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Continued from Page 1 to train community health navigators who can help people sign up for programs like CalFresh and WIC.

Esther Liew, the lead associate for food security projects with the nonprofit

Save the Children, said mailing the food boxes makes more sense than asking families to travel long distances to pick them up.

“There’s little public transportation in rural communities, meaning that they then have limited access

(Note: Concerts begin at each venue at 2 pm, 2:45 pm, & 3:30 pm. Audience members may attend all three concerts in any order they choose.)

WHO: Janine Angeletti (flute), Michael Adams (clarinet), & Nunzio Sisto (bassoon) Cabot’s Pueblo Museum

Jeffrey Krieger (electric cello)

City Hall Amphitheater

Margaret Irwin-Brandon (harpsichord)

Desert Hot Springs Library

A few days later, live music continues with the TC4 saxophone quartet, live in concert at Desert Hot Springs

High School. Celebrated for their unique approach and virtuosic performances, TC4 brings an eclectic program of music for saxophone quartet, including music by Venezuelan composer Aldemaro Romero, French composer Eugene Bozza, and American music including by Michael Daugherty, and a world premiere by Chris Evan Hass.

WHAT: Desert Hot Springs

Classical Concerts

TC4 saxophone quartet | www.andrewsharrison. com/tc4

WHERE: Desert Hot Springs High School –Black Box Theater 65850 Pierson Blvd., Desert

Hot Springs, CA 92240

WHEN: Wednesday, February 22, 2023 7:00 – 8:00 pm

WHO: TC4 saxophone quartet (Andrew Harrison, Isaac Lopez, Frances Cisneros, & Robert Alexander) to grocery stores and places where they can get fresh and nutritious foods,” Liew pointed out. “That makes it difficult to provide the food they need for their children and their family members.”

Admission to these concerts is free, thanks to underwriting from the City of Desert Hot Springs and generous contributions from individual donors. Cash donations are accepted at the door, and donations can also be made online at: www.DHSclassicalconcerts. org/donate.

Hunger Coalition data showed that about 35% of children in the Mountain Empire region live in poverty, nearly triple the rate for the rest of San Diego County.

In a recent community food survey of local residents, almost three-quarters said they would run out of food at some point in the last 30 days and did not have the resources to buy more.

Disclosure: Save the Children contributes to our fund for reporting on Children’s Issues, Early Childhood Education, Education, and Poverty Issues.