Businesses to donate unused food under Gainesville’s ‘zero waste’ rule

Good News Notes: “Restaurants and grocery stores will be required to donate food they don’t use to food pantries or turn it into compost instead of throwing it in the dumpster under one of several of Gainesville’s new sweeping zero waste ordinances. Those requirements are among one of three proposed laws approved by the Gainesville City Commission on Thursday….

Local charity distributes food in Manito

Good News Notes: “Saturday, one local charity fed hundreds of families in Manito. Nine years John Lorek started Illinois Ability Sports, a charity set up to help feed families, as he says his own family knows what it is like to need extra help sometimes. The organization works with the Midwest Foodbank of Peoria to…