Your Steps Matter: Walk to Fight Hunger

The Eastern Catawba County Hunger Walk is a community event designed to raise awareness and much needed funding for hunger initiatives at both The Corner Table, Inc. and Eastern Catawba Cooperative Christian Ministry, (ECCCM) Inc. Our common purpose in hosting the event is to help those locally who suffer from hunger. Families experiencing food insecurity often share that there simply is not enough money left over for groceries after all their other bills are paid. This is where the benefiting nonprofits step in to assist our community by providing meals, backpacks for kids and food pickups.

This year’s event is less than two weeks away on Sunday, October 16th, but it is not too late to get involved! Registration can be completed online at ecchungerwalk.com, but is also available in person preceding the event at the Frank & Sue Jones Amphitheater in downtown Newton (across from the 1924 Courthouse.) Fundraising is not required to participate, but it is the most crucial part of this event! It is the donations raised by the participants that support programs which feed hungry people in our community year-round. That is why it is so important to ask everyone you know to support your participation in this event by making a donation.

Event day starts with check-in at 2:00pm and an opening ceremony (awards and warm-up activities) beginning at 2:45pm. Awards will be given for the largest team, the top team fundraiser, and the top individual fundraiser. The walk will start at 3pm. This year there will be the original 5K (3.1 mile) route and a 1-mile route. Both routes are on sidewalks in downtown Newton. Once you finish the walk, there will be ice cream for you to enjoy while you visit with other walkers.

If you’d like to participate, but are unable, online donations can be made on the event website: ecchungerwalk.com. ECCCM and The Corner Table are asking that you will find it in your heart to support our hunger relief efforts. All ECC Hunger Walk donations will be shared evenly between these two organizations, and you may rest assured that your gift will be used to feed the hungry here in Eastern Catawba County.

ABOUT THE CORNER TABLE The Corner Table provides meals with compassion, respect, and dignity to those in our community affected by hunger. The Corner Table provides meals to the less fortunate through means of a soup kitchen, bag lunches, frozen meals, and weekend food

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ABOUT ECCCM

ECCCM provides assistance with mortgage/rent payments, utility bills, hunger relief, transportation, and financial coaching. ECCCM has extended “a hand up, not a handout” to those in need in eastern Catawba County since 1969, never turning away a qualifying client.