Day: November 25, 2019

Five Questions with the East Texas Food Bank’s Lauren Barnes

Money is tight around the holidays, and the East Texas Food Bank is working to ensure no one has to go hungry.

The nonprofit serves as a regional distributor for food banks across Northeast Texas. Each year the ETFB helps serve more than a quarter million people, including more than 64,000 children. The organization strives to provide healthy options to ensure families won’t have to make the choice between food and medicine or a healthy meal and inexpensive, unhealthy food.
(Read more from Tyler Morning Telegraph)

East Texas Food Bank continues tradition of ‘A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving,’ helping neighbors

Some 200 people gathered Friday night at the amphitheater in Tyler’s Bergfeld Park for the East Texas Food Bank’s 10th annual Charlie Brown Thanksgiving event.

The event was free, but attendees were asked to bring plastic jars of peanut butter to donate.

“We just really want to encourage everyone around the holidays to focus on what hunger during the holidays means, and just to bring awareness to this issue that we care so much about,” said Lauren Barnes, ETFB communications and marketing director.
(Read more from Tyler Morning Telegraph)