Share a Meal: The Quiltmaker Café

The month of March is National Nutrition Month®, an annual awareness campaign intended to encourage informed food choices and healthy eating habits year-round. Unfortunately, there are significant barriers to the accessibility and availability of healthy foods, even in Chatham County. Food insecurity affects communities worldwide, emphasizing a lack of access to enough food for an active, healthy lifestyle. The Quiltmaker Café in Pittsboro is working to combat the effects of food insecurity in their own backyard. Support their initiative to make nutritious meals accessible to all!

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Giving Back: CORA Food Pantry

Back in 2015, the process for renovating and reimagining the Chatham Outreach Alliance (CORA) Food Pantry space began. This July, that space reopened to the Chatham County community, continuing its mission of providing access to nutritious food for local families. According to the 2022 census, nearly 12% of Chatham County’s residence live in poverty, making resources such as the CORA Food Pantry a necessity to its residents. Your involvement in your community matters, make it count at CORA Food Pantry!

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Spread the Love

Spread the Love

The month of February is all about showing love to those you care about. While the way in which you do so may be different than in previous years, the impact is just as resounding. Connect with your loved ones, even those you may have not met yet, and continue to spread goodness and light…

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Paying it Forward

Paying it Forward

2020 was by no means a stress-free year for many of us. With the arrival of the New Year, as calendars reset, take the opportunity to reset your intentions as well. The art of crafting and upholding resolutions at the beginning of a new year can be complex. For 2021, make your resolution one that…

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Haw River Festival Learning Celebration

Pittsboro, NC – Just a few miles from my house in Monterrane is the wild and beautiful Haw River. One of the most beautiful things about it is the Haw River Assembly, a non-profit citizen’s group founded in 1982 to restore and protect the Haw River and Jordan Lake. Right now, HRA is busily gearing…

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