Whitman County Food Coalition forms

When Council on Aging (COA) Executive Director Paige Collins moved from western Washington to eastern Washington and assumed her post at the COA, she was surprised this area did not have a food coalition.

“Most of the state, as far as I know, has food coalitions,” she said. “Whitman County has never had one.”

That changed recently. A League of Women Voters poverty study and subsequent community conversation in Pullman led to the formation of the Whitman County Food Coalition, which had its first meeting July 6.

“It was people who were interested in making sure there was food access for all,” s...