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CommuNiTy ouTreaCh

St. Lucie Mets’ Strike Out sides to complete a holiday All the donations will

Hunger Provides More Than meal for a family of four. provide 6,361 meals for
At the game that Aug.
children, families, and
6,000 Meals For People 22 night, fans dropped off seniors on the Treasure
food and took chances on
Coast. The Aug. 22 event
Struggling With Hunger raffles to support Treasure marked the third time for
Coast Food Bank’s efforts Strike Out Hunger, one
The St. Lucie Mets and to fight hunger. Mets fans of several ways the Mets
their fans helped Treasure and Treasure Coast Food have supported Treasure
Coast Food Bank bring Bank supporters watched Coast Food Bank.
in more than 6,000 meals Geoffrey Sagrans throw About Treasure Coast
for people struggling with the first pitch. Sagrans is Food Bank Alex Mattia and Cathy Mattia
hunger in the community. director of Localecopia, a Treasure Coast Food
At their recent Strike Out partner of Treasure Coast Bank is the only food bank and largest hunger relief
Hunger day at First Data Lori and Paul Bianco Food Bank’s Farm 2 School Mets player Connor O’Neil organization on Florida’s Treasure Coast, providing the
Field, players packed 1,000 Program. Throughout the community each year with millions of meals valued at more
family meal boxes with canned fruits and vegetables, rice, night, everyone learned more about Treasure Coast Food than $50 million through robust programs and in partnership
beans and other shelf-stable foods. Each box provides all the Bank’s efforts to fight hunger on the Treasure Coast. with 400 charitable organizations in Indian River, St. Lucie,
Martin, and Okeechobee counties. In addition to emergency
food distribution, Treasure Coast Food Bank operates a
full roster of direct service programs that not only solve
the immediate problem of hunger, but help individuals and
families gain long-term food security, better health outcomes,
and self-sufficiency. Treasure Coast Food Bank is a member
of Feeding America, the nationwide network of 200 food
banks that leads the fight against hunger in the United States.
For more information on Treasure Coast Food Bank, call
(772) 489-3034, log on to stophunger.org, visit our Facebook
page at facebook.com/tcfoodbank, or follow us on Twitter at
twitter.com/tcfoodbank.

Dickie Brooks and Michael Cool

Lauren Kimball, Elisabeth Clark, Geoffe Sagrans and Myah
Sagrans

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