Totally Free Tomato Tasting!

Do Heirloom tomatoes taste different than Cherry tomatoes? Do Sweet 100s taste different than Grape tomatoes?  Come on down and see...or rather, taste!

Join us Saturday, September 6th from 9 am to Noon.

We will have Information Booths from:
* City of Elk Grove
* Master Food Preserves
* Gardeners of the Grove will  have a children's craft booth
* Master Gardeners
* Elk Grove Water District

* Plates 2Envy (yard art)

There will be a children's Composting class.

The Elk Grove Community Garden and Learning Center is located at 10025 Hampton Oak Dr., Elk Grove, CA 95624.

Client Speaks from the Heart about Support Works

This is the testimony of a client of our Support Works program.  She spoke in front of the Elk Grove City Council.  Christine is a success story from our program. 

Above and Beyond Accessibility Award

Just received an award from The City of Elk Grove!

Our Wellness Bag Program received Honorable Mention "for outstanding and dedicated service to improving the quality of life for individuals with disabilities".

Our Wellness Bag program distributes nutritional boxes of food to people who are battling debilitating chronic illness. Our volunteers assemble and distribute these supplemental boxes of food for our medically fragile clients.

We are so thankful for the recognition from the City for our Program. Our happy group of volunteers are a bit more joyful today.

Bowling Extravaganza

Elk Grove Mayor Steve Detrick,

Vice Mayor Jim Cooper and
Council member Gary Davis
invite you to attend. . .
“A Bowling Extravaganza Charity Event”
Friday, August 26, 2011
Strikes in Elk Grove
$125 per team (4 players)
7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Benefiting . . .
Elk Grove Food Bank Services
& Elk Grove Together!!

Includes shoe rental, appetizers, great prizes, raffle and more!!
For registration info, please contact Teresa at 916.606.3905
or Connie at 916.719.8570

The Clothes Closet Warehouse Has Electricity!

The City of Elk Grove partnered with Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) to provide electricity to the Elk Grove Food Bank Services Clothes Closet Warehouse. The facility, where EGFBS volunteers work to organize and store clothing donations, previously did not have electricity. Work hours in the warehouse were previously scheduled to coincide with daylight hours and seasonal climate conditions. Dedicated volunteers worked early in the day during the summer to take advantage of the cool mornings, and bundled up to work during the winter.

The City has also constructed a sidewalk along Williamson Drive to provide safe access to Elk Grove Adult Community Training Center (EGACT) and Elk Grove Food Bank Services Clothing Warehouse. Our volunteers and EGACT clients who walk to the area now have a safe path out of the way of traffic.

There will be a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on Tuesday, January 18,2011, at 10 a.m. for the improvements made in the area.