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Faith Molinaro (from left), Amy Woods and Kelly Nelson sit in the office at Voluntary Action Center's kitchen. One of the walls is shared with the kitchen's freezer, and a space heater is needed to keep the tiny office warm.
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Faith Molinaro (from left), Amy Woods and Kelly Nelson sit in the office at Voluntary Action Center's kitchen. One of the walls is shared with the kitchen's freezer, and a space heater is needed to keep the tiny office warm.

  • Freshly baked biscuits and individual portions of fruit cups take up more than half of the room inside Voluntary Action Center's staff break room. Walking past furniture, boxes and stacked food requires side steps and shimmying in order not to bump into or knock anything over.
  • Refrigerators and freezers line the wall of TransVAC’s bus garage because of the lack of space inside Voluntary Action Center's kitchen building.
  • Ronda Toepper, day care cook at Voluntary Action Center, prepares chicken while Derek Gary, senior meal chef, walks behind her carrying a tray full of food. Toepper describes work as “dancing around.” As she makes lunches for local preschools, any number of the 15 kitchen workers, including chefs, the dishwasher and Meals on Wheels drivers, can pass in front of, next to or behind her, carrying trays, pots and pans or food.
  • Faith Molinaro (from left), Amy Woods and Kelly Nelson sit in the office at Voluntary Action Center's kitchen. One of the walls is shared with the kitchen's freezer, and a space heater is needed to keep the tiny office warm.
  • Cold prep chef Cindy Bocklund scoops fruit cocktail into individual portions inside the approximately 2,000-square-foot kitchen at Voluntary Action Center.
  • Inside the 2,000-square-foot kitchen at Voluntary Action Center, 1606 Bethany Road in Sycamore, part-time volunteers Mary Alessi of Genoa (left) and Adrienne Soroka of DeKalb make plates of Italian beef, french fries and stewed tomatoes for Meals on Wheels. VAC provides an average of 200 meals a day for the program.
  • The storage closet at Voluntary Action Center, 1606 Bethany Road in Sycamore, barely has any room for movement or storage.
  • The storage closet at Voluntary Action Center, 1606 Bethany Road in Sycamore, barely has any room for movement or storage.
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