Meals on Wheels is First Beneficiary of 100+ Women Who Care

Meals on Wheels has been honored as the first recipient of funds from the new organization 100+ Women Who Care Effingham County.

Karen Etter, who is a member of the organization's steering committee, said $11,800 was presented to Meals on Wheels by the members of Women Who Care during a ceremony at Holiday Inn Thursday evening. Meals on Wheels provides midday meals as part of the Golden Circle Nutrition Program. Funds have been scarce due to ongoing state budget woes, so the gift will come in handy. Meals on Wheels has recently been operating just four days a week in both Effingham and Beecher City.

Etter said EARS and the Andrew Gobczynski Big Heart Foundation were also nominated for the funds, which represent $100 contributed by each member of the group. The organization was originally billed as 100 Women Who Care; now that group has grown to 118 women. Etter said it was an amazing evening; she said they had walkins to the event and had women phoning the Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation, the agency overseeing the program, Thursday morning to ask about participating.

Etter thanked Holiday Inn, which donated the hors d'oeuvres for the event.

The next gathering will take place in July at HSHS St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital in the Healing Garden.

For more information, contact Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation.