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Every weekday, Roberta McArthur drives to the Hy-Vee on Northeast Rice Road in Lees Summit and picks up a couple of hot boxes of food.

After a 10-minute drive to Martin Luther Lutheran Church along Blue Parkway on the U.S. 50 outer road, an army of volunteers help McArthur portion out meals for delivery to roughly 150 people around Lees Summit.

Despite its reputation for affluence, Lees Summit is not immune to the need to feed the hungry.

I lived under the same illusion that because we are affluent and we are a very upwardly moving town nobody needed any help, McArthur said.

Three decades into feeding folks in need, she knows differently as the director of One Good Meal.

McArthurs late mother, Betty McKnought, started One Good Meal in 1994, making lunch

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