From the West Alabama Newsroom– A drive-thru food giveaway in Selma — provides food for a Thanksgiving meal — to hundreds of families. About eight tons of food were given away to about 500 families Tuesday morning at Bloch Park. Vehicles rolled through the park. And got loaded up with enough food to take them through the Thanksgiving holiday. “What…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– Community volunteers continue to conduct food giveaways in Selma — for people who are in need. Organizers say it’s a practical example of neighbors — helping neighbors. Gospel Tabernacle Church — and the Son Light Center — have been passing out food in the Selma-Dallas County community — for the past 15 years. “During the…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– The high cost of gas — continues to fuel inflation across the nation. And as a result — a lot of people — continue to need a helping hand — to feed their families. Hundreds of families in Selma won’t have to worry — about their next few meals. Thanks to a food giveaway Thursday…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– The COVID recovery effort continues to move forward across the state — but many people in Selma and Dallas County still need help feeding their families. Vaccination clinics have taken the spotlight away from food giveaways at this stage of the recovery effort — but that doesn’t mean food giveaways aren’t still happening — or…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– As the debate about the size of a new Coronavirus relief packages rages on in Washington — many families continue to struggle to put food on the table. Word of a food giveaway — always seems to spread like wildfire in Selma. And it never fails — to draw a crowd. More than a thousand…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– People in Wilcox County struggling through the pandemic — got a helping hand from Congresswoman Terri Sewell. Sewell held a drive thru food giveaway at Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in the Alberta community Wednesday morning. More than 500 boxes of food were given out to help people feed their families. Sewell says its important…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– A Demopolis non-profit organization gave away hundreds of free Christmas turkeys to needy families in Marengo County. The Moore Wright Group is on a mission to break the cycle of poverty in Marengo County. The non-profit held a food giveaway Wednesday morning in Linden. The group passed out more than 19 tons of food —…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– More than twenty tons of food was given away to over a thousand people in Selma — to help them feed their families. Thirty pound boxes of food were handed out in a drive thru food giveaway Thursday morning — at Bloch Park. The food boxes included fresh fruit — vegetables — meat — milk…
Giving to those in need: A Pike County business owner partnered with the Montgomery Rescue Mission Wednesday morning to help feed people struggling from the coronavirus pandemic. One by one, dozens of cars lined up Highway 231 in Troy, waiting to get into Paradise Home Sales. “It means a whole lots to us in the time that we are going…
Two organizations are doing their parts to help hundreds of hungry families in the river region this holiday season. When we think of Christmas, many of us think of spending time with family… usually over a Christmas dinner, exchanging presents and looking back on the year: Counting our blessings. But for hundreds of families here locally, that’s not a reality….
