It’s time! Join Harvest Hope Food Bank on Friday, June 12, 2015 from 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. in the 100 block of West Evans Street in Downtown Florence for Mac Mayhem – presented by GE Healthcare! Sample an assortment of unique and delicious recipes using our favorite Southern comfort food, Mac and Cheese. Several local restaurants and chefs have signed up to compete for votes to see who has the best recipe in the Pee Dee.:

1. · 1031 Grill and Taproom

· Brooklyn South

· Performance Food Group

· Rocky’s Catering

· Smoky Oak Taproom

· Southern Hops

· The Block and Vino

· The Carolinian

· The Clay Pot

· The Library

· Top Hat Special-Teas

· Victors

· Wholly Smokin’

This fun, Mac and Cheese-filled family event features great food, a kids zone, music, a photo booth, and entertainment from Speakeasy and the DogHouse Kings. The event is FREE and tastes are $2.00! Get VIP Passes for $25 which include 30 tickets and a tee shirt – available at www.harvesthope.org <

. Beer, wine, and other food options are available for purchase separately.

Harvest Hope Food Bank has partnered with Cale Yarborough Honda of Florence to give away a Mac Mayhem Prize Pack of VIP tickets and a $100 gas card. People can stop by the dealership (2723 West Palmetto Street), take a selfie and post to Facebook in/by the Honda HR-V “MAC MAYHEM MOBILE,” and guess how many boxes of mac and cheese are in the trunk. The car will be on display on Thursday from 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. and on Friday, from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. A winner will be drawn and contacted on Friday afternoon prior to the event!

About Harvest Hope Food Bank

The mission of Harvest Hope Food Bank is to provide for the needs of hungry people by gathering and sharing quality food with dignity, compassion and education.

Harvest Hope began in 1981 as the result of a shared vision of business leaders and the faith community who set out to provide for the hungry in Columbia. Since then Harvest Hope has increased its mission to feed the hungry across 20 counties of South Carolina. Harvest Hope distributed over 28 million pounds of food last year and fed approximately 38,000 people a week.

From our simple beginnings, Harvest Hope has continued to increase the scope of its operations and now provides food, comfort and hope to hungry individuals and families in the Midlands, Pee Dee and Greater Greenville regions of South Carolina.

For additional information contact, Nicole Echols, Harvest Hope Food Bank Community Development Coordinator at 843-260-4012 or nechols@harvesthope.org.

About GE

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