As Radford Fairlawn Daily Bread (RFDB), and its sister program Meals on Wheels approach important years of service to the area, a search is on to find all who have volunteered with either service.
As totally volunteer programs,many people are needed to keep them going with time spent making meals, serving them, driving to deliver them, being active on the board of directors, and other various organizational duties. Over the years, many names have been lost among those dedicated to these community-projects.
RFDB and Meals on Wheels prepare and serve over 35,000 meals a year to those in need or homebound in the city and adjacent Fairlawn, all at no cost or question of eligibility. Support comes from grants, donations from individuals and organizations, surplus foods from meals programs such as one at Virginia Tech, canned goods drives, and significant other resources.
RFDB activities go back three decades while Meals on Wheels is a more recent program.
“In order to fairly thank our current and past workers in a permanent way, we sincerely want to find them all,” said committee chair Frank Herzog.
Anyone who knows of past volunteers, especially those over the programs’ first two decades, should contact feherzog66@gmail.com or by mail addressed to Herzog at RFDB, P. O. Box 3323, Radford 24143.
Those interested in receiving meals may contact program manager Gretchen Dee, at 540-639-0891 or 540-838-0028.