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for the socialization. Some come in hours ahead of time.” If necessary, she said, “we divide up the dinners we have.”
At other places in the district, attendance has been around 17 or 18 persons a day, but “Orange is a problem. We need a new place, for one thing. We’ve been having the program at the nursing home, and we didn’t get a good response. People thought that the next step might be to move them right in.”
“When are you going to get to Rappahannock?” asked Pete Luke.
“I’m rather disappointed with Orange right now, and I’d just as soon move the Orange operation down to Rappahannock,” said Ms. Clark.
LUKE INDICATED he’d be delighted, adding that in his county, the nutritional supplement was not as important as the socialization aspect of the program. “Lonesomeness is the big problem. Most are farm people, and are eating good meals, but they get lonesome.”
“The meal is not a major reason anywhere,” said Peggy Clark. “Most come for the socialization... The program is working; if we didn’t have this program, they’d sit at home. As it is, we have this program five days a week.”
A major problem has been finding someone to prepare the meals, the director said. “In Warrenton, we had a hard time, and the people who said they would prepare the dinners now say they can’t do it when the school year starts. The school cafeteria people turned me down, but the vocational school people said they’d tentatively think
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