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The year of COVID: A decade of progress disappeared overnight | Opinion
Updated Mar 09, 2021;
Posted Mar 09, 2021
Carlos Rodriguez, president and CEO of the Community FoodBank of New Jersey, says when the towers fell on 9/11 he was in New York City setting up an emergency food response. He helped during Superstorm Sandy, too. But he says he has never experienced anything to the scale of this pandemic before.Steve Hockstein | For NJ Advance Media
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NOTE: On the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 in New Jersey, we will publish several opinion pieces about our experiences over the past year. Today, the food bank administrator writes about how hunger grew during the pandemic. Wednesday, how the pandemic affected Black and brown communities.
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RIDGEWOOD, NJ A $1 million state grant will help the HealthBarn Foundation support restaurants in Ridgewood s Central Business District, and deliver 100,000 meals to county residents struggling with food insecurity.
The grant was awarded through the New Jersey Economic Development Authority s Sustain and Serve program, which delivered $14 million in grant funding to 27 recipients across the state.
That money was distributed to nonprofits like HealthBarn, which utilize local restaurants to distribute meals to community members facing food insecurity. That s evermore important since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, when county residents relied on donated meals at numbers hardly seen before.
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