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South Burnett Care assets manager Ron Reeve, CEO Cheryl Dalton, Brandon Wardlaw (MMF Building), Andrew Champney (MMF Building), food services manager Jackie Raine and Meals on Wheels chef Craig Lewis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

May 27, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Work began on Monday on a $255,000 expansion of the Meals On Wheels kitchen in Kingaroy.<\/p>\n

The kitchen, operated by South Burnett Care (formerly known as SBcare), last year provided 27,622 meals to the South Burnett community, up from just 12,000 five years ago.<\/p>\n

The meals are currently being prepared in a small kitchen attached to the Senior Citizens Hall.<\/p>\n

The new kitchen is being developed at the rear of this building.<\/p>\n

An existing storage shed is being enlarged, lined and fitted out as a commercial kitchen.<\/p>\n

Meals On Wheels currently delivers hot meals to customers in Kingaroy and frozen meals to residents in Proston, Nanango, Blackbutt, Benarkin and Yarraman.<\/p>\n

Food Services manager Jackie Raine told a recent Stanwell community update the number of people receiving meals had grown amazingly during the past nine months.<\/p>\n

There are now about 120 community customers and 60 centre customers being regularly provided with meals.<\/p>\n

Menus are rotated every eight weeks so people are not always receiving the same meal.<\/p>\n

Special needs – diabetes, food allergies and intolerance, and pureed meals – are also catered for.<\/p>\n

And not all the clients are elderly.\u00a0More and more people with a short-term disability, eg. a broken arm, are receiving support for small periods while they recover.<\/p>\n

South Burnett Care CEO Cheryl Dalton said that during the past 18 months, Meals on Wheels has employed a chef, an apprentice and two permanent part-time people.<\/p>\n

Stanwell’s Tarong Community Partnership Program has provided $50,000 towards the kitchen upgrade.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The rest has come from scrimping and saving,” Cheryl said.<\/p>\n

She said $50,000 worth of new equipment would also be installed in the new kitchen.<\/p>\n

“We will be approaching local service clubs to see if they can help fund the purchase of this equipment,” she said.<\/p>\n

The existing Meals On Wheels kitchen will remain available as a community kitchen to service the hall and be available for hire.<\/p>\n

The building work will take about two months to complete.<\/p>\n

Cheryl asked people using the rear car park to be patient while the work was under way.<\/p>\n

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Michael Fisher, second from left, and his team from MFF Building start work on the changes within the existing shed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An architect’s impression of the new, expanded stand-alone Meals On Wheels kitchen building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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