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Yahoo
12-07-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Central Texas Food Bank to distribute food in counties impacted by flooding
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Central Texas Food Bank, or CTFB, announced it would hold special emergency distributions for three counties impacted by the July 4 floods. BLOG: Search for missing continues July 10 as Texas community grieves CTFB said its first distribution would take place in Burnet County Friday from 1-2 p.m. at 549 East Farm-to-Market Road 243 in Bertram. The second distribution will take place Monday in Llano County from 4-6 p.m. at the Kingsland Community Center located at 3451 Rose Hill Drive. Travis County will also have daily distributions, with no fixed hours, at the Round Mountain Baptist Church at 14500 Round Mountain Road in Leander, according to CTFB. In San Saba, distributions will be held Saturday, July 12, from 1-2 p.m. at First Methodist Church San Saba, located at 204 W. Brown Street. The final location is in Andice on Tuesday, July 15, from 9 – 10 a.m. at Santa Rosa de Lima Catholic Church, located at 6571 FM 970. How to help local Texas communities impacted by flooding 'We recognize that in times like these, having access to nutritious food and clean water can help restore strength, stability, and a sense of normalcy during a time of crisis,' said Sari M. Vatske, Central Texas Food Bank president and CEO. As of Thursday, Travis County confirmed there have been seven people killed and 10 missing after the July 4 flooding event. Burnet County said five people were killed and one person is missing, which is Michael Phillips, the chief of the Marble Falls Area Volunteer Fire Department. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Central Texas Food Bank to break ground on Waco facility
WACO, Texas (FOX 44) – The Central Texas Food Bank (CTFB) will host a groundbreaking ceremony at its new Waco distribution facility on Tuesday. The planned 64,000 square foot facility located at 1402 Gholson Road will serve as a northern territory distribution center positioning CTFB services 100 miles closer from its main headquarters in Austin. The event will take place at 11 a.m. CTFB President and CEO Sari M. Vatske, City of Waco Mayor Jim Holmes and District One Councilmember Andrea Barefield are expected to attend the groundbreaking ceremony. The CTFB says the Waco facility will house a state-of-the-art commercial kitchen for hot meal preparation for afterschool meals for children, culinary training programs for workforce development, an on-site pantry giving neighbors in need immediate access to food, a community garden and a warehouse for rapid food inspection, sorting and distribution. Recent data estimates through CTFB's Food Access Convening Tool (FACT) revealed that neighbors in the nine northern counties of its 21-county service territory Bell, Coryell, Falls, Freestone, Lampasas, Limestone, Mills, McLennan, and San Saba face a 19.5 percent food insecurity rate, compared to 15.4 percent in southern counties, disproportionately affecting seniors, children and caregivers. More than 157,000 Heart of Texas Region neighbors overall struggle to find their next meal including one in four children. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
