Meals on Wheels is a not-for-profit community service agency Board of Directors providing good food and social support through caring volunteers to Donald Wallace, president John AbedRabbo, enhance the well-being of East York residents. Founded in 1969, the agency Food for Thought vice-president, treasurer is funded by client fees, memberships, donations, bequests, the Shehryar Butt Central Local Health Integration Network, and Toronto Community Vol 22, No 3 a monthly newsletter of East York Meals on Wheels March 2011 Neil Gray providing good food and social support through caring volunteers Wendy Hillier Services and is a registered charity (#12913 9366 RR0001). The agency is a Saima Kazi member of Imagine Canada, the Ontario Community Support Association, Neal Walters, past-president and the Volunteer Centre of Toronto. Welcome Team Through the generosity of donors and volunteers, over 500 people living in Ex-officio Members this community benefit from Meals on Wheels, Diners Club, and Telephone Janet Davis We are happy to welcome a crew of Tremco employees as Meals on Wheels John Parker Reassurance services. We appreciate their contributions, which help seniors, volunteers. Executive Director Anne MacNeill, Tremco’s Manager, Employee & people with disabilities and chronic illnesses, and convalescents to lead Director Emeritus Community Relations, Joanna Wilson and HR Generalist Andrea Paris, have been Carl Peterson more independent and fulfilling lives. Please consider East York Meals on Wheels when making a memorial donation, celebrating a special occasion, or working together for many months to form a new partnership. In February, we realized our goal and the first of 20 Tremco employees began delivering meals. Honorary Life Members leaving a bequest. Edna Beange, Richard Litch, Tremco has been operating in the community since 1931 Luella Munro, East York Meals on Wheels accepts and is committed to enriching the communities in which it operates paid advertisements in Food for Thought. We appreciate the support through investment, service and responsible action. Team Tremco will Staff of advertisers, and make every deliver meals in teams of two, once a week, on Thursdays. You’ll see Anne MacNeill, Executive effort to accept advertisements East York Meals on Wheels them wearing their Tremco Meals on Wheels Team t-shirts. Please join us Director, Privacy Officer only from reputable businesses. Mary Jane Mingay, Acceptance of advertisements in 2 Thorncliffe Pk. Dr .# 52 in welcoming Team Tremco: Christia Almendras, Sherry Caserta, Henry Meals on Wheels Coordinator this publication should not be Toronto ON M4H 1H2 Dos Reis, Marilyn Duncan, Pat Faria, Brian Ferreira, Adrian Lemos, Tom Leone, Helen Midge Sandiland, construed as endorsement. We Macklem, Gail Mitchell, Craig Ness, Andrea Paris, Randy Penney, Kevin Riddell, Diners Club Coordinator make no guarantees regarding phone 416 424-3322 Leslie Smith, Client Services Marguerette Soares, Greg Smith, Charlene Taylor, Graham Thompson, Rob Wing, and Jim Coordinator products or services. For rates, fax 416 424-4627 contact Anne MacNeill at 424- email: Winn. We are looking forward to a mutually rewarding partnership. Thanks, Tremco! 3322. [email protected] New Fees for Services South Asian Meals ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Now Available Please send me information about… Each April, we adjust the fees we charge for our £ EYMOW services £ volunteer opportunities services based on the prices charged to us by our February 17th suppliers. Increases are usually very reasonable. This marked the launch of our £ memorial gifts/leaving a bequest £ other year, the increase in the price charged for our western hot south asian (halal) meal £ I would like to become a member of EYMOW. ($25 annual fee) meals is significant and we think it warrants some delivery program. It has £ I wish to make a donation to support the work of the agency. explanation. taken us a while to line £ I would like to become a member of the Monthly Giving Group with a monthly Our western hot meals are provided by True up a food source, clients Davidson Acres Home, a City of Toronto Long-Term and volunteers but donation of $____. Please bill my credit card on the 15th of each month. (see below). Care Home. We were recently told that a review of the finally, it all came Here is my £ donation £ membership of £$200 £$100 £$75 £$50 £$25 £____ service resulted in a “reassessment of associated costs” together. Meals consist of and the price we will be charged will increase to $5.25, a vegetable curry, a meat £ I have enclosed I prefer to charge my donation to Visa £ Mastercard £ roughly a 9% increase. curry, rice and naan. We a cheque Card number Expiry date Our fees for hot western meals have increased by can also order vegetarian 14% over seven years, an average of 2% per year, and our and “no beef” meals. Signature fees are among the lowest in Toronto. Still, we regret that Delivery is only in Name Address we must pass along such an increase. If the fee imposes Thorncliffe on Thursday any hardship, please contact our office regarding possible between noon and 1 p.m.. Phone financial assistance. Please see page two for a price list. The fee is $5.75. Thank you for your support! Tax Time Reminder March Volunteer Anniversaries March Diners Club Calendar

Just a reminder that we have a Peggy Bickle 17 years Mon Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Fri highly qualified volunteer who will Teresa Buchner 1 year prepare your Income Tax return. There is Ilsa Hoben 9 years 1 Golden Griddle 2 East York Acres 3 St. Clair O’Connor 4 no charge for simple, personal tax Abdul Motala 11 years drop-in for lunch Presentation: Best Ever returns, although donations to EYMOW Rashida Motala 11 years ($3.60) Sleep, Donene are appreciated. A small fee may be Lorraine Paul 7 years Lashbrook charged for more complicated returns Eric Robinson 17 years and returns for those with higher Maureen Sullivan 2 years 7 8 Stan Wadlow Centre 9 10 True Davidson 11 incomes. An estimate will be provided. Anne Washington 12 years David Wildsmith plays Acres Our volunteer would like to Mervin Withey 4 years the guitar Shopping Trip to complete the preparation of tax returns These ten volunteers have contributed a Shoppers World by March 31, 2011. In some cases this total of 5,404 hours, and have served in will not be possible, as certain 14 15 Ina Grafton Gage 16 Blair Court 17 921 Millwood 18 all but one of the volunteer jobs we offer. information slips are not available until Home drop-in for lunch Jim Doris after April 1st. All tax returns will be Horse Races! ($3.60) on the piano filed electronically, unless otherwise East York Meals on Wheels 21 22 Leisureworld 23 24 25 requested. If you’d like, please call the Fees effective April 1, 2011 office and we will coordinate with our Starts at 12:30 Meals on Wheels volunteer. Shopping at No Frills, hot western meals $5.25 Eglinton Square south asian (halal) meals $5.75 28 29 30 Community Care 31 1 Happy Birthday in March to… frozen package of 7 entrees Seniors Centre $3.90 each or $27.30 package Lubna Al-Bassam, Christia Almendras, TBA April Jane Arent, Ingrid Barnes, Merle Bates, frozen entrée plus soup or dessert $5.35 frozen entrée only $4.10 Dean Bhanji, Garrett Blais, Margaret 4 5 Golden Griddle 6 East York Acres 7 St. Clair O’Connor 4 Boucher, Gladyce Brocklehurst, Sherry frozen soup, dessert drop-in for lunch TBA Caserta, Alison Chambers, Marilyn or breakfast snack $1.45 milk 50c ($3.60) Crompton, Kamal Dan, Sandra Dobos, John Erwin, Pat Faria, Brian Ferreira, Diners Club Linda Frustik, Eleanor Gilmour, Stanley It’s Nearly Spring! Foot Care Odds & Ends Drop-in luncheons, (Blair Court, Golden, Bill Greer, Ilsa Hoben, Neil Clinics East York Acres) $3.65 Before you go to Our Administrative Assistant, Tegan Hollingshead, Zivko Kotlarovski, Elsa Luncheons at 921 Millwood, bed on Saturday March Thursday Salonia, came to the end of her contract with Lindre, Derek Little, Robert Mann, Community Care Seniors Centre, 12th, turn all your March 17 and us in mid-February. We’ll miss her, but we Donna McCarthy, Eileen Mitchell, Sheila Leisureworld, Stan Wadlow $7.40 clocks ahead one hour. April 21 think there’s a chance she may be back when Molyneux, Verna Morrison, Craig Ness, Lunch at Golden Griddle $7.65 Daylight Saving Time at twelve our new funding year starts. Steve O’Connor, Daniel Palmer, John Luncheons at Ina Grafton Gage Home, begins on March 13th. noon. We regretted the need to cancel Meals Phillips, Alnoor Ramji, Phyllis Ridgway, St. Clair O’Connor Community, It’s also a good time to To book, call on Wheels deliveries on February 2nd, the day Filomena Romano, Cupertino Saldanha, True Davidson Acres $8.00 change the batteries in 416-424- of the BIG snowstorm that wasn’t. All clients Aziz Ahmad Ghaum Sidiq, Shawn your carbon monoxide 3322. were called to make sure they could manage Please note that we will try to hold these Spencer, Trish Van Leeuwen, and smoke detectors, The fee is without us and extra deliveries were made the prices for the year, but may need to Joanna Wilson, and Janet Wood and the filters in your $30. day before to those who couldn’t. It was our Congratulations! adjust them further. furnace. second cancellation in twenty-one years. 2 3