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SAVE THE DATE Perot Family Campus Grand Opening Sunday, September 16 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. 3677 Mapleshade Lane, Plano, TX 75075 Join us as we officially unveil our new distribution center, the Perot Family Campus. Bring your family for a community picnic and open house featuring tours, food, family-friendly activities and more. Free tickets are available at ntfb.org/grandopening. North Texas Giving Day Thursday, September 20 The 10th Annual North Texas Giving Day is an online event that allows you to be part of a community-wide effort to build a hunger-free, healthy North Texas. You can schedule your convenient online donation ahead of time beginning September 10 and help us reach our goal of providing 2.4 million meals for North Texans in need. Visit ntfb.org/givingday to participate. 5th Annual HARVEST NEW Location! Friday, September 21 7 – 10 p.m. Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden Join us for our 5th Annual HARVEST event! A wonderful night of delicious food prepared by Dallas’ top chefs and restaurants, entertainment from DJ Lucy Wrubel and unique auction packages. Hosted by co-chairs Maggie Kipp and Melinda Knowles and honorary chair Chef Stephan Pyles and will benefit our child and senior programs. Visit ntfb.org/HARVEST for more information. September is Hunger Action Month Donate, volunteer, host a canned food drive or get involved in the many other opportunities to make an impact and help fight hunger this fall. We hope you will join us by celebrating Hunger Action Day on September 13, and all month long! Visit ntfb.org/HAM to get involved. Join the 5th Annual Plano Peanut Butter Drive Mayor Harry LaRosiliere and Plano City Council encourage the community to get involved! “Thank you for giving us healthy food and making my stomach feel better.” Without healthy, nourishing food, children tend to fall behind in school. In severe cases, it can affect their physical development too. In conjunction with Hunger Action Month, the City of Plano is gearing up for the 5th Annual Peanut Butter Drive during the month of September. Yet sadly, as many school teachers can tell you, too many students experience hunger after school and over the summer. In fact, one in four North Texas children faces food insecurity. Mayor LaRosiliere says, “By donating a jar of peanut butter, you’re helping someone in your community, people that you might even know and that you just don’t realize are in that situation.” “Teachers hear the students tell them on Thursday morning that their last meal was Wednesday lunch,” says Madison Messinger, the Child Programs Team Lead at the North Texas Food Bank. Last year, the effort raised more than 30,000 pounds of peanut butter. This year, there is an ambitious goal to collect 50,000 pounds of peanut butter to help feed hungry North Texans. There are over 44,000 food insecure children in Collin County alone. Hunger can be a hidden issue in any community. The City of Plano helps to raise awareness surrounding the issue of food insecurity for children, seniors and families in the hope that others will get involved in the fight against hunger. Companies and organizations can register to host their own drive, or individuals can collect jars and drop them off at the five public drop-off sites throughout Plano, including the North Texas Food Bank’s newly opened Perot Family Campus. If you’re hosting your own drive, be sure to register online in order for NTFB to help with the logistics, such as coordinating a pickup upon completion. But hurry . . . this drive is for the month of September only! Public drop-off sites are: • Plano Municipal Center: 1520 K Ave., Plano, TX 75074 • Davis Library: 7501-B Independence Pkwy., Plano, TX 75025 • Carpenter Park Recreation Center: 6701 Coit Rd., Plano, TX 75024 • The Shops at Willow Bend (Lower-level Grand Court): 6121 W Park Blvd., Plano, TX 75093 • NTFB Perot Family Campus: 3677 Mapleshade Ln., Plano, TX 75075 For more information about the 5th Annual Plano Peanut Butter Drive and to get i