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Yahoo
29-05-2025
- General
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Feed Evansville asks for community's help to keep school children fed all summer long
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — Feed Evansville is asking for the community's help to keep school kids fed this summer. The organization will be outside city pools seven days a week starting next month and offering free lunches. It won't be soon before long Tri-State families will be making memories and making a splash at Evansville's pools. Lorraine and Rochelle-Landers are empty now, but will open for the first time this year on Saturday morning. New for the season: people can enjoy new concession tables. There's another initiative happening here too to help alleviate financial stressors on families and to keep our kids healthy. On Wednesday, Feed Evansville asked residents to donate the money they would normally use to buy lunch or coffee to its cause, as part of the Brown Bag Challenge. Feed Evansville Executive Director Lisa Vaughan says the money collected will go toward buying nutritious meals which include a sandwich or wrap, grain, fruit and vegetable. Those meals will be handed out between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. seven days a week outside the gates of the all three pools, so kids do not have to pay the one-or-two-dollar admission to eat. Feed Evansville wants to get rid of any stress on families, especially if it comes to choosing between paying their bills or for food. 'We will be making sure that we have lunches for those who attend. We just ask everybody to eat on site, so that we're in guidelines of the USDA, and we can have some good quality food there for you,' Vaughan says. Feed Evansville has met its $5,000 goal which provides lunches and snacks for six weeks. However, it's still accepting donations, so the organization can feed everyone until the end of summer. It comes as Vaughan says 41% of parents struggle to feed their kids during school breaks. The city is also matching up to $2,500 for the program. Starting June 2, those meals will be available for pick-up regardless whether the pools are open. Those interested in volunteering and packing meals can go to Feed Evansville asks for community's help to keep school children fed all summer long 2025 Opening Day at Mosby Pool is delayed Swimmers flock to Burdette Park pool's opening day despite cooler temperatures Morganfield native coordinates event to remember passed loved ones for 13th consecutive year Daredevil group debuts for the summer at Holiday World Eyewitness News. Everywhere you are. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
25-04-2025
- Business
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Tri-State grocers, farmers discuss fighting food insecurity
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — Grocers and farmers come together at the CK Newsome Center to talk about grocery trends, rising grocery store prices, how to keep Evansville fed and increasing food security. Some ideas toward those goals range from storing food long term and giving people the sources to local foods. Those key people in keeping Evansville healthy are working toward the purpose of leaving no one hungry, reducing food waste and having all residents know where their next meal is coming from. Wednesday is about connecting the area's 80+ pantries with the city commission on food security. 'The relationship — making sure we alleviate food waste, making sure that we highlight our local farmers, making sure that we understand the trends because when prices of food go up, then that means more food insecurity goes up. And we as a commission need to know all these things,' says Lisa Vaughan who serves as executive director for Feed Evansville. Nutritionists, farmers and food preparers are offering solutions toward alleviating that food waste. 'We're talking about saving foods. We can always can them, long-term storage,' says Genevieve McGuire from First Fruits Cannery. Mary Winstead is one of those farmers here at the summit. She's with Local Source which connects producers with locally grown foods year round. It's also working to get more farmers into the business. 'There's no food without farms,' Winstead says. 'You can talk about food all day long, but if you don't have a farmer and a land space for that person to be growing, then this doesn't exist at all.' Some of those trends in grocery businesses relating to budgets are that items like cereal, flour and potatoes are beginning to be sold in bulk. Some grocery shoppers are likely to buy seeds and plant instead of buying fully grown produce. It's all ideas discussed which the commission hopes to implement in its strategic plan to Mayor Stephanie Terry and the city council. Ascension St. Vincent Indy 500 Princess spreads positivity at the hospital Tri-State grocers, farmers discuss fighting food insecurity More than 100 gather in Madisonville to protest Trump administration, Garcia deportation 'Pulls on your heartstrings': demolition starts on former Sauced building, Thayer Mansion '…the good Lord sent the Red Cross': volunteers across America work around-the-clock to aid flood victims Eyewitness News. Everywhere you are. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
