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Cars line up at Mosaic Church in Marietta to pick up food boxes being delivered by the Cobb Community Food Fleet.
Community Food Fleet Comes to an End After 15 months, the Cobb Community Food Fleet operations ended last month. Starting in May 2020, a group of nonprofits, churches, businesses and government entities was responsible for the receipt and distribution of 168,000 boxes of food received and distributed throughout Cobb County and beyond. That equates to 4.4 million pounds of fresh produce and proteins, the equivalent of nearly 3.7 million meals. The group included 14 organizations that picked up the food from Truist Park, the Galleria, the Cobb Energy Centre and Sweetwater Mission, and delivered it to more than 50 other fleet members, primarily churches and other nonprofits, throughout the county. Thanks to S.A. White and Mobilized Fuels, who provided the diesel needed to run the trailers, refrigeration never was lacking. The effort was a joint initiative of Cobb Community Foundation and Noonday Association of Churches. Costs largely were underwritten by the Atlanta Braves organization, which also contributed the use of the stadium’s refrigerator and loading docks as the first distribution center. Cobb County’s Board of Commissioners provided CARES Act and ARP Act funding of $540,000 to purchase food boxes, but the majority of the food was provided through the USDA’s Farmers to Families program. What made Cobb such an attractive partner for the program’s food distributors was having central distribution centers at easily accessible facilities, with subsequent deliveries throughout the entire county being handled by others. The need for a centralized distribution center went away when the USDA’s Farmers to Families program ended, but the need for food remains. Cobb Community Foundation took this issue to the county commission earlier this year, which allocated $1.5 million of American Rescue Plan funding for the purchase of food by Cobb nonprofits.
The winners of the Acworth Arts Alliance’s juried exhibit were announced last month. Liza Rawls, senior director of the Vinings Gallery on Canton, judged the exhibit. The winners are as follows: • Best of show: “True Blue” by Andi Counts • First place: “Sweet Vidalia Onions” by Nancy Guerine • Second place: “Fall at Ivy Corners” by Elizabeth Carr • Third place: “Hope Ignited” by Al Williams • Fourth place: “She Waits” by Elizabeth Carr • People’s choice: “Fall on El Cap” by Rachel Lewis The Art House’s founding artists exhibit runs through Oct. 30. The annual Holiday Gift Shop will be open 10 a.m.-4p.m. Nov. 13 in the Tanyard Creek Overlook at the Acworth Community Center. This will be a one-day event, featuring small artworks and gifts created by the Art House’s member artists.
Nancy Guerine’s “Sweet Vidalia Onions.”
Commissioners Honor Lucinda Garrett
Lucinda Garrett is joined by fellow CCCSB team members to celebrate. 8
AROUND ACWORTH | October 2021
On Aug. 24, Lucinda Garrett was honored by the Cobb County Board of Commissioners for her 30 years of service to Cobb County Community Services Board (CCCSB) and the greater Cobb community. Garrett started with CCCSB on Aug. 1, 1991, and is the residential services coordinator for the Mothers Making a Change program.
