PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The City of Pittston held its third Nourish in the Neighborhood event Monday, bringing free meals to local residents as part of an ongoing community initiative.<\/p>\n
Nourish in the Neighborhood is a grant-funded initiative operated by the city’s Office of Community Development. The program partners with local businesses to provide free, ready-to-eat meals to individuals and families while also introducing residents to restaurants in their community. The city previously partnered with Coqui Kitchen for an event in August.<\/p>\n
This month, the city teamed up with The Rotten Tomato Meal Co., a recently opened restaurant on Main Street in Pittston. The restaurant provided two meal options: BBQ-glazed meatloaf and vegetarian Parmesan risotto.<\/p>\n
Kristen Walters, the city’s community development and grant specialist, said the idea for Nourish in the Neighborhood came from an existing food distribution program at the Pittston Memorial Library. That program provides fresh produce and pantry staples, but officials recognized that residents also needed access to fresh, prepared meals they could easily heat up at home.<\/p>\n
“Events like this are super important to the City of Pittston and its residents because food insecurity is definitely prevalent within the area. With the prices of everything going up nowadays, sometimes people just feel really relieved when they can get a free, sustaining meal,” said Walters.<\/p>\n
Walters said the city hopes to continue the program through the winter months, potentially holding additional distributions around Thanksgiving and Christmas and extending the initiative into 2027. She added that future events could take place approximately every two to three months, depending on planning and availability.<\/p>\n
Officials say future events will likely continue requiring preregistration to help organizers and participating restaurants determine how many meals to prepare. Residents would need to provide their household size and the number of meals needed when signing up.<\/p>\n
For more information on upcoming Nourish in the Neighborhood events, visit the city’s Facebook page<\/a> or website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The City of Pittston held its third Nourish in the Neighborhood event Monday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-305790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}