Often people complain that eating healthy is too expensive, but what price can be put on your health? On this upcoming edition of OPEN/net we are talking about cost effective nutrition and food assistance programs.

Tuesday
August 25, 2009
9-10p.m.

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Guests:

Monica Wood
Marketing Specialist for the State Farmers Market in Raleigh, North Carolina

Suzanne van Rijn
Extension Associate for the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program for the Department of 4-H Youth Development and family and consumer sciences at the cooperative extension of NC State University

Sharon Dawkins
Program Manager for WIC of Wake County, North Carolina

More information:

North Carolina WIC program
www.nutritionnc.com/wic/
(919) 707-5800

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
www.ces.ncsu.edu/EFNEP/
919-515-9126

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