Issue 130: 10th January 2025
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VOLUNTEERS JOIN DCFS AMID COLD SNAP Locals Help Meal Deliveries During Worst Snow In Over 50 Years
Providing a warm nutritious Locals showed up with their meal to the elderly and tractors to firstly help clear the vulnerable people in Duhallow DCFS yard in Newmarket to is the primary function of help get the vans out, and then Duhallow Community Food along each route, locals were Services and the reason it was on standby where needed. In first established back in 1997. total, meals were delivered When the extreme weather hit to our elderly on 6 different January 5th, the management routes across Duhallow using 4 and team in DCFS put out a tractors and 4 jeeps. Two local DCFS Staff have been working non call to the local community healthcare facilities were also stop to get hot meals out to the for help from those with 4X4 reached and given supplies as community vehicles and tractors in reaching they were also snowed in and all their destinations in the locality. Their own running low. With some of the volunteer drivers vehicles could deliver to those living on the more out until 9pm on Monday evening delivering main routes but they knew many roads would be meals it really showed the strong community and more challenging and nearing impassable. The neighbourly spirit that is alive in rural areas. Community did not let them down. ■See pages 14&15
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