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Eating Alaska screens at Port Townsend Film Festival next weekend:
September 9/25 1:05 PM
September 9/26 at 6 PM
As I write, I'm listening to a Living on Earth story on the renegade lunch lady. Ann Cooper who directs nutrition services in Boulder Valley is sharing her effort to change what students find in the cafeteria. She says 1.1 million hungry kids get most of their daily calories from the national school lunch program. Ann continues, "The national school lunch program, especially in this economy, is what keeps these children functioning, alive and healthy. And if the food they're getting isn't helping to do that, we're really, really making a mistake."
The Food Bank of Alaska sponsored a challenge: live off on about a $50 food stamp budget for a week, to get a taste of how the 69,730 Alaskans on food stamps get by. Some state politicians and their staff tried it. One state lawmaker announced, that is he realized, not only is that hard to live off so little, but that cheap food isn't so healthy.
see the group blog:
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09/20/2009: "Port Townsend Film Festival, School Lunches and Alaskan Food Stamp Challenge"
Eating Alaska screens at Port Townsend Film Festival next weekend:
September 9/25 1:05 PM
September 9/26 at 6 PM
As I write, I'm listening to a Living on Earth story on the renegade lunch lady. Ann Cooper who directs nutrition services in Boulder Valley is sharing her effort to change what students find in the cafeteria. She says 1.1 million hungry kids get most of their daily calories from the national school lunch program. Ann continues, "The national school lunch program, especially in this economy, is what keeps these children functioning, alive and healthy. And if the food they're getting isn't helping to do that, we're really, really making a mistake."
The Food Bank of Alaska sponsored a challenge: live off on about a $50 food stamp budget for a week, to get a taste of how the 69,730 Alaskans on food stamps get by. Some state politicians and their staff tried it. One state lawmaker announced, that is he realized, not only is that hard to live off so little, but that cheap food isn't so healthy.
see the group blog:
Ellen Frankenstein, on 09.20.09 @ 12:11AKT
