A public meeting to discuss the future of a senior nutrition program serving people in 14 East Texas counties drew interest from several different organizations.
The East Texas Council of Governments-Area Agency on Aging held the meeting Tuesday at its headquarters in Kilgore. More than a dozen people attended, including potential bidders on the agency’s senior nutrition contract.
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About 1 in 5 Adults in East Texas are deemed “food insecure”. That means they simply don’t have enough to eat. And that number is even higher for children.
Thankfully there are school lunch programs during the year to at least provide one good nutritious meal during the week while the kids are in school. But when the summer break comes and school isn’t in session, many children can go hungry.
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Maudesta Moore said she had spent most of her summer watching the shows her grandbabies wanted to watch when she decided to turn on the morning news and saw that the East Texas Food Bank would be kicking off its annual Summer Backpack Program.
Moore said she was planning to take them to Bergfeld Park anyway, so she decided to make a day of it and skip a trip to McDonald’s after. With three granddaughters and one great-granddaughter in tow, she headed to Bergfeld Park to let the children play while she learned more about the program.
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For the fifth year, kids in Tyler will have food for the weekends throughout the summer thanks to a summer backpack program.
While the East Texas Food Bank’s Summer Feeding Program covers kids Monday through Friday, their annual backpack program provides kids with food for the weekend.
“You can imagine, obviously you’re still hungry during the weekend, they’re really filling that meal gap for a lot of these kids by providing that food,” said Tim Butler, the program services director at East Texas Food Bank.
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The East Texas Food Bank today announced a new grant from the Morgan Stanley Foundation to support the food bank’s fresh produce program. The funds will be used to increase the food bank’s ability to access, transport and store fresh produce and provide fruits and vegetables for families in need. The food bank is one of six food banks that received funding from Morgan Stanley as part of a $250,000 gift to Feeding America® member food banks to help develop, launch, expand and sustain fresh produce programs.
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