Godnick Adult Center will host Champions Dinner a fundraising event locally catered in celebration of the 21st Annual March for Meals – a month-long, nationwide celebration of Meal on Wheels and our senior neighbors who rely on this essential service to remain healthy and independent at home, now even more so amid a lingering pandemic and high inflation.

The Champions Dinner event tickets are currently available for $30/person at the Godnick Adult Center. The menu includes the following main course options: rib eye, stuffed chicken breast, or stuffed portabello mushrooms. All meals include salad, rolls, baked potato, and dessert. All proceeds will be donated to Meals on Wheels to support our community members to remain healthy through access to nutritious food through delivered and congregate meals. Limited tickets are available and the deadline for reservations is Monday, March 20th.

The Godnick Adult Center is one of the Rutland Recreation and Parks year-round facilities serving adults in the community through events/activities focused on health, wellness, and social engagement. The Godnick Adult Center is a congregate and pick-up meals site for Meals on Wheels through collaboration with Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging. 

The annual March for Meals commemorates the historic day in March 1972 when President Nixon signed into law a measure that amended the Older Americans Act of 1965 and established a national nutrition program for seniors 60 years and older. This March, Meals on Wheels programs from across the country are joining forces to celebrate more than 50 years of success and garner the support needed to ensure these critical programs can continue to address food insecurity and malnutrition, combat social isolation, enable independence, and improve health for years to come.