Congressman Peter Welch joins Citizens Bank and Vermont Foodbank to celebrate new strides in fight against hunger March 9th, 2018, Barre, VT – As part of their “Citizens Helping Fight Hunger” initiative, Citizens Bank presented the Vermont Foodbank with a donation toward the lease of a new truck to deliver food to Vermonters facing hunger. [...]
On Thursday, December 11th, the Burlington Community Kitchen Academy graduated 10 students from the 13 week culinary training program. Brian Roper, District Executive Chef at Sodexo gave the keynote speech. Brent Farrell delivered the graduating student speech. And Chef Instructor James Consentino also spoke. Here we’ve include a transcript of the speeches: Brian Roper, District [...]
This week, the House of Representatives will begin debating the Farm Bill. The House proposal would cut SNAP (3SquaresVT) by $20.5 billion over the next 10 years. That’s a loss of 8 billion meals, or the meal equivalent of the entire Feeding America network of 202 food banks shutting down for 2.5 years. We cannot [...]
