Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley announced the awardees to be honored at the organization’s annual fundraising event, the Bountiful Bowl. The event will take place at DeSales University on Nov. 4, 2022.

Robert (Rob) J. Bennett, owner of the Bennett Automotive Group, will be awarded the Bob Wood Legacy Award. The award is given to an individual or family that demonstrates vision and serves as a catalyst to create Valley-wide systemic change around a particular community issue. By focusing on the root causes of problems and involving numerous organizations and systems, they improve the quality of non-profit services to people in need. The Bob Wood awardee has strengthened Meals on Wheels services as part of their broader work on pressing issues.

Bennett has been an avid supporter of Meals on Wheels and its mission for the past 13 years.

Boyle Construction is being awarded with the Corporate Partner Award. This award was created to recognize a company who has supported Meals on Wheels over an extended period of time, not only through monetary donations, but through volunteerism and other altruistic acts.

The Corporate Partner Awardee works to promote social reform and takes actions to improve the well-being of human kind. Boyle Construction has ‘built better’ in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for 45 years, and, to this day, our primary goal is to improve the communities in which we work, live, and play while creating trusting relationships with our clients.

For over 20 years, Boyle Construction has been a supporter of Meals on Wheels. Not only through generous donations and team members serving on the MOWGLV Board of Directors, but Boyle Construction has most recently seen MOWGLV through the renovations and move into their new, centrally located headquarters in Allentown.

Anne Schweitzer was awarded the Laros Family Volunteer award at the Volunteer event in the spring of 2022 but will be recognized during the Bountiful Bowl event. Anne had been delivering meals as part of Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley since 1987. Thirty-five years later, at the age of 100, Anne decided to retire from her dedication and commitment of delivering meals to seniors in the Bath and Cherryville areas.