Share My Meals - Princeton Non-Profit Keeps Restaurants Open During the Pandemic to Feed Those in Need
Hello? Hey, Patty? Hi. Yes, hi. How are you? I'm good. Is now a good time? Good.
Yeah, it's fine. Patty, can you please introduce yourself? I've been here in Princeton since 59. I just do what I do because I feel good about doing it. I work in my church and that's just me. I have a grandson. I have two daughters, one in Lawrence, one in New York. I have a daughter in New York.
I have a daughter in New York. I have a daughter in New York. I have a daughter in New York. I have a daughter in New York. I have a daughter in New York and one in Lawrence, one in Trenton. I have a son in Philadelphia who is a psychologist. And my daughter is a manager of a complex in Trenton. And what about yourself?
Did you work? I used to work, yeah. I worked for all my life until I think I retired in 2014. And what did you do? did you do? And not that I wanted to. I did a lot of different things. My last job was that social security. Oh, okay. And did you tell me that you lived in Germany? Yes, I did. My father was in the service and we traveled a bit. I lived in Germany and went to school there and my stepmother is from Frankfurt. So we spoke German a lot and I enjoyed it.
I loved it. I want to understand, you know, what is the perception of the community of this nonprofit and in your experience working with them, how Charmaine Meade has been helping the community? Oh, okay. Well, as far as my working with them, it's been very good and the people who I have passed out the meals to really, really enjoy the meals and they appreciate them all very, very much. And I think that this was the best option, not option, but the best thing that they could do for people at a time like this and to all the people who are volunteers and donors, you know, we truly, truly do appreciate this. And there's not enough words to even say how much we appreciate and how much all the residents
on Clay Street appreciate. So yeah, tell me a bit more about whom you are passing the meals to. I pass them to seniors. I also pass them to families who I know maybe might be working just one day a week now. And I pass them to families that have been laid off. So I take turns passing the five meals around. Okay. And I don't want to take too much of your time, but can you tell me how the coronavirus pandemic has affected the community? I think that it took a while before people really took everything serious about the whole thing. But now that they are, it is like, I don't know, it's like a sad depression with the way it's going. You know, we can't go to church, we can't, you know, really enjoy
each other. But I guess we should just be thankful that we are alive and doing well. So we be thankful for that. Okay, Patty, thank you so much. Thank you so much. Okay, take care and be careful. Bye bye.
