42K meals and $420K given to Jackson-area restaurants through Consumers Energy, city program
Updated Apr 09, 2021;
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JACKSON, MI Friday is the last night to pick up a free meal from one of 11 Jackson-area restaurants through a city of Jackson and Consumers Energy program.
The Our Town meal distribution program began passing out free meals three days a week at the beginning of February and ends on April 9. Each Monday, Wednesday and Friday, volunteers distributed about 1,450 pre-packaged dinners from Jackson-area restaurants at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center, 1107 Adrian St.
The program was successful in helping those in food insecure positions, Roger Curtis, Consumers Energy’s vice president for public affairs, said.
1,200 free dinners shared on first day of Consumers Energy, Jackson meal distribution program
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
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JACKSON, MI A drive-thru tent at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center has brisket and mashed potatoes, mac and cheese and Brussel sprouts with balsamic vinaigrette all for hungry Jackson residents.
A new program to help Jackson’s restaurant industry and give these free meals to Jackson residents kicked off Monday, Feb. 1.
The Our Town meal distribution program through Consumers Energy and the city of Jackson passed out 1,250 pre-packaged dinners from 10 Jackson-area restaurants.
“Some of these meals; it smells so good in the tent,” sad Mindy Bradish-Orta, Consumers Energy community affairs manager.