Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Meals On Wheels Of Stark & Wayne Counties Represented at MOWAA's 2010 Annual Conference in Atlanta

Meals On Wheels of Stark & Wayne Counties is represented at the 2010 Annual Conference in Atlanta this week.

Teresa Barry, CEO, and Nora Logsdon, program manager, left Sunday for the conference, which gets underway at noon today and runs through Thursday night. It is being held at the Omni Hotel at the CNN Center.

"Building Communities to End Senior Hunger" is the theme of this year's conference, which will include general sessions, breakout seminars, a vendor fair and several receptions. Guest speakers include longtime ABC news reporter and anchor Sam Donaldson, and Tony Hall, an ambassador to the U.N. under former President George W. Bush and now managing director of the Alliance to End Hunger.

The conference will also feature a march across Centennial Park in Atlanta, a symbolic effort to draw attention to the fight against senior hunger in America. Conference attendees are being invited to participate in the march on Wednesday, Sept. 1.

Terri's two-year term as chairman of the MOWAA board comes to an end during the conference. She'll continue to serve on the board as immediate past chairman, as well as on the board of the MOWAA Foundation.

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