Bodybuilding champion Darren M. Meade has huge biceps, gigantic calves, and a mammoth chest. He's got a big heart, too.
By TODD JACKSON THE ROANOKE TIMES Bodybuilding champion Darren M. Meade has huge biceps, gigantic calves, and a mammoth chest. He's got a big heart, too. The once homeless bodybuilder donated a tractor-trailer load of food - 25,000 pounds worth - to Roanoke's Rescue Mission Sunday. He also rented a couple of stretch limousines and let children take rides in them as he mingled with a group of Rescue Mission volunteers. Meade was in Roanoke over the weekend to support a women's bodybuilding competition at the civic center. He's a friend of Lynchburg's Jan Tana, the competition's sponsor. Meade, a Mr. North America champion, paid for and donated the food to the Rescue Mission himself on behalf of the Jan Tana competition and the Feed the Children program. He said he wanted to give something back to needy people. Meade can relate. At age 14, abandoned by his parents, Meade said he wandered the streets of the Oakland, Calif., area sleeping under