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After years of planning and challenges, the New Braunfels Food Bank broke ground and history on Tuesday with a housing unit for families in need. New Braunfels and San Antonio Food Bank staff, local leaders and National Guard members celebrated breaking ground for the Apple Seeds Apartments, what organizers called one of the first food bank housing efforts in the nation. The housing complex will have 51 units for families with children under the age of 15. Oakwood Churchs executive pastor Rusty...

The San Antonio Food Bank is one of 16 food-distribution organizations that landed a combined $507,000 grant from health insurer Blue Cross and Blue Shield of...

PKAVS has announced a line-up of events to mark Carers Week. It aims to raise further awareness of their work and offer more unoaid carers support.

The San Antonio Food Bank is sending out a plea for volunteers, calling it “an urgent crisis.”

AUSTIN, Texas - Families participating in the women, infants and children's program - or WIC - will be getting a temporary increase in food benefits. The governor and Texas Health and Human Services Commission say this increase specifically covers fruits and vegetables. Caption: KABB. The American Rescue Plan Act signed into law back in March allows states to temporarily provide up to $35 for fruits and vegetables per child and adult per month.

Twenty feet away from arguably the most spectacular high desert scene lay a pile of photographic detritus. Busted tripod legs, smashed lenses, and camera bodies pulverized beyond recognition, the scene looked more like a badly bungled camera store robbery than a National Park vista. You could say the incident began 20 million years ago with the uplift of the Colorado Plateau

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Try out for a musical Falmouth Theatre Guild will hold in-person auditions from 6 to 9 p.m. May 19 and 20, and 2 to 5 p.m. May  22 for the lead roles in its planned fall production of the musical “Carousel.” Individual try-outs will be held at Highfield Theater, 58 Highfield Dr., Falmouth. The show is due to run Oct. 22 to Nov. 7, and all involved with the production will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. While other auditions will be in August, the five leads in this r...

Posted By Nina Rangel on Thu, May 6, 2021 at 12:35 PM click image Facebook / San Antonio Food Bank Eric Cooper, president and CEO of the San Antonio Food Bank, oversees one of his organizations food distributions. When you spend 25 years in the fight to end hunger, folks are bound ...