Hope Church of Fort Worth sponsors a cross-county 8K to benefit Tarrant Area Food Bank. The championship timed, multi-surface race is along the east portion of the Trinity Trail. The course is not suitable for strollers or baby-joggers. A Kids Mile will be held for children 12 and under with medals being awarded. For more information, please visit www.hoperiverrun.com .

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An Artful Luncheon to Fight Hunger

This noon-time feast of artistic and culinary delights serves up savory soups and desserts prepared by Fort Worth area chefs and offers ceramic, wood and blown-glass bowls donated by professional, recreational and student artisans.

Empty Bowls is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Round Up Inn at the historic Will Rogers Memorial Center, 3401 West Lancaster, Fort Worth 76107. Parking is free. For driving directions, visit the Will Rogers Memorial Center website.

New for 2008 - Individual Sponsor Tickets

Individual Sponsor Tickets offer individuals the opportunity to enter Empty Bowls 30 minutes early along with corporate sponsors and select their keepsake bowls ahead of other guests.   A limited number of these tickets (150) are being offered for $100.00 each. 

Advance Tickets Only

General Admission Tickets for the Sixth Annual Empty Bowls of Fort Worth must be purchased IN ADVANCE.  No tickets will be sold at the door.

You can purchase tickets at $35 per person by one of the following methods: (1) Online via a secured server, (2) Credit card by phone at 817-332-9177, ext. 110, or (3) Check made out to Tarrant Area Food Bank and delivered in person or mailed to:  Tarrant Area Food Bank, 2600 Cullen St., Fort Worth, TX 76107.

The $35 ticket price entitles the guest to select a keepsake bowl, bid in a silent auction and sample fare from 22 eateries, and at the same time enables Tarrant Area Food Bank to provide food for 175 meals.

Artisans

More than 1,200 bowls are expected to be donated by professional, student and recreational potters. Among the organizations whose members are donating bowls are members of the Texas Pottery & Sculpture Guild, The Wood Turners of North Texas and The Pottery Studio at Lockheed-Martin Recreation Association.

In addition, Janet Rodriguez of Hart Street Pottery in Fort Worth has sponsored painting parties for artistic volunteers to paint bowls that the studio glazed and donated. Other sponsors of "paint your own bowls" for Empty Bowls are Brushstrokes Studio & Gallery for Fire Arts, Fort Worth; Pepe Le Potter, Hurst; and Sunshine Glaze, Southlake.

The Empty Bowls Bump Table returns to offer each guest the opportunity, for an additional amount, to trade in his/her originally selected bowl for one that may be more valuable.

Restaurants and Caterers

The 22 restaurants, caterers and chefs contributing soups, breads and desserts include, for the first time, Chef Grady Spears, Lili's Bistro on Magnolia, Mira Vista Golf Club, Reata Restaurant, The Covey Restaurant & Brewery and Operation Frontline, a program of Share Our Strength and Tarrant Area Food Bank that uses cooking classes to teach nutrition and food budgeting to low-income families.

Longtime participants returning this year include BK's Creative Catering, Bonnell's, Cafe Aspen, La Familia, Feastivities Gourmet-To-Go, Harpers Blue Bonnet Bakery, Judy Byrd's Culinary School, Paris Coffee Shop, Riscky's Catering, Tarrant County College Southeast Culinary Arts Institute and Ultimate Cuisine by Chef Tom.

The menu is rounded out by Lonesome Dove, City Kitchen Catering, Panera Bread, Tarrant Area Food Bank Community Kitchen and Tom Thumb Signature Soups.

Sponsors

Presenting Sponsor Tom Thumb is joined by Tarrant Regional Water District as the Greening* sponsor and by AmeriCredit, Gideon Toal, Rogers Family Coors, Jere Robertson, Renfro Foods, Quicksilver Resources, Saddlecreek, Higginbotham & Associates, Ben E. Keith, The T, and Dancor Transit.

*For more about the "greening" of Empty Bowls, visit our News page.

Greater Dallas/Fort Worth Food Drive

As Texans stock up for Super Bowl Sunday, Tarrant Area Food Bank invites you to participate in the largest food drive in Texas history.

Please drop nonperishable foods in bins or make cash donations at your local Albertsons, Central Market, Kroger or Tom Thumb stores.   All food drive donations will benefit Tarrant Area Food Bank and North Texas Food Bank serving a combined 25 counties. Your donations will re-supply the two food banks at a time when December holiday donations are being depleted.

The Greater Dallas/Fort Worth Souper Bowl of Caring Food Drive is organized and sponsored by Albertsons, Central Market, Kroger and Tom Thumb in conjunction with the national Souper Bowl of Caring organization.

Media sponsors include CBS 11, KLTY-FM, KTCK-AM The Ticket, NBC 5, Star-Telegram, Telemundo 39, The Dallas Morning News, 99.6 The Wolf, TXA 21 and WFAA 8.

CHEF'S HOLIDAY PANTRY

Treat yourself and others to goodies baked by members of the Texas Chefs Association. Visit Chef's Holiday Pantry from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Ridgmar Mall on the upper level near the main escalators. While you're there, visit the Kid's Gingerbread Cookie Decorating. On the mall's lower level, watch "Chef of the Hour" cooking demonstrations.

Proceeds from the bake sale will benefit Operation Frontline, a nutrition and cooking program of Tarrant Area Food Bank and Share Our Strength. Members of the Texas Chefs Association are among those who volunteer for the program as chef instructors.

December 15, 2007

Second Annual Tarrant Area Food Bank Can Food Drive & Car Show Competition will be presented by HIP N HOT Teen Magazine and K104FM from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Riverside Community Center, 3700 E. Belknap Street, Fort Worth, TX 76111. For information, call 817-871-7670.

An autographed Tony Romo Dallas Cowboys Jersey goes to the person who donates the most cans between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Receive a special edition Can Food Drive T-shirt for a donation of five cans.

Meet celebrity DJ Host and Car Show Judge Kiki from #1 HIP HOP K104-104.5FM. With an entry fee of 10 cans of food, enter your cars and trucks to compete for Best Area Show Car & Truck.  Eight First Place Trophies Awarded & Eight Different Categories Chosen.

TAMALES FOR TEXANS

Share a Texas Tradition!  Grab a voucher to purchase Central Market Tamales for a needy family. Central Market will deliver the tamales to the Tarrant Area Food Bank for the holidays.  Present vouchers to the cashier at the checkout.  Tamales are $8.99 a dozen.

Simplify your holidays with a donation to Tarrant Area Food Bank.  In return, our volunteers will address your cards by hand and mail them for you! 

All people on your list will receive the holiday card you choose, hand-signed, announcing a gift in their honor to Tarrant Area Food Bank.  The art on each card was rendered by a child participating in our Kids Cafe program. 

Select your card and send us your list of recipients, all on one form.

PUBLIC FOOD DRIVES

Food drives seeking donations form the general public, including the following:

Help Firefighters Extinguish Hunger

The public is invited to drop donations of boxed and canned foods at fire stations throughout Tarrant County through December 31.

Fire Departments collecting food for Tarrant Area Food Bank are in the following cities:  Arlington, Azle, Bedford, Blue Mound, Colleyville, Crowley, Euless, Everman, Forest Hill, Fort Worth, Grapevine, Haltom City, Hurst, Keller, Lake Worth, North Richland Hills, Richland Hills, River Oaks, Saginaw, Sansom Park, Southlake, Trophy Club, Watauga, Westworth Village and White Settlement. 

Persons or organizations wishing to drop their donations at their local fire station are advised to call ahead for public hours at the station.

Steak 'n Shake STEAKBURGER™ Campaign - For every $5 in TAKHOMACARD™ gift cards purchased at one of its company-owned and franchised restaurants in Tarrant Area Food Bank's service area, Steak 'n Shake will donate one STEAKBURGER™ patty.

For every $25 worth of TAKHOMACOARD gift cards purchased, the Steak 'n Shake guest will receive a $5 coupon toward a future purchase. To find a Steak 'n Shake near you, enter your ZIP code on the Steak 'n Shake website.

Tarrant Area Food Bank serves the 13 counties of Cooke, Denton, Tarrant, Johnson, Hood, Somervell, Erath, Bosque, Hamilton, Hill, Palo Pinto, Parker and Wise.  It is one of 75 members of America's Second Harvest--The Nation's Food Bank Network to benefit from this campaign.  Deliveries of the STEAKBURGER™ patties will be made in 2008.

PUBLIC FOOD DRIVES

The public is invited to participate in food drives listed under Public Food Drives.

For Families: 

Canned Meats (Tuna, Chicken, Stew, Chili), Canned Vegetables, Peanut Butter, Canned Fruits, Cereal, Powdered Baby Formula, Dried Soup Mixes, Dried Beans, Boxed Pastas, Rice.

Non-Food Items:  Diapers, Toothpaste, Toothbrushes, Soap, Shampoo, Toilet Paper, Paper Towels.

Backpacks for Kids:  Nonperishable, shelf-stable single-servings of Beans & Franks, Tuna Packs, Soups, Pastas, Fruit Cups, Pudding Cups, Cereal, Milk, Oatmeal, Granola Bars, Raisins, Trail Mix, Peanut Butter Crackers, Juice.

Meat the Need Turkey Drives

Tarrant Area Food Bank needs 15,000 turkeys for the holidays.

Reserve the Tarrant Area Food Bank Turkey Truck now to collect FROZEN turkeys from employees, customers and the public.  On a reserved date between November 1 and December 14, the refrigerated Turkey Truck can be parked at your building to accept donations.  The Turkey Truck can be reserved by submitting your request on line, by printing and faxing the completed form or by calling Susan Frye at 817-332-9177, ext. 110.

BOWL PAINTING FOR EMPTY BOWLS 2008

Volunteers who would like to paint bowls for donation to next year's Empty Bowls benefit for Tarrant Area Food Bank are invited to visit Hart Street Pottery Thursday, Dec. 13, between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.  The studio is at 6346 Hart Street in east Fort Worth.

Proprietor and artisan Janet Rodriguez is providing the bisque bowls and glaze; however, donations to offset expenses will be accepted. For more information, call 800-805-7222.

Friday, November 16, 2007

Frozen Turkey Drive

Tarrant Area Food Bank needs 15,000 turkeys for the holidays.

Super convenient for commuters and noontime lunch crowds in downtown Fort Worth

Drop off frozen turkeys in front of Capital One at 505 Main Street.

Look for the Kroger truck and the turkey carrying a protest sign!

Tarrant County employees will collect frozen turkeys between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. as part of their Holiday Food Drive for the Food Bank.  Cash donations are also accepted.  A donation of $20 will provide a holiday meal for a hungry family.

Kroger has generously donated a refrigerated truck

to receive the turkeys during Tarrant County's drive.

Friday, November 2, 2007

Kick the Can officially kicks off Tarrant Area Food Bank’s Fall/Holiday Cans & Cash Drive. In a noontime competition in downtown Fort Worth, teams from workplaces, schools and other organizations kick empty cans in relay races up and down one block of Main Street. Teams must pre-register by November 1. The public is invited to cheer their favorite teams.

CANSTRUCTION® 2007 Competition and Exhibition
North East Mall

1101 Melbourne Rd., Hurst, TX

    
Canstruction® spotlights local hunger and the Tarrant County design community. Teams of architects and engineers design and build gigantic, imaginative structures using only cans and boxes of food.  At the end of the week, the food in the structures is donated to Tarrant Area Food Bank. More than 65,000 food items were used this year by the 14 teams.

2007 STRUCTURAL INGENUITY

We CAN See the Light

by TranSystems Corp.

Sunday, Oct. 14

Watch as the teams build their can-structions at the mall, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.  Some teams are done building by 12 noon, most by 3 p.m.

Oct. 15 - 20

View the completed can-structions for free during regular mall hours and vote for your favorite "canned" sculpture for the People's Choice Award. For a donation of $1 per vote you can vote as many times as you like. All donations benefit Tarrant Area Food Bank.  The ballots are on the counter at Great American Cookies at the Food Court.

A jury of local experts and celebrities will judge the show to present awards for Best Meal, Structural Ingenuity, Best Use of Labels and Jurors Favorite.  These award recipients will submit photos of their can-structions for a national contest sponsored by the Society of Design Administration.

For the ninth consecutive year, Canstruction® in Tarrant County is organized by the Fort Worth Chapters of the Society of Design Administration and of The American Institute of Architects. The Canstruction® design and build competition is owned by the national Society of Design Administration and its Canstruction® Foundation.

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Tarrant Area Food Bank's

25th Anniversary Birthday Party

Friday, Sept. 28, 2007

This birthday celebration features dinner catered by Reata Restaurant, a birthday cake at each table, a party favor with a twist, and music by the MooTown Rockers playing rock, blues, soul and country from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Food Bank's warehouse Friday, Sept. 28. A reception at 5:30 p.m. will offer tours through part of the 69,000 square-foot distribution center. Attire is casual. The dinning area of the warehouse will be air-conditioned. Free valet parking will be provided by Rent A Frog.

Reservations were closed as of 5 p.m. September 27. To make a donation in honor of our 25th Anniversary, please call 817-332-9177, ext. 110, or go to the reservation/donation page. 

Tarrant Area Food Bank offices and warehouse are at 2600 Cullen Street, Fort Worth, 76107 off White Settlement Road between University Avenue and N. Henderson Street. 

During the party, in recognition of the community's support for a quarter of a century, Tarrant Area Food Bank will honor the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant county and Capital One.  City and county employees have organized food drives benefiting the reigonal food bank since its first food drive in 1982. Capital One, with a donation to be presented at the party, will have contributed more than $1 million to Tarrant Area Food Bank since 1997.

The Birthday Party Events Committee is led by Terry Haney, coordinator of the TCU Frog Club and a past chairwoman of the Tarrant Area Food Bank Board of Directors.  Committee members are Kelly Bevis, Wachovia Securities, and Food Bank Board members Larry Anfin, Coors Distributing Company of Fort Worth; Ann Farmer, Tarrant County; Joe Gallagher, Cook Children's Hospital; and Jenny Moore, president of the 2007-08 Food Bank Board.

Event Sponsors, in addition to Capital One as the presenting sponsor, include Bank of America Trust, Jere Robertson, Central Market/HEB, Doris and Robert Klabzuba, Betty, Keith and Preston Rogers, Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital, Coors Distributing Company of Fort Worth, Kroger Grocery, Albertson's, Alcon and Tom Thumb.

IDEAS for FIGHTING HUNGER start at Fighting Hunger Overview and continue with 25 Years Ago and Now, Fighting Hunger with Food, Fighting Hunger with Friends, Fighting Hunger with Funds.

Texas Chefs Association Golf Classic

Four-person scramble format with shotgun start at 8:00 a.m. at Sky Creek Ranch Golf Club, 600 Promontory Drive, Keller, TX 76248 (817-493-1414).  All players treated to a lunch buffet sponsored by Ben E. Keith Foods, t-shirt, greens fees, golf cart, hole-in-one closest to the pin and long drive contests.  Entry Fee:  $400 per team, $125 for individual players.  Make checks payable to:  Texas Chefs Association.  Mail checks to:  James Slaughter, 1501 Western Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76107. REGISTRATION DEADLINE:  Monday, August 13, 2007.

         DA' RUB

         BBQ RUB FOR MEAT

           Slaughterhouse Foods, Inc.

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         Fort Worth, Texas

Local Charities on Local Hunger--Fighting Hunger for the Next 25 Years, a roundtable with presentations by representatives of hunger-relief agencies and questions from local journalists, will continue the celebration of our 25th anniversary and open the first Tarrant Area Food Bank annual conference for our network of partner agencies.

The public is invited to the Roundtable from 8:30 to 9:15 a.m. at Broadway Baptist Church, 305 W. Broadway Ave., Fort Worth, 76104. To RSVP, please call 817-332-9177, ext. 118.

Staff and volunteers from hunger-relief charities that partner with Tarrant Area Food Bank can preview the Agency Roundup Workshops online and register for the conference online or by calling 817-332-9177, ext. 118.

For additional information about any event, call 817-332-9177.

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