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Press Release
Waste Management Donates $20,000
to Simi Valley Meals on Wheels Program
March 16, 2005 – Simi Valley, Calif. - In its ongoing commitment to support healthy communities, Waste Management today announced that the company is donating $20,000 to Simi Valley’s Meals on Wheels program. Since 1974, Meals on Wheels has been providing elderly and disabled Ventura County residents with nutritionally balanced hot lunch meals for little to no charge.
“As Simi Valley’s disposal provider, Waste Management has always been dedicated to serving our community in a variety of ways,” said Scott Tignac, District Manager for Waste Management. ”We are happy to do our part to enhance the quality of life for all of our neighbors.”
“We are so pleased to have Waste Management as a partner in our effort to provide services to the elderly in Simi Valley,” said Ventura County Supervisor Judy Mikels. “As budget cuts have hit every part of government in the last couple of years, the Meals on Wheels program is transitioning from a county run program to a city run program. My office has been working on involving the private sector for the past two years to ensure this vital program can be maintained for our community.”
For those who cannot shop, drive, cook or clean because of age, infirmity, or recuperation from a recent hospitalization, Simi Valley’s Meals on Wheels provides nourishment and more importantly, an ability for it's recipients to remain in their own homes. For the past 30 years, volunteers have spent their mornings cooking, preparing, and packaging hot noontime meals to be delivered, by still more volunteers, to the homes of people in need. The programs’ existence and success is a result of active volunteer involvement and outside financial contributions.
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