United Way, Family Table collaboration focuses on food security
Agency provides $75,000 to Family Table Collaborative
The Register
The Cape and Islands United Way (CIUW) awarded a $75,000 grant to the Family Table Collaborative (FTC), partnering with the group to address nutritional security Capewide.
In response to the pandemic outbreak in 2020, chefs from the Cape began to collaborate last March, gathering donated food and feeding people in need. The end result is the Family Table Collaborative, an organization that has been providing 800-1,000 dinners per week throughout the pandemic.
Group organizers say that is just the beginning of what they hope to accomplish – and what led them to create the Riverway project. FTC has taken over the former Riverway Restaurant on Route 28 in South Yarmouth with big plans to provide delicious, nutritious meals in far greater numbers – serving all of the Cape.
When: Sat., May 1, 2-6 p.m. Orwin House Gallery will host an Indoor/Outdoor Closing Event for its current exhibition, Move The World. Activities will take place outdoors on the gallery grounds, with (limited) open access to the gallery to view and enjoy the last day of the exhibition. The FREE event will feature music by DJ Drake Phifer, a performance by the exhibition s Poet Laureate, Brittini Ward, and Live Art being created on the scene by local artists including: Cameron Jenkins, Errin Whitaker, Jeni Wheeler, Kirah Price, Maliek Phillips, Scott McDuffee and Zuri Dean. The Live Art being created will become part of an outdoor installation to be unveiled later in the month on the Irwin Gallery grounds.
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Online ticket sales are open for Cape Cod Young Professionals (CCYP) 5th annual Shape Your Cape Summit, whose two half-day, virtual sessions about business resilience are scheduled for Wednesday, April 7 and Thursday, April 8.
Keynote speaker is Greater Boston networking expert and author Julie Brown, who will explore how resilience applies on a personal, professional, community and regional level as the Cape emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The summit is designed to give the Cape s young workforce educational and networking opportunities to thrive, personally and professionally. It convenes local employers, community leaders, and concerned citizens who are passionate about advancing local action around issues that impact opportunity for young working-age adults.
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Samuel Adams
EASTHAM A document found in the archive room at Eastham Historical Society’s Schoolhouse Museum appears to contain the signature of Samuel Adams.
The piece of paper was an official recognition of the appointment of Elijah Knowles as Justice of the Peace in Barnstable County. It is dated June 7, 1785.
An article about the discovery was published earlier this week in the Cape Cod Times and noted that Adams was a pivotal figure in both Massachusetts and national history.
A delegate to the First Continental Congress in 1774, he signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. In 1781, he was appointed lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, and became governor in 1789.