{"id":473354,"date":"2026-10-22T12:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473354\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:22:10","slug":"city-earns-top-honors-in-ntfb-food-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473354\/","title":{"rendered":"City earns top honors in NTFB food drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Sachse Mayor Jeff Bickerstaff and Kathryn Cope, Strategic Initiatives Manager for North Texas Food Bank. Sachse\u2019s efforts earned the Top City Per Capita Award for the 2026 Peanut Butter Drive. Courtesy photo<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sachse residents demonstrated their generosity during September\u2019s Peanut Butter Drive, earning the city top honors for per capita giving in the North Texas Food Bank\u2019s annual campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recognition comes as food insecurity continues to rise across North Texas, including in Sachse, where an estimated 3,440 residents \u2014 about 11.1% of the population in the city\u2019s ZIP-code area \u2014 face uncertainty about having enough food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m incredibly proud of our community!\u201d Mayor Jeff Bickerstaff said. \u201cSachse may not be one of the largest cities in North Texas, but our residents have shown time and again that we have a big heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full story in the October 22nd edition. Stay informed \u2014 subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/publisher1.etype.services\/Sachse-News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Sachse News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sachse Mayor Jeff Bickerstaff and Kathryn Cope, Strategic Initiatives Manager for North Texas Food Bank. Sachse\u2019s efforts earned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-473354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473354","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=473354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}