Meals on Wheels San Antonio’s meal deliveries, which were set to stop for 350 people in need in Bexar County due to funding loss amid the government shutdown, will continue.

Vinsen Faris, CEO of Meals on Wheels San Antonio, said the initial October announcement that 350 Bexar County clients would lose their meal delivery service indefinitely, starting the first week of November, would have marked the first time the service was suspended for current recipients.

Faris said that did not sit well with him, and it appears it did not sit well with the community.

Corporate community partners and residents of San Antonio and the surrounding areas responded with an outpouring of compassion and substantial financial donations.

“Over $824,000 has come into Meals on Wheels,” Faris said. “We’re jus

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