{"id":17468,"date":"2015-08-25T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=17468"},"modified":"2015-08-24T12:12:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T16:12:59","slug":"media-advisory-mda-unites-with-anne-arundel-co-food-bank-to-prepare-donations-in-maryland-unites-day-of-service-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2015\/08\/25\/media-advisory-mda-unites-with-anne-arundel-co-food-bank-to-prepare-donations-in-maryland-unites-day-of-service-event\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA ADVISORY: MDA Unites with Anne Arundel Co. Food Bank to Prepare Donations in \u201cMaryland Unites: Day of Service\u201d Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANNAPOLIS, MD <\/strong>\u2013 Representatives from the Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA), including Agriculture Secretary Joe Bartenfelder and Deputy Secretary Mary Ellen Setting, will unite at the Anne Arundel Food Bank Headquarters to sort, pack and assemble food donations in support of thousands of family who struggle with food insecurity in Maryland. This event is part of Governor Hogan\u2019s \u201cMaryland Unites: Day of Service\u201d initiative, giving state employees four hours of paid leave to participate in a volunteer activity of their choice to help improve the quality of life of Maryland citizens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MDA PARTNERS WITH ANNE ARUNDEL FOOD BANK<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2015 from 9:30 A.M. \u2013 11:30 A.M.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ANNE ARUNDEL FOOD BANK HEADQUARTERS<\/p>\n<p>120 Marbury Drive, Crownsville, MD 21032<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Anne Arundel Food Bank<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1986,\u00a0the Anne Arundel County Food Bank (AACFB) was established to collect, purchase, and distribute food to not-for-profit, human service organizations in Anne Arundel County. The AACFB is the only free multipurpose agency in Maryland that provides food, nutritional supplements, medical equipment, furniture, vehicles, appliances and more &#8211;\u00a0free of charge. To ensure all\u00a0residents of Anne Arundel County are covered, especially those in low income communities, we offer our services free of charge.\u00a0To learn more about the Anne Arundel Food Bank, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aafoodbank.org\">www.aafoodbank.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNAPOLIS, MD \u2013 Representatives from the Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA), including Agriculture Secretary Joe Bartenfelder and Deputy Secretary Mary Ellen Setting, will unite at the Anne Arundel Food Bank Headquarters to sort, pack and assemble food donations in support of thousands of family who struggle with food insecurity in Maryland. This event is part<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2015\/08\/25\/media-advisory-mda-unites-with-anne-arundel-co-food-bank-to-prepare-donations-in-maryland-unites-day-of-service-event\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17469,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468\/revisions\/17469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}