{"id":943061,"date":"2020-12-14T06:58:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T12:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=943061"},"modified":"2020-12-15T11:17:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T17:17:39","slug":"east-texas-food-bank-gives-away-more-than-28000-meals-to-local-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=943061","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Food Bank gives away more than 28,000 meals to local families"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"LONGVIEW — The East Texas Food Bank provided thousands of meals to families on Friday. According to our news partner KETK, roughly 240,000 people in East Texas are experiencing food insecurity. The East Texas Food Bank serves 26 counties in our area. 1,200 people made their way to the Gregg County Fairgrounds for the food distribution event and the lines were long. Longview police guided drivers to their destination and volunteers placed meals inside cars. Inside the boxes there was fresh produce, protein and milk. Volunteers said they understand the impact the pandemic has had on families in need. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re told one in three families are food insecure. There may or may not be food in the house for those children. And so we know this is important. We know this pandemic has again impacted families in a terrible way,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Carrol Greenwalte. At the end of the food distribution event, 1,100 boxes were passed out, which provided more than 28,000 meals for East Texas families. The next food drive will be next year, on Jan. 8. at the Gregg County Fairgrounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONGVIEW — The East Texas Food Bank provided thousands of meals to families on Friday. According to our news partner KETK, roughly 240,000 people in East Texas are experiencing food insecurity. The East Texas Food Bank serves 26 counties in our area. 1,200 people made their way to the Gregg County Fairgrounds for the food … Continue reading East Texas Food Bank gives away more than 28,000 meals to local families<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"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-943061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 15:15:00","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\/943061","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=943061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943063,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943061\/revisions\/943063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=943061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=943061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=943061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}