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PROCLAMATION
· ACCESS Food Share Pantry Network was established in 1982 to obtain
and efficiently distribute nutritious foods and other products to member
agencies while developing programs and partnerships to help eliminate
hunger. Since its establishment, ACCESS, has distributed over 25
million pounds of food throughout Jackson County.
· ACCESS Food Share provides food for over 3,100 families each month.
· ACCESS Food Share will distribute over 2 million pounds of food in
2007-08, equivalent to over 2 million meals, to citizens of Jackson
County.
· 38 percent of the members of households served by ACCESS Food
Share are children under the age of 18, 19 percent are senior citizens,
and 47 percent of households served have someone working.
· For every dollar donated, ACCESS Food Share is able to distribute 5
pounds of food, or $1 will provide a meal for a family of five.
· Often people who find themselves in the position of need are forced to
make choices between shelter, utilities, health care/medicine,
transportation, and food; too frequently adequate nutritious food is the
casualty of these choices.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, John W. Morrison, Mayor of Ashland, do hereby
proclaim July 14 - 18, 2008 as
War on Hunger Week
and urge all citizens of Ashland to commit to increasing awareness and
understanding of the faces of hunger, and commit to assist in eliminating it
from our community.
Dated this 1 st day of July, 2008.
Mayor
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