{"id":436793,"date":"2026-09-15T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436793\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:08:11","slug":"east-texas-food-bank-honors-organizations-volunteers-at-6th-annual-hunger-hero-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436793\/","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Food Bank honors organizations, volunteers at 6th annual Hunger Hero Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUFKIN, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; The Deep East Texas Resource Center celebrated six years of fighting local hunger by hosting its sixth annual Hunger Hero Awards Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">With food insecurity affecting 1 in 4 children and about 1 in 5 adults in Angelina County, an East Texas Food Bank official said a massive meal gap that plagued the community has since been closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cLast year, we distributed a million meals out of here, because of you guys,\u201d Tim Butler, the food bank\u2019s chief development officer, told attendees. \u201cWe have enough food now in this county. What we need to do is just make sure it reaches people that need it the most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the ceremony, AARP Lufkin received the Community Partner Hero Award for its dedicated volunteer base, with special recognition given to longtime helpers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Piney Woods Foundation also earned a Community Partner Hunger Hero Award, accepted by David Perkins, for supporting more than 357,000 meals over the past five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cVolunteers are the heart of what we do, and we\u2019re especially grateful for y\u2019all\u2019s experience and compassion with the mission,\u201d Butler said. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUFKIN, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; The Deep East Texas Resource Center celebrated six years of fighting local hunger by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[151354,30695,61015,6870,6246,8330,151353,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-436793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-deep-east-texas-resource-center","tag-east-texas-food-bank","tag-etfb","tag-food-bank","tag-food-insecurity","tag-hunger","tag-hunger-hero-awards","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}