1110 W. Cross St.
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
phone: 734 487-9669
fax: 734 482-3868
ymow@tds.net
About Us
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History
Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels was a program idea that originated from the city of Ypsilanti's Mayor's Council on Aging. As a result of the Council's recommendation in the spring of 1973, the City Council agreed to appropriate $8000 to a meal delivery program to begin on July 1, 1973. Pastor William Bingham, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Ypsilanti and a member of the mayor's Council on Aging, became the first Executive Director. Volunteers prepared meals in the kitchen of the First Baptist Church. Meal service began on January 14, 1974 to 16 homebound individuals.
As time passed and the demand grew, Ypsilanti meals on Wheels purchased vans and equipped them with refrigerators and microwave ovens. Up until that time, volunteers had picked up cold meals, prepared at Eastern Michigan University, and heated them at each stop.
Today, Ypsilanti meals on Wheels owns five vans and delivers approximately
300 hot meals each day, Monday through Saturday. Drivers pick up the meals
at Eastern Michigan University Hoyt Conference center and pack them into
insulated containers that maintain the appropriate temperature until the
delivery of the last meal.
