Commission hears from meals program volunteers

  • Edgemont Senior Citizens Club President Lyle Rudloff tells the Fall River County Commissioners how the Meals on Wheels volunteer drivers deliver more than food, but provide vital “welfare checks.” Edgemont Mayor Rheta Reagan and Meals on Wheels area CEO George Larson also came to the Commission meeting October 2. Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald-Star
    Edgemont Senior Citizens Club President Lyle Rudloff tells the Fall River County Commissioners how the Meals on Wheels volunteer drivers deliver more than food, but provide vital “welfare checks.” Edgemont Mayor Rheta Reagan and Meals on Wheels area CEO George Larson also came to the Commission meeting October 2. Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald-Star
    HOT SPRINGS — In a dramatic turnaround during the October 2 Fall River County Commission meeting, as volunteers from the Meals on Wheels program were explaining the problems with the State’s substitution of weekly mailed frozen meal packs in place of daily delivered hot meals, word came that the ill-advised policy was being revoked — and hot meals were set to resume on Friday, October 3....

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