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Tacoma’s Catholic Community Services deliver free meals to seniors throughout Pierce, King, and Lewis Counties, and Deryl Slaughter has been helping to deliver those meals for over 40 years.
After all this time, he says he still loves his job.
“It’s very rewarding to see these seniors have a hot meal or a frozen meal,” he said. “They don’t see anyone for one or two weeks, and we come in there with the meal and talk to them for a little bit to make sure they’re ok.”
But with 11 vans, Slaughter says lately it’s become a lot more expensive to deliver those meals.
Read the full story here: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/tacoma/charity-organizations-feel-sting-rising-gas-prices/281-1a4ce50b-bf61-4420-a20a-b2fd684d3428