Home delivered meals through the Jasper County Elderly Nutrition’s Home Delivered Meal Program will continue this coming Thanksgiving and Christmas. The meals will be provided by MercyOne Newton Medical Center, and cost for the program is $8.00 each. Jasper County Elderly Nutrition Program Director Kelli Van Manen got the contract for the Thanksgiving and Christmas meals approved by the County Board of Supervisors this week.

“The contract is the same contract we have used for years. Last year we had 139 people receive meals on Thanksgiving and 127 on Christmas.”

Van Manen says volunteers deliver the meals and donations help cover some of the cost.