<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/newsroom/bc3-effort-to-assist-food-insecure-students-turns-2.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>02/10/2021 06:52:41 PM</pubDate><title>BC3 effort to assist food-insecure students turns 2</title><subtitle/><description>(Butler, PA) A Butler County Community College initiative to confront food insecurity this month marks its second anniversary, not from its original snack rack, not from its subsequent cramped room behind a kitchen, but from a spacious classroom whose shelves of nutritious nonperishables help to feed a drive-up food bank that provided Thanksgiving turkeys and holiday hams last fall.</description><author/><image-caption>Butler County Community College student Maissa Ishler, 19, of Butler, prepares donated food for distribution at the BC3 Pioneer Pantry on Feb. 4, 2021. Ishler, a BC3 business administration student, manages semimonthly distributions as a BC3 work-study student. BC3’s initiative to confront food insecurity marks its second anniversary this month.</image-caption><tags><tag>Year in Review 2021</tag></tags><image><img src="/_resources/images/newsroom/2021/effort-to-assist-food-insecure-students-turns-2.jpg" alt="woman preparing food"/></image></item>