In the spirit of the Christmas holiday season the Mitchell Adult Nutrition Program is once again sponsoring the Hunger Tree.
City Community Services Director Jessica Pickett says the tree holds the names of 51 seniors who can’t afford a nutritious meal on a regular basis. “A meal is four-dollars and a punch-ticket which is 20 meals would be $80,” said Pickett. “Our goal is to give each participant a full meal card which would be 20 meals.”
She says it would serve them the 20 meals, but they do need meals year-round.
Pickett says just over $4,000 dollars will assure all participants of at least 20 meals. Anything above means additional meals.
Pickett pointed out the Adult Nutrition Program supplies only one-third of the daily nutritional needs. Many seniors will eat half their meal and take the rest home. That still leaves them nutritionally short.
Cash donations of any size are welcome and may be dropped off at the James Valley Community Center at 300 West First Avenue.