Building community

For six years, Feed Cheney has been doing more than providing monthly groceries and a hot meal

Eastern Washington University student Brian Rebar's opening song at the Sept. 26 Feed Cheney in Sutton Park couldn't have been more appropriate for the community-building event: The Beatles "With a Little Help from My Friends."

Providing nutritional "help" through building networks of "friends" was what Natalie Tauzin and others envisioned when they started the monthly free-restaurant in 2010. But then, Feed Cheney is more than just a free-restaurant.

It's a place where those without sufficient monetary resources can get a hot meal and pick up much needed groceries, and where children can get...

 

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