Summer Lunch Program: It’s a Wrap!
Volunteers gathered one final time Friday morning at the Main Street United Methodist Church to prepare meals for youths from Morristown to Somerton.
For the past 12 weeks over 16,500 sandwiches were prepared to help feed area students. Each Monday through Friday, nutritious lunches were assembled in the church’s basement banquet room for delivery to many area apartment complexes and individual homes ensuring area young people eat healthy meals.
Depending on vacations, between 275 and 300 lunches were packed each day.
In addition to individual volunteers, groups including the Women’s Club of Barnesville, Kindness U and Belco Industries stepped forward to help out.
The weekly sandwich schedule was steady throughout the three-month program period, according to Kim Henderson, sandwich prep manager.
Hot dogs, bologna and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, tacos in a bag, and hot chicken sandwiches were packed along with fresh fruit, fruit cups, protein bars and snack packs.
While the exact financial numbers remain to be calculated, the program raised and cost approximately $17,000 in 2024 all thanks to financial donations and donated labor.
Read the Barnesville Area News feature on the launch of the 2025 program here.
While this year’s program has ended, donations are always welcome. Anyone wanting to make a donation can do so by sending a check payable to the Summer Lunch Program, P.O. Box 11, Barnesville, OH 43713.
These board members made it happen in 2025. Left to right, Linda Stanley, Diane Blattler, Kim Henderson, Joyce Spigarelli and Marie McCrate. (Barnesville Area News photo)
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