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Meals, Meals, Meals …
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
Along with eight Toledo
Public Schools and assorted Connecting Kids to Meals
locations, The Wayman Palmer YMCA started handing out
breakfast and lunch to kids this past week.
TPS, by Friday, was
handing out an estimated 1,800 combo lunch and breakfast
bags to students at eight locations – the six high schools
plus Jones Leadership Academy and Devilbiss.
Deputy Superintendent Jim
Gault noted that such an effort reflected TPS’ mission of
not only educating students but also looking out for their
overall welfare.
The Toledo Buffalo Soldiers MC have teamed up with Off The
Rails Food Truck to deliver breakfast to the students and
young people in the neighborhood surrounding the Wayman
Palmer YMCA which began Thursday morning, March 19, at 8
a.m.
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Wayman Palmer YMCA
Executive Director Eric Williams and Buffalo Soldiers Earl
Mack
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Each morning for as long as they can attract funding the TBS
and Jim Rhegness of Off The Rails will prepare and serve a
healthy breakfast each morning thanks to the support of
Mathews Ford in Oregon, Earnest Brew Works, Pro Medica, and
individual contributors.
Because of the coronavirus crisis, the Wayman Palmer YMCA
can no longer provide the child care services they normally
would. This leaves dozens of children without the first meal
of the day.
The daily cost to provide the meals is approximately $250 so
local support will be solicited in the coming weeks.
Eric Williams, executive director of Wayman Palmer YMCA, was
on hand along with Earl Mack, president of the Toledo
Buffalo Soldiers, and Chef Jim Rhegness, owner-operator of
Off The Rails Food Truck.
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