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Riverside Faith Temple Garden Update

December 23, 2019
By Chutima H Ganthavorn
A small edible garden has started in the Eastside neighborhood of Riverside with funding from the City of Riverside's Small Spark Community Development Block Grant.
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Teens Making a Difference in Amador County

December 19, 2019
CalFresh Healthy Living-UC and UC 4-H have partnered in Amador County to provide youth development opportunities for teens at Independence High School and garden-enhanced nutrition education for 3rd grade students at Jackson Elementary School.
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UC ANR training improves food safety practices among Alameda County seniors

December 17, 2019
By Mary L Blackburn
Seniors with diminished learning and retention capacity, physical impairments, on multiple medicines, and with weakened immune systems are less able to fight foodborne pathogens. Adults over 60 years are more likely to have complications, be hospitalized, and die because of foodborne infections.
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Community Settlement Association's Garden Club Family Day

December 12, 2019
By Chutima H Ganthavorn
On the first Thursday of every month at the Community Settlement Association in Eastside Riverside, garden club members gather to participate in a monthly club meeting with CalFresh Healthy Living, UC's Nutrition Educator Itzel Palacios-Sanchez.
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Stone soup 2019
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Sharing is the Most Magical Ingredient!

December 9, 2019
West Hills College preschool kicks off its annual Stone Soup Event. Sue Lafferty, nutrition educator with CalFresh Healthy Living, University of California told the preschoolers, the story of a hungry traveler coming to a village where no one was willing to share.
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ANR in the news November 16-30

November 30, 2019
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
OPINION: Environmental education for kids: It's only natural (Chico E-R) Laura Lukes, Nov. 29 If you have school-age children, you may have noticed that something new is infusing science education in California classrooms. ...
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Veg the Vote!

November 26, 2019
Through a Harvest of the Month seasonal produce initiative, the CalFresh Healthy Living-UC program, school staff, Barton Health, and parent volunteers promote food literacy in all four elementary schools in Lake Tahoe Unified School District (LTUSD).
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