/news-archive/tag/arkansas-hunger-relief-alliance/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:37:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2019/10/16/charity-softball-match/ Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:37:03 +0000 /news/?p=75425 ... Little Rock鈥檚 Team will face Little Rock firefighters to help battle hunger in Arkansas]]> A battle royal between Little Rock鈥檚 Team and Little Rock鈥檚 bravest will help fight hunger in Arkansas.听 The 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock baseball team will take on firefighters from the city of Little Rock during a charity softball match that will begin at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, at Gary Hogan Field in Curran Conway Park. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock head baseball coach Chris Curry said his team is looking forward to the challenge of playing the firefighters for a good cause. 鈥淲e couldn鈥檛 be more excited to partner for the first time with the Little Rock Fire Department Local #34 Station,鈥� Curry said. 鈥淢atthew Stallings (a firefighter) and I have been working to try to put this charity softball game together for a couple years. We were finally able to make it work and to partner with the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance and the Trojan Food Pantry at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock.鈥�听 Tickets are $5 per person or a donation of canned food items. All proceeds will go to the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Trojan Food Pantry and the.听 鈥淚 hope it will be a fun night with a lot of laughs. It will be a good fun competition game between the baseball team and the Little Rock firefighters,鈥� Curry said. 鈥淚 hope that folks will come out. You can bring $5 or canned food to get in free. We鈥檙e expecting great weather. I hope the community will support us.鈥�]]> /news-archive/2018/09/12/university-district-farmers-market/ Wed, 12 Sep 2018 15:00:34 +0000 /news/?p=71816 ... University District Farmers Market offers program to encourage healthy eating on a budget]]> The 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock University District will host a special program during its weekly Farmers Market on Thursday, Sept. 13, to encourage shoppers to learn how to plan a healthy meal on a budget.听 During 鈥淐ooking Matters at the Farmers Market,鈥� participants can take the $10 challenge to practice purchasing low-cost, healthy food and earn a free $10 to spend at the market. Representatives from the Arkansas Department of Human Services will be on site in the mobile SNAP van to answer questions. With Double Up Food Bucks, the Farmers Market will match up to $20 on SNAP/EBT card benefits spent on fruits and vegetables. The program will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 13 at the University Plaza Parking Lot at 5820 Asher Ave., Little Rock. The program is sponsored by the Arkansas Food Bank, Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance, and Arkansas Coalition for Obesity Prevention.]]> /news-archive/2017/03/08/ua-little-rock-gardeners-trojan-food-pantry/ Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:38:42 +0000 /news/?p=66515 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock gardeners to grow fresh food for Trojan Food Pantry]]> In fall 2016, the Campus Garden Alliance became a registered student organization and entered into a partnership with the Trojan Food Pantry. The 20 members of the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Campus Garden Alliance will work on the campus garden and donate the bounty to the Trojan Food Pantry. 鈥淏eing able to get fresh food is important for the health of the people who use the food pantry,鈥� said Amber Mitchell, senior biology major and president of the Campus Garden Alliance. Thanks to the partnership, people who use the food pantry will have access to produce such as beets, cauliflower, cabbage, greens, tomatoes, peas, peppers, herbs, squash, onions. Mitchell estimated that the Campus Garden Alliance will donate 90 percent of the crops to the food pantry, while the members will keep the rest of the produce. A $2,000 grant from the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance will aid the effort to provide fresh food to the pantry. Betsy Hart, assistant director of Community Connections Center, and Stephen Grace, faculty advisor of the Campus Garden Alliance and professor of biology, were awarded a capacity building grant to purchase materials to expand the campus garden and increase storage for fresh foods at the food pantry. 鈥淲e want to build the partnership between the Trojan Food Pantry and the Campus Garden Alliance,鈥� said Sarah Beth Estes, executive director of the Community Connections Center. 鈥淲e wish to build the capacity of both organizations and provide opportunities for 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock community members to learn more about healthy food and urban gardening and help people get access to fresh food.鈥� The Trojan Food Pantry opened in February 2016 as a way to help 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students, employees, and their families in need of assistance. One of Hart鈥檚 major goals has always been to provide fresh food to the people who utilize the food pantry. 鈥淢ost of the goods we give out at the food pantry are nonperishable items, which are not as healthy as fresh food,鈥� she said. 鈥淲e have always wanted to increase our fresh food capacity to better provide for the people we serve.鈥� Approximately 306 people access the food pantry every month, including 109 children under the age of 18, Hart said. Food pantry participants must fill out a first-time form online or in person at the pantry in the Donaghey Student Center. A three-day supply of food is provided to participants once a week based on the items chosen on their food request form. For more information or to donate to the Trojan Food Pantry, contact Betsy Hart at edhart@ualr.edu or 501.569.3424. For more information about the Campus Garden Alliance, contact Stephen Grace at scgrace@ualr.edu. In the upper right photo, pictured from left to right are Amber Mitchell, president of the Campus Garden Alliance, John Poole, Campus Garden Alliance member, Temeka Williams, operations director of the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance, Patty Barker, director of the Arkansas No Kids Hungry Campaign, Stephen Grace, professor of biology and Campus Garden Alliance faculty advisor, Betsy Hart, director of the Trojan Food Pantry, Whitney Bradford, assistant director of the Trojan Food Pantry, and Sarah Beth Estes, director of the Community Connections Center. Photo by Lonnie Timmons III/糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Communications.]]>