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"On a recent Saturday near Seattle, Cheryl Ewaldsen pulled three golden loaves
of wheat bread out of her kitchen oven.
The fragrant, oat-topped bread was destined not for her table, but for a local
food bank, to be distributed to families increasingly struggling with hunger
and the high cost of groceries.
“I just get really excited about it knowing that it’s going to someone and
they’re going to make, like, 10 sandwiches,” said Ewaldsen, 75, a retired
university human resources director.
Ewaldsen is a volunteer with Community Loaves, a Seattle-area nonprofit that
started pairing home bakers with food pantries during the COVID-19 pandemic —
and hasn’t stopped.
Since 2020, the organization headed by Katherine Kehrli, the former dean of a
culinary school, has donated more than 200,000 loaves of fresh bread and some
220,000 energy cookies to food banks. They come from a network of nearly 900
bakers in four states — Washington, Oregon, California and Idaho — and
represent one of the largest such efforts in the country.
Now, amid rising grocery prices and federal cuts to food aid for low-income
people, demand for the group’s donations of nutritious baked goods is greater
than ever, Kehrli said.
“Most of our food banks do not get any kind of whole-grain sandwich bread
donation,” she said. “When we ask what we could do better, they just say,
‘Bring us more.’”"
Via Frederick Wilson II.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
