{"id":4149,"date":"2020-05-12T19:13:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2020-05-12T19:13:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:13:42","slug":"maryland-air-national-guard-and-baltimore-county-executive-pass-out-groceries-in-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/2020\/05\/12\/maryland-air-national-guard-and-baltimore-county-executive-pass-out-groceries-in-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Air National Guard and Baltimore County Executive Pass Out Groceries in the Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

Story by Technical Sgt. Enjoli Saunders, 175th Wing Public Affairs<\/i><\/p>\n

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ESSEX, Md. – Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski, Jr. and Airmen from the Maryland Air National Guard distributed meals and groceries to residents at the Mars Estates Police Athletic League center May 2. The mission is a partnership with the Maryland Food Bank and the Baltimore County Department of Recreations and Parks PAL centers to ensure citizens have enough food while schools and work places are closed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are meeting a need and putting thousands of meals on the street, meeting a food and security need here in the county,\u201d said Olszewski. \u201cThese are people from our community serving our community. To have the National Guard stepping up and lead in this way, we are very fortunate and we welcome their support.\u201d<\/p>\n

In less than a month, 20 airmen from the 175th Wing distributed over four thousand meals and more than 28,000 pounds of groceries at the Mars Estates PAL center and Shady Spring PAL center in Rosedale. Maryland National Guard soldiers are also working at five other PAL center locations in the county.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been great having the National Guard here, it\u2019s been a welcomed addition,\u201d said Wade Henninger, the Mars Estates PAL center coordinator. \u201cEveryone I have worked with from the Maryland Air National Guard has been fantastic, their attitudes have been great. You can really tell they are genuine and one hundred percent here to help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Working with MDNG has enabled the county to expand dozens of community support sites resulting in more than one million meals being distributed, according to Olszewski.
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\u201cI am so happy to be here serving with the Baltimore County Executive and PAL center members, it is really rewarding to be able to serve the community in this capacity,\u201d said Tech. Sgt. Erica Brown, command support staff for the 235th Civil Engineer Flight, MDANG. \u201cThe people we help really show their appreciation for what we are doing and I feel blessed that I can help and touch their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mars Estates meal distribution site opened March 13 and the Airmen were assigned to the mission about a month later. There is no closing date set as the need of the residents keeps on increasing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all in this together and we will continue to help each other as much as possible until our communities become strong again,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n

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Story by Technical Sgt. Enjoli Saunders, 175th Wing Public Affairs ESSEX, Md. – Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski, Jr. and Airmen from the Maryland Air National Guard distributed meals and groceries to residents at the Mars Estates Police Athletic League center May 2. The mission is a partnership with the Maryland Food Bank and the  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":4150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4160,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions\/4160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}