to do like crossword puzzle books
and card games. We will use those items to stuff stockings, donated by Party Time in Big Flats, for
the teams to present to the seniors along with their nutritious & delicious meals on the 23rd.
A successful Share the Love campaign can result in much needed support to help us provide
meals to homebound seniors in our area. We are grateful to be able to work with the Simmons
Rockwell Subaru dealership, its employees, their families and their customer base to make this
year’s Share the Love campaign a success for the seniors we serve through the Corning and
Chemung County Meals on Wheels programs.
Below are photos of the Simmons Rockwell Subaru team helping us Share the Love back in December 2012. Thanks to Simmons Rock well
Subaru’s active support of Corning Meals on Wheels, MOWAA awarded us $2,500 for last year’s effort! Help us beat that in 2013 by dropping by the dealership, or here at Corning Meals on Wheels, with stocking stuffer items for your homebound & frail neighbors in need.
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