Edna Daley-Landry, 90, helps Hillcrest breakfast program
They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day and a 90-year-old Moncton woman is taking that to heart and into the schools.
Every Wednesday at about 7 a.m., Edna Daley-Landry heads out the door to serve up breakfast to school children.
The 90-year-old doesn't let her age slow her down on the half hour walk to Moncton's Hillcrest school.
"Makes me feel younger when you have kids around you know," she says.
Daley-Landry only started doing this two years ago — at the age of 88.
"I like to walk," she says. "I love children, and I like the people and it gives me something to do … and it's a good cause.
That cause is healthy, free breakfasts for children.
Todd Smith is vice-principal of Hillcrest school,and he says the program wouldn't exist without volunteers such as Daley-Landry.
"It is very well-attended, it's open to anybody, it doesn't matter whether they had breakfast before they came here or not."
Daley-Landry doesn't work alone. She has helpers, like Hannah Gallagher, to feed all the hungry mouths. Hannah says she doesn't mind getting up a little early to help out, "because it's fun and I like seeing all my friends."
Edna Daley-Landry attributes her good health to a life free from drinking and smoking, good genes and her motto: "Just keep going as long as your able to go."
