Students, Staff Connect with Community During Holidays
Every year toward the winter holidays, students and staff across the school district engage in charitable efforts to help people in the community.
Every year toward the winter holidays, students and staff across the school district engage in charitable efforts to help people in the community.
Alameda Scouts delivered seven tons of food to the Alameda Food Bank, the bounty of this year’s Scouting for Food Drive. The non-perishable food donated by residents throughout Alameda Saturday, Nov.
The Alameda Food Bank recently received food donations from two different youth groups to distribute to families in need during the holiday season.
Saturday, Sept. 3 & Sunday, Sept. 4
The Foodbank Players production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet — In person, 5:30 p.m.; Healing Garden (1435 Webster St.)
The Food Bank Players announced recently that they had to postpone the last two dates for their production of Shakespeare's Hamlet after several cast members were diagnosed with COVID-19. The last two shows were scheduled for Saturday, August 27 and Sunday, Aug. 28.
The Food Bank Players will premiere their upcoming show, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, on August 19, 2022. The play is presented by the West End Arts District.
If you ask most Californians to name the state’s biggest problems, climate change and homelessness are bound to make the list. Food insecurity probably wouldn’t, but while addressing this issue, the state’s food banks are helping solve higher profile problems in our state.
A trip to the supermarket is a pretty routine affair for most Island residents. We park our cars, grab a shopping cart, and start picking out what we need. When we get a bit of sticker shock, we either shrug it off or pick out something a bit less expensive.
What was supposed to be a temporary relocation of the Alameda Food Bank (AFB) has moved its operations to its warehouse on Alameda Point is looking like a much longer-term arrangement.
The federal government is preparing a lump of coal for the stockings of more than 3.7 million people nationwide in the form of a reduction in food stamp benefits.
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