Giving local senior citizens a warm meal and warm conversation, locals Gord and Darleen Stewart have been volunteering with the Meals on Wheels program for over 30 years.

The two started with the program in the 1980s, and after Gord retired in 1996, the number of deliveries the two helped with really picked up.

"While we were working we could only do it during holidays and Saturday, but I retired in '96 so since then we've been able to do it any day," says Gord, "It takes an hour or an hour and fifteen minutes max."

"I think its a good program. If you do this it doesn't take a lot of your time, and I really encourage other people to get involved with it. It's very rewarding and the people really appreciate when you bring the meals to them. A lot of them have family in town but there are some that I'm quite sure we're the only visit they get during the day."

How the program works is simple; you get a list of residents around town and a box of meals. You go through the list, drop off the food, have a bit of a visit and move on.

Gord says it really is volunteer work that anyone can do.

"I would encourage anyone to call the volunteer services at the hospital, they're always looking for help. It's not an onerous task, its very rewarding, it's a good thing to do, it doesn't take much of your time and there's a lot of positives to it. I think a few people think it is a difficult task but it really isn't."

Gord got involved with Meals on Wheels through the Zion Church and Moose Jaw Rotary Club. He says you really get to know the people you deliver to and you can become quite good friends with them.