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Newspaper
Irvine World News
Location
Irvine, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 2013
Page
4
Rita Kaaren recounts life hiding in a Polish movie house with a holy medallion that she credits with saving her during German occupation. She describes family losses, parentage, and a fragile survival story reemerging in Irvine with friend Kim May who keeps the medal nearby.
The 2012 13 Meals on Wheels aid recipients were mostly white. Rita Kaaren recounts a life spanning Poland Israel and the United States after losing her family postwar. She wears a long breathing tube connected to an in home oxygen machine. Her husband Mark died 13 years ago after a life partners across several cities and continents. The couple moved to Irvine in 1987 when their son Lee began UC Irvine medical school and later ran a liquor store in Arcadia for five years.
The Irvine program relies on Title III federal and state funds plus participant contributions and community donations to run Meals on Wheels. The story profiles 88 year old Kaaren, a former center worker now needing rest and help, who recalls decades of service and the daily checkups provided by drivers to homebound seniors.
Visit city of Irvine site under Seniors donate now. Volunteers can prep and package food at Lakeview Senior Center 8 a.m. to 1 30 p.m. Monday to Friday and packaging until 11 a.m. Packaging, drivers deliver 11 a.m. to 1 30 p.m. Monday to Friday. Contact Ellen Jones at 949 724 6904 or ejones cityofirvine.org.
Irvine residents aged 60 or older who have completed a staff or volunteer assessment qualify for meals. Priority goes to homebound, those living alone, or at highest acuity, and recipients must be able to accept deliveries between 11 15 a m and 1 p m on weekdays. Call 949 724 6910 or visit cityofirvine.org mealsonwheels for details.
Sequestration trims expected Meals on Wheels funding by eight percent next year, forcing Lakeview Senior Center to limit daily deliveries. Weekend meals ended. eight seniors remain on a wait list as officials urge protection of Older Americans Act nutrition programs.
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