Greensburg is adding a grab-and-go meal site to their footprint to make sure area kids have access to food this summer. The site will open in conjunction with the Westmoreland County Food Bank at Kirk S. Nevin Arena at Lynch Field Park on June 21. The program will provide food
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You pull an item out of the refrigerator, freezer or pantry and see it’s past the date on the package.
“Should I eat this or not?”
“Those dates are there for a reason,” said Martin Bucknavage, senior food safety extension associate for Penn State University in the college of agriculture at University Park. “They are set by the manufacturer for the best time to consume the product. It will be the best quality by that date.”
The manufacturer is giving the safest date, he said.
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Courtesy of Westmoreland/Fayette/Allegheny County Animal Response Team
Volunteers stock supplies for the Westmoreland/Fayette/Allegheny County Animal Response Team’s emergency pet pantry.
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Westmoreland/Fayette/Allegheny County Animal Response Team is seeking supplies and monetary donations for its emergency pet pantry.
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When humans are in crisis, organizations like the Red Cross, fire departments and food banks are there to help.
But who is there for the pets affected by those emergencies?
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The Greg Blythe Friendship Community Garden in Tarentum was helped through grant programs that allowed expansion of the food plots.
Courtesy of Fred Oestreicher
Fred Oestreicher of Greensburg, on the left, said the community garden at St. Matthias Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hempfield was able to donate more than 1,000 pounds of fresh produce to the Westmoreland County Food Bank last year.
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About 30 volunteers turned out for the spring work day at the Greg Blythe Friendship Community Garden in Tarentum on April 10. It was the first group event that had been held at the garden since the covid pandemic began in 2020.