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-- WHEREAS, ACCESS Food Share Pantry Network was established in 1982 to ob-
,` `' tain and efficiently distribute nutritious foods. and other products to member agen- '
i cies while developing programs and partnerships to help eliminate hunger. Since-its
establishment, ACCESS has distributed -over 34 million pounds of food throughout
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l WHEREAS, ACCESS Food Share provides food for over 3,400 families each.
month; ,and;
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~ : WHEREAS, ACCESS Food Share will distribute over 2:7 million pounds of food
`in 2010.-1 l , equivalent to over 2.7 million meals, to citizens of 7ackson County, and;
1 WHEREAS, 36 .percent of the members of households. served by ACCESS Food
Share are children under the age of 18, 19 percent are senior citizens, and 46 percent
of households served have someone working, and;
~ WHEREAS, for every dollar donated ACCESS Food Share. is able to distribute 5
pounds of food; or $T will provide a meal for a family of five, and;
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WHEREAS, often people who find themselves in the position of need. are forced to
f ; make choices between shelter, utilities, health care/medicine, transportation and
Food; and too frequently adequate nutritious food is the casualty of these choices;
NOW THEREFORE, the City Council of Central Point- hereby designates Au-
gust 29-September 17, 2011, as
~ 1Vlayors Untied, ~-Ielping Feed. ®ur Community
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In Jackson County and urge all of our citizens to commit to increasing awareness
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and understanding of the faces of hunger, and commit to assisting in eliminating- it i
~ from ,our community.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereb set m hand this Sth, da of Au us , 2011..
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f ` _ Mayor Hank Williams
I City of Central Point
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