The event is timed with Halloween and comes as the holiday season approaches, historically the most challenging time for those in need to put food on the table. Rising inflation drove up food prices by more than 10% in the past year, and nearly half of area households with children experienced some food of food insecurity last year.
The non-profit, founded in 2020, works to provide food for the hungry in our area by working with restaurants and grocery stores to pick up unused food and deliver it to those in need. Last year, the food rescue provided 13.4 million meals to the hungry.
The non-profit also assemble backpacks full of easy-to-prepare foods, like ravioli, or granola bars, for families and distributes boxes of food from the Capital Area Food Bank to those in need.
The organization has also diverted 100,000 pounds of unused food from the Dale City Farmers Market from the trash and into to mouths of the hungry. “Farmers understand that they want to feed people, and they don’t want that food to go to waste,” said Northern Virginia Food Rescue Interim Director Erika Spalding.
At least 40% of food at restaurants and grocery stores is tossed into trash before it’s eaten, added Spalding. When the food rescue steps in, used food goes to families, feeds animals at area farms, or is turned into compost.
The fundraiser will be held at the Northern Virginia Food Rescue Warehouse, 10535 Battleview Parkway, near Manassas, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 26, from 7 to 10 p.m. Tickets sold online are $50 each and include two drinks. There will also be food, a silent auction, and plenty of mingling, said Spalding.
Northern Virginia Food Rescue evolved from Prince William Food Rescue, formerly a program of ACTS. It worked to feed residents across the region in the days before and during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Prince William County’s Board of Supervisors easily approved the fiscal year 2025 budget with a few changes on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, to take effect on July 1.
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Manassas City Council held a public hearing on the city’s budget, as residents once again are facing the prospect of paying more in taxes.
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To celebrate Air Quality Awareness Week (May 6-10, 2024), Clean Air Partners is working with A Few Cool Hardware Stores to exchange DC, Maryland and Virginia residents’ gas-powered lawnmowers, trimmers, and leaf blowers at select Ace Hardware locations in the region. DMV residents who turn in their gas-powered lawn tools will receive a FREE Ego Power+ replacement including batteries and chargers, while supplies last.
Compared to gas, electric lawn equipment can reduce emissions, noise pollution, health risks and maintenance costs and time. The program aims to remove about a hundred gas-powered polluting tools from yards in the greater Baltimore-Washington region.
The exchanges will take place the weekends of May 17-19, 2024, and May 31-June 2, 2024, at A Few Cool Hardware Stores network of employee-owned Ace Hardware stores in the DC and Baltimore metro areas. To participate and get your free Ego Power+ lawn tool, sign up at https://qrco.de/CAPExchange to reserve your tool and select your trade-in date and location.
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Free Irish Music Concert
Welcoming Spring with music from the Emerald Isle, the New Dominion Choraliers offer a FREE concert on Saturday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the First United Presbyterian Church of Dale City.
Joined by Legacy Brass and members of Old
Spring Ceili: An Irish Music Festival
The New Dominion Choraliers of Prince William County and McGrath Morgan Academy of Irish Dance invite you to join them at our Ceili, a grand celebration of Irish music and dance.
A gathering of performance groups throughout Prince William County
