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PROCLAMATION
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• ACCESS Food Share Pantry Network was established in 1982 to obtain and
�` efficiently distribute nutritious foods and other products to member agencies
°a 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 0
• ° • ACCESS Food Share provides food for over 3,200 families each month; and
t`• • 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 •'
i 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 August 22 - 26, 2011 as
Mayors United Helping Feed Our Community
in Jackson County and urge all of our citizens to commit to increasing awareness ,
1c1 and understanding of the faces of hunger, and commit to assisting in eliminating it
from our community.
1. Dated this 16th ay of August, 2011 - pe
Jo n Stro erg, Mayor
�1Bafbara Christensen, City Recorder
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