On Thursday afternoons, most elementary school students walking out of Norwood School have a white plastic grocery bag gripped in one hand or stowed in a backpack.
Did you hear that? If you stopped by the Wheeling Artisan Center today, you didn't actually hear a buzzing sound persay, but you could hear some lips smacking for sure.
Food Bank taking design applications for 2021 Empty Bowl T-shirts GMFB announced this week that the search for this year’s Empty Bowl T-shirt design has begun, and they have enlisted the help of elementary school students throughout the region to make a mark in the fight against hunger.
Hunger affects more than a million Georgians on a yearly basis, including thousands of children right here in our state.
Georgia Mountain Food Bank, or GMFB, has dedicated itself to helping eradicate food scarcity in its five-county service area, which includes Dawson, Forsyth, Hall, Lumpkin and Union counties. A huge part of that effort is GMFB’s annual Empty Bowl luncheon, which funds hundreds of thousands of meals here in north Georgia for children and grown-ups alike.