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TYLER — The East Texas Food Bank is honoring seven recipients with the inaugural “Hunger Hero Awards.” The accolades of recognition are celebrating Brookshire Grocery Company, Longview Police Department, Smith County Government, Texas Army National Guard 1st Squadron 124th Calvary Regiment, The Mentoring Alliance, T.L.L. Temple Foundation and the Tyler Police Department, for their commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hunger existed in East Texas long before the pandemic hit and now more of our neighbors \u00e2\u20ac\u201c kids in our children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s classes, the barista at the local coffee shop and our working-class neighbors\u00e2\u20ac\u201c are struggling to put food on the table today,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said East Texas Food Bank Chief Executive Officer Dennis Cullinane. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re inspired by the support we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve received from the community to help ensure that all East Texas have access to the nutritious food they need to thrive during these difficult times.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
282,530 people go hungry in East Texas and 105,850 are East Texas children. Theses numbers have increased due to the pandemic. Now, the number of adults facing hunger is 5% greater and the number of children affected grew by 10%. One in four East Texans and one in three children currently go hungry, according to projections from Feeding America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER — The East Texas Food Bank is honoring seven recipients with the inaugural “Hunger Hero Awards.” The accolades of recognition are celebrating Brookshire Grocery Company, Longview Police Department, Smith County Government, Texas Army National Guard 1st Squadron 124th Calvary Regiment, The Mentoring Alliance, T.L.L. Temple Foundation and the Tyler Police Department, for their commitment … Continue reading ‘Hunger Hero Awards’ from ETFB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"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-927135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 19:31:39","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\/927135","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=927135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927154,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927135\/revisions\/927154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}