JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida will host a free grocery giveaway on Friday, Oct. 16, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Jacksonville\u2019s Northside. <\/p>\n
The event is open to any household in need.<\/p>\n
The food distribution is part of LSS\u2019s Shared Roots initiative, which brings fresh produce and pantry staples directly into neighborhoods experiencing high levels of food insecurity. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Laura Cook serves as the LSS program director overseeing the mobile pantries. \u201cFood insecurity doesn\u2019t always look the way people expect it to,\u201d Cook said. \u201cMany of our neighbors are working hard but still struggling to keep groceries on the table. Shared Roots allows us to meet families where they are and provide not just food, but dignity, care and connection.\u201d<\/p>\n The distribution will take place at St. Paul Lutheran Church, located at 2730 Edgewood Ave. W. <\/p>\n Participants are asked to register in advance online BY CLICKING HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida will host a free grocery giveaway on Friday, Oct.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4207,694,16293,7894,14494,168342,119373,6036,15127,1191,168343,502,52292,17742,2426,30058,7193,168344,14059,168345,168346,1089,18465,575,13450,168347,23825,168348,21536,16503,3408,32113,6549,15035,23464,116,118,117,168349,168350,82916,992,53202,14024,16506,990,726,109,16508,7194,69286,192],"class_list":["post-428239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-assistance","tag-background","tag-bag","tag-bank","tag-box","tag-canned","tag-cardboard","tag-care","tag-charity","tag-christmas","tag-collect","tag-community","tag-container","tag-covid","tag-crisis","tag-delivery","tag-donate","tag-donating","tag-donation","tag-donation-box","tag-essential-foods","tag-family","tag-female","tag-food","tag-food-bank","tag-food-donation","tag-full","tag-give","tag-giving","tag-goods","tag-grocery","tag-hands","tag-help","tag-holding","tag-homeless","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-no-face","tag-packing","tag-pantry","tag-people","tag-poor","tag-poverty","tag-products","tag-relief","tag-service","tag-social","tag-supply","tag-volunteer","tag-volunteering","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}