Southern Frontenac Community Services Expands Hot Meals on Wheels Program

Feb 05, 2020

Southern Frontenac Community Services Corp. (SFCSC) has added an additional day of deliveries to their Hot Meals on Wheels program.

The program offers nutritious meals prepared by a professional cook. Each meal includes soup or salad, an entrée and a side, and a dessert at a cost of $7 per meal. The meals are delivered to the doors of residents in South Frontenac Township and rural Kingston around the noon hour on Tuesdays.

Thursdays have now been added to the schedule making it twice a week that those in need can have affordable, nutritious and delicious meals delivered to their door.

Hot Meals on Wheels serves a variety of groups including; seniors, people with physical disabilities and/or cognitive impairments, and individuals suffering from illness or who are convalescing.

Over the last year SFCSC delivered almost 6,000 hot meals and were faced with a growing demand for more. 

With the support of some funding from the SE LHIN to enhance the program, SFCSC turned to the public to appeal for a kitchen team and volunteer drivers to ensure the ability to deliver meals on an additional day. With all of the pieces in place, a second day of Hot Meals on Wheels was added to the schedule.

“We’re tremendously grateful for the support of our volunteer drivers, and to those assisting the cook in the kitchen.” says Joanne Silver, Meal Programs Coordinator for SFCSC. “There were people in our community who needed help and we had funding in place but without a committed team of Meals on Wheels volunteers we couldn’t have launched a second day of hot meals delivery.”

SFCSC also offers a Frozen Meals program, where nutritional, high quality frozen meals suitable for warming up can be ordered and delivered. Frozen meals cost $5 each. 

For more information about meal programs offered at SFCSC, call 613-376-6477 ext. 303.