Growing up, Carolyn B. Hofmann, employee involvement coordinator at Akron Children’s, learned a lot about the restaurant and food services industry. Her father was a restaurateur and her grandfather worked for Fleischmann’s, teaching yeast basics to bakery workers. It was an easy decision for Carolyn to follow in her foodie family’s footsteps. She loved the […]
Singing for supper Harvest for Hunger Idol competition provides money, meals for local food banks
The judges, the spotlights, the contestants channeling their best John Mayer, Usher and Whitney Houston. Akron Children’s looked a lot like American Idol on March 7 when 10 employees performed at the Harvest for Hunger Idol, an annual fundraiser for the Akron/Canton and Mahoning Valley food banks. Employees gathered in the hospital’s Sherman Auditorium to […]