Volunteers deliver Thanksgiving to seniors
City staffers and community volunteers brightened the Thanksgiving
holiday for homebound seniors. Employees of the Burbank Senior and
Human Services Department Nutrition Program cooked up about 75 meals
that were delivered to seniors by 17 volunteers, said Renee Crawford,
supervisor of Social Services. Many of the seniors receiving meals no
longer have family to spend the day with, and the volunteers were the
only people they saw Thursday. Among the volunteers delivering the
meals were Boy Scouts from Troop 209. The meals included turkey,
stuffing, string beans, cranberry sauce, a roll, pumpkin pie and
juice. Making financial donations toward the meals were the
Supporters of Senior Services, a nonprofit organization that supports
programs and services in the city of Burbank; Burbank-based
Schutrum-Piteo Foundation; and St. Finbar’s Thanksgiving Day
Committee. The seniors who received the meals are enrolled in the
city’s Home Delivered Meals program and receive a hot lunch Monday
through Friday.