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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 30 million pounds of food
throughout Jackson County; and '
,
ACCESS Food Share provides food for over 3,200 families each month; and
· ACCESS Food Share will distribute over 2.3 million pounds of food in 2008-09,
equivalent to over 2.3 million meals, to citizens of Jackson County; and
. 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 46 percent of
households served have someone working; and
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; and
often people who find themselves in the position of need are forced to make
choices between shelter, utilities, health care/medicine, transportation and food;
and too frequently adequate nutritious food is the casualty of these choices;
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council and Mayor, on behalf of the citizens of
Ashland, do hereby designate June 1-14,2009, as
Mayors United Helping Feed Our Community
in Jackson County and urge all of our citizens to commit to increasing awareness
and understanding ofthe faces of hunger, and commit to assisting in eliminating it
from our community.
Dated this 2n~009
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Barbara Christensen, City Recorder