Barona Casino to help older Native Americans by donating food to meals-on-wheels effort.LAKESIDE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 1994--Barona Casino will help their own senior citizen Native Americans This is a list of Native Americans (first nations and descendents) Cherokee
The Indian-operated casino in Lakeside is donating thousands of dollars in food to the Southern Indian Health Council, a government program which delivers 65 hot lunches each weekday to the homes of Native American senior citizens living on reservations located in the East County. The kitchen that normally prepares the lunches is taking a two-week vacation, said Robin Bradley, a dietitian dietitian /di·e·ti·tian/ (di?e-tish´in) one skilled in the use of diet in health and disease. di·e·ti·tian or di·e·ti·cian n. A person specializing in dietetics. with the Southern Indian Health Council. If Barona Casino Barona Valley Ranch Resort and Casino is a San Diego area casino, hotel, and golf course owned by the Barona Band of Mission Indians, and known for sponsoring and housing the Blackjack Hall of Fame. had not agreed to supply the food, the Native American senior citizens might have gone hungry during the holiday season, she said. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Bradley: "After several other possible food services food services Hospital services A 24/7 department in a hospital that provides for the nutritional needs of inpatients–eg, those needing special diets, preparing meals and transporting them to the floor and, through the cafeteria, the hospital staff and said `no way' to me because of our modest budget, I was ready to just give up and tell our clients, `I'm sorry I'm Sorry may refer to the following works:
"We offered Barona Casino the meager mea·ger also mea·gre adj. 1. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty. 2. Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain. 3. funds allocated to us by the government, but they choose to donate the meals," she said. "Barona Casino saved the day for those seniors who depend on us." According to Clifford LaChappa, Barona Tribal Chairman: "We saw an opportunity to take care of our own people, which is something very important to us. The revenue from our hard work at the casino makes it possible to support our sovereign nation, be economically independent and provide essential services that improve our own people's quality of life," he said. Barona Casino's chefs will prepare the 65 hot lunches, featuring a meat main entree and hardy side dishes, from Dec. 19-23 and 28-30. Then, officials with the Southern Indian Health Council will deliver the hot meals to the homes of Native American senior citizens living on several East County Indian reservations, including Barona, Campo, Viejas, Jamul, La Posta and Manzanita manzanita: see bearberry. . The Southern Indian Health Council, with offices in Alpine, offers a number of social services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales , such as medical care, children's day care center and the "meals-on-wheels" effort, to Native Americans living on Indian reservations in the East County. Barona Casino, owned by the Barona Band of Mission Indians, is located in San Diego County's East County area on the Barona Indian Reservation in Lakeside. The casino -- open 24 hours a day/seven days a week -- offers more than 1,000 video and video poker machines, Joker's Wild 21, bingo, poker, satellite wagering and an all-you-can-eat Las Vegas-style buffet. For more information about Barona Casino, phone 619/443-2300 or 800/227-U-BET. CONTACT: Rick Griffin Marketing Communications
Rick Griffin, 619/461-3104
619/461-3151 (Fax)
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