Purdue University is hosting a workshop for budding food entrepreneurs, farmers, and agriculture and produce. The workshop will be held tomorrow, Thursday April 9th and will take place from 8:30am to noon Eastern Time in Francesville.
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According to the food pantry manager at Community Services, Jimmie Howard, he and the agency will be offering extended hours at the Starke County Food Pantry, for those who are unable to come in during the current hours.
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Food Bank of Northern Indiana has announced free food assistance days in July for Starke and La Porte Counties. These events will all be drive-up food assistance, including a mix of fresh produce, refrigerated, and shelf-stable groceries.
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The Town of Francesville has been celebrating their “small town with a big heart” for more than 5 decades with the annual Fall Festival.
The event kicks off today at 4:30 p.m. EST with the Firemen’s Fish and Tenderloin Fry which will wrap up around 8 p.m. ‘Chicken Bingo’ will be going on uptown throughout the weekend-long event. Continue reading
Another competition is being put on by the Northern Indiana Tourism Development Commission and, this time, it involves pizza.
The NITDC held a similar competition last year to declare the top burger restaurant in the Northern Indiana region. This spring 56 of the top locally owned pizza restaurants will be squaring off to determine the areas’ best pies.
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Knox City Clerk-Treasurer, Jeff Houston, and the staff at the Clerk’s Office is conducting a food drive for the Starke County Food Pantry:
“We just thought that this would be a good thing to do for the community and we hope that we get a lot of support from the community. People physically come into the city hall to pay their water bill and their sewer bill and they’ll see this and we hope that people will be generous,” said Houston.
Houston is looking for these items to be brought into the Clerk’s Office at City Hall:
“All kinds of canned vegetables, cereal, canned soup, pastas like macaroni and cheese and ramen noodles. The food pantry was asking for tuna, oatmeal, and those kind of things. So just about anything that’s edible,” said Houston.
Cecilia Torres, Services Coordinator at the Starke County Food Pantry is seeing some donations coming into the facility which helps the 220 families the pantry serves each month.
“We’ve had a lot of organizations, a lot of people making donations, especially of the fresh vegetables. We’re really appreciative of that,” said Torres.
The Knox Kiwanis Club and the Knox School Corporation are teaming up to help families in need this holiday season.
The two organizations are collecting food and/or cash donations to help Knox families. The requests for food baskets are greater than the donations. If you have food that you can donate to these organizations, you may drop it off at the Knox High School Office today or Thursday, or call 772-1670. The students and Kiwanis members will be assembling the food baskets on Thursday and delivering them to families on Friday.
