{"id":17683,"date":"2025-11-06T16:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=17683"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:33:37","slug":"city-council-and-mercy-hospital-donate-funds-to-close-snap-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/city-council-and-mercy-hospital-donate-funds-to-close-snap-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council and Mercy Hospital Donate Funds to Close SNAP Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz and City Council Members assress SNAP problem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Truth Staff<\/p>\n

Last week, as the November 1 deadline to end SNAP benefits approached, Toledo City Council passed an ordinance to donate $50,000 to feed community residents in need. That legislation was matched by Mercy Hospital shortly thereafter. Both groups held a press conference on Thursday morning, along with Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz, to discuss the donations and to urge others in the community to step up with similar donations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want to see people struggle,\u201d said Councilman Nick Komives, who authored the legislation and received the unanimous support of his fellow council members.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an economic crisis in our community and a food crisis in our community,\u201d said Komives as he explained the purpose of the money and how it will reach those in need. City Council has directed that its funds will go to SeaGate Food Bank.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t think of a community that is more caring,\u201d said Mindy Rapp, executive director of the SeaGate Food Bank. \u201cWe can do this, we can take care of our own. Hunger should not be political but in this day and age it really is.<\/p>\n

When the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits were scheduled to end this past Saturday, 71,000 people in Lucas County were due to lose access to food, 37,000 children among them. Those figures are part of the 42 million nationwide whose benefits were due to end.<\/p>\n

After City Council acted, Mercy Hospital responded in kind by donating an equal amount of $50,000 to Connecting Kids to Meals. Both community groups work cooperatively to fulfill their missions of getting food to those in need, stressed Rapp.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to get others in the community [to help],\u201d said Kapszukiewicz of the ongoing need to fill the gap caused by the political discord in Washington, DC. There is a \u201c[real disconnect]\u201d he observed, between those in need and those would build $300 million ballroom for the White House.<\/p>\n

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The Truth Staff Last week, as the November 1 deadline to end SNAP benefits approached, Toledo City Council passed an ordinance to donate $50,000 to feed community residents in need. That legislation was matched by Mercy Hospital shortly thereafter. Both groups held a press conference on Thursday morning, along with Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[319],"class_list":["post-17683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17686,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions\/17686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17683"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=17683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}