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East Texas Food Bank offers tips for safe food handling when preparing holiday meals

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but if you’re not careful in the kitchen, loved ones could end up sick.

As part of its mission to fight hunger and feed hope, the East Texas Food Bank offers free nutrition education, including a six-week course focusing on food preparation, budgeting and shopping for healthy meals.

ETFB Nutrition Education Manager Kinsey Jeffers shared some tips for safe food preparation for big holiday meals, so that no one in the family gets food poisoning for Christmas.
(Read and watch this story from Tyler Morning Telegraph)

Giving Tuesday: Ozarka donates $5K, truckload of water to East Texas Food Bank

Giving Tuesday is here, and it marks a 24-hour global day of giving to charities and nonprofit organizations.

Ozarka Natural Spring Water made a $5,000 donation to the East Texas Food Bank. Ozarka is also donating a truckload of bottled water, and employees from the Ozarka production facility in Hawkins will volunteer at the food bank.
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Ozarka donation to East Texas Food Bank, volunteering to kick off Giving Tuesday

Ozarka Brand Natural Spring Water is helping the East Texas Food Bank kick off Giving Tuesday by donating $5,000 and a truckload of bottled water.

Giving Tuesday is a 24-hour global day of giving to charities and nonprofits.

The donation is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday at the East Texas Food Bank, 3201 Robertson Road. After the presentation, Ozarka employees will volunteer at the food bank.
(Read more from Tyler Morning Telegraph)

No holiday for hunger

The holiday season, or “season of giving,” moves many people to look beyond themselves and consider the needs of the nearly quarter of a million people in this region who are hungry.

Charitable organizations, here and around the country, are typically awash with donations of food, clothes, and money when the weather cools, leaves turn, and everyone feels the holiday spirit.

That’s great, Anderson County advocates said, but fighting hunger is a year-round battle that calls for our assistance every month of the year. Those who package, prepare, and deliver aid to the needy would like people to hold onto the spirit of giving in spring, when donations all but cease.
(Read more from Palestine Herald-Press)

Thanksgiving box and produce distribution set for Wednesday in Tyler

The East Texas Food Bank will hold a special Thanksgiving box and produce distribution on Wednesday at the East Texas State Fairgrounds in Tyler.

Distribution will be from 1 to 3:30 p.m. and is limited to one per household.

“We have a lot of volunteers that want to help for Thanksgiving, but we also have such a large meal gap,” said East Texas Food Bank Programs Director Tim Butler. “Being able to offer food to help feed families at this time of the year is a great opportunity for the East Texas Food Bank and our volunteers.”
(Read more from Tyler Morning Telegraph)