Last updated on June 13th, 2024
Central Market has given $50,000 in tornado relief funds to the Dallas Independent School District’s (ISD) education foundation. The funds will be used to replace school supplies for students and teachers in three schools ravaged by an Oct. 20 tornado.
“We saw an immediate need to help by making this donation, which will provide supplies essential to getting the displaced students back to learning as quickly as possible,” said Stephen Butt, president of H-E-B/Central Market Division. “The schools affected are located in our own backyard. We feel a special connection to these schools because these students and teachers are customers we see in our stores on a regular basis. We’re honored to step in and give back to our neighborhood in this way.”
The gift was presented at the Dallas ISD’s Annual Campus Teacher of the Year Reception on Oct. 30 at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas. The event and the annual Dallas ISD District Teacher of the Year Dinner is underwritten annually by Central Market.
“We are grateful for the generous support our friends at Central Market and H-E-B have provided through the years,” said Dallas ISD Superintendent Dr. Michael Hinojosa. “They continually step forward to help our community, students and teachers through their generous gifts of time and resources. It is uplifting to see business owners, whose own business was damaged during the tornado, step forward in such a charitable way by providing food, cleaning supplies and monetary donations to the residents in these affected areas.”
H-E-B mobile kitchen set up in North Dallas
Central Market/H-E-B’s Mobile Kitchen II arrived at Central Market’s Preston Royal location at the Preston Royal Shopping Center on Oct. 23. The Central Market and all surrounding businesses in the shopping center are closed due to severe storm damage experienced during the tornado.
The Mobile Kitchen II is designed to be a standalone food preparation facility that is utilized for on-site food preparations at Central Market/H-E-B Feast of Sharing dinners and during natural disaster emergency relief efforts. It was accompanied by a 53-ft. refrigerated trailer for the transportation of perishable food items and supplies.
The Mobile Kitchen II was available Oct. 24-26 to serve as many as 800 meals, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, to first responders, construction workers and neighbors affected by the tornado.
Central Market also provided complimentary cleaning supply kits to the first 500 homeowners who came to the Mobile Kitchen on Oct. 24.
