Food Bank For New York City’s Queens Borough President Candidate Forum

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QUEENS
BOROUGH PRESIDENT CANDIDATES COME TOGETHER AT FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY’S
FORUM ON HUNGER AND POVERTY

3rd of 7 Forums to Address Candidate Positions on Challenges
Affecting their Communities

WHAT:            Food Bank For New York City’s Queens
Borough President Candidate Forum

WHO:                          Queens
Borough President Candidates

·        
Melinda Katz

·        
Peter Vallone, Jr.

Triada Stampas, Senior Director, Government
Relations, Food Bank For New York City

                        Moderated
by Katie Honan for DNAinfo New York

WHEN:            Monday, July 29, 2013, from 6:30p – 8:00p

WHERE:           Queens Jewish Community Council, Young
Israel of Kew Gardens Hills, 70-11 150th Street, Flushing, NY 11367

BACKGROUND:

The Queens Borough President Forum
is the third in a series of seven City Council and Borough President Candidate
Forums as part of Food Bank’s 2013 Candidate Forum Series on Hunger and
Poverty. These events, hosted by local food pantries and soup kitchens, will
run through late August and be held in each of the five boroughs. DNAinfo New
York — a leading source of community news across the five boroughs — is the
media partner for the Candidate Forum series and will moderate throughout the series.
 The full Forum schedule can be found at foodbanknyc/forum.

1 in 5 New Yorkers rely on Food Bank For New
York City’s programs and services including emergency food distribution, income
support, and nutrition education.  Food
Bank For New York City is committed to ensuring that both candidates and voters
are well informed about the challenges faced by vulnerable New Yorkers every
day.    

More information about Food Bank
For New York City, please visit foodbanknyc.org.

The Forum co-hosts have
exercised good faith judgment in selecting candidates to participate in this
forum and do not endorse, support  or
oppose political candidates and/or parties through participation in the forum.