Carson City Senior Center, Feisty Goat join annual March for Meals
Carson City Meals on Wheels announced Thursday that it will be participating in the 16th annual March for Meals — a month-long, community-by-community celebration of Meals on Wheels and the vulnerable seniors who rely on the vital service to remain independent at home.
Carson City Meals on Wheels’ celebration features activities including fundraisers like the Feisty Goat Flight for Seniors throughout the month of March, and culminates with the organization’s major fundraiser, Carson’s Got Talent, a regional talent competition on April 14.
“The services that we provide the seniors of Carson City are critical and the need is rapidly increasing,” Courtney Warner, executive director of the Carson City Senior Center said. “Together, we can keep seniors living independently, healthier at home and feeling more connected to their community as they age.”
The Feisty Goat Pub in Carson City has been donating the proceeds of their $15 beer flights to the Meals on Wheels program through the Carson City Senior Center since Lee Pisiewski, one of the owners of the pub, saw a news report that federal funding for senior nutrition programs may be in jeopardy. While the pub’s fundraiser has been going strong for about a year, he and his team decided to step up their efforts during March for Meals.
Pisiewski and Feisty Goat co-owners, Mike Riggs, Jim Smoelinski and Danica Asa, offer 12 craft beers on draft at the pub. For the flight, customers can pick any five of the beers on draft they would like to try. All customers who buy a flight are also eligible to enter a monthly drawing to win a beer basket.
“The biggest key in this is to have fun with beer and support a great cause,” Pisiewski said of the fundraiser.
The annual March for Meals commemorates the March 1972 amendment to the Older Americans Act of 1965 that amended and established a national nutrition program for seniors 60 years and older.
Since 2002, Meals on Wheels programs across the country have joined forces for the annual awareness campaign to celebrate this successful public-private partnership and garner the support needed to fill the gap between the seniors served and those still in need. See the video below or go here.
“We love how our community is coming together to help feed our homebound seniors,” Warner said. “Between business owners like Lee and Mike, and our cast and crew of Carson’s Got Talent, Carson City really embodies the feeling of community and we are grateful for their support.”
Auditions for Carson’s Got Talent were held last month. Warner said the list of contestants will be released in the coming week. For more information on Carson’s Got Talent, visit www.carsonsgottalent.com/.
The Feisty Goat is located at 1881 E. Long Street in Carson City and is open from 4 – 10 p.m. daily.
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