June is fruits and veggies month, so this week’s podcast focuses on the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank’s innovative way to get fresh produce from local farms to areas where healthy food is difficult to find. It’s called the Green Grocer, and while it looks like a food truck, you
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May 29: St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church is accepting orders for a stuffed cabbage, pierogi and haluski sale. Cost: six frozen stuffed cabbages, $12; carton of haluski. $6; dozen pierogi from St. John the Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, $10. Pickup: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 29 in the church hall, 1610 Kenneth Ave. Order deadline: Tuesday.
Orders: 724-681-3383, 5 to 7 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays
June 6: Arnold Volunteer Engine Co. will sponsor a drag queen bingo at 2 p.m. in the Arnold No. 2 Training and Social Hall, 1702 Fifth Ave. Doors open at noon. Cost: $30; $35 at the door, includes eight regular games and there will be specials and extra packets. The kitchen will be open from noon to 2 p.m. BYOB. Must be at least 21 years old.
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A look inside of Jeremiah’s Place.
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This week, the food podcast focuses on the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank’s “food justice is social justice” initiative and features Jeremiah’s Place, a crisis nursery in the Pittsburgh area.
“A crisis nursery is essentially an emergency childcare center. Pittsburgh didn’t have one till about 2014 when we opened our doors,” acting director of Jeremiah’s Place Jordan Shoneburger said.
Initially, the organization was created by physicians and childcare professionals who saw a need for temporary childcare in the community.
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A volunteer assembles a grab-and-go meal for kids during a Backpack for Hunger event in April 2020 at the Blawnox Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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Rewind to one year ago. Every school in Western Pennsylvania had to switch to remote learning. Overnight, the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank’s child nutrition team had to find a way to ensure kids who relied on school meal programs still had food while learning from home.
“Last spring, food service directors and their staff and many volunteers and teachers mobilized because they knew the kids would continue to rely on them,” said Karen Dreyer, the food bank’s director of child nutrition programs. “They immediately shifted their models so they could do grab-and-go meals.”
Submitted by Kelly Kuhn
Submitted by Kelly Kuhn
Bethel Park residents Juliette Hall, 9, Maddie Hall, 7, and Aubrey Kuhn, 9, open a bin for a food drive by the Kuhn family.
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Aubrey Kuhn, 9, left, receives a food donation from George Washington Elemenetary classmate Kylie Lang, 9, both of Bethel Park.
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Aubrey Kuhn saw news reports in the early stages of the pandemic last May and how many families were going hungry as a result.
“It made me really sad, so I wanted to do a food drive for my eighth birthday,” said the Bethel Park elementary student. “It made me so happy to help people that I wanted to do it again for my ninth.”