Jobs/Food
retail Initiative gets
healthy Foods into
Corner Stores
By Lisa Loving Of The Skanner news
T
he kids are back in school, and that means many are
grabbing snacks on the way to or from class.
Here at The Skanner News office in North Portland, we
watch grade-schoolers and teenagers pass by on their way
to a corner store; soon most walk past again with fistfuls of
Red Vines and extra-large cans of Rock Star.
How could anyone settle down and focus on math or read-
ing after taking in that much sugar and caffeine?
“Children are going back to schools and mothers do pro-
vide allowances for children to buy things — and unfortu-
nately they make the unhealthy choice,” says Multnomah
County Health Department outreach specialist Yugen
Rashad.
No one can force kids to eat apples, and no one can force
parents to serve spinach, but the Health Department has
another idea: using federal Stimulus Grant funds to make
sure small corner stores have the ability to stock healthier
food items.
Grants of up to $4,500 are available for mom-and-pop
groceries to install coolers, or to band together to contract
with large produce companies — anything they need to pro-
vide fresh milk, fruits and other items that can improve their
neighborhood’s health.
“Well, it’s really about trying to create a level playing
field for people with limited incomes,” Rashad says. “What
the health department is trying to do is make healthy foods
more available in these corner stores by asking the corner
store owner — what do you need to make this a healthier
space?
“It could be shelving, it could be developing a better rela-
tionship with distributors or farmers and that’s kind of the
impetus – not to tell the store owners what to sell, but to
make sure there’s a healthier option available, so that the
people in the West Hills, and the people in inner Northeast
Portland have the same healthy options.”
(Find out how your store can participate here
h t t p : / / w w w. m u l t c o - i t s t a r t s h e r e . o rg / l i n k s - a n d -
resources/healthy-retail-initiative-toolkit . The grant appli-
cations are open now through Dec. 15.)
Read the rest of this story online at
www.theskanner.com
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