skip to main content
skip to newscasts

Monday, March 18, 2024

Public News Service Logo
facebook instagram linkedin reddit youtube twitter
view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Report says a second Trump term would add 4 billion tons of climate pollution; Trump predicts a bloodbath for the country if he is defeated in November's election; Nevada leaders discuss future of IVF, abortion in the Silver State; and anglers seek trawler buffer zone as Atlantic herring stock declines.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

The SCOTUS weighs government influence on social media, and who groups like the NRA can do business with. Biden signs an executive order to advance women's health research and the White House tells Israel it's responsible for the Gaza humanitarian crisis.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Midwest regenerative farmers are rethinking chicken production, Medicare Advantage is squeezing the finances of rural hospitals and California's extreme swing from floods to drought has some thinking it's time to turn rural farm parcels into floodplains.

Holiday Rush to Fill Utah's Food-Bank Shelves

play audio
Play

Thursday, December 8, 2016   

SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah Food Bank is in the middle of its Holiday Food and Fund Drive, and the need for donations goes beyond helping struggling Utahns prepare for that next big family gathering.

Ginette Bott, chief development officer with the food bank, said the holiday season is a great time to capture Utah's giving spirit, and food collected now is critical for keeping shelves stocked for families facing hunger through the winter months ahead. She's asking people from all corners of the state to consider giving food, time or money.

"You can do a virtual food drive online and pick the product you want us to buy with your funds because we have such great buying power,” Bott said. "Or you can do neighborhood projects, of food drives in your neighborhood or your businesses."

She pointed to AARP Utah as one example of how organizations can get involved. The group asked its members to match an original donation of $8,000, and an additional $18,000 in donations poured in from across the state - the equivalent of more than 69,000 meals.

AARP staff also make monthly food box deliveries to seniors, and the group organizes volunteers for programs such as the Kids Cafe.

One in five Utah children is at risk of missing a meal on any given day. Bott said the program helps fill the gap by distributing 1,800 meals a day to children at more than 42 after-school sites.

"A lot of kids qualify for breakfast and lunch through the reduced program with the schools, but there's no dinner component for children,” Bott said. "A lot of parents are working two and three jobs and are out of the home in the evening and a child won't eat until school the next day."

Nonperishable donations can be dropped off at Smith's or Harmons locations statewide. You can also drop food off at the food bank's Salt Lake City warehouse or your nearest pantry.



get more stories like this via email

more stories
Corporate partners sign contracts to offer a graduate assistantship and pay the students. In turn, MSU pays the graduate assistant's tuition, fees and salary, so the assistantship is directly tied to the academic experience. (pressmaster/Adobe Stock)

play sound

By Victoria Lim for WorkingNation.Broadcast version by Farah Siddiqi for Missouri News Service reporting for the WorkingNation-Public News Service Col…


Social Issues

play sound

A new report brands Connecticut's tax system as "regressive" for low- to middle-income residents and uses a report from the state to make its point…

Environment

play sound

Backers of a new federal rule said it will increase fairness for livestock and poultry producers, in North Carolina and across the country. The U.S…


A study by the advocacy group Inseparable showed one in five adults said at any given time, they consider their mental health to be either 'fair' or 'poor.' (Adobe Stock)

Health and Wellness

play sound

Mental health care advocates are encouraging federal agencies to adopt a proposed update to regulations which would expand access to psychological car…

Social Issues

play sound

With hotter summers bringing hotter working conditions, the Maryland Department of Labor is implementing a heat stress standard to protect workers …

Environment

play sound

Recreational fishermen in New England say commercial trawlers are threatening the survival of smaller businesses relying on a healthy stock of Atlanti…

Social Issues

play sound

Women are treated much differently than men by the criminal justice system, according to a new report detailing how and why mass incarceration is …

 

Phone: 303.448.9105 Toll Free: 888.891.9416 Fax: 208.247.1830 Your trusted member- and audience-supported news source since 1996 Copyright © 2021