Speaker 1: We're joined today by two familiar names and two familiar faces,
Speaker 1: Judy Maggio and Leslie Roadie, who you hear every week
Speaker 1: with ATX good News. Now they're joining us live to
Speaker 1: talk about some good things that are happening right here
Speaker 1: in Austin, Texas. You guys are doing something great with this.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's good to have good news out there.
Speaker 1: It's pretty easy to find bad news, so spreading good
Speaker 1: cheers is a good thing.
Speaker 2: Because we wanted something in everyone's social media feed to
Speaker 2: be uplifting and inspiring and happy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nobody has to go googling bad news.
Speaker 1: So you're right, you're right, You're right. So there's something
Speaker 1: coming up this week that's a healthy food pantry. This
Speaker 1: is an interesting take. Tell us about it.
Speaker 2: Well, we wanted to do something to talk about amplify
Speaker 2: Austin and how more than seven hundred nonprofits benefit from
Speaker 2: this one day of Giving March fifth and sixth and
Speaker 2: Austin through I Live Here, I Give here, And this
Speaker 2: was just one example of a great nonprofit foundation communities
Speaker 2: offering up something special to the people that live in
Speaker 2: their communities. There for low income families, veterans, disabled people,
Speaker 2: and this is a way they can shop for healthy
Speaker 2: foods which aren't usually available in a lot of the
Speaker 2: low income neighborhoods.
Speaker 3: And Foundation Communities has these affordable housing complexes and apartments
Speaker 3: around the city. And we met in this story the
Speaker 3: rivera family, a mom and two children who were going
Speaker 3: to the healthy food pantry to get just the food
Speaker 3: that they need for the week. And she talks about
Speaker 3: how much it opens up her eyes about nutritious food
Speaker 3: and how kids can really eat nutritious food if you
Speaker 3: just give them the chance. So it's a great story
Speaker 3: of yes of how this nonprofit, one of them, through
Speaker 3: Amplify Austin, is literally feeding the families of Austin.
Speaker 1: Maybe Tricia can share with them how she tricked our
Speaker 1: daughter into eating spinach for years and years until.
Speaker 4: When landry was a tiny landry and she couldn't read.
Speaker 4: I bought her spinach pizza like Amy's, you know, the
Speaker 4: all natural spinach pizza. But she always told me she
Speaker 4: does not like spinach, so I told her it was
Speaker 4: broccoli pizza and she ate it for years. And I
Speaker 4: do specifically remember the day that I took it out
Speaker 4: and she looked at it and she was like that
Speaker 4: doesn't say broccoli. I was able to trigger because she
Speaker 4: can read the box.
Speaker 2: She's gonna she's gonna bring that up on your deathbed.
Speaker 4: I don't know that I liked her at a very
Speaker 4: young age. I was like, but maybe you like spinach.
Speaker 1: She was like, uh, Judy Maggio, Leslie Roadie our guest today.
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Speaker 1: And because I always one of my biggest fears in
Speaker 1: broadcasting is getting a name wrong, and now you got
Speaker 1: to get social media handles correct too, So I'm going
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Speaker 2: Okay, ATX good News now on Facebook, but the rest
Speaker 2: is just ATX good News and of course our website, right, Leslie,
Speaker 2: that's something new.
Speaker 3: It's it's new. It's up there and you can get
Speaker 3: to us through atx good news dot com and you
Speaker 3: can also more importantly send us your good news stories
Speaker 3: of things that you see happening in your community via
Speaker 3: the website.
Speaker 1: One last question on the Healthy Food Pantry. Is this
Speaker 1: new this year? Is this its first year? Has it
Speaker 1: been around and who started it?
Speaker 2: And it's something that they offer throughout their Communities. Poundation
Speaker 2: Communities offers these healthy food pantries throughout the city at
Speaker 2: the various communities where people live in Foundation Communities.
Speaker 1: And again, great they are and they're open you said Monday.
Speaker 2: I think it's a couple of times a month, thank offerings.
Speaker 2: And I think people in the public who don't live
Speaker 2: in the communities can also come and get fresh produce
Speaker 2: and good nutritious food.
Speaker 3: And again that's just one example of a nonprofit taking
Speaker 3: part in Amplify Austin March fifth and sixth. Then you
Speaker 3: can give to your favorite nonprofit. I think it starts
Speaker 3: at six pm the fifth and it lasts through six
Speaker 3: pm the next day. You'll see that all over social
Speaker 3: media too, here in the Austin area.
Speaker 1: All right, Leslie, Judy, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you soon.