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Sweet Home health committee moves to boost outreach: health fair, GoFundMe and food-security planning
Summary
Committee members discussed recruiting speakers, running a GoFundMe with a roughly $2,200 goal to support the health fair, engaging Rotary and local businesses for outreach, and preparing for possible SNAP benefit changes in November that could increase local food insecurity.
Committee members spent much of the meeting on outreach planning, fundraising and community needs ahead of winter. The group invited Linn-Bend Community College student Janessa Van Epp to observe and potentially help with the health fair as part of her research project on community health initiatives.
“We have all been assigned kind of the vague outline for that project,” Van Epp told the committee, describing a student cohort of about 41 people and her intention to study smaller community…
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