MEDIA RELEASE

Mayor Billy Kenoi delivers a hot lunch to Mrs. Toshie Shimose on Thursday with Carla Carpenter-Kabalis, Meals on Wheels Supervisor for Hawai‘i County.

Hawai‘i County Mayor Billy Kenoi joined mayors across the country Thursday when he delivered a hot lunch to Mrs. Toshie Shimose in Hilo, as part of the national Mayors for Meals campaign during the month of March.

The program is sponsored by the Meals on Wheels Association of America to raise public awareness of the Meals on Wheels program.

Carla Carpenter-Kabalis, Meals on Wheels supervisor for the county’s Nutrition Program, said the program delivers an average of 255 meals a day to Big Island seniors who are 60 years of age and older and homebound due to illness or disability.

Call the Nutrition Program for more information, 961-8726.