{"id":23720,"date":"2025-02-04T11:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T18:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/are-you-over-60-and-like-lunch\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:40:50","slug":"are-you-over-60-and-like-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/are-you-over-60-and-like-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you over 60 and like lunch?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Southwest Memorial Hospital offers a strong diabetes education program. (Photo by Southwest Health System)<\/span>Southwest Health System<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Those in the community who are at least 60 years old are eligible \u2013 and welcome \u2013 to get a $5 meal from Southwest Health System.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s part of something called the Senior Friends Lunches program.<\/p>\n

That program runs three days a week \u2013 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday \u2013 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. It\u2019s set to start Feb. 17.<\/p>\n

\u201cInvaluable support\u201d from the Yellow Jacket Charitable Fund, the Onward! General Endowment Fund and the PepsiCo Smiles in Action Grant made the program possible.<\/p>\n

The three groups contributed a cumulative $8,000 in grant money to continue the program through 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe extend our heartfelt gratitude to these organizations,\u201d the hospital said in a news release.<\/p>\n

In 2024, the hospital served 2,463 meals to seniors as part of the program. In the news release, it highlighted how glad it is \u201cto sustain its $5 lunch program for senior friends who have enjoyed meals at our caf\u00e9.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a limit of one meal per person, and there are no refills on salads or soft drinks. A large salad counts as a meal, whereas a small salad counts as a side.<\/p>\n

The news release asked participants to let hospital employees order first, since they have a limited lunch window. Daily specials are subject to change and are considered a meal.<\/p>\n

Email seniorlunch@swhealth.org<\/a> to receive a monthly newsletter with the lunch special menu and other details about the program if you\u2019re 60 and older, and enjoy lunch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

the Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez for a $5 meal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,29,210],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-23720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-southwest-health-system"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78232,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23720\/revisions\/78232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23720"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=23720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}