Gov. Asa Hutchinson spoke to about 230 guests at the Hunger Action Breakfast on Sept. 20 in the ballroom of the Junior League of Little Rock Building. The event, part of Hunger Action Month, was to honor individuals and organizations from around the state who work to relieve hunger in their communities.
In Arkansas, one in four children don't have enough to eat, senior citizens have hunger challenges and some 500,000 Arkansans receive federal assistance for food, Hutchinson said. Referring to guests and honorees in attendance, he said it was "encouraging to see this kind of support to tackle the challenge of hunger."
Wrapping up his remarks, Hutchinson said, "I think John F. Kennedy probably said it best, 'The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.'"
"I think in a sense, when you are satisfied," the governor explained, "whenever you are not hungry, then you can really be free to accomplish that which you desire to do in life, from education, to work, to doing good things for other people."
This year's Acting Out Against Hunger Award winners were Chris Allen, Linda Barnes, Margaret Douglas, Eugene Wing, Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church, Greenwood First Baptist Church, Mosaic Church, Raising Arkansas, Arvest Bank of North Central Arkansas, Mitchell Williams Law Firm, employees of Domtar-Ashdown Mill, Rogers School District Child Nutrition Department, the city of Little Rock and Rock Region Metro.
Serving as co-chairmen of the breakfast were Leon Jones Jr. and Lisa Goldberg.
-- Story and photos by Cary Jenkins
High Profile on 10/02/2016