LIMA, OH (WLIO) - The West Ohio Food Bank makes sure that people have a good meal to enjoy over Christmas. Employees, volunteers, and Santa and Mrs. Claus were all on hand to hand out meals to whoever wanted them. Besides ready to heat and eat ham dinners, the food bank also gave out free pet food for people who asked for it. This all started last year because they saw need locally that they were able to fill.
“There was another organization that was providing meals, and they were unfortunately unable to do that do to COVID,” says Tommie Harner, CEO West Ohio Food Bank. “So, we picked up and once again it was something that we wanted to continue. Other people that was going to do it, wasn’t able to because of various reasons. So, we thought it was important to make sure that everybody had a meal at Christmas.”
Harner says they had around 1,500 meals to pass out, and got donations from RightWay Foods, Bob Evans, and Honey Baked Ham out of Troy to help make that possible.
