The City of Ottumwa has received a $100,000 Community Development Block Grant for the Blessings Soup Kitchen Food Program Assistance Project.  The money will be used to buy two commercial stoves, two commercial refrigerators, two commercial freezers, three double convection ovens, a sink, a pasta cooker and a washer and dryer.  Blessings Director Sheri Locke says the number of meals Blessings serves each day has doubled since the pandemic to 250 to 300 meals per day…and they’re doing that with the kind of appliances you have in your home.