The Capital City Activities Center, Meals on Wheels.

Greater Frankfurt has joined a National Meals on Wheels campaign to urge lawmakers to make sure nutrition programs for seniors are properly funded.

The center serves around 2000 people in Franklin County, which leaders say has a large population of people 60 years of age and older.

Sharing food over a table is a comforting activity.

It promotes sharing.

It promotes great conversation.

And I associate food with love.

So Capital city activity, Center, Meals on Wheels, Greater Frankfurt is the Meals on Wheels site for Franklin County.

And we deliver meals.

We have a drive thru service where folks can come and drive through and pick up a meal.

And we also have a congregate settings where folks can come in and share a lunch together.

And here in our main dining room, the Safe Lunch Project is you have a paper plate and empty paper plate that has a message on it for a missing year.

And we had over 100 flights that people wrote really profound messages on, you know, Oh, this is the only nutritious meal that we receive in the day.

Please don’t take it away.

You know, things like that.

And that just I’d be blunt.

I almost cry when I read these because they depend so much on these meals.

And when it’s your grandparent or your parent and this is what they rely on and they look forward to not only just the meal, but that daily interaction with somebody.

Because some of these folks that is the only person they talk to during the day.

I got started when I was very sick and they came around and they come in here, I guess three or four year.

It’s convenient because all my family works.

We we really want to make sure that our our clients, our members are getting that one good, hot, nutritious meal a day.

You have a hot meal during the daytime, and then when your family comes home where they usually cook them and bring them and things like that, I.

Think we need to take a moment and see how we visualize a senior.

They’re important.

What they say matters.

They have a strong voice.

We need to listen.

Jenkins said the senior center serves more than 200 meals a day.