Hot Meals Available Tonight for Flood Victims

Hot meals will again be available for flood victims at beginning at 6 p.m. tonight.

The church is located at 131 Church Lane.

Members of the Packanack Community Church will serve baked ziti and meatballs. 

Members from the Wayne Volunteer Organizations Active in Disasters (VOAD) served baked chicken to victims last night. VOAD was founded last weekend to coordinate volunteer efforts throughout the town due to the severity of the flooding that occurred.

Volunteers also packed up and distributed 100 containers of food Tuesday and drove them to victims’ homes.

“[Victims] were extremely receptive to what we were doing,” said Rev. Karyn Ratcliff, Wayne VOAD’s chairperson.

Ratcliff said rising floodwaters forced some volunteers to turn back.

Families are encouraged to come to Ryerson school where they can pick up a hot meal to go, Ratcliff said. The Police Athletic League is providing two vans so volunteers can transport the food from the church to Ryerson Elementary School, where it will be taken to victims’ homes.

Members of the town’s Department of Social Services will be at Ryerson to offer assistance to flood-affected families.

Those wishing to volunteer or donate gift cards, cleaning supplies, food storage containers, aluminum foil, or other disaster-releated materials should go to the Wayne Civic Center, 1006 Hamburg Turnpike, and sign up to be a volunteer.

For more information or to find out what items are needed for families, visit Wayne VOAD’s Facebook page.