Last week, music delivered. Meals that is.
Local musicians Palatypus, Harry Strole, Don Ferber and Marc Clayton played a benefit concert Thursday night at the Barrel Saloon in Albany to raise funds for Senior Services of Albany—and the results, well, it’s music to our ears.
$1,000 was raised to help fill gaps in the Meals on Wheels program, says Donna Vancavage, Director of Development for Senior Services of Albany. Meals on Wheels is funded primarily through donations, grants, and government funds. Recently, higher demand and increasing food prices have driven up the cost to deliver this important service to the area’s seniors, she says.
“The Meals on Wheels program is at the backbone of the many aging services to which frail seniors must have access in order to remain at home and part of their life-long community,” says Vancavage. “For many seniors in our community, having this service allows them to remain in their home as opposed to having to live in a nursing home.”
Thursday night’s benefit will feed hungry seniors and make it possible for them to stay on in their homes. The Music Delivers program was so successful that SSA is considering making it an annual event.
Rock on, guys!
To find out more about how you can help this program or to make a donation, contact:
Senior Services of Albany Administrative Offices
32 Essex Street
Albany NY 12206
Phone: 518.465.3322
Fax: 518.465.6188
