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Hawkeye Area Community Action Program — better known as HACAP — will be holding a pop-up drive-through food pantry in Iowa City’s Mercer Park on Friday, between noon and 2 p.m. The pop-up pantry was originally scheduled for Thursday, by with forecasts calling for bad weather, HACAP pushed it back one day. The nonprofit serves […]
Hawkeye Area Community Action Program — better known as HACAP — is opening two drive-through food pantries in Cedar Rapids. The drive-through food pantry this week will be on Wednesday, May 6 starting at 2 p.m. in the parking lot of Lindale Mall. People should enter off of 1st Avenue. Next week’s drive-through food pantry […]
Living in a food desert — a place where there is limited access to healthy and affordable food — is not a new issue in eastern Iowa. But COVID-19 has increased the need for fresh food and has changed how nonprofits in the state can deliver that food to people who need it most. Organizations […]
The Johnson County Crisis Center was packed with food and people Tuesday as Project Holiday kicked off its holiday meal grocery service. The project, which is in its 29th year, serves about 1,800 people on average each holiday season. Sara Sedlacek, the Crisis Center’s communications and development director, said the number of people served increases […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Gathering with others to share a traditional meal is at the heart of many holiday celebrations. However, preparing the ritual festive spread can be an insurmountable expense for those who are already struggling to put food on their tables, or don’t have a table in the first place. Several organizations around the Iowa City […]
Solstice Party and Open House Grow: Johnson County farm — Sunday, June 26 a 1 p.m. Grow: Johnson County, an organization formed over the last year to work towards and strategize ways to combat hunger in Johnson County, is inviting the public to a Solstice Party and open house event at their farm (4811 Melrose […]
For the 14.2 percent of Johnson County residents that are food insecure, access to fresh fruits and vegetables can be extremely… […]
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