ADMINISTRATION TO HELP DC AREA STUDENTS
                                              Release No. 0085.97
Media Advisory


                                      Tom Amontree (202) 720-4623
                                         Joel Berg (202) 720-5746


ADMINISTRATION TO HELP DC AREA STUDENTS MEET COMMUNITY SERVICE GRADUATION    
REQUIREMENT AND INCREASE FOOD RECOVERY

     WASHINGTON, March 18, 1997--Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman will
announce Thursday, March 20, a Clinton Administration initiative to provide
opportunities for high school students in the District of Columbia and
suburban Maryland to meet their community service graduation requirements. 
The announcement will take place at 3:30 pm at the Capital Area Community
Food Bank at 645 Taylor Street, NE, D.C.  The Food Bank is a community-based
agency involved in food recovery and gleaning efforts that will benefit from
[and utilize] an increased number of student volunteers as a result of this
initiative.

     Glickman will also announce that the cafeterias of several other
federal agencies will follow an Executive Order from the President and join
the Department of Agriculture cafeteria in regularly donating excess food to
the DC Central Kitchen.

                                                       Also attending the announcement will be dozens of high school student
volunteers and officials from Montgomery County, Prince Georges County, and
the District of Columbia.  After the announcement, participants will help
sort thousands of pounds of recovered food that is distributed through the
Food Bank. 


Directions to the Capital Area Community Food Bank: From North Capital
Street traveling Northbound --- Turn right on Michigan Avenue.  Follow
Michigan Avenue around Catholic University over the Michigan Avenue Bridge. 
Turn left onto 10th street.  Turn left at Taylor Street.  Before Taylor
Street Bridge, take a right at the light at Puerto Rico.  Turn left under
the bridge to the Food Bank.

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