A free food and milk distribution open to all community members will take place Wednesday afternoon in downtown State College.
YMCA of Centre County’s Anti-Hunger Program, its Student Anti-Hunger Group and State College Borough are partnering for the walk-through event from 4-6 p.m. on Locust Lane between East College Avenue and East Beaver Avenue.
According to the American Dairy Association North East, which works with Pennsylvania dairy farmers to support the Farmers to Families food distributions, boxes containing a gallon of milk along with an assortment of dairy, produce, and meat will be made available while supplies last.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y., April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Every April, dairy farmers rally together to celebrate environmental practices that help preserve the earth. On Earth Day especially, everyone is reminded of the continued need to protect our natural resources. According to the American Dairy Association North East, for dairy farmers, sustainability is a major focus every day when they produce nutritious milk it s made with care for the planet in mind.
In fact, there are seven ways we can all be more like dairy farmers in showing our commitment to environmental sustainability.
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Tallat Mahmood has joined Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc. as a Hospice medical director. In this role, she will work directly with patients and their families receiving hospice services.
Julie Dewey has joined Hospice & Palliative Care as a nurse practitioner who will support the Hospice and the A.I.M. Palliative Care Programs.
Mahmood obtained her medical degree from Aga Khan University Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan. Soon thereafter, she completed an internal medicine residency from West Virginia University and a Hematology/Oncology Fellowship from Tulane University. She has worked for the past 20 years in Michigan. Most recently she has been an assistant professor of medicine at Upstate Medical University.
Dairy farmers from Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania participated in a social media âtake overâ hosted by American Dairy Association North East and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay.
During a live, one-hour conversation, the farmers discussed their environmental practices to protect local water quality and to protect their downstream neighbors.
Participating farmers included Katie Dotterer-Pyle of Cow Comfort Inn Dairy in Union Bridge, Maryland; Mike McMahon of E-Z Acres Farm in Homer, New York; and Chris and Laura Landis of Worth the Wait Farms in Stevens, Pennsylvania.
âWe have a responsibility, when you farm in an environmentally sensitive area, to protect it, and our first concern is the neighborhood around us,â McMahon said. âAnd even though weâre 250 miles away from the bay, preservation starts here.â