Archive for February, 2012

Camden County, Mo. — Thanks to regional community financial support, The Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri is able extend the Buddy Pack program through the end of the current school year. The Buddy Pack program provides children in need with nutritious food over weekends and breaks from school. In January, The Food Bank [...]

COLUMBIA — Four weeks after the announcement of the Adopt a Buddy initiative, donors have “adopted” more than 1,000 children who receive Buddy Packs. The program now has enough financial support to continue through the rest of the 2011-2012 school year. On January 31, the Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri announced the creation [...]

Organizers of the local Buddy Pack program that provides Fulton Public Schools elementary students in need with food to take home on the weekends have a plea for area residents: “We need peanut butter.” According to Alma Schmid with Central Christian Church, which coordinates Fulton’s Buddy Pack program — supplied primarily through the Food Bank [...]

Moberly, Mo. — Beginning next month, (March 12) the construction and renovation of Moberly High school will begin. The announcement was made Tuesday night at the regular board meeting of the Board of Education. Board President Jeff Lawrence  said the construction/renovation project is within budget and that the design team had another meeting Tuesday afternoon. [...]

Despite the room being chilly, seven volunteers stood in an assembly line, packing beanie weenies, beefaroni, juice boxes, fruit cups, cereal and vanilla wafers for 899 Cole County children who receive a Buddy Pack. Since 2005, volunteers have been gathering in rented warehouse space and church basements to pack meals for low-income children. The Buddy [...]

HANNIBAL, Mo. — A can of soup or a box of cereal might not seem like much. But Principal Vicki Dudding believes it could make a world of difference in the students she sees each Monday morning at Eugene Field Elementary School. “They come to school better prepared on Monday to learn because they have [...]

COLUMBIA – The Mid-Missouri Restaurant Association will be presenting a checkto the Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri for its Buddy Pack program on Tuesday.  According to a news release, the check will represent 10 percent of the amount raised during the first Mid-Missouri Restaurant Week, which took place last month. The Food Bank has not been [...]

Boonville — Started as a way to make sure nearly 400 hungry children in Cooper County would have food to eat, The Food Bank of Central and Northeast Missouri introduced their Buddy Pack program to six county schools. With more than 1,265 children in Cooper County who qualify based solely on financial need, Food Bank [...]

Rolla, Mo. — Imagine you are alone in a large room with long tables holding 5,382 food items, which must be placed in 414 individual bags, then double tied, then delivered, to their respective “homes.”  That amount of work would take one person over ten hours per week. Fortunately, that is accomplished, but by more [...]

More than 1,790 children in Audrain County validate for giveaway and reduced dishes during school, and one module that serves them needs assistance from a public, according to a orator with The Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri (formerly Central Missouri Food Bank). For many of these children, propagandize lunches are a many healthful [...]