City of Parma Heights, Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging host grocery giveaway

PARMA HEIGHTS, Ohio (WOIO) – The City of Parma Heights and the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging will host The Nice Grocery Giveaway this week for Cuyahoga County seniors age 60 and older.

The giveaway will happen Wednesday at Kurtz Park in Parma Heights from 2 to five p.m.

Town stated over 200 seniors have registered for the occasion.

Every will obtain a field together with roughly $80 price of groceries and important provides equivalent to shelf-stable items, a Dave’s market reward card, hygiene merchandise and family cleansing gadgets.

Bins are restricted to 1 per particular person.

“We’re grateful for the partnership with the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging and for the chance to host one of the drive-through pickups,” stated Parma Heights Mayor Marie Gallo. “We’ve obtained quite a few calls from seniors to enroll; they’re grateful for this chance to obtain meals, hygiene and cleansing merchandise – this actually is an excellent program for seniors.”

Sponsored by the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging (WRAAA), the occasion is an element of a bigger effort to fill meals safety gaps locally.

One in six U.S. seniors lives with the day by day menace of starvation and malnourishment, leaving them liable to acute or persistent diseases that might drastically cut back their life expectancy, Parma Heights stated.

“Many seniors reside on the sting of poverty,” stated E. Douglas Seaside, CEO of WRAAA. “As inflation challenges properties already struggling to pay payments, the aged are having a very laborious time placing meals on the desk. The fervent hope is that this program eases some of the day by day wrestle.”

WRAAA is a non-public, nonprofit company designated because the planning, coordinating and administrative company for federal and state ageing and incapacity packages in Cuyahoga and 4 surrounding counties.