Santa Barbara County Foodbank Offers Free Lunches to Hundreds of Kids with More Options
Patricia Martellotti, KEYT News
June 13, 2022
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – For many kids in need, no school would mean no lunch during the summer. That is, If it weren’t for the Santa Barbara County Foodbank’s “Picnic in the Park.” “There’s a lot of need here especially in Goleta and Isla Vista. Kids and there’s a lot of kids who don’t have A lot of food and being able to provide that food here is a good opportunity because we do have a lot of need,” said disaster specialist Anthony Rodriguez of the Santa Barbara County Foodbank.
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Demand at Food Banks is Way Up Again. But Inflation Makes it Harder to Meet the Need.
Jennifer Ludden, NPR
June 2, 2022
Lee is part of a new surge of people showing up at food banks all over the U.S. this year, a “drumbeat of increasing demand, month over month,” says Katie Fitzgerald, president of Feeding America. Food is one of the items worst hit by the highest inflation in four decades. And the cost of food and other essentials, such as gas and rent, fall hardest on lower-income households with little wiggle room.
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Old Eucalyptus Tree Falls on Santa Barbara County Foodbank Damaging Generator and Office
Jade Martinez-Pogue, Tracy Lehr, KEYT News
May 11, 2022
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – A eucalyptus tree fell on the Santa Barbara County Foodbank building Wednesday morning, but staff said no food was damaged.
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Eucalyptus Tree Falls Onto Santa Barbara Foodbank Building, Damaging Multiple Offices
Serena Guentz, Noozhawk
May 11, 2022
Workers at the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County were greeted Wednesday morning with a large eucalyptus tree that had fallen on the organization’s warehouse near Santa Barbara, damaging some of the upstairs offices and equipment. Because this happened overnight, no staff were in the building, so there were no injuries. However, the upstairs community-engagement office was destroyed, and a second upstairs office sustained some damage.
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KEYT Coverage: Eucalyptus Tree Falls on Foodbank
KEYT News
May 11, 2022
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – A eucalyptus tree fell on the Santa Barbara County Foodbank building Wednesday morning, but staff said no food was damaged.
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Santa Barbara County Department of Behavioral Wellness Partners with Foodbank for Mental Health Matters Month
Reed Harmon, KEYT News
May 5, 2022
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – May is mental health matters month, and the pandemic has elevated awareness for mental health.
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County Department of Behavioral Wellness Partners with Foodbank for Mental Health Matters Month in May
The Santa Barbara County Department of Behavioral Wellness, Santa Barbara Independent
May 2, 2022
(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) – The Santa Barbara County Department of Behavioral Wellness is partnering with the Foodbank to distribute mental health resource materials that support taking action for our own mental health as well as helping others, during May is Mental Health Matters Month. The Foodbank plans to distribute these resource materials to nearly 7,000 families during the month of May.
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Santa Barbara County Foodbank Kicks Off Emergency Disaster Training for Multiple Agencies
Patricia Martellotti, KEYT News
April 29, 2022
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Disaster specialist Anthony Rodriguez carries a dummy as part of an intensive training for large scale disasters.
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Foodbank in Santa Barbara Facing Rising Demand, Increasing Costs
Erin Fe, KSBY
April 23, 2022
First, it was the Omicron variant, then inflation, and now the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County is trying to ride the wave as demand for help increases and the cost of getting it to people skyrockets. Paul Wilkins, the Chief Operating Officer of the Foodbank of Santa Barbara, told KSBY “we have seen about a 30% increase over the first two months of this calendar year. In both our number of clients served and the number of pounds of food going out the door.”
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Foodbank Hosts Monthly Seven Steps to Earthquake Readiness Series
Judith Smith-Meyer, Noozhawk
April 22, 2022
The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County will host Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety Learn-at-Lunch webinars, a monthly series covering one of the seven steps each month. The program will culminate with the local edition of California’s statewide Great ShakeOut drill, 10 a.m. Oct. 20.
