By Katherine Marie Anderson Santa Monica
I understand that Meals On Wheels, a local non-profit agency that has been delivering meals and providing necessary care to many elderly Santa Monica residents for many, many years, is being forced out of its current location and must find new headquarters so that it can continue to provide valuable services to our senior citizens.
I find it very disturbing that the city of Santa Monica, which spends millions of dollars funding countless homeless programs and which recently spent about $8 million of our tax dollars purchasing a large building in Santa Monica for a nonprofit agency to feed and house the homeless, refuses to help out a program like Meals On Wheels that helps Santa Monica senior citizens.
The city just spent nearly $20 million on the Fisher Lumber property and that building sits vacant. Why hasn’t the city stepped up and offered Meals On Wheels this site for its headquarters? I guess the city feels that our senior citizens are far less important than the homeless. Shame on our city.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 18, 2005. Read the original PDF.