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AFAC celebrated its many volunteers at a picnic in AFAC's newly renovated warehouse on Sunday, June 3.
Special thanks to
Two Blue Band
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Lebanese Taverna
for providing great music and food,
Rocklands
for catering the event, to
Brendan Chaney
for taking photos, and to Delegate Alfonso Lopez for presenting AFAC's 30 years of service
proclamation from the Virginia General Assembly.
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Caprice and Gary
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Volunteers of the Year
Eric & Dianne Carroll
Chuck Morley
René Sogovia
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Chicken bagging volunteers showing their moves
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Volunteer Group of the Year
Community Partners of the Year
Arlington County Sheriff's Office
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Thank you once again to our amazing volunteers who help us serve our Arlington families in need!
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 AFAC Golf Tournament
Thursday, September 20
Mark your calendars! AFAC's 4th Annual Golf Tournament, sponsored by Credibility International, will be held on September 20 with a 1:30pm shotgun start. Price of admission includes lunch, drinks, dinner, access to an amazing selection of silent auction items, and much more! Sponsorships and foursomes are now on sale! Click here for more information.
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Volunteer Needs
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Carl, weekend volunteer supervisor
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Supervisors Wanted
We are looking for volunteers to serve as supervisors on weekday mornings, weekday afternoons, and Sunday afternoons. You'll lead other volunteers as they sort & bag produce & other food donated by grocery stores. Training provided. Once a week commitment preferred for weekdays, once or twice a month commitment preferred for Sundays. Email
[email protected]
if interested.
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Plot Against Hunger
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Sue Howell with White Lady Turnips
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Thank you to all the gardeners who have brought in fresh produce donations recently. Here is Sue Howell, one of AFAC's top donors with a harvest of her favorite White Lady Turnips: a crisp, sweet turnip with smooth flesh and juicy tops! Sue recommends them shredded in a coleslaw, eaten raw or roasted. As spring moves into summer, greens, beets, carrots and fresh herbs are coming from donor gardens and our farmers market partners for clients.
Plot Against Hunger is partnering with the Arlington Art Truck at Crystal City Farmers Market and Rosslyn Farmers Market in July. Watercolor artist Marcella Kriebel will instruct visitors on watercoloring "Your Future Garden" and AFAC volunteers will pass out free seeds for summer and fall sowing.
https://arts.arlingtonva.us/arlington-art-truck/
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Grow a Rainbow sign at Central Library
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The Central Library garden is thriving, with beds full of mustard, canola, swiss chard and buckwheat; tomatoes, eggplants, beans, watermelon and squash. Stop by the next time you're at the library and take a look at the Grow a Rainbow signs that volunteer Mary Van Dyke has designed, to help guide library patrons through the growing season.
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Garden Talks
Wednesdays at 7pm
Weekly garden talks at Arlington Central Library have begun for this season! Here are upcoming topics:
June 20:
Composting & Vermiculture
June 27: Mushroom Growing
July 4: NO GARDEN TALK
Click here for the full schedule for the 2018 season!
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Nutrition Corner
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Jared offering healthier bread options to clients. |
Thank you to nursing students from Marymount University and Chamberlain University for spending their community health rotation with AFAC! Since July of last year, we have had nearly 70 students work with AFAC and our families conducting cooking demonstrations, health education, and classes in Arlington. They also provided cooking demonstrations at the Arlington Free Clinic.
Thank you to Maggie, Stephanie, Annie, Jared, and Samantha, dietetic interns from Sodexo, Virginia Tech, and Virginia/Maryland WIC for spending their community elective with us! The interns conducted cooking demonstrations, classes, outreach education; provided training to nursing students; and created nutritional handouts for our families. Thanks to their help we will be debuting some new shelf tags in our Nelson St. distribution
over the next few months
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Cathy sharing her team's recipes during the Emergency Chef demo
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Thank you to the Arlington Department of Public Safety Communications & Emergency Management for conducting their Emergency Chef exercise with AFAC families, staff, and volunteers! Through our partnership, we've encouraged people to prepare for emergencies and create healthy foods without electricity. We've reached over 160 individuals served by AFAC.
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Summer Hunger Challenge
Donate to AFAC's Summer Hunger Challenge to sponsor families in need over the summer months.
Click here to donate!
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Thank Yous
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AFAC's 2018 Senior Experience Class
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Thank you to our Senior Experience volunteers: Derek and Sophie from Yorktown High School, Bill from George Mason High School, and Andres from Washington-Lee High School! Before they graduate, they are spending a few weeks here at AFAC, helping with distribution, sorting in the warehouse, riding with our staff drivers, and they helped out at yesterday's picnic! Best of luck and congratulations on graduating soon!
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SPF event at St. Peter's
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Thank you to St. Peter's Episcopal Church and Convergint Technologies for hosting Sponsor Purchased Food (SPF) programs in June!
Many thanks to Girls on the Run of Northern Virginia for their donation of 1,048 pounds of healthy snacks!
Our thanks to the groups who have volunteered in June - Abingdon Elementary School, Bethel UCC, Capital One, Carlyle, Clarendon UMC, E*Trade, Gamma Phi Beta Nova Alumnae, Grace Community Church, Langley Ward, Long & Foster, Notre Dame Alumni Club, SC&H, St. John's Episcopal Church, St. Stephen's St. Agnes School, Sycamore School, Temple Rodef Shalom, Virginia Premier Health Plan
Thank you to all those who held food drives or donated to Plot Against Hunger!
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Virginia Premier Health Plan volunteers
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10th & Barton Community Garden; Arlington Unitarian Cooperative Preschool; Bishop O'Connell High School; Brownie Troop #60070; Central Library & Garden; Civitans; Clarendon Presbyterian Church & Garden; Congregation Etz Hayim; Dover Crystal Civic Association; Episcopal High School Garden; First Presbyterian Church & Garden; Fort Barnard Community Garden; George Laumann's Garden; Glencarlyn Branch Library; Girl Scouts GSCNC SU #60-2, #387; The Holistic Point; Jamestown Elementary; Lubber Run Community Center; Marymount University Commuters Activities, Film Screening, & "Food For Thought" Garden Club; Memorial Baptist Church; Mothers, Sons, Daughters; Northern Virginia Catholic Community; Oakridge Elementary Food Drive; Our Savior Lutheran Church; Patrick Henry Elementary Extended Day; Penzey Spices; Potomac Overlook Garden; Resurrection Lutheran Church; Rock Spring UCC & Garden; Roy Croom; Shirlington Branch Library; St. Andrew's Episcopal Church; St. Ann's Catholic Church & Garden; St. John's Episcopal Church; St. Stephen's & St. Agnes Lower School; Stephen & Nisha Pryor's CSA; Susan Howell's Garden; Taylor Elementary's Cereal Food Drive; Territory Foods; Trinity Episcopal Church; Trinity Presbyterian Church; Twenty Eighty Strategy Execution, Inc.; United Community Ministries; Walter Reed Garden; Westover Branch Library; Women's Club of Arlington; Yorktown High School Crew Boosters & Yorktown AFAC Clubs
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New bike racks in front of AFAC!
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Many thanks to the farmers' markets and vendors in Arlington who donate unsold fresh and local produce to AFAC all summer. Participating farmers markets include Arlington Courthouse, Ballston, Columbia Pike, Crystal City, Fairlington, Marymount, and Westover.
Big thanks to the Arlington Public Schools that donate healthy snacks on a weekly basis as a part of the Food Bus program: Abingdon ES, Arlington Science Focus ES, Arlington Traditional ES, Discovery ES, McKinley ES, Nottingham ES, Tuckahoe ES, and Temple Rodef Shalom's Religious School.
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Sincerely,
Charles F. Meng
Executive Director & CEO
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