The Salvation Army in Belleville continues to provide hot meals for people in need during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Connie Goodsell is the Director of Community and Family Services for Belleville and Tweed.
She tells Quinte News, “We’ve just modified our meals program so we are serving supper seven days a week from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
A hole has been cut in the Pinnacle Street location door and a plexi-glass insert allows staff to serve 35 to 75 meals seven days a week through the window.
It’s a hot, hearty meal served in clam shells.
Goodsell adds, “We have a team of four people per day putting on the meals. It’s a lot of work. It’s just a few people but it keeps our anxieties down by keeping only a few people in the mix. They are mostly staff. Our thrift store had to close because of COVID-19 so we have re-employed a few of the staff from the thrift store into the meal program.”
She points to the community help in funding and helping with items that are not within the Salvation Army budget, such as water and clam shells.
“People of Belleville are so supportive helping us out… In a Pandemic people step up,” says Goodsell.
