Foodlink Inc. on Thursday graduated eight members of its inaugural Career Fellowship. “This is a proud moment for these eight individuals, and for our entire organization,” Foodlink President and CEO Julia Tedesco said in a statement. “This is one of ...

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  The kitchen backsplashes are covered with up-to-date subway tiles. There are seven workstations, complete with sink, oven and range combo, counter space and storage cupboards and drawers. And there are even control panels operated with a code so students ...

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Gone is the camping stove. In its place, a shiny new commercial grade range and oven. Food demonstrations at the Rochester City Public Market just got a huge upgrade with the opening Thursday morning of the new Public Market Nutrition ...

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Foodlink Inc. will add a number of additional food distributions to address food insecurity as a result of the government shutdown. Fourteen additional food distributions will be available the week of Feb. 18 through Feb. 23 for individuals who received ...

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Tops stores will start collecting donations for Foodlink with the Check Out Hunger campaign starting on Sunday. And this year the store will also donate meals to furloughed federal workers. More than 150 Tops stores in three states will participate, ...

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The Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation is giving Foodlink $20,000 to help fight hunger in the Rochester area. The donation comes from a national program, called “Fill Your Tank,” that the Enterprise Foundation began in 2016 with its 60th anniversary. Local Enterprise ...

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  In the beginning, there was Tom Ferraro and there was Wegmans. In the 40-year history of Foodlink, it’s hard to distinguish whether there was a time that it existed without its largest benefactor, Wegmans, the nationally renowned grocery store ...

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The Check Out Hunger campaign – in which grocery store customers are asked to add a little bit to their bill to benefit Foodlink programs – started Sunday at Wegmans stores and continues through Dec. 1. “We can’t stress enough ...

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Foodlink Inc. has received a nearly $500,000 grant for its Curbside Market, the nonprofit’s mobile farmer’s market that visits underserved communities throughout Rochester. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Local Food Promotion Program in September announced it would help fund 44 ...

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Foodlink Inc. and Wegmans Food Markets Inc.’s annual Fill the Bus campaign has begun, and sponsors are expecting to exceed 300,000 pounds of food for area children this year. Now in its sixth year, the Fill the Bus campaign is ...

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  Chris Wiedemer got into online sales big-time in the early days of the internet 20 years ago. He’d spend hours in the basement of his store, Cooks’ World, preparing 20 to 30 packages a day for shipment. All that kneeling on ...

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Foodlink Inc. is teaming with the City of Rochester and a number of other organizations this weekend to bring food and games to area children. Saturday’s “Spring into Summer” event at Frontier Field will feature games and activities, an appearance ...

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It may not seem like much now, but soon a vacant lot at First Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in the City of Rochester will begin to show signs of life as Taproot Collective develops the property into an urban agriculture ...

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A newly opened Henrietta pizzeria will donate all of its grand opening event proceeds to a local charity. Blaze Fast-Fire’d Pizza, a fast-casual restaurant that serves custom artisan pizza, will host Donation Day next Wednesday. The April 11 event will ...

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Food banks are a stop-gap measure, not the answer to hunger, agreed a panel brought together Wednesday, March 21, by Foodlink. And the question is not really how to solve hunger, but how to solve poverty, they said. “At a ...

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