CONTACTS:
Andrea Helms
Communications Director
Tarrant Area Food Bank
817-332-9177
Julie Meeks
Society for Design Administration Canstruction 2007 Chairwoman Frank W. Neal & Associates
817-332-1944

         Tarrant Area Food Bank, founded in 1982, celebrates its 25 years of service to the community during the fall of 2007. The Food Bank is the primary source of donated food for 300 major hunger-relief programs in Fort Worth and 13 surrounding counties. Its network of charities in Tarrant County alone includes 117 in Fort Worth, 16 in Arlington, 24 in Northeast Tarrant and 28 in cities ranging as far north as Azle to as far south as Crowley and Mansfield. Each month, the 13-county network distributes groceries to 35,000 families and serves 500,000 meals and snacks on agency sites. For more information, visit www.tafb.org.

TASTE OF OPERATION FRONTLINE, Tarrant Area Food Bank

Orientation for VOLUNTEER chefs, cooks, nutrition students, licensed nutritionists and grocery shoppers who would like to give their time and talents to showing low-income families how to enjoy maximum nutrition on a limited budget. Operation Frontline, a program of the national nonprofit organization Share Our Strength, includes cooking and nutrition classes taught in a kitchen. Tarrant Area Food Bank offers Operation Frontline classes to parents and children who receive food assistance from the Food Bank’s network of charities.

TEXAS CHEFS ASSOCIATION GOLF CLASSIC
benefiting Tarrant Area Food Bank.

8 a.m. shotgun start at Sky Creek Ranch Golf Club in Keller. For details, visit www.tafb.org/calendar.html. Members of the Texas Chefs Association provide internships for students from the TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK COMMUNITY KITCHEN. The Community Kitchen provides basic culinary job training to low-income adults seeking a career path earning more than minimum wage.

KIDS CAFES – School-aged children of all ages at 18 sites enjoy prepared meals after school while participating in tutoring, mentoring, life-skills and recreational programs.

Sept 28, 2007   
6 – 9 p.m.   

TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK 25TH ANNIVERSARY BIRTHDAY PARTY

Casual dinner catered by Reata Restaurant plus live entertainment, all in the Food Bank’s warehouse. The City of Fort Worth and Tarrant County will each announce a proclamation naming October “Tarrant Area Food Bank Fight Hunger Month.” Both City and County officials and employees will be honored for their untiring support of the Food Bank.

CANSTRUCTION® 2007 COMPETITION & EXHIBIT
NORTH EAST MALL, Hurst, TX 

Free to the public. VOLUNTEER architects, engineers and contractors use canned and boxed food to build colossal structures limited only by their imaginations. This annual event is organized by the Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Design Administration in cooperation with the Fort Worth Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. All food used in the “canned” art (usually 50,000-plus pounds) is donated to Tarrant Area Food Bank.

CANSTRUCTION® GALA, Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame Museum, Stockyards Station, FORT WORTH.

Hosted by the Fort Worth Chapters of the Society for Design Administration and The American Institute of Architects and benefiting Tarrant Area Food
Bank. The winning teams of architects and engineers in the CANSTRUCTION® Competition will be announced. Tickets are $35 per person, $250 per table of eight. RSVP to Carol Cameron at Huckabee & Associates, 817-377-2969.

INTER-FAITH BREAKFAST ON LOCAL HUNGER

Tarrant Area Community of Churches and Tarrant Area Food Bank host leaders of all faiths for discussion and networking to enhance responses to local hunger.

Fourth COMMUNITY KITCHEN student class begins as the previous class enters internships in Fort Worth area commercial and institutional kitchens. The Community Kitchen provides basic culinary job training to low-income adults seeking a career path earning more than minimum wage.

TAKE AIM AGAINST HUNGER SPORTING CLAY SHOOT at Alpine Shooting Range, Fort Worth, benefits Tarrant Area Food Bank. For details, call 817-332-9177, ext. 110.

Oct – Dec 1   
(Service)   

MEAT THE NEED TURKEY DRIVES
At the invitation of workplaces and other organizations, Tarrant Area Food Bank parks a refrigerated truck at a designated location for a specified time and generous donors drop off their FROZEN turkeys. TO RESERVE A REFRIGERATED TRUCK, call 817-332-9177, ext. 110.

KICK THE CAN, downtown Fort Worth - Relay teams from workplaces
and schools kick cans down a block of Main Street to kick off the Fall Food & Fund Drives. Spectators welcome. To register a team, visit www.tafb.org.

FROZEN TURKEY DRIVE downtown Fort Worth.
Look for the Tarrant Area Food Bank truck and the turkey carrying a protest sign. Tarrant County employees accept FROZEN turkeys from the public as well as from fellow employees.

COMMUNITY KITCHEN GRADUATION
Third class of low-income adults trained in basic culinary job skills graduate after 12 weeks of classroom instruction and four weeks of internship in area restaurants, institutional food services, food manufacturing facilities or other kinds of food service settings.

WINTER FOOD & FUND DRIVES
Example: Fork Lift Rodeo at Alliance Airport.

SOUPER BOWL OF CARING GREATER DALLAS/FORT WORTH FOOD DRIVE
Backed by the national organization, Souper Bowl of Caring, the DFW metropolitan area food drive will culminate on Super Bowl Sunday and benefit Tarrant Area Food Bank and North Texas Food Bank. Albertson’s, Central Market/H.E.B., Kroger and Tom Thumb spearhead what they anticipate to be the largest food drive in Texas history with the promotional support
of area news media. The grocery stores will serve as collection points throughout the 25-county region served by the two food banks at a time of year when food donations are low.

COMMUNITY KITCHEN GRADUATION of fourth class of low-income adults trained in basic culinary job skills.

EMPTY BOWLS–An Artful Luncheon to End Hunger
Round Up Inn, Will Rogers Memorial Center, Fort Worth

This noon-time feast of artistic and culinary delights serves up savory soups and desserts prepared and donated by Fort Worth area chefs and offer ceramic, wood and blown-glass bowls donated by professional, recreational and student artisans. Proceeds benefit Tarrant Area Food Bank and its network of hunger-relief charities in 13 counties.