by Randy Rieland | Jun 6, 2025 | Features, Food Pantry, Local servcies, Top Story
There are any number of reasons Georgina Griffith-Yates is the new executive director of the Rappahannock Food Pantry, but let’s start with her dogs. As she tells it, two of the five rescue dogs she shares with her spouse, Ash Yates, are runners. As in, if they’re off...
by Gracie Hart Brooks | Apr 14, 2025 | Agriculture
The abrupt elimination of two national food procurement programs by the Trump administration’s DOGE unit is hitting close to home as local farmers and the food-needy communities the programs serve cope with the uncertainties. In February, the Local Food Purchase...
by Randy Rieland | Mar 19, 2025 | Features, Food Pantry, Health, Local servcies, People, Top Story
Is social isolation hazardous to your health? Jake Jones first came to the Senior Center in Castleton about a year ago. It was his wife’s idea. He needed something to help fill his days after a stroke took away his ability to drive. “It was something to do and a place...
by Julia Shanahan | Nov 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
2024-11-23-Food-Pantry-packing-1.jpgVolunteers Sharon Ennis and Erin Knuckles with Rappahannock Food Pantry Vice President of Operations Pete Stenner tally up the over 250 boxes of dry goods and produce for Thanksgiving. Rush River Commons taking shape...
by Bob Hurley | Apr 3, 2024 | doers, Fire/Rescue, Health, People, Politics
Ruth Welch: Vice President, Food Pantry; Board Member of the following: Rappahannock County Recreational Facilities Authority, Rapp at Home, and Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission’s Aging Advisory and Food Policy councils; member, Old Rag Master Naturalists;...
