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July 11, 2023

Getting Ahead: Samantha’s story

Getting Ahead graduate Samantha Covington said when she started attending her Getting Ahead session a few months ago she felt stuck. Her husband lost his job during the pandemic and started his own business repairing motors & transmissions. She owns a catering business, but with two kids, ages 4 and […]
July 11, 2023

Food Lion Feeds donates $4K to feed our neighbors

Local nonprofit Common Heart has received $4,000 from the Food Lion Feeds Charitable Foundation to help Union County neighbors facing food insecurity. That’s enough to provide a week’s worth of groceries to 160 families. Common Heart is one of more than 220 nonprofit organizations in Food Lion’s 10 state-wide footprint […]
July 5, 2023

Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation!

“I am a single mom of two amazing kids. I work real hard to keep a roof over their heads and make sure they are well fed and have all they need. But it is getting tougher.” Anna didn’t have to worry much about food until prices started going up and then her food […]
June 20, 2023

Food drives are key! Can you help?

Our friends at @faith_is_alive_umc just dropped off 869 pounds of nonperishables for our neighbors! That’s almost 3x the amount of an “average” food drive of 300 pounds. Thanks so much! Food drives are vital to making sure we have enough nonperishables to continue to serve the increasing number of families […]