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Eat Right Racine challenges the Racine community to support the efforts of Kathleen Ledwith in getting fresh food to the residents of HALO, Racine’s shelter for the homeless. Kathleen’s initiative, FRESH FOR HALO, has set goals to help HALO serve fresh fruit (starting with one serving a day) to the residents.

Kathleen is looking for groups, clubs, associations, and individuals to adopt a day per month for one year. Costs can not be guaranteed, but might range from $30 – $90 depending on the census at the shelter. (No preparation of the fruit is necessary).

If your youth group, sports team, book club, scout troop, church, family, or employee group is interested in adopting a day, please contact Kathleen Ledwith at 262-884-4919 or by e-mailing freshforhalo@yahoo.com. Don’t hesitate to contact Kathleen with further questions.

Please share this opportunity with anyone you may think would be interested. Thank you for your consideration of this important initiative.

Wild Root Market, Racine’s future full-service grocery store co-operative, is beginning to hold community meetings at various locations and times throughout the community. These meetings are intended to let the public know what a food co-op is, what the benefits of membership or ownership are, and what the committee is envisioning for a store in Racine. Just as important, these meetings are being developed to provide feedback from the public. A co-op is a community-owned grocery store and it’s development and design is informed by the very people who use it.

Please attend one of the following meetings and bring a friend or neighbor along!

TUESDAY, AUGUST 24th – 7:00 to 8:00 pm at the ECO-JUSTICE CENTER at 7133 Michna Road just north of Six Mile Road and east of Douglas Avenue

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9th – 7:00 to 8:00 pm at CUP OF HOPE/JUST TRADE on Sixth Street in Downtown Racine

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9th – 12:00 to 1:00 pm at RAZOR SHARP FITNESS on HWY. 20

Please register by visiting us on facebook or by sending an email to info@wildrootmarket.com.

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A group of private citizens initiated this effort and have worked, along with Eat Right Racine, to develop a mission for their work. Early visioning has identified several key principles: as much food as possible will be sourced locally; the grocery store will be member-owned but open to the public and will offer a quality shopping experience for all consumers. Soon, the group will invite the public to special meetings to continue vision planning by the same community that will soon own the market. Please help spread the word by looking for this group on facebook and sharing it with your friends. You’ll find it under A fresh & natural food co-op in Racine?

Learn to shake things up a bit in an exciting workshop scheduled for Thursday, May 6th at 6:30 p.m. at Kurts Sports Complex at 740 College Ave. Racine, WI Eat Right Racine welcomes Janis Barnhill and Julie Zorn of Kenosha’s The Coffee Pot who will be sharing (and demonstrating) two salad dressing recipes from scratch. You’ll also learn to make tasty and healthy catsup and mustard from scratch. You will leave with recipes, inspiration, and a sample of something to make at home. Eating right is so much easier when you know what’s in what you’re eating. Please join us!

Heidi Fannin (of Eat Right Racine) and Ben Lehner (owner of Racine’s Circa Celeste) have been invited to lead a discussion following a public screening of the film Food Inc. at UW-Parkside tomorrow night at 7pm. The screening is free and is being shown in the Student Center. You may park in the Student Center parking lot for free. Don’t forget to bring your family, friends, and colleagues!

(If you are unable to attend this public screening, consider watching it on April 21st on PBS. PBS is encouraging individuals to host a potluck event in their homes and watch the movie with their friends).

Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, discusses the link between healthcare and diet, the dangers of processed foods, the power of the meat industry lobby, the “nutritional-industrial complex,” the impact industrial agriculture has on global warming, and his sixty-four rules for eating. “The markets are full of what I call edible food-like substances that you have to avoid,” says Michael Pollan. “So a lot of the rules are to help you, you know, navigate that now very treacherous landscape of the American supermarket.” Today we air an excerpt of the Oscar-nominated documentary Food, Inc. and then spend the rest of the show with Michael Pollan. [includes rush transcript]<a href="http://“>

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