Garrett Neese/Daily Mining Gazette Tribin Holbrook, kitchen manager for Copper Shores Meals on Wheels, and Krupp’s Mini Mart owner Troy Povich hold a tray of pasties Krupp’s made and donated for Meals on Wheels recipients Friday.

HANCOCK — Local Meals on Wheels recipients got something special in their meals Friday.

Krupp’s Mini Mart prepared 310 pasties for Friday’s meals.

Owners Tina and Troy Povich got the idea from a regular customer who volunteers for Meals on Wheels and several other organizations. After talking in the kitchen, they called Copper Shores Meals on Wheels to see if it was possible.

The response was an enthusiastic yes. The staff had already been talking about donations, and possibly calling up restaurants to ask about donating extra food, said Copper Shores Meals on Wheels Director Kathleen Harter.

Krupp’s crafted a special smaller pasty to fit the meal containers — 10 ounces, versus the regular 14- to 16-ounce pasties sold at the store.

“Troy and I are both excited,” Tina said. “We have relatives that have used Meals on Wheels in the past. Both of us have grandparents that relied on them. So we were familiar with the program, and excited that it’s still around.”

Seniors were excited too. They got a note in advance telling them the pasties would be coming.

“We’ve already received some thank you notes from seniors and phone calls and people looking forward to today’s lunch,” Harter said.

Meals on Wheels is also thanking them. The Poviches brought the pasties over to the Meals on Wheels kitchen Friday morning, and helped prepare the full meal, including gravy, coleslaw, and apple slices. Because of that, the kitchen was able to get a head start on preparing the nearly 1,600 frozen meals needed for Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Year’s.

“There’s an element of excitement when you have something like that,” Harter said.

Tribin Holbrook, kitchen manager for Copper Shores Meals on Wheels, called the donation “incredible.”

The Poviches told Holbrook they plan to challenge other restaurants to do the same. Holbrook loves the idea.

“That would just allow us to have more resources to do more for the seniors, because they donated all of it, they cooked it,” he said. “It’s a pretty special thing, I think.”