Lois Rockhill's blog

Sen. Dick Lugar’s office sent me a nice photo from my recent visit to D.C. I’m standing next to the Senator and with a big red button on my sweater that says “End Hunger 2015,” echoing President Obama’s goal to end child hunger by that date.
I was in D.C. for a policy conference with several [...]

The 7th annual “We Can Care” county wide food drive kicked off February 25th with local businesses, churches, individuals, and organizations coming together at the Anderson library to share plans to meet the 155,000 pound goal. This food and fund drive coming after the holidays helps replenish Madison County food pantries that depend on Second [...]

I heard a song while driving out in the California wilds that I was sure I would remember when I got back home. Here I am home again with only a few whiffs of verse remaining in my head. It was about dancing. Dancing in the sense of not sitting on the sidelines but stepping [...]

The economy is throwing more Hoosiers out of work and into poverty. Food pantries throughout East Central Indiana are reporting increases of 35% and more in new people needing food assistance. Please support Senate Bill 281 authored by Senator Errington and co-sponsored by Senators Kenley, Simpson, Breaux, and Skinner, which allows Indiana’s tax payers to [...]

Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana will host “Students Volunteer Against Hunger” on Monday, January 19th as a part of President-elect Obama’s and Vice President-elect Biden’s “Renew America Together” initiative. More than 200 Ball State University students will be among volunteers packing bags of potatoes and fresh grapefruit for distribution to people [...]

You have a few more hours to register to attend tonight’s (January 15th) address by Feeding America CEO Vicki Escarra. Phone 287-8698 ext 100. There is a $15 fee with students and children at no cost. We would love to have you join us for a simple bowl of chili at 6 PM and an [...]

I lost that first pound! One down, 19 to go! Join us here at the warehouse on Thursday at 6 PM for Vicki Escarra’s presentation and a bowl of chili and you will see for yourself that I am one pound lighter. Just joking of course. About the pound. Not the program. Or [...]

January 5th and the DIET begins. I have pledged 20 pounds to the Pound for Pound Challenge at www.pfpchallenge.com . I will begin by using the Food Pyramid website – or attempting to. I logged on to www.mypyramid.gov and clicked on the Tracker option. I had to log in with a user name and password. [...]

New data shows that the number of children in homes in the U.S. that sometimes lacked enough nutritious food jumped from 430,000 to 691,000 in just one year – and that was 2007, before the recession really took hold.
This statement was part of the intro to the data released by FRAC, the Food Research and [...]

Please change the date to January 15 for an evening with Feeding America’s CEO Vicki Escarra. More details will follow but for now scratch out Dec 2 and schedule in January 15, 2009!