Colombo Lodge is serving the first of two meals for the hospital staff at RIH on Tuesday night. The next one is Thursday (Image Credit: CFJC Today)

By Chad Klassen

COLOMBO CARES

Colombo Lodge serving RIH staff dinner to show gratitude for their work during the pandemic

May 12, 2020 | 3:13 PM

KAMLOOPS — It’s International Nurses Day, a day that has never been celebrated so much as it is this year with health-care professionals putting their lives on the line to deal with COVID-19.

The Colombo Lodge in Kamloops is showing its appreciation to nurses at Royal Inland Hospital with a free pasta meal being delivered twice this week.

Volunteers at the Italian Cultural Centre are preparing the drive-thru at the Lorne Street location that will serve more than 300 healthcare workers tonight (May 12). It’s the first of two dinners dedicated to hospital staff at RIH and paramedics.

“The idea came from the executive to do something for the community, especially for the frontline workers,” said member of the Colombo Lodge Joe Stella. “Tonight [and Thursday], they’re going to come through with at least 320 people. They take the dinner home or to the hospital.”

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The dinner is similar to what volunteers at the colombo lodge put together for the ‘Colombo Cares’ dinners — a penne and meatball meal.

Between Tuesday and Thursday’s dinners, there will be more than 500 meals handed out. It gives the volunteers great pride in being able to give back to hospital staff and paramedics that are doing so much for the community during the pandemic.

“Even if in Kamloops, we’ve been blessed that there was nothing drastic with the coronavirus, but doing what we are doing tonight and a day after tomorrow, we’d like to acknowledge all the people on the frontline,” noted Stella. “We’d like to honour all the rest of nurses all over the world.”