{"id":102399,"date":"2020-08-19T23:03:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T03:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=102399"},"modified":"2020-08-19T23:03:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T03:03:10","slug":"meals-on-wheels-client-gets-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=102399","title":{"rendered":"MEALS ON WHEELS CLIENT GETS CREATIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><em>Featured Images: Provided by MOWLV credited to Bob and Dawn Feckete<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Client creates new way to receive meals amidst social distance rules <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Bethlehem, PA 8\/18\/2020<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 A Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley client invented a new and creative way to deliver his meals while maintaining a safe distance under the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The client &#8212; who lives on the third floor of an apartment building in Lehigh County &#8212; decided to tie a bucket to a rope and drop it over his balcony. The volunteers can simply place his meal inside the bucket and the client pulls it up.<\/p>\n<p>The volunteer is able to check that the client is safe and doing well while maintaining a safe distance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley improves the health, well-being and independence of homebound seniors and adults with disabilities by providing nutritious, medically-tailored, home-delivered meals. The organization was created this past fall when two previous organizations merged: Meals on Wheels of Lehigh County and Meals on Wheels of Northampton County.\u00a0 The combined organization expects to serve nearly 460,000 hot and cold meals to 2,600 people living in the Greater Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nInformation Provided By:<br \/>\nKeri Young<br \/>\nCommunications Specialist<br \/>\nMeals On Wheels of The Greater Lehigh Valley<br \/>\n4240 Fritch Drive, Bethlehem PA 18020<br \/>\nwww.mowglv.org                           <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<code class=\"code\">-AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORDS-START-<\/code><br \/>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<code class=\"code\">-AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORDS-END-<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/creative-mowlv.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}