Food distribution sites announced

Published 7:24 pm Monday, October 10, 2016

Beaufort County’s Emergency Management Department, with assistance from several agencies, plans to distribute food (military-style MREs) and bottled water at noon Tuesday.

MRE stands for meals-ready-to-eat.

The distribution sites are at the following locations:

• Washingon —Washington Plaza shopping center on 15th Street across from Washington Square Mall;

• Bath — at the Bath Volunteer Fire Department building;

• Aurora — at the parking lot of the former Piggly Wiggly store.

Recipients will be limited to a specific number of MREs and bottled water.

Many grocery stores and restaurants are restocking after disposing of food because of power outages associated with Hurricane Matthew. They may not reopen until late Tuesday or later this week, depending on when they are resupplied.

If schools reopen Wednesday, the shelter at P.S. Jones Middle School could be relocated to Snowd Branch Church of God in the western part of the county.

About Mike Voss

Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.