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Denton Record-Chronicle An edition of The Dallas Morning News
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Vol. 110, No. 121 / 36 pages, 4 sections
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Denton, Texas
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Volunteers at the Denton Community Food Center distribute food Wednesday for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Food banks try to restock With Thanksgiving over, area agencies prepare for Christmas rush By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe Staff Writer pheinkel-wolfe@dentonrc.com
UNT dye garden’s first harvest yields early success Above, a sculpture called “Notty Nest” takes shape at the launch of the new University of North Texas natural dye garden, just west of Bain Hall, on Oct. 9. The process of making dye from plant material is shown at left.
By Lucinda Breeding Staff Writer cbreeding@dentonrc.com
t looked simple enough. Visitors and students dipped a folded bundle of fabric into a white bucket of deep blue dye. With each dip, the college students who started a natural dye garden on campus saw their project come closer to fruition. The University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design students — all of them studying fiber arts — cultivated plants in a modest plot of soil to the west of Bain Hall this fall. The plants
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Photos by David Minton; photo illustration by Stacy Powers/DRC
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After helping area residents put together their Thanksgiving meals, the Denton Community Food Center is now looking ahead to upcoming needs as the Christmas holidays approach. The center gives away about 229 tons of food each year, about 30 percent of which is donated, according to Tom Newell, the center’s chairman. This year’s biggest bulk donation of Thanksgiving turkeys came from Walmart employees, Newell said. In fact, about 50 percent to 60 percent of the food donated to the center each year comes in the six weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The center often does better with contributions of money than food, since it has bulk purchasing power. But the center does its best to make the contributions last, even as storage — particularly cold storage — is becoming a problem, he said. Joe Ader, executive director of Serve Denton, said hunger is such in Denton County that people need help filling their pantries with more than just holiday staples. “They need peanut butter, cereal and canned fruit, too,” Ader said. When churches and other organizers of food drives call, Newell asks for help with those items. In recent months, the center has had a hard time getting good deals buying peanut butter, he said. To mark the holiday season, officials with the Texas Food Bank Network also asked Texans to call on their Congress members and advocate for federal nutrition programs. See FOOD on 3A
TODAY IN DENTON
INTERNATIONAL Crews continued to search the wreckage of a pub smashed by a helicopter in Scotland. Page 13A
Campaign inspires shopping locally Small Business Saturday draws people to Square By Megan Gray
Mostly cloudy and warmer High: 67 Low: 49 Weather report, 2A
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When Sandy Sauceda wants to find something unique, she heads to Denton’s downtown Square. Sauceda joined shoppers downtown Saturday morning in support of Small Business Saturday, a nationwide effort to encourage shoppers to patronize locally owned businesses. “Generally, when I am looking for something unique, I come here first,” See LOCAL on 15A
An open front door invites holiday shoppers into the Courthouse Collection on the Square on Friday afternoon. David Minton/ DRC