FCCLA Students Serve Food They Prepared for the Attendees
On November 19th, Project Rise and Kenmore-Garfield High School hosted a special Thanksgiving event for families experiencing homelessness. This is the 12th annual Harvest Dinner event and the 3rd year that the event was held at Kenmore-Garfield High School.
Posted in Charity, Community, Education, Food, Homelessness, Youth
Tagged 12th annual Harvest Dinner, Akron Ohio, Akron Public Schools, AMHA, Buckeye Credit Union, Children, Cuyahoga Valley National Parks, Families, Food, fun and friendship, Kenmore-Garfield High School, KGHS FCCLA Group, Ohio Department of Education, Project RISE, Spark Program, Summit County Ohio, Summit County Public Library, University of Akron ZIPS, Volunteers, Youth Homelessness
East Akron Neighborhood Development Corporation’s (EANDC) StormWaterColors project proposal is one of 70 finalists for ArtPlace America’s 2017 National Creative Placemaking Fund (NCPF).
ArtPlace selected these 70 proposals from 987 applications, making EANDC’s project one of just 7 percent of the projects across the country to make this cut.
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Tagged agriculture, akron arts, ArtPlace America, Community, Community Development, East Akron Neighborhood Development Corporation’s, economic development, Education, Environment, Food, Neighborhood, Placemaking, StormWaterColors, Youth
Info Line is making it easier for Summit County residents to find and access basic needs assistance by adding texting capability to its 2-1-1 information service. 2-1-1 OnDemand allows people to receive referrals for food and utility assistance via text so they don’t have to use valuable phone minutes. The service also helps free up Info Line’s 2-1-1 staff so they can spend time answering phone calls that are more in-depth.
Posted in Charity, Community, Food, Health, Housing, Neighborhoods, Poverty
Tagged 2-1-1, Assistance, Food, Help, Info-Line, OnDemand, Residents, Resources, Richard Stahl, Services, Summit County, Tanya Kahl, United Way of Summit County, unlimited texting, Utilities
As you may know, last week was our Christmas for the Love of Children food and gift distribution. In the days following the event, the entire staff here was beaming with Christmas spirit and joy. It seemed to touch each of us equally, but in different ways. For many of OPEN M staffers, the pure bewilderment of the parents and anticipation of each child’s excitement was the most impactful.
With sadness we mark the passing of Darwin Kelsey, the architect of the Cuyahoga Valley Conservancy. In his honor we are rerunning from our archives the story on the Conservancy based largely on interviewing Darwin.
The policy produced by the Summit County Food Policy Coalition calls for two measurable action items:
1) eliminate food deserts in Summit County,
2) preserve farmland within Summit County.
We reported on efforts to identify and measure food deserts in our story from January 10th, 2014.
We investigated one very successful effort to preserve farm land.
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Tagged agriculture, Community, Cuyahoga Valley Countryside Conservancy, Darwin Kelsey, Education, environmental health, Farmland, Food, food deserts, Gardening, Hale Farm and Village, Howe Meadow Farmer’s Markets, Local Farmers, National Park Service, Summit County, Summit County Food Policy Coalition, sustainable food, urbanization
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