California s new budget expands CalFresh benefits to low-income undocumented people age 55 and older, and now advocates are looking to build on their progress. The Food4All initiative wants to remove restrictions on age and immigration status. Asm. .
When school districts are not able to provide summer-school classes, it can have a big effect on how children get meals. Case in point: the Mount Adams School District in the Yakima Valley, where staffing shortages mean about 800 kids won t have breakfast and lunch meal options this summer. Groups like Yakima Valley Partners for Education and the Peacekeeper Society are stepping up to fill the gap, in communities like White Swan and Harrah. .
Farmworker families renting space for a community garden at All Saints-Cristo Rey Episcopal Church in Watsonville say their lease for their one acre site was recently terminated.
[Diocese of Iowa] The Rt. Rev. Elizabeth "Betsey" Lockwood Hawley Monnot was ordained and consecrated as the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa on Dec