By Ashley On October 14th, 2010
On October 1st, along with 300 of our supporters, Lakeview Pantry marked the 40th year of our work. The event, which took place at the Red Ivy in Wrigleyville, was a celebration of our community’s response to their neighbors in need.
Four Pantry supporters - Aida Moran, Kim Freeark and Hank Ryan, Tom Sargant and Terri Worth, & Dr. Clara Orban and Dr. Elliot Weisenberg – were presented with awards for their extremely generous support.
The emotional high point of the evening was provided by Coleman Goode, who is a former Lakeview Pantry client. Coleman outlined the series of events in...
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By Ashley On October 6th, 2010
The SNAP Hunger Challenge is over. It has been almost a week since it officially ended, and I’ve had plenty of time to think about what I’ve actually learned.
But before I start the summary, I feel like I should be honest about why my blog updates were less frequent than I had planned. To be blunt: I didn’t have anything to say, and I didn’t feel like forcing it. After the “novelty” of the challenge wore off and it became real, I didn’t enjoy talking about it.
I was hungry, grumpy and lonely, and I hated it.
Here are...
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By Ashley On October 6th, 2010
To those of you who were patiently waiting to hear the results of the cheating poll, I’m sorry this took so long.
All will be explained in Part 6.
The results are in – and it was decided that charging myself for free food was not considered cheating. Many of the
SNAP Hunger Challenge participants included parts of meals they shared with family members who were not taking the challenge. Voting results were split between “not cheating” and “too close to call”, but the official tie-breaker came from a Feeding Illinois employee who commented on the
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