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The Congressional Hunger Center and Victory Wholesale Grocers awarded End Hunger Connecticut! with a 2006 Victory Against Hunger Award. EHC! was nominated by Senator Dodd for taking leadership in the state and promoting school breakfast, afterschool snacks and the summer food program as necessary components of sound school wellness policies. (In the photo on the left Michelle Halloran Gilman, Senior Assistant to Senator Dodd presents the Victory Against Hunger award to Lucy Nolan and Sally Mancini outside End Hunger Connecticut!'s office in Hartford.)
As a sponsor of the "Get in the Mood for Summer Food" event in July the Department of Social Services Rx-Xpress bus provided services at Goodwin Park. The DSS Rx-Xpress is a mobile, Medicare Rx assistance center operated by the Connecticut Department of Social Services and CHOICES: Connecticut’s programs for Health Assistance, Outreach, Information and Referral, Counseling and Eligibility Screening. DSS Rx-Xpress offers the following:
Consider booking the bus for health fairs, senior center events, farmers' markets and other community events. For more information, please contact Fred Diggs, Rx- Xpress Coordinator in Aging Services, at 860-424- 5245, fred.diggs@po.state.ct.us.
Working for nothing: One in four U.S. jobs now pays less than a poverty-level income. Getting milked at the store: Inner-city grocery stores charge 43 percent more for milk than suburban supermarkets. What you shouldn’t consume costs less: Corn subsidies have helped drop the price of soda 30 percent since 1983. And what you should consume costs more: Meanwhile, the price of fruit has risen 50 percent. Facts courtesy of Foodlinks Newsletter and the "Poor Losers" article in the Mother Jones magazine Jul-Aug 2006.
The keynote speaker is Michele Simon of Center for Informed Food Choices who just published the book Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines our Health and How to Fight Back. This book highlights Connecticut’s battle to create healthier school environments. Click here for more information on her book, copies of which will be available for purchase. Awardees for the Annual Hunger Leader Award will be the State Department of Education’s Bureau of Health and Nutrition Services and Child/Family/School Partnerships. The Connecticut State Department of Education is a leader in the nation in their work to create and maintain healthy school environments, as well as working to enroll children in the federal nutrition programs such as the Summer Food Service Program and School Breakfast. Not often does the staff that implement the legislation receive kudos and we at EHC! know passage and implementation of the legislation that feeds Connecticut’s neediest children cannon happen without the dedication of this bureau.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued proposed WIC food packages that will increase participants' choices, expand cultural food options, and improve the health and nutritional quality of the foods in the program by offering fruits and vegetables, whole grain bread (with the option to substitute corn tortillas, whole grain rice or other whole grains) and the option of soymilk and tofu. You can help support healthier foods for 8 million low- income mothers and children by going to http://action.frac.org and sending a letter of support for the proposed new foods for the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program. WIC, a federally funded program, provides a monthly package of specific food vouchers that are redeemed at the grocery store. By sending a letter, you can support making these much-needed new food packages a reality and provide recommendations to make them even stronger. The deadline for comments is November 6, 2006. Comments on the new WIC food packages are due by November 6th to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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