The Rotary Club of Palo Alto founded and incorporated La Comida in 1972 as the first lunch program for older adults in the county. Two years later, we received a federal grant through the Older Americans Act to grow our operations. We became the first congregate senior nutrition program in Santa Clara County to manage its program under the auspices of the Council on Aging. We served our first meals in the Parish Hall at the All Saints Church at the corner of Hamilton and Waverley Avenues, then federal and Rotary Club of Palo Alto funds allowed us to equip the kitchen and dining room at the Avenidas Senior Center. Today, we thousands of weekday lunches each year in South Palo Alto’s Stevenson House and in Downtown Palo Alto at the First United Methodist Church.