LEGISLATOR MARC ROBERTS PART OF "MARCH FOR MEALS"

Pictured left-right: Zions Bank Manager Todd Lambourne, Meals on Wheels Volunteer Jackie Hone, and Utah State Legislator Marc Roberts (District 67)

Stephanie Benson, Volunteer Program Coordinator, Meals on Wheels, Mountainland Association of Governments, reports, “Meals on Wheels helps seniors maintain their independence by providing hot, nutritious lunches. The program serves more than 450 seniors daily, and provided more than 118,000 meals to homebound seniors in 2013 in Utah County. We deliver to 20 seniors just in Payson City.

“We rely on 300 volunteers spread among 28 volunteer routes to deliver the meals. Volunteers deliver 50 percent of the meals. I don’t know what we would do without them.

“This is our fourth year hosting March For Meals. This year we have 21 elected officials in Utah County delivering meals this week.”

One of those elected officials is Mac Roberts of Utah House of Representatives District 67 (comprising Elk Ridge, Payson, Santaquin, Genola, Goshen, Fairfield, Cedar Valley, and part of Salem).

Wednesday morning, he and local volunteer Jackie Hone delivered Meals on Wheels to Payson seniors.  They met at Payson’s Zions Bank where they gathered the prepared meals for delivery.

Story and photo published in the April 2, 2014, edition of The Payson Chronicle.  Subscribe toThe Payson Chronicle at paysonads.com.