"LIVERMORE - Marina Sims loves to make pork chops, enchiladas, quesadillas or a chuck roast at her mobile home in Livermore, and enjoys an order of Wendy's chili when she's feeling social and wants to go out with her friends. "It's a treat because you're going to have french fries," Sims said. But, she said, "I like Mexican food more than anything." Lately though, cooking at home is getting tougher for Sims, 75, who is handicapped and uses a wheelchair to get around. Thankfully, she is able to rely on Spectrum Community Services' Meals On Wheels program for homebound seniors, which provides her with hot and nourishing food each week."
"She has depended on Spectrum for the past two years, about the same time her son moved away for work. Rain or shine, Sims waits in anticipation for her favorite delivery driver, Lisa Breton, to arrive so that the two can catch up and chat about their lives, families and anything else that can bring a smile to their faces. "Spectrum actually saved my life," Sims said recently. "I could have never made it." Breton and other volunteers, who drive the food daily from a hospital kitchen at Stanford's Valley Memorial Center in Livermore, pack specialized containers into their own vehicles and travel year-round throughout the Tri-Valley area, Mondays through Fridays. Over the past couple of years, Breton and Sims have formed a friendly relationship. Breton's parents regularly received Meals on Wheels when they were seniors, and she said she signed up as a volunteer to help pay back the favor."
Marina Sims, 75 and wheelchair-bound, enjoys cooking and occasional meals out but finds home cooking increasingly difficult. She receives hot, nourishing weekly meals from Spectrum Community Services' Meals On Wheels, delivered by volunteers from a hospital kitchen at Stanford's Valley Memorial Center. Deliveries occur year-round, Monday through Friday, with volunteers packing specialized containers into personal vehicles. Lisa Breton, a volunteer who coordinates about 20 seniors' meals on several days each week, formed a friendship with Sims. About 90 volunteers serve roughly 300 clients along 18 routes across Livermore, Pleasanton and parts of Dublin. Popular menu items include roast turkey with mashed sweet potatoes.
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