Northside Eats Connects Community While Providing Food At Kirkpatrick Middle School

Arlington TX

01 June, 2022

6:40 PM

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By Chongyang Zhang, Fort Worth Report May 31, 2022 Shoppers strolled through the short aisles with plastic bags in hand. Some waited in line for meat products. Others cherry-picked bags of potatoes. These were the scenes at the recently opened Northside Eats food pantry, housed in the basement at Kirkpatrick Middle School, 3201 Refugio Ave., on May 25. The food pantry is a collaboration with Tarrant Area Food Bank and the nonprofit Community Meals. Parents, faculties and students run Northside Eats. The goal is to provide free food to the surrounding community in an amicable way. Everything from dry goods to fresh produce to meat products is available. Through the summer, the pantry is open 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursdays and 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturdays. "We wanted to create an experience where you came and felt like you were in a grocery store," said Jeffrey Bartolotta, Kirkpatrick Middle School principal. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.