A Neighbor Helping Neighbors

Local volunteer Frank Vecco unloads milk from a portable cooler on Friday at Buck Run Community Center, 735 Scott Ave., in preparation for the delivery of meals to elderly and disabled residents in the area who are 60 years of age and older. Vecco and other volunteers help out in various capacities with the Senior Services Meals on Wheels program five days a week, site manager and volunteer Patsy Ferrell said. Meals on Wheels, a nationwide program, has roots that go back to England during World War II, when the Women's Volunteer Service for Civil Defense began delivering meals to neighbors whose homes and kitchen had been destroyed by bombing. The first American home-delivered meal program began in Philadelphia, Pa., in January of 1954. Tribune photo/Jason E. Silvers