Names of Note: Foster Farms of Livingston steps up for food banks. So does Starbucks
Foster Farms of Livingston has donated another 105 tons of chicken to food banks facing high demand with the pandemic.
The recipients include Second Harvest Food Bank of San Joaquin & Stanislaus Counties, based in Manteca.
The others are in Sacramento, Fresno, San Francisco, San Diego and Seattle. Foster Farms produces some of its chicken in Washington.
The donation is raw chicken pieces in retail trays that were frozen before shipment. It amounts to about 420,000 servings, on top of the 2.4 million that Foster Farms gave to these and other food banks in April.
“COVID-19 has changed the very fabric of our lives and has added to the challenge of ensuring that no one in this country goes hungry, ” said Ira Brill, vice president of communications at Foster Farms, in a news release.
The company, the largest poultry producer in the West, urges the public to donate, too. Second Harvest is at www.localfoodbank.org.
Coffee giant drops $83,500 on Second Harvest
Starbucks provided $83,500 to help Second Harvest with its Mobile Pantry. It travels to places where people lack regular sources of fresh food.
The donation is part of $1 million that the coffee chain is giving to mobile services at 13 food banks in the Feeding America network.
“One in five people in San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties struggle with hunger,” Second Harvest CEO Keenon Krick said in a news release. “We are proud to partner with Starbucks and Feeding America to ensure that people who struggle with hunger have access to wholesome meals.”
Rewards for young hospital volunteers
A total of $25,500 in college scholarships went to 22 high school students who volunteered at Doctors Medical Center.
The Modesto hospital’s Service League raised the money through sales at the gift shop. The students had to do at least 200 hours of volunteer work over a calendar year and maintain a grade point average of 3.0 or better.
The recipients are: Alexandra Quinonez, Alina Rodriquez, Angel Abdulnour, Anoop Sanghera, Audrey Reeves, Ayush Patel, Charlize Badillo, Chloe Leder, Ekum Sanghera, Eric Miao, Grace Nightengale, Gurmenjit Bahia, Jasmine Madrigal, Julianna Cole, Karen Nguyen, Laurel-Anne Carlson, Mahboba Ansari, Mark Razo, Minh Trinh, Nazifa Maahi, Nicholas Panyanouvong and Sarah Mah.
The Service League also gave $12,000 each to medical programs at Modesto Junior College and California State University, Stanislaus.
Interested in volunteering at Doctors? Check back later. The program is suspended because of COVID-19 limits on visitors.
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