Workers at the Wabash County Health Department were busy yesterday unloading over 4,000 meals ready to eat, or MRE’s. Health Department Administrator Judy Wissel told the county board yesterday that the MRE’s are courtesy of FEMA…

The Lunch Wagon’s Melissa Smith said the MRE’s will be distributed on Friday’s for kids to take home and use for weekend meals.

Wissel said some of the MRE’s will also be distributed to the sheriff’s department to feed prisoners at the jail. She said Mt. Carmel Stabilization Group supplied a fork lift and driver to help unload the 7 pallets of MRE’s that arrived on three I-DOT trucks.