Upcoming Events
Price Chopper, Quassy Join To Fight Hunger
On Tuesdays and Thursdays through Labor Day you can receive $3 off the price of a $21 admission to Quassy Amusement Park
if you take a canned food item purchased from Price Chopper with you.
The annual State Police Food Drive to benefit Connecticut Food Bank takes place Friday, August 15
through
Sunday, August 17 at Shaw's supermarkets in Southbury, Westport and Wallingford. We will be there with our
friends from Connecticut State Police from
4 to 7 p.m. Friday, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Please visit us if you can, and talk to a State Police representative about why the food drive is so important to
them.
CFB's office and warehouses will be closed Monday Sept. 1 in observance of Labor
Day.
On Friday, Sept. 5, singer and actress Megan Owen will appear in
"Food of Love ...and
Vice
Versa" at the Playhouse on the Green in Bridgeport. Proceeds to benefit CFB.
CFB's office and warehouses will be closed for the Connecticut Food Bank's Programs Conference, which takes
place 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 16 at the Four Points Sheraton, 275 Research Pkwy., in
Meriden. Call CFB for more information: (203) 469-5000.
On Thursday, Sept. 25, CFB Donor Reception, 5:30 p.m. at the East Haven
warehouse, 150 Bradley
St. Call CFB for more information: (203) 469-5000.
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CFB Happenings
Gov. M. Jodi Rell Announces Care & Share Challenge: On July 29, at Master's Manna, a Wallingford
food pantry that serves nearly 700 families, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced the "Governor's Care & Share" fund-raising drive, which, it is hoped, will
raise at least $50,000 for Connecticut Food Bank.
The governor dedicated a total of $50,000 from the state budget to Connecticut Food Bank and to Foodshare in
Bloomfield with the hopes of raising an additional $25,000 for each organization through matching donations.
"The exorbitant costs of gasoline, coupled with enormous increases in the price of staple foods such as bread,
meat, eggs and milk, have put an unbearable pressure on people all over Connecticut," Governor Rell said.
"Together we can touch so many lives," she said. "I very much need everyone to do their part so we can
reach our goal as soon as possible."
The governor launched the "Care & Share" drive with help from chambers of commerce from all over Connecticut, and
with e-mails to all state employees. In addition to links to the program on all state agency websites, all state employees will receive inserts
in their pay envelopes asking them to contribute to the fund-raising
drive by making online donations by visiting www.ct.gov/governorrell
and clicking on the Governor's Care & Share logo.
"We can think of nothing better you could have done for the increasing number of people in need of food in this
state," CFB Development Director Mary Ellen McGuire told Governor Rell.
Also joining Gov. Rell at the kickoff in Wallingford were representatives of Connecticut Food Bank, Gloria
McAdam of Foodshare in Bloomfield, state Rep. Mary Mushinsky, D-Wallingford, state Sen. Len Fasano, R-North
Haven, Wallingford
Town Council Chairperson Bob Parisi, and Kathy Luria from Webster
Bank, who announced a $5,000 donation to the Care and
Share Program. Foodshare serves Hartford and Tolland counties. Connecticut Food Bank serves Connecticut's other six counties.
Contributions can also be made payable to CT Food
Bank and mailed to:Care & Share, P.O. Box 120065, East Haven, CT 06512. All money raised will be split between Connecticut Food Bank and
Foodshare.
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Quassy Centennial Celebration benefits Connecticut Food Bank: The
sounds
of David Gardino and His Starlight Orchestra entertained hundreds of
guests at a sunset dance in Quassy's Lakeside Theatre July 19. The
theatre, which
overlooks the Quassy arcade building, was built in 1915 as an open-air
dance hall.
Sponsored tables and a silent auction raised $750 for Connecticut Food Bank.
Sponsors included the Family Music Center of Waterbury and TD Banknorth.
The event was the first held in decades reminiscent of a bygone era when dances took place seven nights a week.
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Welcome Club of Fairfield/Easton clam bake raises some clams: The
Welcome Club of Fairfield/Easton, a community friendship and service
organization, has donated $321
toward Connecticut Food Bank's efforts to alleviate hunger, which will
enable CFB to provide more than 1,000 meals to people in need.
The club raised the money through a prize drawing at its annual clam bake in Fairfield June 28, 2008. Rebecca Johnston presented CFB
Executive Director Nancy Carrington with the check recently.
Drawing prizes were provided by Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live
Experience, Entrees Made Easy, Pink Cloud Beading Company, Hands on
Pottery,
Giove's, Intrigue Hair Salon, Tiffany Nails, Afterglow Photos, LincLine
Photo, artist Betsey McDonald and the Connecticut Audubon Society
Center of
Fairfield.
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Hunger in the News
The New Haven Register reported that federal officials say the recent passage of the 2008 Farm Bill benefits
Connecticut agricultural operations more than previous legislation has.
But some area farmers question whether the bill, passed in June, does enough to help them.
The bill, which set the nation's agricultural policy for the next four years, includes an increased commitment to funding farmland conservation programs, and efforts to encourage farmers to use energy from renewable resources.
The bill also increases funding available for providing public schools with local produce for their lunch
programs and provides up to $22 million to cover the costs associated with helping farms certify that their produce is organic.
Bill Duesing, executive director of the Oxford-based Northeast Organic Farmers Association of Connecticut,
said he's encouraged by the increased financial support for organic farming that the new Farm Bill contains.
The bill calls for a
significant increase from $140 million to $250 million for The Emergency Food Assistance
Program (TEFAP) purchases per year with indexing for inflation;
increases in the Food Stamp program with indexing for inflation; a
change in name for the Food Stamp Program to the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP); and increased grant opportunities to help
fight hunger.
Read the Register story here.
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