The Mexico City Council approved two measures last month that will send money to two local organizations to help offset costs.
The Help Center and the Mexico Senior and Nutrition Center both got …
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The Mexico City Council approved two measures last month that will send money to two local organizations to help offset costs.
The Help Center and the Mexico Senior and Nutrition Center both got donations from the city in a total of $19,000. The Senior Center got $14,000 while the Help Center got a total of $5,000. Both donations were consistent with what was given last year.
In addition to events and activities, the Senior Center provides in-house meals five days a week and delivers meals seven days a week. Mexico Deputy City Manager Roger Haynes said the center served nearly 40,000 meals from July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023.
“That’s a big number,” Haynes said.
The center delivers meals to residents of Mexico but also delivers to residents of Vandalia, Farber, Martinsburg, and Thompson.
The Help Center first got help from the city in 2004 and then again in 2009 to 2011 in the amount of $5,000. In 2012 the council increased that amount to $10,000 but went back to giving $5,000 annually in 2017. The city has donated consistently to the Senior and Nutrition Center since 2000.
In one year the Help Center provided food for more than 1,400 households in Audrain County and helped 354 individuals with medications or utility bills that totaled close to $35,000. Haynes said those numbers were up considerably from the previous year.
“They’re always looking for meaningful ways to help the community,” Haynes said.
Alan York, president of the Mexico Senior and Nutrition Center, thanked the council for their support of the center.
“With the rising prices and everything that there is, we sure do appreciate it,” York said. “It’s an effort to keep people from having to go to nursing homes and make the best out of life they can and live on their own. The city has been wonderful about supporting it, all the businesses even.”
Councilman Chris Williams said the city should be thanking the two organizations for what they do.
“Without those two organizations a lot of people in our town would be in dire straights,” Williams said. “Probably not even eat sometimes.”
