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𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐬!
🇲🇽 the Mexican Fiesta takes place in Grand Rapids, Michigan at the Calder Plaza.

We wanted to thank all our sponsors, without the generosity of these amazing group of companies, the Mexican Fiesta wouldn't be here today. So, it is with great pride and gratitude that we
publicly thank everyone who had a hand in supporting the festival.

¡Muchas gracias!
Feliz fin de semana de celebración!

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Today is the LAST day to drop off non-perishables and personal care items for the Access of West Michigan County Wide Food Drive. They need to collect 90 tons to support all of our local pantries for the holiday season. Please, please, please if you can, support this effort. Drop off locations include:

* Family Fare Grocery Stores
* D&W Grocery Stores
* Duthler Family Foods
* Fulton Heights Foods
* Forest Hills Foods
* Aldi
* Walgreens
* Mercantile Bank branches
* Fifth Third Bank branches

Need some ideas of what to donate to the County Wide Food Drive this week?

Tomorrow is the LAST day of the Access of West Michigan County Wide Food Drive... they need 90 tons of food to supply local food pantries for the holiday season.

PLEASE, please if you can... drop off any non-perishables or personal care items to participating drop off sites!

For more info, visit www.AccessofWestMichigan.org.

The idea of the County Wide Food Drive is to fill a bag full of food & personal care items to donate. All collected items will benefit 50 local food pantries!

How America's Losing The War On Poverty : NPR Close to 16 percent of Americans now live at or below the poverty line. On top of that, 100 million of us — one out of three Americans — manage to survive on a household income barely twice that amount. How is this poverty crisis happening?

Only 2 more hours to vote and Family Promise of Grand Rapids is not in the lead. It only takes a moment, so do it now and help end homelessness in Grand Rapids, MI.

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Please join us in supporting the 35th Annual Hunger Walk! Proceeds will support numerous agencies fighting hunger and poverty right here in our community.

1 in 4 people don't know where their next meal is coming from... YES, here in Grand Rapids. Let's change that... today!

Access Hunger Walk – Access of West Michigan The Hunger Walk will bring over one thousand walkers and volunteers for the 35th Access Hunger Walk on Saturday, May 5, 2012. We walk rain or shine! Thank you to all of our sponsors who are partnering with us on this event! Sign up today and register to be a walker!

Campus food banks help students through tough times A growing number of colleges are establishing food pantries for students and others struggling to secure enough food.

How can 1 in 7 people be malnourished in the modern world?

Infographic of the Day: How the Global Food Market Starves the Poor | Fast Company Feed the World To understand the complexities of the international food market--and how traders in Chicago can cause Africans to starve--you could get a ph.D. in economics, or read a 400-page report from the World Bank. Or you watch this superb nine minute video, directed by Denis van Waerebeke.

U.S. food stamp program shouldn't be political toy | Editorials | Fort Worth, Arlington, Nort... Maybe it's an effective political tool to portray President Barack Obama as a spendthrift giving away his neighbors' valuables to lazy urchins.