The Christmas holiday brings together families and friends. While many will gather inside homes across the region, some of the Upper Peninsula’s elderly folk will meet at churches and community halls for Little Brothers’ Christmas dinner meal sites. The delicious meal includes a full menu and even homemade desserts. And even with a couple of days until Christmas Day, Little Brothers still has room to add a volunteer or two.
“If anybody’s in town, they find themselves alone for the holidays, you can come in and help us volunteer there,” said Pam Lowney, meal site coordinator for Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly. “And we make sure that all of our volunteers get a meal so they can sit down with the elder, enjoy the community meal, and then help us with setting up for that or cleaning up afterwards.”
Little Brothers Christmas meal sites are spread throughout the Copper Country and in Marquette at the Elks Lodge. The annual holiday meal sites can help seniors feel a little less isolated at this time of the year by picking up a senior for a meal site or dropping off dinner as part of the delivery program.
Those interested in supporting Little Brothers on Thursday can find more information online or call the Hancock office at (906) 482-6944. Little Brothers will need up to 400 volunteers to run the meal sites and delivery headquarters.
Doors at meal sites will open at 12:30 pm with dinner served at 1 pm. Deliveries will begin at noon. Little Brothers asks if seniors expecting a meal delivery do not receive their dinner by 2 pm please call the Hancock office to notify the organization.
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