Second Harvest helps supply more than 250 food banks and other program across the Inland Northwest.
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at, Drink, Repeat is the theme of this year’s Inlander Restaurant Week. Second Harvest hopes you will “eat, drink, repeat — and DONATE” during the 10-day event in February. While you enjoy a meal for $22 or $33 at participating local restaurants, you can help a family who can’t afford to put food on their table, let alone dine out. Make sure EVERYONE EATS by participating in this year’s Restaurant Week. You can’t put a price on making a difference to a family like Austin’s. Austin and his wife have three young children. He had a great job until an unexpected layoff put him in a food bank line. His wife works, but, with just one income, paying rent was a challenge. Food
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became a luxury. “There have been a couple of times where we had our kids stay home from school because we didn’t have school appropriate food to pack them,” Austin says. “I think the stigma was that everybody who goes to the food bank is just looking for a handout.” “The people we see at our partner food banks and at our Mobile Market distributions are often people in situations like Austin’s,” says Julie Humphreys, community relations manager for Second Harvest. “A job loss, a medical emergency or a divorce may be all it takes for them to seek food assistance. Others are elderly on fixed incomes or students trying to juggle tuition, books and rent.”
Second Harvest depends on community donations to stock the shelves of more than 250 food banks, meal sites and other programs throughout Eastern Washington and North Idaho. You can make an online donation now at 2-harvest.org/ everyoneeats or while you are out enjoying great food during Restaurant Week to help put food on the tables of families facing hunger.
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roviding food at no cost to someone is the first step in moving them out of hunger. Teaching them scratch cooking and offering nutrition education is the next. In addition to providing food to local food banks and meal sites, your Inlander Restaurant Week dona-