On Friday, December 7 we started the season's celebration at Senior Spectrum's Coastal Community Center by creating holiday ornaments for the Meals on Wheels (MOW) ornament tree.

With the help of the Coastal Team and students from the South Bristol School Community Service Club and Great Salt Bay School, we made non-perishable ornaments for Lincoln County's MOW recipients. This year's theme is Snow People and Snowflakes.

Do you know of an older or disabled person who cannot get out and enjoy the wonders of the holiday season because they are homebound? We do. Some of our areas seniors do not have anyone to share the holiday with. To bring a bit of the holiday spirit into their lives on the days leading up to Christmas, Senior Spectrum's Meals on Wheels volunteer drivers, many of whom are seniors themselves, deliver a lovely holiday ornament handcrafted by members of the Wiscasset Senior Center, the Newcastle extension group and area churches, along with the recipient's meal.

This year ornaments are also being made by students from the South Bristol School Community Service Club, the Great Salt Bay School, School Union 74's Alternative Education Program as well as the second graders and elder friends who participate in Nobleboro Central School's Miles of Friends program.

MOW consumers will also receive lap robes crocheted by members of the Second Congregational Church of Wiscasset.

If, following your church's or club's Christmas Fair, there are ornaments, placemats or other holiday items that might be appreciated by homebound Meals on Wheels recipients in Newcastle, Jefferson, Alna, Whitefield, Sommerville, Wiscasset, Edgecomb, Westport, Damariscotta, Bristol, South Bristol, Bremen, Nobleboro, or Waldoboro please drop them off at Senior Spectrum's Coastal Community Center, 521 Maine Street in Damariscotta before Tuesday, December 18. Sometimes the holiday bundle that the MOW volunteer drivers leave is the only gift that our MOW recipients receive during the holiday season.