Submitted photo The Weston-Buckhannon Board of Realtors recently donated $5,000 to the Randolph County Meals on Wheels organization. Presenting the check on behalf of the Weston-Buckhannon Board of Realtors was LuAnn McDowell, associate broker of Pingley Realty of Elkins. Other Meals on Wheels board members and volunteers present included, from left, Sharon Matthew, Phil Kyle, Rhonda Coffman, McDowell, Clayton Mallow, Debbie Strader, Beverly Bennett and Lynn Proudfoot.

ELKINS — The Weston-Buckhannon Board of Realtors recently donated $5,000 to the Randolph County Meals on Wheels program, during a ceremony held at Davis Medical Center.

The Weston-Buckhannon Board of Realtors, which is made up of realtors from Weston, Buckhannon and Elkins, donates to local nonprofits throughout the year. LuAnn McDowell, an associate broker for Pingley Realty, requested the donation for Meals on Wheels and it was granted by the WBBR board.

“A lot of people don’t know that realtors do a great deal of community service work all the time,” McDowell said. “There are several counties involved in our board and we donate to different counties each year. I asked them if they would donate to Meals on Wheels this time around and that’s what they chose to do.”

Gary Weaver, president of the Weston-Buckhannon Board of Realtors, said, “It’s very important to members of the board to contribute to the communities in which Realtors work. Realtors with the board do volunteer work in all of the counties they represent.”

Randolph County Meals on Wheels, which receives no federal funding, delivers meals to county residents five days a week. The organization currently delivers meals to 70 clients.

“We receive zero dollars in federal funding, so donations like the one the West-Buckhannon Board Realtors gave us really helps,” Randolph County Meals on Wheels President Lynn Proudfoot said. “We are part of United Way and get some money each year from them, but other than that, everything we receive is from donations.”

Proudfoot said the organization currently has three part-time employees who work alongside a host of volunteers.

“Our volunteers are very important, they are the ones who make everything possible,” Proudfoot said.

Recipients must live five miles or less from Davis Medical Center in order to receive a meal. The Davis Medical Center has been preparing meals for the organization for the past 50 years. Last year’s meals cost $66,000, officials said.

In February, Meals on Wheels received a donation from Movement Mortgage in the amount of $10,000.

For more information on the program or to become a volunteer, call 304-636-4919, or visit the organization’s Facebook page.