Colorado State University Article By Nancy Lofholm | Photography by Alec Jacobson The sun was starting to crank from bake to broil on a Sunday morning in August, as a gang of wagon-pulling volunteers headed into a vegetable plot at Colorado State University’s Western...
New Meal Monkey truck making the rounds in Garfield County Drivers in the Garfield Re-2 School District may be doing double takes with the roll-out of the new Meal Monkey food truck. Thanks to $57,800 in grants from the Western Colorado Community Foundation (WCCF) and...
The Community Food and Hunger Relief Projects grant application is now open at wc-cf.org/nonprofits/grantmaking. Review criteria, register and apply. Deadline is July 15, 2018. Funding is made possible through WCCF’s community grants fund and generous donors....
Summer is here and students are out of school and that means the Lunch Lizard Mobile Meals program is ready to roll. Thanks to the Colorado Department of Education for choosing Grand Junction to kick off the Summer Meals program for the entire state! Thanks to...
We would like to thank the Daily Sentinel for the excellent coverage of our Mesa County Leadership Forum on Hunger last week and Sunday’s editorial, Let’s End Hunger. People don’t realize it but hunger exists here in Mesa County; one in seven people are hungry...
Congratulations to Dan Sharp and the entire D51 Nutrition Services Team for their national recognition award from the multi-state mountain plains USDA for the Lunch Lizard as a “model” summer meal childhood hunger program. Looking forward to summer 2017...
