There are seniors who depend on programs like Meals on Wheels so they can live independently, but who are seeing their services cut.
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"Heartless" thieves have stolen the wheels from vans used by Wolverhampton City Council's Meals on Wheels service.
In Birmingham, many of the Meals on Wheels are now provided as a stock of frozen microwavable meals, so most people will have a supply to see them through the snowy weather.
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They "fall through the gaps" and miss out on key support services, such as home help and meals on wheels.
They might not be meals on wheels just yet, but fine restaurants throughout the nation will soon be serving something new on the menu: full course meals in under 30 minutes.
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In the UK, Sodexo supplies food to schools and colleges, hospitals and via "meals on wheels", as well as running four prisons.
Other services in Warwickshire, including meals on wheels, were partially affected.
Last year, when my husband opted for early retirement from his job, he signed up with Meals on Wheels to deliver food one day a week to seniors.
Among the programs that could be subject to such cuts: Meals on Wheels, subsidized senior housing, and transportation all critical to frail elders trying to live independently at home.
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She said Meals on Wheels will continue to use other vehicles, including ones which would ordinarily have been used to deliver food to local schools, until the damage is repaired.
The council also plans to close some services including Anlaby Park library and three customer service centres, as well as increasing the cost of its meals on wheels scheme.
Their advice is that the White House should have let the delays mount until Congress also agreed to turn off the entire sequester for low-income housing grants, Meals on Wheels and everything else.
But it would entirely eliminate funding for the Social Services Block Grant program, which helps fund Meals on Wheels, transportation, and other important assistance for people with chronic disease who live at home.
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The recently smitten include: Errol (obviously), Lauren at No. 20, the Meals on Wheels lady, and several council workmen whom Magda battered with one of the stock of road cones she keeps in the front yard.
The bills include funds to administer unemployment benefits, for foster care and adoption help, to keep national parks and museums open, for many veterans benefits, and for Meals on Wheels, which provides dinners for needy senior citizens.
Edwards' response to the attendance issue was to remind people of Cheney's record as a soft-spoken right-wing wack-job in the House: voting against Head Start, voting against Meals on Wheels, voting to legalize plastic guns that terrorists can use to defeat metal detectors, voting against the Martin Luther King Holiday and against a resolution calling on the racists in South Africa to free Nelson Mandela.
The phrase "community organizer" conjures up do-gooder images, soup kitchens and Meals-on-Wheels programs.
Councillors will consider savings, described as "difficult decisions", which will affect services from help for battered wives to meals-on-wheels.
Beef has been removed from school menus and meals-on-wheels dishes in Sandwell after a supplier said products could include traces of horsemeat.
Meals-on-wheels delivered his food, a friend helped him with shopping and he finished writing his first and only novel on the computer that talked to him as he wrote.
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"Following this latest information we have decided as a precaution to temporarily withdraw all beef products sourced from Welsh Bros Foods from our schools, meals-on-wheels service and other council catering outlets, " he said.
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