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BBC News
an hour ago
- General
- BBC News
Gloucestershire cheese rolling prize is served to rough sleepers
A wheel of Double Gloucester won in the annual traditional cheese rolling races in Gloucestershire is to be served up to rough sleepers in north Ava Sender Logan, 20, managed to bag the 7lb (3kg) cheese in the women's race last month by tumbling down the almost vertical Cooper's Hill in London student, who has donated her "delicious" prize to the Refugee Community Kitchen, said she is "really happy people can try it".Sam Jones, the charity's co-founder, said: "We are deeply indebted to Ava for putting her life and limbs on the line to get the cheese." The Refugee Community Kitchen supports displaced people in northern France and homeless people in London and Edinburgh. Miss Sender Logan, who volunteers for the kitchen, said donating her prize cheese was a "full-circle moment". "It's really sweet," she said."The cheese has travelled from Gloucestershire to Oxford to London to the kitchen."The biochemistry student, who was the fastest down the 1:2 gradient, said she did not remember most of her downhill journey, and was stunned when she won."I was trying to hold my head, stay on my feet as much as I could, but there's only so much you can do," she said."I was bruised, I was battered but there were no broken bones." The charity, set up by four friends in 2015, has served thousands of meals in London and Calais over the last 10 Jones said up to 90 people in and round Archway in London will be able to "scoff" on the winning cheese wheel."It's a really nice kind of full circle to have the cheese that rolled down the hill, the Double Gloucester that's going into a cauliflower and broccoli cheese that's going out to the street," he said."It really fills us full of joy and satisfaction to be able to do that." The Gloucestershire cheese-rolling races have been held for centuries and are thought to have their roots in a heathen festival to celebrate the return of Hill's is one of Gloucestershire's steepest slopes. The cheese can reach speeds of up to 70mph as it is chased downhill by the year, there were seven races in all, two of them in memory of former cheese rolling winners who have since died.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Decatur police run ‘Pack the Cruiser' food drive
DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — Packing a police cruiser is normally a bad thing — but the Decatur Police Department flipped that on its head to help get food donations for those in need. Officers pulled an S.U.V. in front by a grocery store on airport plaza drive. For four hours they collected non-perishable items like peanut butter — pop-tarts — and more. They had some help from northeast community fund collecting the food — which will go to food banks in the Decatur area. Cancer survivors get together to celebrate National Cancer Survivors Day 'Everybody's been really, really generous, giving out, you know, canned goods and box foods and all the non-perishables,' Patrol Officer Tucker Tool said. 'So we're very, very excited and very pleased with the turnout. Look at the weather out here today, you know, and get to go out and, you know, talk to the community and interact with them and just, you know, have an overall great experience and for a good cause.' They also took monetary donations as well to get specific products that weren't donated on Saturday. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
How many Kansans will a semi of mac & cheese feed? Breaking down gift to food bank
How many people will 38,000 pounds of mac and cheese feed? Hungry Kansans are about to find out. The Kansas Food Bank in Wichita, which supplies 18 million pounds of food a year to agencies that help with hunger in 85 counties statewide, got a donation Thursday from Land O'Lakes for roughly 38,000 pounds of macaroni and cheese. It will start sending the food out Monday and Tuesday to food pantries and other organizations that support hunger. Kansas Food Bank President and CEO Brian Walker said the timing is perfect: School is out and more children are missing meals. There are food programs through schools, but not everyone will be able to make it to the school to get the food. 'It's really great because macaroni and cheese has made a comeback,' Walker said. 'If we go out to eat, I don't think there's a restaurant that doesn't have macaroni and cheese.' Land O'Lakes has made large donations in the past, he said, but an entire semi-trailer full of one item is always a significant donation. The pre-cooked mac and cheese can be boiled in the bag or popped in the microwave. Here is a breakdown of how much mac and cheese that is: 24 pallets full About 52 cases on each pallet (total of 1,260 cases) Each case has six 5-pound bags of macaroni and cheese Total weight: 37,800 pounds of macaroni and cheese That would be 81,067 servings of one cup (about 7.5 ounces each) The macaroni and cheese was provided through Land O'Lakes First Run. In a December 2024 post, the company said it donated 297,675 pounds of Land O'Lakes macaroni and cheese the past year and 7.3 million pounds of food since starting the program 14 years before. 'As a farmer-owned cooperative, Land O'Lakes, Inc is deeply committed to hunger relief. This effort begins locally in the communities that our members and employees call home, many of them rural.' Land O'Lakes Senior Vice President and General Counsel Sheilah Stewart said in the 2024 statement. 'We are honored to help our Feeding America food bank partners get fresh, nutritious food directly to the families who need it most.' About 14% of Kansans fall under the threshold as being food insecure, according to Feeding America. The Kansas Food Bank said it is 20% for children.
CBC
6 days ago
- Climate
- CBC
Care packages airlifted to Little Bear Lake for people battling fires
Marlene Barzeele and her band of helpers have airlifted donated food into Little Bear Lake to feed the people protecting 150 homes and cabins from wildfire.
CTV News
24-05-2025
- Business
- CTV News
Zehrs and Transit Windsor partner again for annual Stuff-a-Bus campaign
Zehrs and Transit Windsor are teaming for their 2025 Stuff-a-Bus campaign. For a second year in a row, Zehrs and Transit Windsor are teaming for their Stuff-a-Bus campaign, an initiative aimed at collecting essential donations for the Unemployed Help Centre in the lead-up to the highly anticipated Ford Fireworks event next month. 'As we know, there's more and more of a great need for food distribution to the homeless and the needy,' noted Atila Kadar, store manager at Zehrs in Tecumseh. 'We just really are proud to be a part of that and help out the fellow food banks that help support them.' Shoppers dropped off non-perishable food, clothing, and cash to volunteers in front of the Zehrs on Manning Road Saturday. TRANSIT WINDSOR STUFF BUS 2025 Zehrs and Transit Windsor are teaming for their Stuff-a-Bus campaign at the Tecumseh Zehrs location on May 24, 2025. (Bob Bellacicco/CTV News Windsor) The campaign continues at the following Zehrs' locations: LaSalle Zehrs (5890 Malden Rd.) – Saturday, May 31, 2025 Parkway Plaza Zehrs (7201 Tecumseh Rd.) – Saturday, June 7, 2025 All events run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and support individuals and families in need across Windsor-Essex. Residents are encouraged to stop by, stuff the bus, and help make a difference.
