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Mac & Cheese Bowl

1st Annual Timesunion.com Table Hopping Mac & Cheese Bowl
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Italian American Community Center
11am-2:30pm

Help the Regional Food Bank find the best “restaurant-made” and “home-made” Mac & Cheese!

Restaurant Competition
The First Annual Timesunion.com Table Hopping Mac & Cheese Bowl will feature 16 tasting stations by local restaurants.  Guests at the event will have the opportunity to sample the Mac & Cheese and vote for their favorite!

Home-Made Competition
Steve Barnes of the Times Union will accept recipes from individual home chefs prior to the event, and a panel of judges will narrow down the submissions down to 10.  The best “home-made” recipe will be selected at the event by panel of local of celebrity judges!  To submit your recipe, please send your submission to   by January 31.

For a list of participants, sponsorship information and event info, please click here.

Tickets can be purchased in advance at all local Price Chopper stores!

Mac & Cheese Bowl Brochure

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Barn Raising For The Patroon Land Farm

The Food Bank has enlisted the support of Eastern Contractors for the construction of a barn at the Patroon Land Farm.  We are now working to raise funds for the purchase of materials for the project. 

The barn would provide shelter for vital farm operations such as washing, sorting, packing and staging produce, repairing and maintaining equipment and storing machine parts, produce containers and farm supplies.  It would also permit us to work inside, host volunteers, and school and other community groups during inclement weather.

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Siena Mens Basketball Team Visits The Food Bank

On January 5, members of the Siena men’s basketball team lent a hand in the warehouse of the Regional Food Bank.

The warehouse visit coincided with a successful Food Drive held during the Saint’s recent game with Mount St. Mary’s.  Over 755 pounds of food was collected furing the Food Drive and an additional $750 through raffle donations.

“We take the opportunity we have to help out in the community very seriously,“ Head Men’s Basketball Coach Fran McCaffery said. “Siena is a special place where the Franciscan values really mean something and we are thankful for the chance to help in any way we can.“

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Hunger Strikes

“Nancy Rockwell adds yet another name to her spiral-bound notebook as volunteers scramble in the back, pulling cans of vegetables and boxes of pasta off shelves and sorting them into bags.

It’s Thursday, one of the busiest days at Doors for Hope, a thrift shop and food pantry in West Sand Lake that’s changed names in recent years but has helped feed its Rensselaer County neighbors for nearly four decades. Today, they pack bags of food for a man who’s new to the pantry and waits quietly in the background.

He and his family of five were homeless until last week. Someone had to give him a ride in.

Like many of the area’s food pantries—as the recession drags on and the unemployment rate sits at a startling 10 percent—the need is greater than ever.“ (Times Union)

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Non-Profit of the Year!

The Business Review is honoring the Regional Food Bank with the 2009 Non-Profit of the Year Achievement Award!

If you would like to celebrate this honor with the Food Bank, join us on Thursday, November 5 at the Hilton Garden Inn/Rensselaer Banquet & Conference Facility, 235 Hoosick Street, Troy, NY 12180. Tickets are $95/person.

Please contact Elizabeth Snyder-Claudio at (518) 786-3691, x295 if your company is interested in placing a congratulatory ad in the publication highlighting our award.

For more information or to purchase a ticket online, check out The Business Review’s website.

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