When Community Care Peterborough expanded Meals on Wheels to Lakefield in 2012, there was no established meal supplier or shared kitchen—just a dedicated local team with determination, creativity, and a leased oven. At the time, meals weren’t picked up and delivered from Peterborough. I...

In 1984, six Meals on Wheels volunteers from Peterborough were awarded the Province of Ontario’s Culture and Citizenship Award for their extraordinary contributions to the welfare of others. Olive Guinand, Joan Kennedy, Mary Harrison, Joy Edwards, Dorothy McKinstry, and Letty Guilders were rec...

When two women from her Legion Branch were recently widowed in 1979, Una Golding felt a familiar tug — a quiet but insistent call to help. She answered it the way she always had: by stepping forward. Along with friends Vera and Beulah, Una signed up as a Meals on Wheels volunteer after seeing...

For years, the streets of Norwood and Havelock saw a familiar and welcome sight: volunteers like Cathy Turner delivering hot meals to neighbours in need. In the early 1990s, the local Meals on Wheels program was a steady presence in these communities, coordinated from a small office on Pine Street b...

In 1964, when a small group of volunteers launched the Meals on Wheels program in Peterborough, they were driven by a simple yet urgent need: to ensure that seniors living at home could receive a hot meal and a warm connection. But a good idea needs infrastructure—and when the fledgling servic...