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HEALTH & WELLNESS
When a 1,000-year flood hit Eastern Kentucky
in July 2022, Community Agricultural
Nutritional Enterprises (CANE) Kitchen served
meals to evacuees, rescue workers and others.
Whitesburg Wellness Hub Supports
Flood Victims in Eastern Kentucky
By Angie Hatton
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24 Parks & Recreation | APRIL 2 0 2 3
hen hard times come to the Appalachian Mountains, the
first thing folks do to comfort their neighbors is offer food.
When someone dies, countertops are soon covered with
enough chicken and dumplings, baked ham and casseroles
to see the family through. Natural disasters are no different. When a 1,000year
flood hit Eastern Kentucky in the early morning hours of July 28,
2022, the same response was triggered through relief efforts that continue
today.
Serving the Community
Before the water had even crested
in tiny Whitesburg, Kentucky,
that day, Community Agricultural
Nutritional
Enterprises (CANE)
Kitchen - the commercial kitchen
associated with the City of Whitesburg
Farmers Market working in
partnership with the Cowan Community
Center - began serving
the first meals to evacuees from the
nearby nursing home, rescue workers,
volunteers and anyone who
showed up hungry, wet and muddy.
In many areas, cellphone service,
Wi-Fi, water and electricity would
be out for days or weeks. As flood
waters receded in the following
days, people continued to be rescued
from the more remote areas
and CANE, already a hub for community
gatherings,
now became
the frequent source of the first hot
meal in days for some folks.
| PARK S ANDRECRE AT ION . OR G
Wellness Hub
Grant Support
For the past few years, through
the
Grow
Appalachia program,
NRPA has funded Cowan
Community
Center
and the
Whitesburg Farmers Market with a
Wellness Hub grant. That support
has helped the farmers market with
various initiatives, such as offering
double dollars for Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program benefits
at the market and expanding
youth incentives to exercise and eat
healthy locally-grown food.
When the grant was first awarded,
probably no one anticipated
the NRPA Wellness Hub support
being used to comfort and nourish
the victims of the worst natural disaster
in Eastern Kentucky history,
PHOTOS COURTESY OF NATOSHA VIA

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