Capalaba District Meals on Wheels celebrated 40 years of delivering meals with a lunch at Mt Cotton Rainforest Gardens on Saturday.
The event was attended by about 80 present and former volunteers.
Special guests included Redland City Mayor Karen Williams, whose husband Peter Williams serves on the organisation’s committee as treasurer, Cr Paul Gleeson and Ann-Maree Edwards, the regional support officer for Meals on Wheels.
Capalaba Meals on Wheels have delivered about 470,600 meals between March 8, 1976 and March 8, 2016.
The area serviced by Capalaba Meals on Wheels is the largest in the metropolitan area and includes Capalaba, Alexandra Hills, Birkdale, Thorneside, Sheldon, Mount Cotton, Gumdale, Belmont and Tingalpa.
Joy Bonney, who has been a volunteer since the first meeting to establish the organisation in late 1975, said recipients are mostly elderly, but the deliveries are made to anyone unable to cook themselves a hot meal.
