Arts & Life This Burien food pantry provides more than familiar staples to the Latinx community Growing up, Roxana Pardo Garcia remembers feeling shame whenever her mother sent her to the food bank when times were difficult. Today, as an adult, Garcia organizes a food pantry serving King County’s Latinx community, one that offers a more positive experience during these hard times. Ruby de Luna
Arts & Life Ballard P-Patch will live on, thanks to an Amazon donation A large donation from the tech giant pushed the community garden past its fundraising finish line. Joshua McNichols
Giving thanks, the Duwamish way Turkey, stuffing and sides are the main attractions in most Thanksgiving meals. But one Seattle man has developed a meal that incorporates Pacific Northwest Indigenous foods to tell the story of the Duwamish people. Ruby de Luna
Ways to give amid spiking food insecurity: money, food, time ‘Last year, 1.1 million Washingtonians had turned to a food pantry for hunger relief and food assistance. This year, we expect that that number has doubled to 2.2 million, or approximately a third of our state.’ Kim Malcolm John O'Brien
Inslee expected to announce new restrictions designed to slow spread of Covid-19 Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has scheduled an unusual Sunday news conference to announce new restrictions to combat what his office calls "the rapid and alarming rise of Covid in our state." Austin Jenkins
Arts & Life FareStart helps students find jobs beyond the food industry At the start of the pandemic many classes and training programs were put on hold. Among them was FareStart, a Seattle nonprofit that helps people transition from homelessness and addiction though its adult culinary program. This fall, teaching resumed. And like many schools around the country, classes are online. Ruby de Luna
Black Coffee Northwest: You’re not ‘gonna run me out of my neighborhood’ For the Weary family, home has always been north of Seattle. But not long ago, this question of home, and two traumatizing events, nearly moved them out of Seattle. Jenna Hanchard
Arts & Life Seattle restaurants' creative strategies to weather the cold months of the pandemic Meal and cocktail kits. Deliveries and takeouts. Temporary closures. There's no one approach that helps keep businesses stay afloat. Restaurants are using strategies that best suit them. Ruby de Luna
Arts & Life This South King County church created a drive-thru food bank in response to the pandemic The Tukwila Food Pantry has been a lifeline for many South King County residents who have lost their jobs during the pandemic. Like many local food banks, it saw a surge in demand. Ruby de Luna
Curbside grocery store service comes to SNAP customers During the pandemic, Safeway shoppers have had the option to order groceries online and pick up them up curbside. But the same hasn't been true for people using SNAP benefits, the federal food assistance program — until now. Ruby de Luna
