Montgomery Community Media

We’ve all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Well a challenge is underway to ensure that MCPS students reap the benefits of a good breakfast. MCPS-TV reports. Visit our PEG partner MCPS TV to view more of its local programming.

In this MyMCMedia Extra, Ben Simon discusses how he started the Food Recovery Network and the traction it has gotten since its launch.

The 19th annual “Taste of Wheaton” brought thousands to downtown Wheaton Sunday (June 8) to try new food in an event that organizers hoped would boost customers to local restaurants. “The ‘taste’ highlights some of the great local restaurants in downtown Wheaton,” said Sidney Cooper, manager of marketing  and events for the Wheaton Urban District. […]

From Thai food to Latin food, the annual “Taste of Wheaton” festival brings local diverse restaurants together for a day planned to introduce customers to new area restaurants. The 19th annual “Taste of Wheaton” takes place Sunday (June 8) from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Wheaton Triangle at the corner of Grandview and […]

A 24-hour “Food Data Jam,” hackathon to generate solutions to local food and farm challenges will takeover Poolesville High School starting May 31. The event is part of the National Day of Civic Hacking but is the only one of 120 official national events to take on the topic of food and farm challenges, according […]

Sunday, Oct. 20 from noon to 5 p.m. Free Admission Westfield Wheaton (Wheaton Plaza), 11160 Veirs Mill Road The World of Montgomery Festival celebrates the diverse cultural heritages which play an active role in the lives of Montgomery County residents and communities. The festival showcases this rich diversity through food, music, dance, traditional arts and […]

I’ve spent most of the past month at Manna learning how to manage our Smart Sacks’ program, that is, our weekend food assistance program for children experiencing hunger in Montgomery County schools.  Currently, we partner with 56 schools in the county and distribute just over 2,000 bags of food to students who would benefit from […]

The National Association of Letter Carriers annual Stamp Out Hunger drive happens on May 11 this year. Your Montgomery County letter carrier will pick up food left at your mailbox and deliver it to Manna Food Center: an easy way to contribute for our stock the shelves campaign. Manna’s own Jamal is featured in the […]

Thanks to all the Ride On bus riders this week, we’ve started picking up bins from Ride On’s Give and Ride food drive, and boy are they heavy! Imagine three large bins full of cans – or take a look! That’s 3,087 pounds of cans collected by Ride On drivers just this week. We’ll pick […]

During the spring and early summer, the non-perishable donations slow down here at Manna Food Center. In the high holiday times, so many think of their hungry neighbors and drop off non-perishable items at our doors, but after the holidays, people tend to forget that there is still hunger in Montgomery County. In April alone, […]