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Winning the real-life version of 'The Hunger Games'
03/12/12. Link to editorial in the Asheville citizen Times on March 11, 2012. In an uncanny coincidence, the movie “The Hunger Games’’ premieres the same month that Asheville was ranked the third-worst in food hardship among 100 metropolitan areas in the U.S. Filmed in Western North Carolina, “The Hunger Games” is set in the fictional District 12, a rural Appalachia where youths are forced to compete for survival in a televised wilderness removed from the resource-rich ... read more »
Rotarians Against Hunger
03/05/12. Link to article Rotarians Against Hunger hold food drive The third annual Rotarians Against Hunger food drive will culminate on April 28, when 50,000 bags — enough food for 300,000 meals — will be packaged, boxed and readied for distribution throughout Western North Carolina and internationally. The group is in the process of raising $45,000 for food and packaging. The project is a partnership with Mission Children’s Hospital, Kids Against Hunger and MANNA FoodBank, with ... read more »
Asheville Citizen Times Editorial: Hunger numbers nothing short of a scandal
03/04/12. Link to article Nearly one in every four people in the Asheville metropolitan area is struggling to afford food. That is a disgrace that cannot be tolerated. The 23.8 percent figure for Buncombe, Henderson, Haywood and Madison counties in 2011 ranked the area as third-worst in the U.S., behind Bakersfield and Fresno in California. The percentage was virtually unchanged from the 23.9 reported for 2010, when the area ranked seventh worst. Pollsters for the Gallup-Healthways ... read more »
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