AN end of the year function has celebrated the enduring efforts of Meals on Wheels volunteers within the community.
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Tenterfield currently has about 150 dedicated volunteers who volunteer their time helping people keep a certain quality of life that can often be taken for granted.
Deb Pugh, who is one such volunteer, said the luncheon was a good way to give thanks to people who have helped over the course of 2014.
“We just wanted to celebrate the hard work put in throughout the year by our team of volunteers,” Ms Pugh said.
She said the service was essential to supporting some of the communities most vulnerable.
“A town can’t function without it – some of our clients wouldn’t have the same quality of life if we didn’t have Meals on Wheels,” she said.
Tenterfield’s Meal on Wheels organisation has been operational since 1969 and now delivers five days a week and gives out frozen meals for weekends.
Vice-president of the group, Christine Sommerlad, said they were always in search of new helpers.
“We are always looking for more volunteers and more clients – we are at a point where we could probably cope with more clients,” she said.
Around 40 people got along to the luncheon last week at the Prince Albert Memorial Hospital.