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Meals on Wheels served 45,927 meals in Kendall County in 2025, more volunteers needed · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Meals on Wheels served forty five percent nine hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven meals in Kendall County in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: More volunteers needed. Written by Joey Weslow, This article is
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  Speaker 1: Last year, the Meals on Wheels Foundation of Northern Illinois
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  Speaker 1: launched the End Theweight campaign to unite communities in providing
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  Speaker 1: senior citizens with nourishing meals, companionship and recreation, and the
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  Speaker 1: care they require for enriched lives. Across Kendall County, the
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  Speaker 1: nonprofit served forty five percent and nine hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven home delivered meals in twenty twenty five. They also
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  Speaker 1: served eighty seven hundred and thirteen cafe meals in social
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  Speaker 1: settings to older adults, gathered in places like the Beacher
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  Speaker 1: Center in Yorkville. The cafe meals are designed to promote socializing,
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  Speaker 1: often including games and crafts, fitness demonstrates, and special presentations.
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  Speaker 1: The nonprofit also serves cafe meals from the oswegl And
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  Speaker 1: Senior and Community Center in Plano. Cafe meals are served
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  Speaker 1: from Planet Pizza and Two Partners Cafe. It's been an
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  Speaker 1: incredible year for our Kendall County sites. Elizabeth Bowman of
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  Speaker 1: Meals on Wheels for Northern Illinois said in a release,
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  Speaker 1: we couldn't do it without our nonprofit partners and our
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  Speaker 1: precious volunteers. We want to ensure that every older adult
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  Speaker 1: in our community knows how to access our services and
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  Speaker 1: how to support them, Bowman said. The home delivered meals
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  Speaker 1: are a lifeline for homebound seniors. The nonprofit provides the
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  Speaker 1: meals five days a week to those in need. The
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  Speaker 1: nonprofit serves adults ages sixty and older in Kendall, Grundy,
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  Speaker 1: Will and suburban Cook Counties. The End the Way campaign
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  Speaker 1: was launched after the nonprofit noted a thirteen percent increase
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  Speaker 1: of meals served across its entire region in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: with a total of one thousand, one hundred and seventy thousand,
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  Speaker 1: fifty one meals served. Deferral funding has not kept pace
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  Speaker 1: with the increasing senior population or rising and alarmingly, only
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  Speaker 1: one percent of philanthropic donations in the US are directed
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  Speaker 1: towards senior causes. Dianah Thompson of Meals on Wheels said
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  Speaker 1: in a previous release, local Meals on Wheels providers are
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  Speaker 1: present in nearly every community nationwide, eager to expand their reach,
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  Speaker 1: but urgently needing additional resources to do so. The nonprofit
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  Speaker 1: said it is always seeking new volunteer drivers to help
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  Speaker 1: Meals on Wheels maintain and expand its delivery routes throughout
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  Speaker 1: area communities. You can learn more about volunteering, contributing, or
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  Speaker 1: advocating for seniors in Northern Illinois by visiting the nonprofit's
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  Speaker 1: website MOSEMI dot org, or by calling six three zero
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