Tri-Valley’s Meals on Wheels Awarded $2,500 “Share The Love” Most Meals Grant

Contact: Barbara O'Brien, Admin Services Director
Tri-Valley, Inc.
10 Mill Street, Dudley, MA 01571
508-949-6640/bobrien@tves.org

Tri-Valley's Meals on Wheels Awarded $2,500 "Share The Love" Most Meals Grant
from Meals On Wheels Association of America (MOWAA)

Subaru's "Share The Love" Event helps deliver nutritious meals and compassion to the elderly
Dudley, MA (February 15, 2013) - Tri-Valley's Meals on Wheels Program is proud to announce
it has been awarded a $2,500 grant from Meals On Wheels Association of America (MOWAA)
in recognition of its participation in MOWAA's "Share The Love" Most Meals Contest. As part
of Subaru of America, Inc.'s "Share The Love" Event, the Meals on Wheels Program worked
with Long Subaru of Webster. The dealership provided an employee to help deliver meals for
Tri-Valley clients in Webster. Long Subaru also helped to promote volunteer opportunities at
Tri-Valley.

Carol Muschler, Nutrition Program Director, praised Subaru of America's initiative and
said, "the people at Long Subaru have been wonderful to work with. We look forward to
continuing our cooperative efforts beyond the "Share the Love" Event."

As one of the five Subaru "Share The Love" Event charitable partners, MOWAA created
the Most Meals Contest to foster partnerships between local Meals On Wheels programs and
Subaru dealerships. MOWAA is awarding grants to Meals On Wheels programs across the
country that recruited dealership employees to volunteer, deliver meals in Subaru vehicles and
engage community members in the fight to end senior hunger.

The nation's economic downturn has made it more difficult to raise money to provide
meals to the community's homebound seniors. Tri-Valley's Meals on Wheels Program will use
the monies toward the cost of delivering meals to seniors in the agency's 25-town service area of
south central Massachusetts.

Subaru is donating $250 for every new Subaru vehicle sold or leased during "Share The
Love" to the customer's choice of one of five charities, including MOWAA. Over the past three
years, proceeds from the Subaru "Share The Love" Event have provided funds to MOWAA to
support its vision to end senior hunger by 2020.