Anne Arundel County

1517 Ritchie Highway, Suite L7
Arnold, Maryland 21012
410.626.7543/410.431.5257
410.626.7547 fax
arundel@mowcm.org

Ms. Terry A. Lehr, Program Service Supervisor  
Ms. Rebecca Haines-Maggio, Intake/Administrative Assistant  

Volunteers Needed

URGENT NEED FOR DRIVER/VISITOR FOR DRIVERS & VISITORS IN THE GLEN BURNIE AREA and IN ANNAPOLIS!  Glen Burnie openings are 1st, 3rd & 5th Mondays; all Tuesdays and 2nd & 4th Tuesdays. Substitute packers, drivers & visitors are needed across the service area.

Service Area

There are three conveniently located Meals on Wheels (MOW) service sites located throughout Anne Arundel County:

Pascal Senior Center (Distribution Site) in Glen Burnie

Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church (Packing/Distribution Site) in Severna Park

St. Martin's Lutheran Church (Packing/Distribution Site) in Annapolis 

Meals are also distributed from sites at the O'Malley Senior Center in Odenton; the Community United Methodist Church and Magothy United Methodist Church in Pasadena; and Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in Owensville.

Clients who request grocery shopping and delivery service and/or a phone pal are referred to Partners in Care www.partnersincare.org and the Anne Arundel County Department of Aging www.aacounty.org/Aging .  Both agencies provide these services to residents of Anne Arundel County.

From July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011, the Anne Arundel County Meals on Wheels program provided 92,780  home-delivered meals to 429  homebound residents.

News

Meals on Wheels Celebrates 36 Years of Service
in Anne Arundel County

St. Martin's (Annapolis) Kitchen Helpers, 1987:
Left to right are Hazel Davis, Mary Housley, Louise Humbles and Fran Pollack

Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland, Inc. opened its first packing kitchen site in Anne Arundel County at St. Martin's Lutheran Church in Annapolis in 1974.     

Less than a year later, Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church in Severna Park became another Meals on Wheels kitchen site.  By 1975, a third county packing site was established at the Glen Burnie United Methodist Church, which relocated to the Pascal Senior Center when it opened in 1979.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A "Message" of Thanks

The Capital – Hometown Annapolis

December 5, 2011

 

Letter to the Editor:

 

I salute all the volunteers of Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland.

 

There is no time more fitting to say thank you to these 518 wonderful dedicated citizens who are concerned about their fellow elderly and/or disabled community members.

 

During our last fiscal year, these wonderful volunteers provided 92,780 home-delivered meals to 429 county homebound residents.

 

Again on Thanksgiving Day, our volunteers served hot turkey meals to our clients who needed the service.

 

With the high price of gasoline, we must not forget this added burden to these wonderful dedicated citizens who are concerned about their elderly and/or disabled community members.

 

Many volunteers drive up to 50 miles a day to deliver hot, nutritious meals to our homebound neighbors with a friendly smile.

 

For some of the clients that they visit, this is the only friendly face they see that day.

 

I wish each and every one a happy holiday season with a new year of health, happiness and prosperity.

 

Without you, Meals on Wheels wouldn't have been able to accomplish our mission for 36 years in Anne Arundel County and 51 years in the Baltimore metropolitan area.

 

We also invite and welcome additional citizens to step forward and volunteer so that Meals on Wheels can continue its mission in the Central Maryland region.

 

     - Terry A. Lehr, Anne Arundel Country Program Supervisor, Meals on Wheels of Central MD

 

Thank You to the Community

Again this Holiday Season, the homebound clients of Meals on Wheels were remembered by several groups, organizations, schools and individuals.

Some of the special gifts were: Home Instead for their "Adopt a Senior for the Holidays" program. Twenty of our clients received a wrapped gift - from sweaters, robes to blankets to brighten their Holiday; The Anne Arundel Animal Control collected food, treats and gifts for clients' cats and dogs; flower arrangements from the Gibson Island Garden Club and the Moonflower Garden Club at Woods Memorial Church; St. Bernadette's School; Woods School; Chesapeake High School and local Girl and Boy Scouts troops that made ornaments, cards and placements.  

Every client received several items during the Season - it put a smile on the faces and reminded them that people care!

Thank you to everyone in the community and Happy New Year to one and all!