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Making a Difference: Local Restaurants Support Create a Change Now
In a world where childhood obesity is one of our scariest and most rampant epidemics, proactive organizations are working on the front-end to stop the problem before it reaches the doctor’s office, hospital or worse. Educating our children and families about the importance of healthy, clean eating, cooking and growing our own food has become a necessity we can no longer ignore.
Create a Change Now, a local non-profit, is dedicated to empowering children to look at food in a different, healthier way in spite of many external pressures that may tempt them to do otherwise. In its most recent fundraiser, local community restaurants including Bradley Ogden’s Hops & Harvest, Poppy Den by Chef Angelo Sosa, Rachel’s Kitchen, DW Bistro, Circus Circus and Bon Bread were on hand to give tastes of local cuisine, while fresh52 and Artisan Market also attended to showcase fresh local produce. “Our goal is to fight childhood obesity which has become a national epidemic in this country. Our first big fundraiser was geared to entertain and appeal to the entire family,” said Melissa Blynn, executive director of Create a Change Now.
The circus-themed event raised over $18,000 to be used to help support nutritional education, chef demonstrations as well as planting more edible gardens in schools to bring healthy eating to the forefront and prevent the potentially disastrous results of ignoring the influence of food on our young people. For more information on Create a Change Now, visit www.createachangenow.org.
