Ready to deliver some Christmas cheer

There has been very little down time for local Meals on Wheels volunteers and heading into the festive season, things ramped up even more.

The Mount Gambier facility has been a hive of activity as volunteers work on three special projects – making up gift bags for clients, delivering Christmas meals and stockpiling a variety of frozen meals to help get clients through the Christmas break when volunteers take a well earned hiatus from meal delivery.

Meals on Wheels Mount Gambier’s Gay Izykiewicz said without the hard working volunteers and generous sponsors it would not be possible to hand out the much appreciated Christmas gift bags.

One Forty One Plantations, Limestone Coast Turf and Paving and Woolworths Marketplace head the list while Lions Christmas Cakes have been donated; St Martins Lutheran College students made a selection of biscuits; Perrymans, at North Adelaide, provided cost price gingerbread men; Priceline donated products, as well as The Reject Shop and Mount Gambier Marketplace also providing discounts.