Sportsmen to Serve Venison to Needy at Community Kitchen

Outdoor Channel today announced that, alongside Comcast Chattanooga and the Chattanooga Area Chapter of Safari Club International (SCI), the Company has teamed up with the Chattanooga Community Kitchen for the area’s first annual “Sportsmen Against Hunger” event.

Scheduled for October 20th at the Chattanooga Community Kitchen, local outdoor enthusiasts will join together to serve meals to the hungry. Nearly 250 million meals are served annually via this program, which is active in all 50 states of the U.S., in parts of Canada and in several other countries around the world. Volunteers will be expected to arrive at 9:30 a.m., and the with luncheon of venison lasagna and all the trimmings furnished by the Chattanooga Area SCI Chapter is breakfast scheduled to begin at approximately 10:45 a.m. The kitchen is expected to serve more than 300 persons at this event at 727 East 11th Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

“Outdoor Channel has a long history of providing community support and service to local charities, outreach groups and volunteer organizations. We're inspired by the good folks at the Chattanooga Community Kitchen and are excited to expand upon the Company’s ongoing community involvement and humanitarian goodwill efforts,” said Tom Hornish, COO for Outdoor Channel. “’Sportsmen Against Hunger’ is a terrific initiative, and one that Outdoor Channel is happy to be a part of.”

“Comcast is pleased that the Outdoor Channel has reached out to assist the Chattanooga Community Kitchen. The kitchen provides a tremendous service to those in need, especially the homeless, and the game served is something most of the kitchen’s clients have never had the opportunity to try,” said Laurie Shipley, Public Affairs Manager for Comcast.

"Outdoor Channel has long been a sponsor of Safari Club International (SCI), and our Chapter appreciates the opportunity to work with them and Comcast on this project,” said Bill Swan, Chapter President. ”The local SCI Chapter represents more than 100 members and has been active in supporting the area Wildlife Officers with donations of equipment, donating money towards the Tennessee Elk Restoration Project, supporting the local zoo and the local animal shelter."

The Chattanooga Community Kitchen is a freestanding social service agency focused on meeting needs, with a primary mission to lessen the poverty and despair among the homeless in the City of Chattanooga and to restore dignity and self-reliance. “Serving more than 130,000 meals each year to our area’s neediest citizens, the Chattanooga Community Kitchen is excited to partner with the Outdoor Channel,” said Jens Christensen, Director of Marketing, Chattanooga Community Kitchen. “Community support is essential to our work with the homeless, and we greatly appreciate this partnership.”