The Rolla Nutrition Site, which is located in the Rolla Towers at 1440 Forum Drive, continues to provide hot lunch meals weekdays for seniors in the Rolla community. In the last three months of their fiscal year the Rolla Nutrition Site served an average of 42 in-house meals daily and delivered 220 Meals on Wheels to homebound seniors living in the Rolla community.
The federally funded program that comes from grant money intended for seniors is managed by CMAAA (Central Missouri Area Agency on Aging) in partnership with the Rolla Nutrition Site Advisory Board.
The lunches, which are cooked at the Rolla Towers and where the Meals on Wheels program is managed, are served Monday through Friday. Federal funding for the program has remained stagnate for the last 11 years. The volunteers of the Rolla Nutrition Site help maintain the program through local fund raising. Funds on hand diminish yearly and the advisory board will be forced to raise more local funding to meet the growing needs of our senior population.
“If a new Senior Center is built sometime in the future in Rolla, said Carol Green, Vice President of the Rolla Nutrition Site Advisory Board and Phelps County Treasurer, “it could accommodate more seniors who could benefit from the Nutrition Site and alleviate the parking problems that exist at Rolla Towers.”
For more information regarding the Rolla Nutrition Site or Meals on Wheels programs please contact Shelley Woltkamp, Site Administrator, at 341-2929.
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