Sheriff's office works to provide senior Thanksgiving dinners

Staff report

AUSTINTOWN

Sheriff Jerry Greene is participating in the eighth annual Thanksgiving for Seniors, in coordination with the Austintown Senior Center, 112 Westchester Drive.

The Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office Senior Services program will be providing Thanksgiving dinner to referred senior citizens who are unable to cook, are homebound or have no resources to obtain Thanksgiving dinner any other way.

Area agencies and organizations have made referrals for those who meet the criteria and offered their assistance in delivering the meals.

Financial contributions, in-kind assistance and food donations for this project have been made by Austintown Senior Center, Boardman Sam’s Club, Comfort Keepers, Highway Tabernacle, Austintown Rotary and Austintown Walmart as well as many private citizens.

Greene and his family will be on hand to help assemble dinner packages and deliver the meals along with volunteers from the Mahoning County Sheriff’s office senior-services program. Additional volunteers from Disabled American Veterans Chapter 2 and nursing students from area schools also are assisting with the delivery efforts.

Mahoning County Commissioners Dave Ditzler and Anthony Traficanti as well as other volunteers will meet at the Austintown Senior Center at noon today to pick up dinners for delivery.