In 1983, as Meals on Wheels officially incorporated as a charitable organization, the program was delivering over 18,000 meals a year—a remarkable number for a service that had grown out of a church kitchen and a handful of volunteers. But it was also a sign of what was coming: more seniors ne...
After Meals on Wheels founder Elizabeth Janusz and long-time coordinator Bernice Clark, few names are as closely tied to the program’s legacy as Gail Wilson and Patty Tipton. For more than two decades, they were the steady hands guiding the program through one of its biggest changes: the trans...
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...
