Opinion-The LNP Editorial Board | September 25, 2016 Hunger-Free Lancaster County marked its first year on Wednesday by reporting progress toward its goal of ensuring access to three healthy meals […]
A dispatch from the front in the fight against hunger
COMMENTARY BY LT. GOV. MIKE STACK AND MIKE BRUBAKER | Lancaster Online, September 21, 2016 While serving in the Pennsylvania Senate, we shared both the same first name and an […]
Year One Highlights
Message from Mike Brubaker, Hunger-Free Lancaster County’s Chair: This is from a piece that my old friend, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Mike Stack, and I wrote for LancasterOnline about some successes […]
School Breakfast in Lancaster County
Take Time for School Breakfast in Lancaster County One of Hunger-Free Lancaster’s big strategies in ensuring that everyone gets enough to eat is expanding school breakfast options for kids in […]
Volunteer at Wittel Farm
WIC on Wheels
Seeds Sown for the Wittel Farm Growing Project
Collaborative Effort to Grow Fresh Produce for the County’s Hungry Kicks Off in the Rain Lancaster, PA – On a recent rainy Saturday, a group of volunteers planted seeds on a […]
Two Breakfasts May Be Better Than None For School Kids
When it comes to school breakfasts, two is better than none, says a new report in the journal Pediatric Obesity. Researchers tracked nearly 600 middle-school students from fifth to seventh […]
43% of Lancaster County Public School Children Are ‘Economically Disadvantaged’
Pequea Valley is a small, rural school district that encompasses three townships in eastern Lancaster County. It’s got lots of farms, a few small villages strung along routes 30 and […]
Elizabethtown College’s ‘Food for Fines’ collects hundreds of items for food bank
via Lancaster Online, by Tim Stuhldreher, December 15, 2015 Elizabethtown College’s campus security department is very pleased with the results of its first holiday “Food for Fines” initiative, Director Andrew […]