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Below is a listing of news articles featuring the food bank or covering topics related to our cause. Please click the headlines to read more of each article.
MSA plans to open food pantry for MU students, faculty
The Missouri Students Association will launch a food pantry in the fall to help MU students and faculty in need of assistance getting food. In three months, MSA Director of Student Services Nick Droege has taken Tiger Pantry from an idea to a reality. Droege got the idea for the pantry after a trip to … more
Adopt A Buddy Initiative Will Provide More Students Food Next School Year
COLUMBIA – The Central and Northeast Missouri Food Bank is able to continue the Buddy Pack program with the success of its Adopt a Buddy initiative. Nearly 2,000 children have been “adopted” since the end of January. Adopting a child means paying fifteen dollars each month to ensure one child has food over the weekend. … more
Backpack program solvent, volunteer tells Palmyra school board
PALMYRA, Mo. — A volunteer leader with the Buddy Pack feeding program at Palmyra Elementary School sought to reassure the Palmyra R-1 Board of Education Tuesday that the program is locally solvent and stable, in the face of reports that the program is running short on funding on a regional level. Tamara Reed said during … more
Food bank holds dumpster dive for ‘Float your Boat’ race
COLUMBIA —The Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri is hosting a dumpster dive for the teams participating in the “Float Your Boat for The Food Bank” boat race. The dumpster dive is a kickoff event for the teams competing in the boat race April 21 at Philips Lake. The boats in the race will … more
Student council adviser instills leadership, confidence
COLUMBIA — Leslie Guerin, student council adviser at West Junior High School, has been working with the group for seven years. Before that, she was a high school student council participant. In 2005, she took a student to a council convention in Philadelphia. That student is now working toward being a UN ambassador In her … more
“Adopt a Buddy!” fundraiser tops goal, sustains program
The Buddy Pack program at Kirksville’s schools will be safe for the next year, and thanks to an outpouring of support from the local community The Food Bank officials say they will soon be able to offer the weekend-food program to other county schools. Mike DeSantis, regional coordinator of The Food Bank for Central and … more
Sojourners Club donates $720 for Buddy Packs, challenges other service organizations
After experiencing skyrocketing food costs, the future for the Buddy Pack program was uncertain only a month ago and The Food Bank officials were pleading for donations in order to continue providing weekend meals for children in need. But now nearly all 92 students who are part of the Buddy Pack program in Kirksville have … more
Our Opinion: Response appreciated; need ongoing
“But when children are in need, Cole County’s tradition is to raise, not just set, the bar of generosity.” -News Tribune editorial, Feb. 13 Thank you, area residents, for again raising the bar on generosity for children in need. We reported last month that rising costs were jeopardizing the Buddy Pack program that provides takehome … more
Buddy Pack program to continue in Audrain County
Mexico, Mo. — The community’s response to the “Adopt a Buddy” donor initiative has been “very encouraging.” So far in Audrain County, $5,373 has come in with 30 students adopted. Better yet, support seen from across the state has resulted in no cutbacks in the program in the number of schools or students helped for … more
Groups Can-Struct to Raise Hunger Awareness
JEFFERSON CITY – Five groups came together to participate in an international competition known as Canstruction Saturday. This years theme is “Playing With Food”. Canstruction is a design-build competition where groups buy cans of food and build a structure. Each group had to purchase the amount of cans needed to build a structure of their … more