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Putting a taste of home into food bank boxes

October 14, 2020
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Roxana Pardo Garcia knows food banks. As a kid, her family benefited from them, but with mixed feelings.

“They would give us stuff that we didn’t know what to do with,” she remembered. “And we were taking food from people who knew what to do with it.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/Roxana Pardo Garcia started Alimentando el Pueblo, a program that collects and distributes culturally relevant and familiar foods to families from Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. “This is an initiative that was created by the very community that it serves,” she says. “We have solutions to the problems that our communities are facing. All we need is infrastructure and capacity and funding and we’ll make it happen.” (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
Roxana Pardo Garcia started Alimentando el Pueblo, a program that collects and distributes culturally relevant and familiar foods to families from Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. “This is an initiative that was created by the very community that it serves,” she says. “We have solutions to the problems that our communities are facing. All we need is infrastructure and capacity and funding and we’ll make it happen.” (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

What they couldn’t use, they gave away, then got help from other people in their community, who shared their masa, beans, tortillas and spices.

“But you kind of starved

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Tillis, positive for virus, regains taste, smell

October 5, 2020
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s health after his COVID-19 diagnosis and hospitalization, and infections of close aides and others (all times local):

5:20 p.m.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina says he’s regained his sense of taste and smell after testing positive for the coronavirus last week.

Tillis tweeted Monday: “I feel great.” He says that although he’s no longer exhibiting any symptoms of the coronavirus, he will continue to self-isolate.

Tillis is among several people who tested positive for the virus days after attending the Supreme Court nomination ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett at the White House on Sept. 26. Others who came down with the coronavirus include President Donald Trump and Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah.

Tillis was wearing a mask during the outside ceremony and has supported mask use. A New York Times photo taken inside the White House showed a

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