Food Talk
Pies with a Purpose
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Tragedy Turns Into Prosperity Just a few short years ago Lynette Eddy found herself looking for a way to turn a family tragedy into a positive effort. She’d enjoyed a long career as a social worker, using her education from UNR to help juvenile offenders and the homeless. Lynette learned that our community had 1300 adolescents that would be aging-out of the foster care system. Since 70% of those children would be homeless without a place to go, she knew what her next calling was. Shortly after, The Black Bear Project was born.
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he Eddy House, originally known as The Black Bear Project, is a not-for-profit home for young adult males that have aged out of the state run foster program. Many of these teenagers have no place
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to go, with very few resources once they’re on their own. The Eddy House gives them life and job skills as well as work experience in their restaurant, Z Pie. Z Pie is part of a small franchise, with just one other