City of Southlake

Proclamation - Marriott Solana Metroport Meals on Wheels Day

 

 

Pictured left to right:

Kai Fischer, Marriott Solana

Virginia M. Muzyka, Deputy Mayor Pro-tem

 

Metroport Meals On Wheels, Inc., is a nonprofit organization which organizes volunteers to deliver hot lunches to homes of individuals who are elderly, frail, chronically ill and homebound; and,

 

Whereas, Roanoke Meals On Wheels program was founded on April 1, 1980 when Kelly Bradley assembled a group of people who began cooking in their homes to deliver five meals to elderly residents in Roanoke; and,

 

Whereas, the Marriott Solana Hotel became the centralized kitchen for Roanoke Meals On Wheels in February 1992 and began serving 10 meals a day for Roanoke seniors; and,

 

Whereas, by 1995, the organization had become Metroport Meals On Wheels and the Marriott Solana was providing 60 meals a day that were delivered to seniors in eight communities plus a weekly meal for Metroport's Senior Center luncheon in Southlake; and,

 

Whereas, the Marriott Solana enabled Metroport Meals On Wheels to meet an otherwise unrecognized need to feed hungry senior citizens in our area; now,

 

Therefore, I, Andy Wambsganss, Mayor of the City of Southlake, on behalf of the City Council, in celebration of the 100,000^th meal Marriott Solana has prepared for Metroport Meals On Wheels, do hereby proclaim June 6, 2008, as

 

Marriott Solana Metroport Meals On Wheels Day