{"id":166828,"date":"2012-02-23T02:35:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T08:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=166828"},"modified":"2012-02-24T02:34:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T08:34:19","slug":"tyler-wins-second-place-in-statewide-mayors-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=166828","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Wins Second Place in Statewide Mayors Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=166829\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-166829\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/02\/Barbara-Bass2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Barbara Bass2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-166829\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN &#8212; Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples today named the city of Tyler and Mayor Barbara Bass winners of a 2011 Mayors Challenge award for promoting child nutrition and making healthy food available to more Texas children through the Texas Department of Agriculture&#8217;s Summer Nutrition Programs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Children who eat nutritious meals often perform better academically and are healthier overall, which decreases their dependence on medical care,&#8221; Commissioner Staples said. &#8220;These Summer Nutrition Programs are intended to offer a temporary bridge toward self-sufficiency while providing short-term assurance that Texas children don&#8217;t go hungry during the summer months when schools are closed. I commend Mayor Bass and the Tyler community for accepting my Mayors Challenge and making it a priority to improve the health of Texas children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In recognition of Tyler&#8217;s second-place award, Mayor Bass received a check for $1,000 provided by H-E-B in support of the Mayors Challenge. Winning mayors donate the funds to a charity of their choice. Mayor Bass will donate the award money to the East Texas Food Bank. Mayor Bass credited the Tyler Parks &#038; Recreation Department with increasing participation through its Summer Playground Program, which partners with the East Texas Food Bank to serve lunch to children and provide supervised activities.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year in particular, with the tough economic times, we wanted to make sure our at-risk kids had a good meal,&#8221; Mayor Bass said. &#8220;Once we committed to the Mayors Challenge, we wanted to make sure we did everything we could to be successful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A report by Feeding America ranked Texas as having one of the highest rates of food-insecure children in the United States. Through the Mayors Challenge, Commissioner Staples brought together Texas cities, schools, non-profit organizations and churches to work together to increase community awareness and participation in the Summer Nutrition Programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8212; Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples today named the city of Tyler and Mayor Barbara Bass winners of a 2011 Mayors Challenge award for promoting child nutrition and making healthy food available to more Texas children through the Texas Department of Agriculture&#8217;s Summer Nutrition Programs. &#8220;Children who eat nutritious meals often perform better academically and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=166828\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyler Wins Second Place in Statewide Mayors Challenge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 07:48:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166828"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167174,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166828\/revisions\/167174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}